A criminal case was opened against Yekaterinburg street artist Egor Ledyakin (pseudonym Leonid Cherny) from the PLSC team under the article on vandalism (214 of the Criminal Code), said OVD-Info lawyer Natalya Novikova, who provided him with legal assistance. The local publication It's My City also announced the initiation of a criminal case. wrote The maximum penalty under this article is up to three years in prison. For what exact reason a criminal case was opened is still unknown.

Jehovah's Witness Andrei Andreev is in correctional colony No. 2 in Lipetsk. This became known on March 17, a website covering the persecution of believers. reports the Industrial District Court of Kursk on June 3, 2021, believer Andrei Andreev is guilty under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. recognized this decision on January 20.

In Orenburg, at the entrance to a rally in support of the Russian army, an underage sympathizer of the Other Russia party E. V. Limonov was detained. About this in his telegram channel reports "Direct Action". Presumably, the minor was detained for stickers of the Other Russia E. V. Limonov party, which were found during a search at the entrance to the rally. March 19 On March 18, the juvenile detainee was released after receiving a warning.

Anti-fascist from the Kaluga region Olga Proshkina told OVD-Info details of the search that took place in her apartment on March 14. The activist provided the editors with a copy of the “inspection” protocol of the garage where the music group, whose members were searched, was rehearsing. The girl has no other documents confirming what happened.

The Volgograd Regional Court upheld the sentences of five Jehovah's Witnesses who had previously been sentenced to imprisonment. The Caucasian Knot reports this with reference to the press service of the court. writes In September, believers Sergei Melnik, Igor Egozaryan, Denis Peresunko, Valery Rogozin and Vyacheslav Osipov were sentenced to sentences of up to six years and five months in prison. (Previously, only four were reported.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced five defendants in the case of the second Simferopol group of Hizb ut-Tahrir. They were sentenced to 14 to 15 years in prison. The Crimean Solidarity community is about this. writes Akim Bekirov, Seitveli Seitabdiev, Rustem Seitkhalilov received 14 years in a maximum security colony, with the first five years in prison, as well as a year of restriction of freedom after release.

I was detained on March 6 at house 2/1 on Kalanchevskaya Street, next to the Square of Three Stations. That day we met with our friends at the Bolshevichka store not far from Komsomolskaya Square. They walked in a very small crowd. We had no posters, we only had time to chant “No to war” for 10 seconds. There were already a lot of police on Komsomolskaya Square that day. They examined some people right on the street: they looked into their backpacks and asked to see their phones.

In Moscow and St. Petersburg, journalists from independent publications who were traveling to cover rallies dedicated to the celebration of the “day of annexation of Crimea” and support for the Russian military are detained. At least two SOTA journalists were detained. police stopped him at the Sportivnaya metro station, from where he got out to get to the Luzhniki stadium - at 15:00 a concert in support of the Russian military and the “annexation of Crimea” was scheduled to begin there.

The Moscow Mayor's Office refused to approve the march on March 27 to the Yabloko party. This is reported in the press service of the party. The procession was planned to be held from 14:00 to 19:00, but the city administration refused the politicians, citing coronavirus restrictions on mass events.

The editor-in-chief of Pskov Province Denis Kamalyagin and several other media employees left Russia. About this in the telegram channel of the publication. reported The message says that Kamalyagin left a day before the search that took place today in his house in the case of libel (Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code) against the regional governor Mikhail Vedernikov. At the moment, searches are taking place at at least seven addresses of Pskov journalists and activists.

In Volgograd, after a search, Valeria Igarashchi and another girl were detained. They were taken to an unknown direction. There is no connection with girls. Valeria Igarashchi’s husband Anton told OVD-Info about this. The security forces did not leave search reports or other documents, but stated that one of them was suspected of falsely reporting mining. According to Anton Igarashchi, the girls were detained on March 6 at the site of an anti-war rally.

The inscription on the wall of the DC "Rybnik" / Photo: the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Tomsk Region

In the Moscow region, a court sent a 25-year-old man, a native of Ukraine, to a pre-trial detention center on charges of inciting hatred or enmity with the threat of violence (clause “a”, part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code) because of a post on Instagram. About this on the website of the Investigative Committee.

In Pskov, security forces are conducting a search in the apartment of the head of the regional branch of the Yabloko party, Lev Shlosberg. The telegram channel “This is Goncharov” is about this. reports It became known about other searches in the city: investigative actions are also taking place in the houses of the chief editor of the “Pskov province” Denis Kamalyagin and journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva.

Muscovite Alexandra Kaluga was detained at an anti-war protest on March 6 in Moscow and taken to the Brateevo police station. There she was beaten and insulted by police officers. The audio recording, in which the sounds of blows and insults are heard in response to Alexandra's refusal to testify in accordance with Article 51 of the Constitution, was published by many publications. On March 18, Alexandra will have a trial.