In Tver, Open Russia coordinator Artem Vazhenkov was fined 60 thousand rubles for reposting two video messages from women with coronavirus. The Center for the Protection of Media Rights reports this. The Proletarsky District Court found Vazhenkov guilty under the article on abuse of freedom of mass information (Part 9 of Article 13.15 of the Administrative Code) and imposed a fine of 30 thousand rubles for each repost. Vazhenkov published videos on his VKontakte page in the spring of 2020.

On March 23, the Kurgan Regional Court upheld 30 hours of compulsory work, which the city court assigned to the head of the local branch of the Vesna movement, Anastasia Kasyanova. This was reported on the page of the movement in VKontakte. Kasyanova was charged with an article on violation of the rules for organizing the action (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to single pickets that took place in Kurgan on October 7, 2020 - the birthday of Vladimir Putin.

On March 23, five citizens of Belarus were detained in St. Petersburg, among them Vladimir Dragun, a representative of the Belarusian community in the northern capital. It is reported by North-West. MBKh media” with reference to Artur Gruntov, another representative of the community. “Today [March 23] at about nine in the morning, police officers came to his house. They said that they would take him to the department on Vasilyevsky Island.

A defendant in the “New Greatness” case, Vyacheslav Kryukov, sentenced to six years in prison, was transferred to IK-12 in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (Rostov region). This was reported by the telegram channel “The Case of New Greatness”. Before this, Kryukov was in pre-trial detention center No. 5 in Rostov-on-Don, where he was transferred from Moscow. As social activists clarify, the convict will spend two weeks in quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The prosecutor's office approved the indictment of Said-Mukhamad Dzhumaev, a participant in the January 23 protests, and his case was sent to court. “Yug” writes about this. MBKh Media" with reference to Aunt Dzhumaeva. The young man is accused of using non-life-threatening violence against a riot policeman (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

The health condition of politician Alexei Navalny, who is currently in correctional colony No. 2 in the Vladimir region, has worsened. Leonid Volkov, manager of Navalny’s headquarters , wrote about this in his telegram channel. “He has been experiencing severe back pain since the end of last week; reported that his leg was losing weight, he couldn’t step on his leg, and during this entire time he received two ibuprofen tablets.

In Crimea, the FSB and the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against a resident of Kerch, a possible follower of Jehovah's Witnesses. This is stated on the department's website. The man's name has not been released. It is known that he was charged with participation in an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, from 2015 to 2017 the man participated in Jehovah’s Witnesses events in Kerch.

Valery Evsin before the imprisonment / photo from the page of Valery in VKontakte Taxi driver Valery Evsin, accused in the case of an attack on the Rosgvardean during winter protests (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code), was found in the Moscow pre-trial detention center-2 “Butyrka”. This was told by a lawyer from the OTD-Info Elena Sheremetyeva, who represents the interests of Evsina.

The Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar has appointed Stanislav Andreev, a video blogger and journalist of Rossderzhava, to 15 days of administrative arrest. He was found guilty of disobedience to a police officer (part 1 of article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported to OVD-Info by Yevgeny Kurakin, deputy editor-in-chief of the publication "Rosderzhava". A copy of the court order is at the disposal of OVD-Info.

On March 22, the Presnensky District Court extended for a month the arrest of TikToker Konstantin Lakeev, accused of hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) due to the fact that he threw snowballs at the FSB car at the rally on January 23. This was reported in the “Prisoners 212” telegram channel.

The magistrate of court district No. 2 of Kostroma fined local resident Dmitry Lezhnev 300 rubles in connection with broken windows in the United Russia office. This was reported by his friend Irina Shumilova. According to court materials , on February 4, "at about 2 am, having the intent to damage someone else's property," he "broke 4 glasses in the office of United Russia and sprayed the door with flammable liquid." According to the court, Lezhnev committed an offense under Art.

Krasnoyarsk resident Artem Zagrebelny, who was sentenced to five years in prison in 2020 due to an incident with FSB officers, was transferred to a pre-trial detention facility (PFRSI) at one of the correctional colonies in Krasnoyarsk before the sentence came into force. Alexey Pryanishnikov, coordinator of the Human Rights Postcards, announced this. Zagrebelny was transferred to the PFRS two weeks before the consideration of his case by the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court.

Police officers came to search the headquarters of the local branch of the Russian Socialist Movement. The search is being carried out in the criminal case of Anastasia Ponkina, who is suspected of hooliganism motivated by political enmity (clause “b”, part 1 of article 213 of the Criminal Code). Kirill Medvedev reported this to OVD-Info. Next to the headquarters is the office of the Izhevsk branch of the Yabloko party.

On March 20, two law enforcement officers came to the Crimean Tatar activist Remzi Islyamov, who participated in the video message of the elders of the Belbek Valley in support of the prisoners in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity portal. The policemen had a conversation with Islyamov, asking about who organized the appeal, and about his connection with Krym.Realii. The activist refused to answer the security forces, citing Article 51 of the Constitution.

In Chechnya, on March 23, about 20 relatives of opposition activists Salekh Magamadov and another Chechen youth, who were evacuated from Nizhny Novgorod, were detained, who are accused of participating in an illegal armed group (part 2 of article 208 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Novaya Gazeta with reference to the Russian LGBT Network.