On March 1, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court approved a suspended sentence for Jehovah's Witness Vitaly Sukhov. This was reported by the website "Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia". The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Krasnoyarsk reported on December 21, 2021 that the believer was given a suspended sentence of six years in prison. sentenced Sukhov was found guilty under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Dozhd editor-in-chief Tikhon Dzyadko wrote on his Telegram channel that he and several of his colleagues left Russia on March 2 after the channel’s website was blocked. wrote TV presenters Bogdan Bakaleyko and Denis Kataev left a few days before, “We can explain.” The Prosecutor General's Office reported on the website of the Dozhd TV channel on March 1.

Lists of those detained on February 24 Lists of those detained on February 25 Lists of those detained on February 26 Lists of those detained on February 27 Lists of those detained on February 28 Lists of those detained on March 1 As of 03/06/22 22:03, at least 849 people were detained at the protest in 40 cities Each police department may have more detainees than are listed on published lists.

In Ufa, FSB officers searched the apartment of Aitugan Sharipov, who was detained on February 24 at an anti-war rally. His mother told OVD-Info about this. She clarified that a case was opened against Sharipov under the article on calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) because of WhatsApp messages about the situation in Ukraine. After the search, Sharipov was taken to the FSB department for the Republic of Bashkortostan.

In the Moscow region, five activists of the Revolutionary Workers' Party (RRP) were detained, who were handing out leaflets at the Kolomna plant. This was reported to OVD-Info by a friend of the detainees. Maxim Shcherbakov, Sergei Sokolov, Ilya Evsyukov, Anastasia Barbashina and Semyon Rodina were taken to the department.

Amendments were made to the State Duma: they provide for up to 15 years in prison for spreading fake news about the actions of the Russian armed forces during the war with Ukraine. This was reported by TASS with reference to one of the authors of the amendments, Vasily Piskarev. Spreading fake news without aggravating circumstances is punishable by up to three years in prison.

In Rostov-on-Don, a court has arrested in absentia the journalist-in-exile Sergei Reznik in a case of rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) due to a post on a Telegram channel. The decision was made at the request of an investigator of the Pervomaisky District Investigative Department. This was reported by Kavkaz.Realii.

Vyacheslav Ustenko, a supporter of the Libertarian Party of Russia, was not released from the country. About this SVTV NEWS. reports Ustenko was accused of planning to go to Ukraine to fight a war with Russia. At the same time, the libertarian had tickets - he was heading to Armenia. On the evening of February 27, he tried to fly from Moscow to Gyumri, but border guards stopped him during a transit in Mineralnye Vody and took him for questioning.

In Moscow, at Chistye Prudy, at least three people were detained, who went out on single pickets in support of the workers of Kazakhstan. Sergey Obukhov, an activist of the Russian Maoist Party, announced this to OVD-Info. Shortly after the arrest, the activists were released without protocol, Obukhov said, while this text was being prepared.

The Omsk Regional Court has upheld a decision to collect compensation of 450,559 rubles from local opposition members for the work of security forces at the rally in support of Navalny on January 23. This was reported by Apologia. The expenses are to be compensated by Alexei Navalny's supporters Olga Kartavtseva, Daniil Chebykin, Vitaly Shipitsyn and Richard-Roman King. Apologia lawyer Anastasia Vasilyeva worked on the case.

St. Petersburg, Andrey Kalikh, human rights activist: “They picked me up and threw me into the bus with all their might”

On March 1, the Samara Regional Court fined Andrei Shabanov 60 thousand rubles under two parts of the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism. The publication “Idel.Realii” is about this.

In the Krasnodar Territory, law enforcers threaten arrested activist Alipat Sultanbegova with a treason case (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). this with reference to the girl's friends . reports SOTA According to them, during the transfer to the detention center of the village of Vyselka, the police handcuffed the activist, did not let her see what was happening outside the window, and threatened that they would be taken to the border with Ukraine.

Roskomnadzor blocked several Ukrainian media - the TSN channel, Segodnya, Ukrinform, Zaxid, Zerkalo Nedeli, Сensor.net, Vesti.ua, Depo.ua and Delo.ua - and the official websites of the Ministry of Health and Border Guard Service of Ukraine. The BBC Russian Service is about this.

Then from the publications “Echo of Moscow”, “InoSMI”, “Mediazona”, The New Times, “Dozhd”, “Free Press”, “Krym.Realii”, “Novaya Gazeta”, “Journalist”, “Lenizdat” under the threat of blocking demanded the removal of publications about military operations: the department announced that they contained “untrue information about the shelling of Ukrainian cities and the death of Ukrainian civilians as a result of the actions of the Russian army.” In addition, publications were actually prohibited