The FSB examination found traces of narcotic substances on the outer surface of the hair of journalist Ivan Golunov. This is reported by MBKh Media with reference to the lawyer Alexei Kovrizhkin, who represents the interests of the accused in the case of planting drugs on Golunov, the former deputy head of the drug control department Igor Lyakhovets.

In St. Petersburg, activist Yevgeny Musin was detained near the Solovetsky stone, where a rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov was held. He himself reported this to the legal bot OVD-Info. Musin was detained following a complaint received by the police about calls for an uncoordinated action. “What, what kind of appeals, they didn’t explain anything. They didn’t introduce themselves,” the activist said. The detainee is taken to the 76th police department.

Svyatoslav Rechkalov, detained in 2018 in connection with an action near the United Russia office, was granted asylum in France. About this in Prometheus. Telegram channel reports Rechkalov left Russia in the early summer of 2018, after in March people in helmets and with machine guns burst into the apartment where Rechkalov himself lived and anarchist Evgenia Sergeeva, also a refuge in France.

The Zheleznovodsk city court sentenced Ingush activist Rashid Aushev to a year and nine months in a penal colony. This is reported by FortangaORG with reference to the lawyer Ramzan Uzuev. According to the prosecution, Aushev threw two chairs at a rally in Magas, one hitting the shield of a National Guard soldier, causing him pain in the neck, and the other one hitting another National Guard soldier in the head.

Rashid Maysigov, former editor of the opposition Ingush publication Fortanga, was charged under an article on calls for separatism via the Internet (part 2 of article 280.1 of the Criminal Code). Magomed Aushev, the journalist's lawyer, told OVD-Info about this.

In the city of Kambarka in the Republic of Udmurtia, police detained activist Ramilya Saitova and eco-activist Yuri Antropov, participants in public hearings on the construction of a landfill for the disposal of waste of the first and second hazard classes. Saitova told OVD-Info about this.

In the Suzunsky district of the Novosibirsk region, the police detained two participants in one-man pickets against amendments to the Constitution. This is reported by the publication "Taiga.info" with reference to representatives of the regional branch of the Communist Party. The police detained the first secretary of the Suzun district committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Petr Ivakhnenko, and another picket participant, whose name was not disclosed.

The prosecutor approved the indictment in the case of Anastasia Shevchenko, a former member of the federal council of Open Russia, under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization”. This is reported in his telegram channel "Pravozashchita Postcards" with reference to the lawyer Sergei Badamshin. Now the criminal case will be transferred to the court for consideration on the merits.

Civil activist Andrei Sorochkin was detained in Nizhny Novgorod, who stood in a single picket in memory of the murder of Boris Nemtsov. Sorochkin himself reported this to OVD-Info. The activist held his action on Minin and Pozharsky Square near the monument to Minin. In his hands he held a poster with the text: *“Nemtsov has not been with us for 5 years. The killers are Kadyrov's pack.

Provider Terasms blocked the SMS mailing of the Moscow branch of the party "Yabloko" with an invitation to the march in memory of Boris Nemtsov because of the word "Putin". This is reported by MBKh Media with reference to the organizer of the march and a member of the federal bureau of Yabloko Kirill Goncharov. It is planned to carry out the distribution for 1200 people - members of the Moscow branch of the party. “February 29 is the sixth March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov.

The Voronezh prosecutor’s office terminated the case against a blogger, who published a video criticizing the employees of the Russian Guard who beat the participants of summer protests in Moscow. This was announced in his telegram channel by the head of the international human rights group "Agora" Pavel Chikov.

In Sweden on the afternoon of February 26, an unidentified person attempted to assassinate blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, who criticized the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov. This is reported by the "Voice of Islam" and the Chechen human rights association Vayfond . The killer entered the apartment where Abdurakhmanov was sleeping and hit him on the head with a hammer, but he woke up and was able to fight back the attacker.

Moscow is an outsider among Russian cities by the number of places where people can gather without notification of the authorities. In the multimillion-dollar capital, there is only one guide park-in the middle of the forest in Sokolniki. The second, in Gorky Park, where random passers -by could be, the authorities closed without explanation and media resonance in 2015.

UN headquarters in the USA / Photo: Jens Junge / Pixabay The UN Committee on Human Rights prepares “General comments” for article 21 (“Right to peaceful meetings”) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. States and human rights organizations were invited to send their comments until February 2020. Russia answered one of the latter. OVD-Info understands the position of power about the freedom of assembly.