In Syktyvkar, the FSB opened a criminal case under articles on incitement to terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and extremism (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code) against local resident Elena Rodvikova. This is reported by the human rights project "Network Freedoms". Rodvikova is charged with several comments on VKontakte.

In Moscow, the administrator of the telegram bot "Eye of God" came with a search. This is reported by the human rights project "Network Freedoms" with reference to the lawyer Fyodor Sirosh. Human rights activists do not disclose the name of the administrator. As Network Freedoms explains, God's Eye is a bot for looking up a person's contacts in public databases.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow upheld 10 rulings imposing fines on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty projects and 10 similar rulings against the director of the organization Andrei Shary. It is reported by Roskomnadzor. The lower court ruled under the article on foreign agents - Radio Liberty was charged with the absence of a label "foreign agent" in publications.

The Moscow City Court has lifted house arrests for Alexei Navalny's brother Oleg, Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) lawyer Lyubov Sobol, and municipal deputies Lyudmila Shtein and Konstantin Yankauskas. Their preventive measures will be replaced with a ban on certain actions. This was reported from the courtroom by OVD-Info lawyer Ilya Utkin, who represents Yankauskas' interests.

The Petushinsky District Court of the Vladimir Region arrested for eight days the head of the legal service of the Alliance of Doctors, Alexander Generalov , and the deputy chairman of the Perm branch of the trade union, Valeria Merkulova . Both were charged with participating in a gathering on April 6 near correctional colony No. 2 in Pokrov, where Alexei Navalny was being held. This is reported by “Apology of Protest”.

On April 6, the Second Western District Military Court rejected an appeal against the lower court’s refusal to initiate a case in connection with the violence of operatives against Ivan Lyubshin, who was sentenced to five years for a comment on VKontakte. This was reported by the Memorial human rights center with reference to the father of the political prisoner. Lyubshin's interests were represented in court by lawyer Tatyana Molokanova.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg appointed a day of arrest for Belarusian citizen Zhanna Galeeva because of a picket at the end of February. It is reported by MBH media. Northwest". Galeeva was found guilty of organizing an uncoordinated action (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). She was released in the courtroom, because she spent a day in the police - the court took this into account.

Screenshot from the video Denis Styazhkina The Tver District Court found the journalist Denis Styazhkin to be guilty of a violation of the rules for participation in a public event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and set a fine of 15 thousand rubles in the footsteps of the Left Bloc shame, dedicated to the birthday of Vladimir Putin. This was announced by Styazhkin on Facebook.

Jehovah's Witness, a resident of the village of Kholmskaya in the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Shcherbina, was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony. This was reported on a website dedicated to the persecution of believers. The decision was made by the Abinsky District Court on April 6, fully agreeing with the demand of the prosecutor's office - during the debate, the prosecution asked that Shcherbina be sentenced to three years in prison.

Director Vitaly Mansky announced the cancellation of the screening of the film Border about the protests in Ingushetia as part of the Artdocfest. The picture was planned to be shown in the Petersburg cinema "October". In September 2018, the authorities of Ingushetia and Chechnya signed an agreement to change the border between the republics, after which protests began in Ingushetia. On March 26, 2019, about 10 thousand people came to the rally in Magas.

At the end of June 2021, 26 lawyers from OVD-Info participated in criminal cases of 29 people who became accused after the winter protests. Read about how the repression is unfolding in our material: How the “palace case” is developing: 134 defendants, 38 convicted . We act within the framework of the position and interests of the client “There has never been persecution of this scale for participation in protests in Russia. Now the authorities want to punish more people.

The police came to Navalny's headquarters in St. Petersburg. this The activists reported on their Telegram channel. “They say that the headquarters allegedly has extremist materials and pyrotechnics,” they explain the arrival of the police at the headquarters. As one of the people currently at the headquarters told OVD-Info, no one is allowed out of the premises, the police check documents and threaten people with arrests.

OVD-Info received information about another resident of Russia who was imprisoned in connection with a mention on social networks of an explosion in the Arkhangelsk FSB Directorate in October 2018. Previously, this data, at least personalized, was not published in the media.

Valery Evsin, a participant in the January 23 protests in support of Alexei Navalny, was sentenced to two years in a general regime colony. His interests in court were represented by lawyers from OVD-Info Elena Sheremetyeva and Maxim Pashkov. The verdict was handed down by the Tverskoy District Court. Thus, Evsin was found guilty under the article of violence against a National Guard member (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). The case was considered in a special manner.

During the debate in the Tverskoy District Court in the case of an attack on a National Guard member, the prosecutor’s office requested three years in prison for Valery Evsin, a participant in the January 23 protest, reports lawyer from OVD-Info Maxim Pashkov. Taxi driver Valery Evsin was detained on January 26, three days later the court sent the man to a pre-trial detention center.