Dmitry Goncharova Poster / Photo provided by a picketer In Moscow, Yevgeny Goncharov was detained on Red Square for about 19 hours, who held a single picket with a poster “Putin, you ricked about”. Goncharov himself reported this by the OVD-info. The detainee was delivered to the police department in the Kitay-Gorod district. A lawyer from the OTS-info Sergey Telnov came to him. In the department, Goncharov was put in a cage.

On Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, Asan Mumdzhi, a participant in a series of single pickets "Strategy-18", was detained. This was reported to OVD-Info by his public defender Ilya Tkachenko. Mumji was taken to police station No. 78 in St. Petersburg. Probably, they are going to charge him with an administrative article on violation of the self-isolation regime (Article 8.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of St. Petersburg).

The Moscow City Court dropped the case against Yekaterina Khrapchenkova, a resident of the capital, who posted a video on TikTok and Facebook about the sale of masks allegedly received as humanitarian aid from China. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the court. The case was dismissed due to lack of corpus delicti. For Khrapchenkova recognized the right to rehabilitation.

In the city of Teykovo, Ivanovo region, a criminal case was opened against a 57-year-old Jehovah's Witness, whose name is unknown, for financing an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). The SOVA information and analytical center writes about this.

On March 3, FSB officers in the Rostov region searched the home of Marxist Alexei Popov because of publications on VKontakte. about this Popov spoke on his page on the social network. As Popov explained in a conversation with OVD-Info, he is in the status of a suspect in the case of incitement to extremist activities (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code). During the search, all electronic data carriers were confiscated from him.

A court in Nizhny Novgorod awarded a fine to Alexey Zhilin, accused of attacking a security officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) at the rally on January 23. This was reported by the coordinator of legal assistance at OVD-Info, Alla Frolova. The Nizhny Novgorod District Court imposed a fine of 30 thousand rubles on Zhilin. The defendant admitted guilt, so the case was considered in a special manner.

The Khabarovsk Regional Court lifted the ban on receiving correspondence to Jehovah's Witness Alexey Ukhov, who is in a pre-trial detention center. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. The court concluded that the investigator had no legal grounds to prohibit Ukhov from receiving letters while he was out of prison. The ban became known at the end of December 2020. A similar measure also affected believers Yegor Baranov and Valery Moskalenko.

In Crimea, officials have coordinated the celebrations of the anniversary of the referendum and the Day of Reunification with Russia, which are celebrated on March 16 and 18, removing coronavirus restrictions for this. The protest actions of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation scheduled for the same dates were banned. This is reported by Open Media with reference to Vasily Parkhomenko, the first secretary of the Sevastopol City Party Committee.

In Novosibirsk, the police drew up protocols on violation of the rules for participation in the action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) against city council deputy Natalya Pinus and several other local residents. It is reported by Taiga.info. Militiamen considered a series of single pickets of the defenders of a public garden in the Sovietsky district, part of which the authorities want to sell, to be an uncoordinated action.

Doctors who conducted an examination of the Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev said they found signs of insanity in him. The examination was appointed as part of a criminal case on the use of violence against the National Guard (part 2 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by MBKh Media with reference to the coordinator of the Human Rights Postcard Alexei Pryanishnikov. The examination was carried out in the Yakut psycho-neurological dispensary.

The Moscow City Court rejected the defense's complaint and upheld the arrest of Ivan Safronov, a former Kommersant journalist accused under an article on treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the Moscow courts. Thus, Safronov will remain in the pre-trial detention center until May 7.

In Moscow, house arrest was extended until June 23 for four defendants in the “sanitary case”. This was reported by the Moscow City Duma deputy Mikhail Timonov. The decision was made by the Basmanny District Court of Moscow, granting the petition of the investigation.

Murad Gorbakov, a local resident, was detained in Ingushetia as part of a criminal case initiated after protests against the land swap with Chechnya. about this , citing an informed source. writes Fortanga In the early morning, security forces searched Gorbakov's apartment, after which they took him to Nalchik. “The relatives were not told what the detainee was charged with, saying only that it was within the framework of the rally case,” the publication said.

In Novosibirsk, the criminal case of protest participant Yana Drobnokhod, who was accused of “Dadinskaya”, was dropped. The activist was released, said lawyer Dmitry Shitov, who works with OVD-Info. Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code The press service of the court also provides information about the termination of the case. published The decision was made by the Central District Court, which imposed a fine of 40 thousand rubles on Drobnokhod as a measure of a criminal law nature.

Security forces came to search the mother of the coordinator of Navalny's Chelyabinsk headquarters, Artem Yaumbaev, who is a suspect in the case of blocking roads during the protests on January 31. Yaumbaev himself told OVD-Info about this. The search took place in Magnitogorsk, where the activist’s mother now lives. “At about six in the morning they started ringing the bell and knocking at my mother’s apartment. She called me to warn me that it looked like they were [going to conduct] a search.