In Moscow, police detained three activists Dmitry Frontov, Ekaterina Filippovich and Philip Prosandeev, who were protesting against construction in the Bitsevsky Forest. The detainees themselves informed OVD-Info about this. The activists were taken to the Chertanovo Tsentralnoye police station, after which they were released without protocol.

Police detained members of the "Left Front" Sergei Udaltsov and Yevgeny Efremov in Moscow near the Universitet metro station, SOTA and TASS report . The activists were detained while conducting a survey of passers-by about the situation in Ukraine, which they broadcast on Youtube. The police detained “allegedly on the basis of a complaint from citizens that Udaltsov and Efremov were pestering people on the street,” lawyer Violetta Volkova told TASS.

A court in Novosibirsk has ordered local deputy Sergei Boyko and activists to pay 2.8 million rubles for the work of security forces at the 2021 winter rallies in support of Alexei Navalny. This was reported by the Telegram channel "Coalition Novosibirsk 2020". writes - In a number of regions, local police departments filed lawsuits for hundreds of thousands of rubles against activists whom they considered to be the organizers of the protests.

The court in Maykop sent Mayak movement activist Roman Taganov under house arrest in the case of using violence not dangerous to life and health against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). His wife reported this to OVD-Info. Like Mayak activists, on March 7, when Taganov was returning home with his child, he was attacked by unknown people. Later it turned out that they were police officers.

The military appeal court in Vlasikha near Moscow approved the decision to extend the arrest of the defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case from Sevastopol, Rustem Murasov, Rustem Tairov, Dzhebbar Bekirov and Zavur Abdullaev, Crimean Solidarity. On February 4, he informed the men that they would be kept in pre-trial detention until July 23, 2022.

Philologist Ilya Kukulin reported that the administration of the National Research University Higher School of Economics forced him and his colleague and wife Maria Mayofis to sign a letter of resignation of their own free will. The “We Can Explain” telegram channel is about this.

On March 17, police in St. Petersburg detained a 23-year-old young man from the Novgorod region - he is suspected of uploading a photograph of Stepan Bandera to a page for broadcasting the “Immortal Regiment.” Information and Analytical Center "Sova" about this. reports The man is charged with an article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code).

Picket Vladislav Palagin / Photo provided by Palaginin In Barnaul, Vladislav Palagin was detained, who conducted a single picket in support of political prisoners and independent media. He was delivered to the police department of the Zheleznodorozhny district. 11:10 Palagins were released from the police. It made a protocol on violation of the regime of increased readiness (Article 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Local activist Yana Drobnokhod was detained on Lenin Square in Novosibirsk. She was there wearing a T-shirt “I/we are Sergei Furgal,” she told OVD-Info. The shotgun is being taken to the Central District police department. She is charged with violating the high alert regime (Article 20.6.1 of the Administrative Code) due to the fact that she was not wearing a mask. Vasily Dubkov, a lawyer from OVD-Info, will defend the detainee.