On March 15, the Kirovsky District Court of Kemerovo returned the criminal case of blogger Mikhail Alferov to the prosecutor’s office - he is being persecuted because of a video in support of Alexei Navalny. Alferov himself talks about this on his YouTube channel. The court made this decision because the indictment did not indicate the place where the crime was committed.

The court of the Chukotka Autonomous Region fined a resident of Anadyr 1.8 million rubles under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism on the Internet (paragraph “c” of part 2 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). It is reported by "Mediazona" with reference to the agency "Chukotka". "Mediazona" suggests that we are talking about Roman Novikov. He was sentenced on March 6th.

In Russia, the site of the store for philatelists Peterstamps was blocked. It is reported by Roskomsvoboda. Access is limited to all domains and subdomains at once. The reason for the blocking is unknown, but OVD-Info found anti-war postage stamps in the store's catalog - for example, with the Ukrainian flag and the image of a dove of peace , as well as with a pacifist and the signature "No to war! February 24 is a black day in the history of Russia.

On January 12, the European Court of Human Rights awarded three thousand euros in compensation to activists from Kazan Olga Sergeeva and Gulnara Galyautdinova, who were detained in 2018 during observation of the presidential elections. The Yabloko party reported this. The ECHR concluded that Russia violated Sergeeva and Galyautdinova’s right to liberty and security of person, guaranteed by Article 5 of the Human Rights Convention. Activists were present on March 18, 2018 at polling station No.

In Segezha, activists Irina Nippolainen and Anna Trusova were searched. The telegram channel “Politzek-Info” is about this. reports Presumably, the investigative actions were carried out by FSB officers. The women were charged with an article about public calls for activities directed against the security of the state (Part 2 of Article 280.4 of the Criminal Code), most likely because of posts on VKontakte.

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk awarded activist Yana Drobnokhod compensation of 50,000 rubles for illegal arrest for two days. This was reported to OVD-Info by her lawyer Vasily Dubkov. The judge agreed that the arrest of a woman with a child under 14 years of age is contrary to the law (clause 2, article 3.9 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). At the same time, the very detention of Drobnokhod was recognized by the court as lawful.

On March 16, the Eighth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction confirmed the sentence of 52-year-old Jehovah's Witness Evgeniy Korotun to seven years in prison. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. Earlier, the Tomsk Regional Court made the same decision on appeal.

A loader from Ostashkov, Alexei Sukhobokov, has been kept in a pre-trial detention center since October 2022 on charges of approval - according to investigators, he rejoiced at this explosion in a conversation with colleagues. About this criminal case Avtozak LIVE. explosion on the Crimean Bridge tells A criminal case under the article on justification of terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) was opened on October 19.

Student from Murmansk Artem Konstantinov, who was threatened with a criminal case due to correspondence with a friend from Ukraine, has not been in contact for more than two months. This was reported to OVD-Info by his friend. He also added that Konstantinov was expelled from MSTU after the publication of his persecution, the order for expulsion is at the disposal of OVD-Info. The student's mother refused to comment on her son's whereabouts to OVD-Info.

The Prosecutor General's Office has declared the non-governmental organization Institute of Public Administration (Great Britain) "undesirable". this The department announced on its Telegram channel.

In Kazan, the police forced local activist Taras Kharchenko to write an explanatory note. It is reported by "Thunderstorm | Kazan. The young man was detained because of the picket, which he held with a poster “Stop rocking the boat, our rat is feeling bad” on Bauman Street. After taking an explanation, he was released from the police department.

In early March, the Kamyshlovskiy District Court of the Sverdlovsk Region arrested four men over a rally on February 28, during which they tried to draw attention to the problem of uncleaned roads. All of them have already been released, and the decisions on arrests were later approved by the Sverdlovsk Regional Court. about .

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put Olesya Krivtsova, a person involved in the “anti-war case” from Arkhangelsk, on the wanted list. The corresponding card in the SOTA search database. discovered Krivtsov in Russia - on March 15, a picture appeared on her Telegram channel, where she removes the tracking bracelet. Two days later it became known that the investigator in charge of her case was threatening the girl’s relatives.

Vera Shikhova, who stood with the poster “Social Protection of the victim in dangerous production and the pension issue of violation of the expulsion of pensions” near the reception of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, was detained in Moscow. The detainee herself reported this by the OVD-Info. Shikhova explained that her son is a miner who received injuries in production. Currently, the detainee is being taken to the Hamovniki police department.

On March 10, the Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit with the Moscow City Court to liquidate the SOVA Information and Analytical Center. This is reported on the organization's website. The Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit based on the results of an unscheduled inspection that took place in the organization from January 9 to February 4.