The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg dismissed the administrative case under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code) against the publication “Falun Dafa Information Center” due to the lack of an offense. This was reported by the joint press service of the city courts. The case was reconsidered after the St. Petersburg City Court overturned the lower court's ruling on appeal.

The Dolgoprudnensky City Court of the Moscow Region began considering the criminal case of Alexei Malyarevsky, who was charged with the underground activities of Navalny’s Headquarters. The SOVA Research Center drew attention to this. The case was submitted to the court on February 22, and on March 5 the consideration of the case on its merits began. Malyarevsky was sent to a pre-trial detention center on October 20 last year.

Historian Tamara Eidelman was fined 50 thousand rubles under the article on the lack of marking as a “foreign agent” (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). Information about this was published on the website of the Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow, RusNews noted . Eidelman was added to the register of “foreign agents” in September 2022.

FSB officers in Chuvashia detained a local resident allegedly because of calls for violent actions against the Russian military. This was reported by Interfax and the portal “ About the City of Cheboksary | News of Chuvashia ". The detainee is 34 years old, his name is not mentioned. A criminal case was opened against him for calling for extremism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code).

Human rights activist Igor Nagavkin, convicted of theft, went on a hunger strike on March 7 because of the conditions of detention of prisoners in pre-trial detention center No. 5 of Leninsk (Volgograd region). This is reported by the Caucasian Uzil publication, which has the man’s letter at its disposal. Nagavkin submitted his letter to the prosecutor's office of the Volgograd region.

In Bashkortostan, the Dyurtyulinsky District Court extended the detention period of Aitugan Kitikov, who is being persecuted for protests in support of convicted Bashkir activist Fail Alsynov, until June 17. This was reported by his lawyer from OVD-Info, Ruslan Ignatyev. Kitikov was detained on January 24. Two days later, he was charged with participation in mass riots (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code) and sent to custody.

In Bashkortostan, the Dyurtyulinsky District Court extended until June 17 the term of detention in a pre-trial detention center for Aitugan Kitikov, who was persecuted due to protests in support of the convicted Bashkir activist Fail Alsynov. This was reported by his lawyer from OVD-Info, Ruslan Ignatyev. Kitikov was detained on January 24. Two days later, he was charged in a criminal case with participation in mass riots (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code) and sent into custody.

St. Petersburg resident Mikhail Osipov was fined 500 rubles because of an inscription about Russia and the president, which he put on an information stand with an election poster hanging in the entrance of a residential building. This was reported by the joint press service of the city courts. The Leninsky District Court found the man guilty under the article of intentional damage to information material related to the elections (Article 5.14 of the Administrative Code).

The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow refused to recognize as illegal the destruction of letters from the author of the telegram channel “Protest MSU” Dmitry Ivanov, who was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison because of posts about the war in Ukraine. this . reports SOTAvision A member of the “Letters and Improvisation” team, Anastasia Shtelvag, filed a lawsuit. The defendant was supposed to be the censor of the capital's pre-trial detention center No.

The Moscow City Court approved the sentence of actionist Pavel Krisevich. A listener from the courtroom reported this to OVD-Info. The reason for the criminal prosecution was a performance that Krisevich held in June 2021: then he shot himself in the head with a blank cartridge on Red Square to draw attention to the problems of political prisoners in Russia.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put on the wanted list a member of the Mayak movement and activist Tatyana Namazbaeva, who used the pseudonym Itil Temnaya, who left Russia. Mediazona drew attention to the wanted card in the department’s database. On February 14, Temnaya’s parents were searched. Then the activist assumed that a criminal case could be opened against her for evading the duties of a “foreign agent” (Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code).

On February 27, the 1st Eastern District Military Court sentenced Irkutsk Region resident Andrei Pykhteyev to three years in a general regime penal colony in the case of a comment justifying the explosion on the Crimean Bridge that occurred in October 2022. Information about this appeared on the court's website. The man was found guilty under the article on public justification of terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Moscow City Court has overturned the in absentia verdict against Pussy Riot member and former Mediazona publisher Pyotr Verzilov in the case of military “fakes” (clause “d” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Network Freedoms. “Today, despite the prosecutor’s objections, the appellate court overturned the verdict and sent the case back for a new trial due to procedural violations,” the human rights activists noted.

On December 13, 2023, the Aleksinsky Interdistrict Court of the Tula Region sentenced Yulia Tishchenko to four years in a general regime colony under the article on calls on the Internet for activities directed against the security of the state (clause “c” of Part 2 of Article 280.4 of the Criminal Code). The verdict was published on the court's website.

On February 29, the criminal case of 26-year-old Ruslan Gubkin, accused of calling for the arson of a military registration and enlistment office, was submitted to the Vilegodsky District Court of the Arkhangelsk Region for consideration on the merits. The case file is published on the court website. The man is accused under the article on public calls for activities directed against the security of the state (clause “c” of Part 2 of Article 280.4 of the Criminal Code).