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Today, OVD-Info lawyers and lawyers helped detainees in police departments, we advised detainees in a bot and by phone, and also collected and published information about detentions and violations of the rights of protesters in different cities of Russia. All this was possible only thanks to you. Support our work with a donation in crypto ! Information about detainees Detained: 864 people in 37 cities of Russia. Here is a list of detainees by region .

In Moscow, the son of artist Nikas Safronov, 31-year-old pianist Luka Zatravkin, handcuffed himself to the entrance to McDonald's. So he protested against the departure of the company from Russia. The man was detained. This is reported by the telegram channel Baza. The action of Zatravkin took place at the oldest McDonald's in Russia on Pushkin Square. Before the start of the action, the pianist published a manifesto on his Telegram channel.

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Police officers came to search the apartment of Elena Noskovets, who works as an assistant to Novosibirsk City Council deputy Sergei Boyko. Noskovets is a witness in the case of “telephone terrorism” (Article 207 of the Criminal Code). The case was opened due to calls about false mining of the Aura shopping center on January 31. Taiga.Info is about this.

According to information that The Washington Post received from “people familiar with the situation”, in September 2021, FSB officers visited a top manager of the Moscow office of Google at the hotel where she was staying under an assumed name. According to TWP, an unnamed office worker moved into the hotel under a pseudonym after Russian authorities demanded that the Smart Voting app be removed from the Google app store.

In Rostov-on-Don, the homes of public activists are being searched as part of a criminal case. Their friends report this. Searches are underway at Tatyana Sporysheva and Boris Papayan. Lawyer Sporysheva and her mother are not allowed into the apartment. The lawyer left the complaint with the prosecutor on duty. The search of Elena Belan has already been completed. All equipment was confiscated from her.

The editor-in-chief of the Tomsk news agency TV2, Viktor Muchnik, announced his departure from Russia after the site was blocked by Roskomnadzor. Posting about it on his Facebook page. appeared “If TV2 had not been killed a second time, I would still have worked for my own pleasure, as some of my friends and colleagues continue to work in Russia, with whom I sincerely sympathize, because I understand what it costs them to work honestly today. <…> However, this story is over.

In St. Petersburg, a local resident was detained as part of a criminal case that was opened because of the signs “No to war!” and “Putin is a fascist!” at the memorial “Mass grave of soldiers of the Soviet Army who died defending Leningrad in 1941–1943.” Dmitry Kh. Human rights activist Dinar Idrisov reported this to OVD-Info; copies of the decisions to initiate a case and conduct a search are at the disposal of the editorial office.

On March 13, more than 850 participants in anti-war actions were detained in 37 Russian cities. Since the beginning of the war with Ukraine, the total number of people detained for disagreeing with Russian aggression is approaching 15,000. The security forces are no longer just sending people to paddy wagons for pickets, but are trying to identify "unreliable" among passers-by in places where anti-war protests were announced. Let's wrap up this Sunday.

Anti-war protests, massive blocking of independent media and the approval of the decision to liquidate the International Memorial Society - we talk about the pressure of the authorities on civil society in Russia in February in our chronicle of political pressure. All Russia On the morning of February 24, Russia launched a “special military operation in the Donbass,” during which shelling of strategically significant targets throughout Ukraine began.

On March 13, 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.