In Makhachkala, the police are trying to inspect the car of the representative of the "National Union of Renaissance of Russia" Larisa Bacheeva. She reported to the hotline of the OWD-Info that now closed in a car near the Soviet ARV. The police first sprayed pepper gas into the salon, and then began to beat the windows. In their opinion, weapons can be in the cabin. According to Bachieva, the police are threatening to start shooting if she tries to leave.

The Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova published an annual report on her activities. One of the most acute problems in the report is the problem of coordination of rallies. In 2019, the courts examined 1321 cases of refusals to agree on public events, of which in 494 cases the decisions were made in favor of the applicants.

Rustem Ismailov, convicted in the Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, was transferred from a pre-trial detention center to a colony, Krym . Realii” with reference to the lawyer Edem Semedlyaev. Rustem Ismailov was in the Ufa SIZO-1, since April 7, after treatment, he was transferred to a strict regime colony No. 2 (Salavat). The publication writes that Ismailov was twice reprimanded and once sent to a punishment cell for some violations of the regime.

A blogger from Komsomolsk-on-Amur Sergey Naumov published a video in which he said that the police had been chasing him for a week. He believes that this may be due to his videos on violations of labor protection standards at Russian Railways. It all started when Naumov was returning home on an intercity bus. His wife, who met him, noticed the police officers waiting for Naumov, which she informed him about.

On April 15, a criminal case was opened against adherents of Legion Ave Satan in the Krasnodar Territory under the article on the distribution of extremist materials (Article 280 of the Criminal Code). It is reported by Interfax. Before that, members of Legion Ave Satan were detained and searched by the local FSB, writes 360°.

Sergei Surovtsev, a defendant in the “Moscow case”, who disappeared on April 13, was found in a pre-trial detention center in the Tver region. This was reported by the coordinator of legal assistance at OVD-Info, Alla Frolova. Surovtsev was transported from Moscow pre-trial detention center No. 5 “Vodnik”; for two days his relatives and defense did not know where he was. As a result, the convict was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 2 in the city of Kashin in the Tver region.

"The case of the mannequin with Putin's face" was submitted to the Leninsky District Court of Perm. This is reported by the telegram channel "Apology of Protest". As specified in the channel, preliminary hearings were scheduled for April 17, 2020, but due to quarantine measures, the meeting was postponed to an unknown date. At the end of March 2020, the media published excerpts from the indictment approved by the prosecutor's office in this case.

On April 13, the Supreme Court of Dagestan upheld the extension of the arrest of four Jehovah's Witnesses from Makhachkala. The Caucasian Knot reports this. Maria Karpova, Arsen Abdullaev, Artem Dergalev and Marat Abdulgalimov will remain in pretrial detention until May 27, as the Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala decided in March.

In the city of Teykovo, Ivanovo region, on April 11, four Jehovah's Witnesses were searched in the case of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” reports this. According to the site, investigators were looking for evidence that four men from these families continued to participate in the activities of the “banned local religious organization” of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

The Tverskoy District Court refused to let lawyer Yulia Tregubova in. The lawyer herself informed OVD-Info about this. On April 15, a meeting was scheduled in the Tverskoy Court according to the protocol drawn up under Part 5 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the rules for participation in a public event) against Tregubova's client Tatiana Zavadskaya.

FSB in the Kurgan region opened a criminal case under an article on public justification of terrorism using the Internet (part 1 and part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) against the local eco -activist Lyubov Kudryashova. Kudryashova herself reported this by the OVD-info. Lyubov Kudryashova / Photo: Public "Kurgan Regional Department of the Communist Party" Representatives of the FSB opened a criminal case in March 2019.

On March 27, 2019, in Magas, the capital of Ingushetia, a clash occurred between security forces and participants in protests against the exchange of territories with Chechnya. More than fifty protesters were brought to criminal charges. With the exception of protests in early 2021 in support of Alexei Navalny, the “Ingush case” is the most widespread prosecution following a street protest in the country’s recent history.