Andrey Zakhtei / Photo: "ґrati" The defendant in the case of the “Crimean saboteurs” Andrei Zakhtei departed the term of imprisonment of six and a half years and left the colony of strict regime in Simferopol. After the release, to him, a citizen of Ukraine, was not allowed to go to his native country, but was placed at the Center for Temporary Contents of Foreign Citizens in the Rostov Region. This is reported by "ґrati." The man was detained in August 2016.

Andrey Zakhtei / Photo: "ґrati" The defendant in the case of the “Crimean saboteurs” Andrei Zakhtei served the term of imprisonment of six and a half years and left the colony. After the release, to him, a citizen of Ukraine, was not allowed to go to his native country, but was placed at the Center for Temporary Contents of Foreign Citizens in the Rostov Region. This is reported by "ґrati." Zakhtea was detained in August 2016.

In St. Petersburg and Moscow, the police came to the evenings of letters of political prisoners This is reported by PYATNITSA and SOTAvision . In St. Petersburg, the security forces came to the premises of the Association of Carriers of Russia. They demanded that the organizers write explanations, after which they left the premises. The police were also interested in whether the office was being used legally, adds RusNews. In Moscow, the police came to the Open Space.

Arrested in Astrakhan, PARNAS member Yaroslav Savin went on a hunger strike in a special detention center. This was reported to OVD-Info by his wife Marina Savina. Savina specified that, in fact, the hunger strike began on February 17 at the police department: her husband did not eat the food that they could give him.

A resident of Moscow, Ekaterina Varenik, who was arrested for 12 days after a picket near the monument to Lesya Ukrainka, left Russia. She spoke about this in an interview with SOTA. The girl left the country on February 17, at the moment she is in Kyrgyzstan. “I don’t want to get a criminal case while in Russia, and I’m even a little surprised that this hasn’t happened yet,” Varenik comments on his departure from SOTA. - I understand that I'm leaving for an indefinite period.

A resident of the capital, Kateryna Varenik, who was arrested for 12 days after a picket at the monument to Lesya Ukrainka, left Russia. She spoke about this in an interview with SOTA. The girl left the country on February 17, at the moment she is in Kyrgyzstan. “I don’t want to get a criminal case while in Russia, and I’m even a little surprised that this hasn’t happened yet,” Varenik comments on his departure from SOTA. - I understand that I'm leaving for an indefinite period.

The editorial office of the Sota publication began to receive threats after the publication that, according to residents of the Luhansk region, the soldiers of the Akhmat battalion kill pets. Screenshots with threats were published by Sota in her telegram channel. The other day, the publication published a video from the surveillance camera, which was transmitted by a resident of the city of Stakhanov.

The Kirovsky District Court of Astrakhan arrested Yaroslav Savin, a member of the local branch of PARNAS, for five days and fined him 30,000 rubles. This was reported to OVD-Info by his wife Marina Savina. The man was detained the day before due to the fact that in the name of his telegram channel, next to the name, there is an emoji of the Ukrainian flag.

The Investigative Committee in Penza opened a criminal case for discrediting the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) against local resident Nikolai Gutsenovich because he put “likes” and reactions to anti-war publications on Odnoklassniki. Stanislav Fomenko, a lawyer from OVD-Info, will defend him.

On February 17, the Birobidzhansky District Court sentenced Jehovah's Witness Evgeny Egorov to two and a half years probation. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. The believer was found guilty under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), and he was also sentenced to one year of restriction of freedom.