The investigation into the case of disrespect for the days of military glory (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code), initiated against a resident of the Ryazan region due to posts on VKontakte, has been completed. The local branch of the Investigative Committee reported on this. Presumably, we are talking about Maxim M.: the initiation of a case against him was reported in January. In total, Maxim is charged with three publications.

At a meeting on March 11 in the Votkinsk District Court, the prosecutor requested six years and six months in a general regime colony for two Jehovah's Witnesses, Mikhail Potapov and Sergei Gobozev, in the case of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia".

The Ministry of Justice added the German Lev Kopelev Forum to the list of “undesirable organizations.” The Prosecutor General's Office made the corresponding decision on February 19, as follows from the registry data. The Lev Kopelev Forum is a German public organization that organizes events and public discussions about the human rights situation in Eastern Europe, as well as the political, social and cultural life of this region.

In Balashikha, Moscow Region, 29-year-old Yulia Tishakova was detained in a case of justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2, Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). ASTRA reports this. According to security forces, the girl owns a Twitter profile with the nickname "Kholi Lapushka", in which on October 8, 2022, a post was published justifying the blowing up of the Crimean Bridge. According to ASTRA, Tishakova has Russian and Ukrainian citizenship.

The court fined politician Ilya Yashin, serving time in colony No. 3 in the Smolensk region, 30 thousand rubles due to the lack of “foreign agent” markings (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offences) in the publications of the channel, which is conducted on his behalf. RusNews reported this. The case was considered for the third time by the Safonovsky District Court of the Smolensk Region. In February, the protocol was twice returned to Roskomnadzor for revision.

The Leninsky District Court of Novosibirsk refused to satisfy the claim of local independent deputy Anton Kartavin to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to remove his “foreign agent” status. RusNews reports this.

On January 22, the Military Court of Appeal reduced the sentence of Crimean activist Oleg Prikhodko by one month. OVD-Info was informed about this in court.

The city center "Art-KVADRAT" terminates the lease agreement with the owner of the "TapTaman" store, Tansulpan Burakaeva, who sold postcards in support of those detained in the "Baymak case." She wrote in stories on her Instagram page that these postcards were the reason for the termination of the contract. Burakaeva said that she was holding a charity event, donating 50% of the sales of certain types of postcards to help those detained after the verdict of Fail Alsynov in Baymak.

In the Stavropol Territory, employees of Center “E” have been conducting searches for several days now at the homes of activists who were collecting signatures in support of the nomination of Boris Nadezhdin as a presidential candidate. The Caucasian Knot reports this. “Before this, on March 8, one of the collectors and an activist had a search in Essentuki. And on March 12 they came to him again, plus another collector in Essentuki and a third collector in Mikhailovsk.

The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow sentenced HSE student Alina Olekhnovich and university graduate Ivan Trofimov to three and a half years in prison in the case of Navalny’s “underground headquarters.” Mediazona reports this. Trofimov and Olekhnovich were found guilty under the article on participation in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code).

Activist Pavel Sulyandziga, involved in the rights of indigenous peoples, was subject to a protocol on participation in an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). Mediazona drew attention to the case file on the website of the Leninsky District Court of Vladivostok. It is not yet known which organization we are talking about.

Investigators of the Investigation Department for the Tverskoy District of Moscow opened a criminal case under the article of discrediting the Russian army against bodybuilding blogger Alexander Shpak (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). this . reports ASTRA The reason for initiating the case, according to the publication, was the blogger’s publications on Telegram.

Pediatrician and author of the blog “Notes of a Children's Doctor” Sergei Butriy, who was subjected to administrative arrest because of an interview with Katerina Gordeeva, left Russia. He announced this on his Facebook page. In the spring of 2023, an interview with Butriy was published on the “Tell Gordeeva” show. In it, the doctor called Russia’s war with Ukraine “a big disaster” and talked about acquaintances on both sides.

Former municipal deputy Alexei Gorinov, convicted under the article on military “fakes,” is deprived of normal sleep in IK-3 of Vladimir. RusNews reports this with reference to the politician’s letter. Gorinov said that at night he is checked every two hours, as he is registered as “prone to escape.” At the same time, the inspectors make a lot of noise and tear off the blanket from his head, which covers him from the bright light.