Danil Beglets, a defendant in the Moscow case, was detained in Moscow when he came to lay flowers at the scene of the murder of Boris Nemtsov. This was reported to OVD-Info by the brother of the Fugitive. It is not known to which department the man was taken. He managed to publish the moment of his detention on his Facebook page. The Fugitive's brother said that from that moment he stopped communicating.

The deputy of the Penza City Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Alexander Smirnov was arrested for 7 days because of the announcement of the action on February 23. this He reports on his page on VKontakte. The Leninsky District Court of Penza found Smirnov guilty under the article on organizing a public action without filing a notification (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

A new criminal case has been opened in Moscow under the article on the use of violence against an OMON officer (Article 318 of the Criminal Code) in the wake of the January 31 rally in support of Navalny. This is reported by the publication "Echo of Moscow". The name of the suspect is not yet known.

In Moscow, an activist was detained near the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus, who asked not to publish his name. He himself told OVD-Info about this. The activist came to the embassy for a meeting of like-minded people who support the Belarusian protesters. He was detained and taken to the Basmanny police department for a preventive conversation.

In Crimea, the court terminated the administrative case against activist Irfan Bekirov, who came to support the defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, due to the statute of limitations. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity".

Politician Alexei Navalny was sentenced to a fine of 850 thousand rubles in the case of defamation of World War II veteran Ignat Artemenko, who spoke out in support of amendments to the Constitution. Mediazona reports this. Magistrate judge of court district No. 321 Vera Akimova, acting magistrate of district no. 320, found Navalny guilty under the article of libel contained in a public speech (part 2 of article 128.1 of the Criminal Code).

In Krasnoyarsk, they did not agree on a picket in support of the historical significance of the Day of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army and against the persecution of the opposition, scheduled for February 23, Ekaterina Fatyanova, one of the organizers, told OVD-Info. Several members of the initiative group filed a notice of picketing at the monument to Alexander Matrosov for ten people. However, on February 19, the activists were refused approval for a formal reason.

In Kemerovo, after a search, the editor-in-chief of the Abazhur publication Roman Kupriyanov, known under the pseudonym Foma Neverov, was detained. This is reported by "Taiga.info" with reference to the editor of the online publication "News of Kiselevsk" Natalia Zubkova. Neverov was at his mother's house when the unknown began to knock hard on the door of the vestibule in the stairwell. They were not opened, and then SOBR officers broke down the balcony door and burst into the apartment.

In Yuzha (Ivanovo region), unidentified persons set fire to the car of an opposition deputy of the Council of the urban settlement and a journalist of the YUZHA TV project Alexei Kutyin. This is reported by Ivanovskiye Novosti. Kutyin connects the arson with his professional activities and perceives the incident as a threat to his life and the life of his family. The police found matches and traces of fuel and lubricants at the scene, which stretch from the car for 3-4 meters.

In Moscow on Pushkinskaya Square, police detained Irina Orlova because of a single picket in support of the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergey Furgal. The OVD-Info was told about this by the detainee herself. According to her, she stood with the poster for only a few minutes, after which several police officers approached her and detained her. Police officers explained their actions by an injected regime of increased readiness in connection with coronavirus.

The Troitsky District Court of Moscow fined artist Anzhelina Aganina 10,000 rubles for an exorcism rally near the Temporary Detention Center for Foreign Citizens (TsVSIG) in Sakharovo. It is reported by MBH Media. The actionist was found guilty of participating in an uncoordinated action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). On February 18, she, being near the TsVSIG in Sakharovo, read a psalm used in the Orthodox tradition to exorcise evil spirits.

In Moscow, police detained Yuri Konstantinov, who was on duty at the memorial to the murdered politician Boris Nemtsov on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge. Konstantinov himself reported this to OVD-Info. The detainee was taken to the Kitay-gorod police station. It is unknown what he is charged with. On February 19, the police already detained those on duty on the bridge.

In Kostroma, a local resident Dmitry Lezhnev disappeared. on her VKontakte page His friend Irina Shumilova wrote that Lezhnev could have been detained in connection with opposition publics, which he allegedly administered. “A few weeks ago, the police called him, invited him to talk, after some time they searched his work, so we suspect that the case may be criminal!” Shumilova writes.

A court in Ingushetia transferred Tagir Galaev, a defendant in the Ingush case, to house arrest. reports . Fortanga The measure of restraint was changed in connection with the mitigation of the charge. Galaev was placed in a pre-trial detention center on charges of using life-threatening violence against a government official (Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). Now he is charged with the use of violence that is not dangerous to life (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code).

The prosecutor's office of Ulyanovsk approved the indictment in the case of a minor local resident about the attack on the National Guard. This was reported on the website of the department. According to investigators, at an uncoordinated rally on January 23 in support of Alexei Navalny, a minor student near house No. 1 on Cathedral Square hit a National Guard officer on the arm.