The former chairman of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Leonid Volkov was attacked near his home, said Alexei Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh. An unknown person broke the window in Volkov's car with a hammer, sprayed tear gas in his eyes and beat the oppositionist with a hammer. Another Navalny ally, Ivan Zhdanov, published photographs after the attack: they show bruises on Volkov’s face and blood on his leg. Mediazona clarifies that the politician lives in Vilnius.

Kushtau defender Yunir Aibatov was detained on March 11 and arrested for five days. Another local eco-activist, Ramis Telyapkulov, a member of the Green Shield of Bashkortostan movement, wrote about this on his VKontakte page. There are no other details yet. Telyapkulov indicated that Aibatov was taken to Sterlitamak. Perhaps this refers to the special detention center for administrative detainees located in this city.

In Crimea, police officers, the FSB, the Investigative Committee and the Russian National Guard detained a resident of the Razdolnensky district in the case of insulting the feelings of believers (Part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code). this ASTRA reports with reference to a statement by the Investigative Committee. The department also published a video of the man’s arrest: a group of security forces in helmets and with machine guns broke into his station.

The Investigative Committee has completed its investigation into the case of blogger Alena Agafonova, who “tickled” the breasts of the Volgograd Motherland; The case materials were submitted to the prosecutor's office for approval, reports Bloknot.Volgograd.

A woman was detained in St. Petersburg for writing the word “murderer” next to the name of Vladimir Putin on an election poster. She herself reported this to OVD-Info. She is at police station No. 33 and is being interviewed. Presumably, she is going to be charged with intentional damage to election-related campaign material (Article 5.14 of the Administrative Code). 20:50 The detainee was released from the police department.

On March 7, the Ministry of Justice excluded Samara journalist Yulia Apukhtina from the register of “foreign agents.” The relevant information appeared in the register today. Apukhtina was added to the register in the summer of 2021, when she collaborated with the Project publication. In a conversation with OVD-Info, the journalist said that she had previously submitted an application to the Ministry of Justice for exclusion from the register.

Sentenced to eight and a half years because of anti-war publications, the author of the telegram channel “Protest MSU”, Dmitry Ivanov, was transported to an unknown destination from Pre-trial Detention Center No. 5 in Moscow (“Vodnik”). This was reported by the telegram channel of the young man’s support group with reference to a lawyer.

Anton Zhuchkov, who was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in a case of intent to set fire to a paddy wagon, told about torture in Krasnoyarsk's SIZO-1. His story was published by the project "Solidarity Zone". In February, Zhuchkov was transferred from Moscow to the Minusinsk prison (Krasnoyarsk Krai), where he arrived in early March. During the transfer, he spent several days in Krasnoyarsk's SIZO-1.

The Supreme Court upheld the sentence of Komi teacher Nikita Tushkanov - five years in prison for comments about the bombing of the Crimean Bridge. This is reported by SOTA. In May 2023, the Second Western District Military Court sentenced Tushkanov to five and a half years in prison under articles on justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and on repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code).

In St. Petersburg, FSB officers are breaking into the apartment of activists Katrin Nenasheva and Natasha Chetveri. Nenasheva herself told OVD-Info about this. The FSB officers said through a closed door that they had come specifically to Nenasheva and refused to read out the search warrant. The reason for the security forces' visit is unknown.