Moscow officials banned a rally in memory of Alexei Navalny and Boris Nemtsov. One of the organizers of the event, Chairman of the Civil Initiative party Andrei Nechaev, announced this in his Telegram channel. “Now some idiot from the prefecture called me and said that due to Covid restrictions there was a ban on the memory march,” Nechaev said. Together with Konstantin Merzlikin, Mikhail Shneider and Ekaterina Duntsova, he achieved a demonstration in the city center on March 2.

The European Court of Human Rights issued rulings on 86 complaints from OVD-Info and the Memorial Human Rights Center and awarded compensation in the amount of three and a half to nine thousand euros. Information about this is published on the court's website.

The Krasnoselsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent 43-year-old Dmitry Blinov to a pre-trial detention center until March 19 because of graffiti that “insulted the authorities.” this ZAKS.ru reports , as well as the joint press service of the city courts. The man is suspected of vandalism motivated by political hatred (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code). The press release states that he objected to the detention because he considers this preventive measure too harsh.

The Dagestan prosecutor's office warned Chechens living in the region about the inadmissibility of uncoordinated actions, including rallies and pickets, amid plans to hold commemoration ceremonies in the Novolaksky district on February 23. the Caucasian Knot about this .

“You know, you won’t trample on my soul” I found out [about the murder of Alexei Navalny] on the afternoon of February 16th. I saw it on [journalist] Alexander Pluschev’s channel. I was so upset that I couldn’t do anything - I was choking with tears. I respect Navalny very much. I know so many people who despised him, what nasty things they said about him! What is this - envy? I don't understand. For our family, me and my daughter, he means a lot.

In May 2023, a protocol was drawn up against the newspaper “Sibirsky Khleborob” regarding the absence of the “foreign agent” label due to the text about the pig farm, which mentioned a boar named after Maxim Galkin (Part 2.1 of Article 13.15 of the Administrative Code). The Agency drew attention to this. “All boars have names. My favorite name is Vanya, and for some reason the test boar is always Slava.

On February 20, the magistrate in Alushta terminated the administrative case of the imam of the Yukari Jami mosque Yusuf Ashirov on illegal missionary activity (Part 4 of Article 5.26 of the Administrative Code). Crimean Solidarity reports this . The case file is available on the court website.

On February 21, lawyer Ruslan Artamonov was detained in the Moscow metro on a criminal case of hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). His wife Anna told OVD-Info about this. The man was taken to the Naro-Fominsk police department and placed in a temporary detention facility. According to the security forces, someone shot from the apartment where the lawyer lives.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced a resident of the Stavropol Territory, Vladimir Isupov, to five years in prison in the case of involvement in the Right Sector and preparation for arson of two buildings. Mediazona reports this with reference to the press service of the court.

In Dzhankoy, the house of human rights activist and journalist Lutfiye Zudieva was searched, she was detained and taken to the “Center for Combating Extremism” in Simferopol. this . reports Crimean Solidarity According to the husband of the human rights activist, Seitasan Chikiev, the search began at six in the morning when security forces jumped over the fence.

The Industrial District Court of Izhevsk fined city resident Sergei Antonov ten thousand rubles under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code) due to reposting the video. The press service of the courts of Udmurtia reported this in a telegram.

The Krasnoyarsk Regional Court approved a fine of 400 thousand rubles in the criminal case of repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) to punk blogger from Norilsk Vladislav Nikolaev. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Ekaterina Loginova, who is involved in the case. Nikolaev was not given an installment plan for the fine: he must pay the entire amount at once. The Norilsk City Court handed down the verdict on November 27, 2023.

On February 9, the Volgodonsk District Court of the Rostov Region received a criminal case against “USSR citizen” A. N. Aleksandrov regarding participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the court. Alexandrov is under recognizance not to leave.

Kirov authorities refused to approve a rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov, which local activists planned to hold near the city administration building on February 25. The organizers of the action told OVD-Info about this. They wanted to hold the action in the form of a picket of five people.

The Khabarovsk Regional Court declared the activities of the “interregional social movement “I/WE Sergei Furgal” extremist and banned.” The regional prosecutor's office reported this in a telegram. The meeting was held behind closed doors. The regional prosecutor previously filed a corresponding lawsuit; on February 7, information about the meeting appeared on the website of the Ministry of Justice.