Yegor Myakinnikov, a participant in the rally in support of Belarusians in St. Petersburg, was again detained after the trial. Human rights activist Roman Kiselev told OVD-Info about this. Myakinnikov is left for the night in the 30th police department of the Vasileostrovsky district of St. Petersburg.

The Presnensky Court in Moscow refused to consider in a special order the criminal case of Sergei Vasilenko, who is accused of setting fire to the van of the National Guard during the action on January 31. This is reported by the publication "Mediazona" with reference to the press service of the court. Vasilenko asked to consider the case in a special order, but the court refused. The meeting was adjourned to March 31st. In early February, the man was arrested for two months.

Vladimir Shipitsyn in the picket on March 25 / Photo: Telegram channel of the Puatnits In St. Petersburg, the police detained three activists due to the Strategy-15 campaign, which took place on January 15 on the Constitution Square. One of the detainees told OVD-info about this. Vladimir Shipitsyn was detained when he got up with a picket in support of protesting Belarusians on Malaya Sadovaya Street.

The Council of Municipal Deputies of the Timiryazevsky District voted to deprive Yulia Galyamina of her deputy mandate. She talks about this herself in her Telegram channel. reported that 8 deputies voted “for” the deprivation of Galyamina’s powers, 4 “against”, 1 abstained, “Mediazona”. Galyamina herself did not participate in the meeting. She asked to let the press into the meeting, but security did not do this.

An expert of the Golos movement, Vasily Vaisenberg, reported on surveillance and threats to his son because of an article about the salary of the head of the Yamal election commission, Andrey Gibert. about this He spoke on Facebook. According to Weisenberg, an unknown man with a burr called his wife from the number 79 854 676 551 and demanded that the article about Gibert be removed from all resources and publicly apologize.

Lawyers for opposition politician Alexei Navalny, after meeting with him in correctional colony No. 2 in the Vladimir region, reported his poor health. An interview with lawyer Olga Mikhailova was published by the Dozhd TV channel. “Severe pain in the back, in the right leg. His lower leg is taken away, his leg is incapacitated, that is, one leg practically does not work, that is, he cannot sit on it, nothing. The right leg is actually in terrible condition,” said lawyer Mikhailova.

The Vasileostrovskiy District Court imposed administrative arrests on citizens of Belarus Yegor Myakinnikov and Yulia Shtanko, who were detained because of a video message to their compatriots. This was reported to OVD-Info by human rights activist Roman Kiselev. The young people were found guilty under the article on organizing an uncoordinated action (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Shtanko was arrested for 7 days, Myakinnikov - for 2 days.

The Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended the arrest in a pre-trial detention center for a participant in the action on January 31, Yevgeny Tugankov, accused of violence against a representative of the authorities (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by lawyer Svetlana Ratnikova, who represents the interests of the defendant under an agreement with OVD-Info. Yevgeny Tugankov pleaded guilty.

Four public places in St. Petersburg, including Lenin Square, have ceased to be Hyde Parks. This is stated in the annual report of Ombudsman Alexander Shishlov. According to the report, four new Hyde Parks were created in 2019 in accordance with the decree of the Government of St. Petersburg. In fact, only one of them was in demand - Lenin Square. The rest are sites in Yekateringof Park, Pioneer Park and the Ninth of January Garden.

In the center of Moscow, near the building of the General Prosecutor's Office, seven people were detained who protested against the non-issuance of housing in the Filatov Lug residential complex. This was reported to OVD-Info by one of the defrauded real estate investors named Anastasia. About ten people came to the Prosecutor General's Office with balloons, from which the phrase "Filatov meadow requires keys" was formed.

Civil activist Mark Halperin, convicted in a case of calls for extremism, was released from a penal colony. He himself wrote about this on his Facebook. page In December 2019, Galperin's sentence was changed from suspended to real. Initially, he received a two-year suspended sentence in the case of calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) because of two videos on Red Square. Shortly before his release date, the activist was released 110 days later.

In Crimea, a defendant in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Lenur Seidametov, was sent for a forced forensic psychiatric examination, reports the Crimean Solidarity portal. This became known on March 18, when the lawyer of the Crimean Tatar activist Refat Yunus visited his client in the inpatient department of the Republican Clinical Psychiatric Hospital. The examination was ordered as part of the Hizb ut-Tahrir criminal case. He will be observed in the Seydametov hospital for 21 days.

At a meeting of the Central District Court of Komsomolsk-on-Amur on March 23, the prosecutor requested 6 years in prison for local Jehovah's Witness Nikolai Aliev. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. He was also asked to further restrict his freedom for 2 years.

In Khabarovsk, Nadezhda Ashcheulova, a participant in the October rally in support of the ex-governor of the region Sergei Furgal, was detained. She herself reported this to the OVD-Info hotline. A 72-year-old woman was detained near the entrance to the building where she works. She was taken to police department No. 4.

OVD-Info lawyer Maria Nemova defended those detained at the protests in support of Alexei Navalny in the Butyrsky District Court of Moscow. Court president Tatyana Perova told her that copies of the administrative orders against detained students would be sent to universities. It is not clear whether the threat was carried out: three of Nemova's trustees told her that they were not pressured at universities after their arrest.