Police officers in Moscow detained Ashot Melkonyan, a picketer, who was walking with a banner “Freedom to political prisoners! Freedom of the press! on Pushkinskaya Square. He himself informed OVD-Info about this. Now Melkonyan is in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Tverskaya district. A lawyer from OVD-Info Alexander Salamov came to see him.

On April 21, the Savelovsky District Court of Moscow arrested Mikhail Kavun for one and a half months. He is suspected under the article on financing extremist activities (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code) due to his trips to Ukraine. The investigation claims that during these trips, Kavun allegedly transferred cash to the head of the branch of the Ukrainian nationalist organization Right Sector, Igor Pirozhko, who is now in a Russian colony.