The Gatchina City Court arrested a married couple, artist Anastasia Dyudyaeva and jeweler Alexander Dotsenko, until February 29, because of leaflets in Ukrainian. This was reported by RusNews. The spouses are charged with an article on calls for terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). They were detained on January 24 after a search, and then taken for interrogation to the FSB Directorate for Gatchina. They spent the night in a temporary detention facility awaiting trial.

The Central District Court of Tolyatti sentenced Jehovah's Witness Sona Olopova to two years of forced labor. This is reported by a portal covering the persecution of believers of this denomination. The woman 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). “The evidence presented by the prosecution does not confirm my guilt in committing a crime. All the arguments boil down to the fact that...

The Kirovsky District Court of Ufa sent Bashkir activist Ilyas Bayguskarov to a pre-trial detention center until March 17. This was reported in the telegram channel in support of him. Baiguskarov is charged with participation in mass riots (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code). At first, the man was detained in Baymak on the day the verdict was announced against Fail Alsynov, but was later released.

Ekaterinburg mountaineer Velimor Merkulov is being tried under articles of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code) and justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Vecherniye Vedomosti. The criminal case is being considered in the Central District Military Court. The charge under the article of treason will be announced at a closed meeting. Merkulov was charged with justifying terrorism due to publications on social networks.

Security forces in Yekaterinburg conducted a search of the editor-in-chief of the Tochka News publication Dmitry Fomintsev as part of a case of insulting the feelings of believers (Article 148 of the Criminal Code). this He reported on his own telegram channel “Irod Uralsky”. “I will never forget this day,” writes Fomintsev.

“They take me by the arms and lead me into a two-by-two cage.” On March 6, 2022, Novosibirsk resident Katerina took her dog, a pug named Frank, and walked towards the Opera House. At 14:00 there, as in other Russian cities, people gathered for an anti-war rally. “We always went with the dog [to rallies]. If the police were coming towards us, I pretended that I was just walking Frank,” says Katerina. The trick worked before.

Kemerovo blogger Maxim Lavrentyev suffers from health problems due to the conditions of detention in local pre-trial detention center No. 1. The human rights group Open Space reported this to OVD-Info. Since March 2023, the man has been kept in a cell in the basement; a week ago he was transferred to another, but all this time he has been alone.

In St. Petersburg, near the courthouse where the verdict of Daria Trepova was announced in the case of the murder of military commander Vladlen Tatarsky, human rights activist Dinar Idrisov was detained. Detention witness and human rights activist Ilya Tkachenko reported this to OVD-Info. Idrisov left the building of the 1st Western District Court, and at that moment a group of police officers approached him.

The Oktyabrsky Court of Ulan-Ude fined Buryat human rights activist Nadezhda Nizovkina under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code) five thousand rubles because of her comment to Dozhd. Mediazona drew attention to the decision, which was published on the court’s website.

A young man was detained near the Moscow City Court building, who, after the verdict was announced to Igor Girkin (Strelkov), stood in a picket in his support. This is reported by SOTA. Today, the Moscow City Court sentenced Igor Girkin (Strelkov), a participant in military clashes in eastern Ukraine as part of pro-Russian groups, to four years in prison for calls to extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code).

The Moscow City Court sentenced Igor Girkin (Strelkov), a participant in the military clashes in eastern Ukraine as part of pro-Russian groups, to four years in prison for calls to extremism (Part 2, Article 280 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Mediazona. The prosecutor requested four years and eleven months of imprisonment for Girkin.

A resident of Yakutsk was fined 20 thousand rubles in the case of reposting calls for a rally. Earlier, a public gathering was held in the city. The ruling, published on the court’s website, drew attention to “7×7 - Horizontal Russia”. The Yakut citizen was charged under the article on organizing an uncoordinated action (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

A second protocol was drawn up against Ilya Yashin due to the lack of “foreign agent” markings (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). this with reference to the words of lawyer Mikhail Biryukov on the air of “Living Nail” SOTAvision reports . According to Biryukov, yesterday representatives of Roskomnadzor came to Yashin’s colony to draw up a protocol due to the absence of a “foreign” agent sign in the politician’s Telegram channel, which is now run by members of his team.

In Volgograd, unknown masked people tried to break down the door to the apartment of Caucasian Knot correspondent Vyacheslav Yashchenko, after which the lights on the floor of the house went out. This was reported by the publication’s Telegram channel. According to Yashchenko’s wife, masked people entered the entrance after her, and when she entered the apartment, they began to ring the doorbell, close the peephole and loudly demand that the journalist come out to them.

Bashkir singer Altynay Valitov (Akyeget) , who recorded a video message in support of convicted activist Fail Alsynov, left the country. He wrote about this on his Instagram, and RusNews drew attention to the story. “Friends, mass persecution has begun against me. Whatever they write, as soon as they turn my words around. Please don't give in. Yes, I ran away. Otherwise, they said that I would have to sit for 15 years. Fail was closed. You saw everything yourself.