A court in Vologda fined 19-year-old Dmitry Marakasov 30,000 rubles for photographing a post box with the inscription "Putin *****". It is reported by Sever.Realii. Marakasov photographed the box on January 23 and published it on VKontakte with the caption “In fact.” The police considered this to be disrespectful to the authorities (part 3 of article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The case was initiated after a complaint from an unknown person.

The Krasnogvardeisky District Court ordered the arrest of Viasna activists Bogdan Litvin, Nikita Levkin, Georgy Smirnov and Alexandra Kodiy. They held a torchlight procession in defense of Twitter. about this Writes "Apology of Protest". Levkin, Litvin and Smirnov were sentenced to 7 days of arrest, Kodiy - 5 days. The two days served in the police department were counted as part of the sentence.

A resident of Vladivostok was suspected of rehabilitating Nazism (part 3 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) because of the publication on the website of the Immortal Regiment of a photograph of the Reich Minister of Public Education and Propaganda of Nazi Germany Joseph Goebbels. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the UK.

In Moscow, the police detained three people near the Belarusian embassy. They themselves reported this to OVD-Info. The detainees Svetlana Mishurova, Svetlana Klimova, Svetlana Sakovskaya are being taken to the Basmanny police station. They did not participate in the action. On the mask of one of the detainees was the coat of arms " Pahonia ", on the scarf of the other - the inscription "Long Live Belarus". Probably, the clothes became the reason for the detention.

The Sevastopol City Court released Jehovah's Witness Vladimir Maladyka under house arrest. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers. Maladyka spent 180 days in a pre-trial detention center. He is accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). On March 23, the court released other Jehovah's Witnesses involved in the case, Vladimir Sakada and Igor Shmidt, under house arrest.

The Pechora District Court of Komi dismissed the case of eco-activist Larisa Pelipenko, who was picketing against new waste disposal facilities. This is reported by Sever.Realii. Pelipenko was detained on March 17 for a picket with a placard “Pechora, breathe! We are against incineration." She was taken to the police department, charged with organizing an uncoordinated action (part 2 of article 20 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and taken to court.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow extended until August 10 a ban on certain actions against supporters of the "indefinite protest" Olga Misik, Ivan Vorobyevsky and Igor Basharimov. This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info Dmitry Zakhvatov. On March 31, the court overturned the decision to extend the ban on certain actions for activists at the request of the prosecutor's office.

The Presnensky District Court chose a preventive measure for the new defendant in the “palace case,” Alexander Federyakov. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Alexander Borkov, who represents the interests of the protester. Federyakov was sent to a pre-trial detention center until April 23. A resident of Moscow on March 31 after a search in his apartment. As Federyakov’s wife said, investigative actions were carried out in the morning and in the presence of their young children.

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan found Nikita Anufriev, a participant in the action on January 31, guilty under the article on violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). The Tatar-info portal is about this. writes The protester was sentenced to a fine of 25 thousand rubles. Anufriev admitted guilt, the case was considered in a special manner without examining the evidence.

Employees of IK-26 in the Samara region placed Eduard Nizamov, a defendant in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Tatarstan, who was sentenced to 23 years in a maximum security colony in a terrorism case, in a punishment cell for 5 days. His mother reported this to OVD-Info. According to his mother, Nizamov was transferred to the punishment cell at the end of March due to the fact that he was late for verification.

On March 30, in Naberezhnye Chelny (Tatarstan), law enforcement officers came with a search to the seventy-year-old writer and activist of the Tatar national movement Fauzia Bayramova. This was reported by the information and analytical center "Sova". Investigative actions were carried out as part of the case under the article on incitement to hatred (Article 282 of the Criminal Code), which has been under investigation since June 2020.

On March 30, employees of Center “E” in Abakan (Khakassia) came to search the home of Jehovah’s Witness Alexander Vergunov. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” reports this. During the investigation, security forces seized the believer’s laptop. The criminal case against Vergunov and five other Jehovah’s Witnesses from Abakan became known in April 2020.

An investigator from Severodvinsk (Arkhangelsk region) issued a decision to dismiss the criminal case against the head of the regional branch of PARNAS Yuri Shcherbachev, who was prosecuted under the article on insulting a representative of the authorities (Article 319 of the Criminal Code). this Shcherbachev himself announced on VKontakte. The criminal case became known on October 9, 2020.

Mundems in the Court building / Telegram channel "Buddy" The justice of the peace in St. Petersburg terminated administrative cases against seven municipal deputies of the Smolninsky district, who were detained during the meeting on January 20. This was reported in the telegram channel "Buddy".

Crimean Tatar activist Vadim Bektemirov, who is being prosecuted in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, will be transferred from the Simferopol pre-trial detention center to a detention center in Rostov-on-Don. This was reported by Crimean Solidarity with reference to lawyer Emil Kurbedinov. The political prisoner is being transported in connection with the start of consideration of his case on the merits in the Southern District Military Court.