The reverse side of the picketing poster / photo: Nikita Zaretsky In St. Petersburg, the police detained a participant in a single picket against amendments to the constitution of Nikita Zaretsky because of the restrictions introduced in connection with the Pandemia of Coronavirus. This was announced by the OTD-Info by the detainee himself. As Zaretsky said, he stood with a poster “fell up” on Malaya Sadovaya Street. After about an hour from the beginning of the action, he was detained.

In Moscow, near the Moskvorechye railway platform, police forcefully disperse opponents of the construction of the South-Eastern Expressway on the site of a radioactive waste repository. Municipal deputy Sergei Vlasov reported this to OVD-Info. According to him, local residents were standing at the fence when one of its sections broke under pressure from people, and then the remaining sections fell in a “chain reaction.” “The police began to push everyone away from the fence.

In Zelenograd, the police came to the home of activist Alexandra Kalistratova, allegedly at the request of her neighbors to place a poster. She herself informed OVD-Info about this. “They came at the request of the neighbors “about the placement of a poster of political content”. As they said, this poster contained information calling for the overthrow of the government,” the activist said. The police turned off the electricity in Kalistratova's apartment.

Roskomnadzor demanded that the YouTube service block the Prison-Live channel, which talks about torture in places of punishment. This is reported by "Znak" with reference to the administrator of the channel and human rights activist Alexei Kuznetsov. He said that he received a letter from the YouTube administration demanding to remove the channel on his own, as it was included in the register of banned sites by Roskomnadzor.

I saw a rotating single picket at the fence of the Bronze Horseman, spectators and police were crowding around. People did not break the law in any way: there was no other picket around, no sound amplification was used. The texts of the posters did not contain calls for extremism. There was no aggression towards police officers. No one interfered with the passage of traffic or the passage of citizens.

The Meshchansky District Court dismissed the criminal case of hooliganism motivated by hatred or enmity (clause “b” of Part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) against Alexey Klimishin due to a fire rally near the FSB building on Lubyanka. Klimishin himself reported this to OVD-Info. The young man was given a court fine of 50 thousand rubles in accordance with Article 446.2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (the procedure for terminating a criminal case and imposing a court fine).

In the Jewish Autonomous Region, judge of the Birobidzhan District Court Alexey Ivashchenko on March 16 decided to close the trial in the case of Igor Tsarev, a follower of Jehovah's Witnesses. Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia report this on their website. The court made this decision at the request of the prosecutor: the prosecutor considered it necessary to “protect” the participants in the trial so that they would not adopt the religious beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

The Stavropol Regional Court extended the detention in the pre-trial detention center for three months for the defendants in the case of protests in Ingushetia, Magomed Khamkhoev and Bagaudin Khautiev. This is reported by the Ingush edition of Fortanga. Both activists will remain under arrest until June 25, 2020. They have been in custody since April last year.

Police officers detained Svetlana Trushkina, one of the protesters against the construction of the highway. This was reported by another opponent of the construction, Dmitry Satanovsky. Yugo-VostochnyOVD-InfoSama Trushkina does not get in touch. The security forces did not say which police department they took her to. Satanovsky himself, who lives not far from the construction site, said that when he left the house, a police car followed him. He assumes that he too may be detained.

Detention of Alexander Golovko / Photo: David Frenkel On March 15, in St. Petersburg, 25 people were detained on single pickets against changing the constitution. The OVD-Info recorded the story of the leader of the Homeless Speaker initiative Alexander Golovko about how they were delayed without explanation and beat in a car carrier, and in the police department they kept a 78-year-old woman until night. Golovko himself had to call an ambulance twice before the police gave it to the doctors.