The Prosecutor General's Office has approved the indictment in the case of journalist Ivan Safronov as part of the treason case, the Interfax news agency reported.

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The investigation demanded that the preventive measure be tightened for Nizhny Novgorod journalist Natalya Rezontova. This was reported in the telegram channel dedicated to her case. Rezontova is accused in a criminal case of violating sanitary and epidemiological rules (Part 1 of Article 236 of the Criminal Code) in connection with the rally on January 23, 2021 in support of Navalny.

Former technical director of Navalny LIVE Daniel Kholodny has been arrested in Moscow. Lyubov Sobol reported this on her Twitter. wrote On March 4, a Moscow court sent Kholodny to a pretrial detention center for two months. The man was involved in providing live broadcasts on the Navalny LIVE channel. Sobol believes that the arrest is related to the case of the activities of an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code).

The Ministry of Justice has a list of “undesirable” organizations in Russia: now it includes the media “Important Stories”, registered in Latvia, and the American Association for the Advancement of Journalism. added the Latvian legal entity “Important Stories” and six of its employees to the register of “foreign agents” in August 2021.

In Rostov-on-Don, local civil activist Rostislav Pavlishchev was detained when he was boarding a train. This was reported to OVD-Info by his girlfriend, who was present during the arrest. The young people's passports were taken away - according to the police, they will be taken to court in the near future.

On March 4, the Khostinsky District Court of Sochi released Jehovah's Witness Tatyana Velizhanina, who is being tried in the case of an extremist organization, under house arrest. About this on the website “Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia”. The woman was reportedly allowed two-hour walks. She spent more than 11 months in a pre-trial detention center in Armavir. The case of Velizhanova and three other believers from Kuban went to court in February.

Sailor Vadim Ignashov, who is a citizen of Ukraine, was detained in Vladivostok on charges of calls for extremism (probably part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), Russian Union of Seafarers. reports According to the chairman of the Vladivostok primary organization of the trade union, Peter Osichansky, the sailor published messages on social networks. Now he is most likely in custody. Osichansky managed to see Ignashov on March 4, as he says, everything is fine with him.

Gleb Maryasov, a defendant in the “palace case,” was released. He himself told OVD-Info about this. On October 27, 2021, the court sentenced Maryasov to 10 months in prison. He was found guilty in the case of blocking roads (Article 267 of the Criminal Code) during a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23, 2021. After the verdict was announced, Maryasov was taken into custody. Before his release, he was in Moscow pre-trial detention centers.

The court in Ivanovo refused to remove the “foreign agent” status from “Voice” participant Ilya Pigalkin. This is reported by SOTA. Pigalkin was added to the register of media “foreign agents” on September 29, 2021. The Ministry of Justice considered 2,000 rubles from the ex-husband of Pigalkin’s neighbor and a citizen of Afghanistan to be foreign funding. So the man returned the money that his wife had lent.

On March 3, the Astrakhan Regional Court approved real sentences for Jehovah's Witnesses Rustam Diarov, Sergei Klikunov and Evgeniy and Olga Ivanov. Information and Analytical Center "Sova" about this. reports the Trusovsky District Court of Astrakhan in October 2021, eight years in a general regime colony for Diarov, Ivanov and Klikunov. Olga Ivanova was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.

In January, the Arkhangelsk Regional Court ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to pay five thousand rubles in compensation to local activist and Activatika correspondent Alexander Peskov for unlawful administrative persecution. Peskov in a lawsuit asked for a payment of 500 thousand rubles. The decision of the court is reported by "Activatika", it is published on the website of the court. The Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk in August 2021 rejected Peskov's claim.

In St. Petersburg on March 4, at about 2 p.m., the police came to civil activist Vladislav Shipitsyn. He himself told OVD-Info about this. Shipitsyn was turned off the light in the apartment, breaking the wires in the panel, and they threatened to cut the door. Lawyer and human rights activist Dinar Idrisov came to help. It turned out that they wanted to give Shipitsyn a subpoena for questioning in the case of Olga Smirnova on March 10, but for some reason they decided not to send it by mail.

In St. Petersburg, human rights activist Maria Malysheva was searched. The telegram channel “Detentions St. Petersburg” is about this. reports Malysheva does not get in touch. It is unknown in connection with which case the investigation is being carried out. They also raided the home of the elderly mother of human rights activist Dinar Idrisov.

On March 5, protests against Russia's military operations on the territory of Ukraine continue in many Russian cities. We publish the lists of detainees on this day.