In Moscow, two people were detained near the Belarusian embassy, ​​who were peacefully standing near the building, not holding any actions. The detainees themselves informed OVD-Info about this. Mikhail Lebedev and Svetlana Sakovskaya did not hold a picket or rally and did not have posters or other political symbols. The policemen demanded that they leave the building and then took them to a service car. What they are going to impute is unknown.

In St. Petersburg, three members of the Alliance of Teachers trade union were detained when they were returning from the congress of the organization. The security forces detained Daniil Ken, Ivan Drobotov and another person who wished to remain anonymous. The police explained the detention by a certain orientation. The detainees were taken to police station No. 28. 5 April 0:25 The detainees were released from the department without a protocol being drawn up.

In Togliatti, employees of Center “E” detained Rinat Safin, a participant in the January 23 action, in mid-March. He was charged with an article about violence against a representative of government (Article 318 of the Criminal Code). The Samara Review is about this, based on the news of the publication, the project “Prisoners 212”.

On April 3, in Pushkino (Moscow Region), the administration of the Green Town boarding house evicted observers from the Golos movement on the night before the municipal elections. this on her Telegram channel . reports Maria Kuznetsova, one of the observers, According to Kuznetsova, at first, part of the Golos volunteers at the hotel said that there were no vacancies, although in reality there were.

Photo: Alexander Artemyev. In Moscow, the picketman Alexander Artemyev, who went to Red Square with the poster “Freedom Political Prisoner”, was detained. He himself informed the OVD-Info about this. Artemyev unfolded the poster, being on the steps near the Lenin mausoleum. Soon, police officers approached the man and detained him. Now he is in the China-Gorod police department.

Voronezh civil activist Grigory Severin, who was charged in March under an article on incitement to extremist activity (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code) because of a publication on VKontakte, was sent on April 1 to undergo a forensic psychiatric examination. This was reported to OVD-Info by his wife. The woman notes that the family was afraid of forced hospitalization, but it did not happen. The results of the examination are not yet known.

Photo from the official site "Artdokfest" In St. Petersburg, the Artdokfest documentary film festival abolished part of the shows after the Police and Rospotrebnadzor came to the premiere of the film “Rastorguev”. The organizers of the festival are reported on the Facebook page. The shows were canceled on April 4 at the Cinema House, two halls in which Rospotrebnadzor sealed the day before. The organizers note that they still do not know whether other shows will take place on the site.