The Investigative Committee for the Rostov Region interrogated Sergei Grivko, an activist and member of the political council of the Rostov Solidarity, as a witness under an article on the use of violence against a police officer (Article 318 of the Criminal Code). Grivko himself told about this to OVD-Info. The case relates to a rally against raising the retirement age, which took place on September 9, 2018 at Theater Square in Rostov-on-Don.

In Moscow, the police detained Alexander Varlamov, a member of the StopHam movement, because of a rally on March 26 against illegal parking of police cars, during which the activists put stickers on illegally parked cars of the security forces. About this OVD-Info was told by one of the activists of the movement, who became an eyewitness to the detention. Police officers approached Varlamov during an anti-parking event held by activists on April 15 in central Moscow.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan ruled to pay 10,000 rubles as moral compensation to Ilmir Shakurov from Naberezhnye Chelny. He filed a lawsuit due to the refusal of the city executive committee to coordinate the rally. This is reported by the publication "Idel.Realii". In 2018, Shakurov, Raushan Valiullin and Dmitry Teterin planned to hold a rally against the pension reform and VAT increase, scheduled for June 1, but officials did not agree to it.

The Village removed, at the request of Roskomnadzor, an article about how residents of other countries resist police violence. The publication itself reported this. “The text talked about how in different countries - Tunisia, the USA, Brazil, France and Spain - people are massively rebelling against torture by the police, while Russia is lagging behind this trend.

The Petushinsky District Court of the Vladimir Region has appointed Sergey Rybakov, surgeon and deputy head of the Alliance of Doctors trade union, 8 days of arrest for announcing a people's gathering near the colony where Alexei Navalny is being held. This is reported by the "Apology of Protest" with reference to the lawyer Mikhail Kuznetsov.

In Ivanovo on April 13, FSB officers detained an alleged supporter of the Tablighi Jamaat movement. He is charged with participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the FSB department for the Ivanovo region.

Anastasia Panchenko, coordinator of Navalny’s local headquarters, was detained in Gelendzhik. This is stated by lawyer Mikhail Benyash, who went to help Panchenko. reports According to him, the girl was detained due to information received that she was shouting “anti-political slogans.” It is not yet known which police department the detainee is being taken to. Previously, police officers visited Navalny's headquarters in Irkutsk, Penza and Pskov.

Pro-Ukrainian activist Oleg Prikhodko, who is in SIZO No. 1 in Rostov-on-Don, is required to undergo a full medical examination. This is reported by Krym.Realii with reference to the Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova. Denisova turned to the Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova. According to the representative of Ukraine, Prikhodko complains of swelling and pain in his legs, as well as an exacerbation of chronic diseases.

The Second Western District Military Court sentenced Ukrainian blogger Evgeniy Volnov (real name Nikita Kuvikov) in absentia to six years in prison because of words in support of the bombing of the FSB building in Arkhangelsk. About this on the official website of the Investigative Committee. Volnov was reportedly found guilty under the article on justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). The investigation put the Ukrainian citizen on the international wanted list.

In the city of Zeya (Amur Region), the prosecutor during the debate asked to sentence 78-year-old Jehovah's Witness Vasily Reznichenko to two years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of eight months under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.

The Sakhalin Regional Court canceled the fine for Anna Ermakova, the mother of a student who participated in a picket against a classmate near school No. 31 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the says . court website The case was dismissed due to the absence of an administrative offense. In February 2021, Ermakova was fined 30,000 rubles under the article on the involvement of minors in participation in an uncoordinated action (part 1.1 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Police in Nizhny Novgorod have detained eco-activist and participant in the "indefinite protest" Andrey Gorskikh. He has already been released, he told OVD-Info. The young man was detained at his home, after which he was taken to the police department in the Prioksky district. There, an FSB officer talked to him for several hours about the criminal case of eco-activist Sergei Strannik.

A criminal case was opened against Belgorod resident Anton Kovyazin under the article of knowingly false reporting of a terrorist attack (Part 2 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code) due to the fact that in the group’s correspondence on VKontakte he used the phrase “It’s a bomb!” as a characteristic of the rally on January 23. He told OVD-Info about this. The news has been corrected. Initially, we reported that the hero of the news wrote the phrase in personal correspondence.

Judge Anna Nikityuk of the Zheleznovodsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory sentenced Tagir Galaev, a participant in a rally against changing the borders between Chechnya and Ingushetia, to seven months in a penal colony under the article on the use of violence not dangerous to health against a security official (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Human Rights Center "Memorial".

On April 3, employees of the economic security department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs conducted a search in the branch of the Yabloko party in the city of Shakhty, Rostov Region, Kavkaz.Realii reports , citing the head of the branch, Vladimir Kalinin, a former municipal deputy. Kalinin is convinced that the police came to the office because of his intentions to participate in the elections to the State Duma.