On March 20, the Borovsky District Court of the Kaluga Region received a criminal case about discrediting the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) against local resident Yegor Karpunin, born in 2003. This was reported by the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; the case file is also available on the court’s website. The publication was noticed by the SOVA Research Center.

The Russian Ministry of Justice included in the list of “foreign agents” Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky, lawyer Vadim Prokhorov and the human rights project “First Department”. The relevant information appeared in the updated list of the department.

On March 22, the Leninsky District Court of Tyumen appointed two months of house arrest to the local resident and engineer Alexei Chursin in the case of the distribution of "fakes" about the Russian army. This was reported by the OTD-Info by the wife of a man. The day before, a group of security forces, including FSB officers, came home to Chursin and his pregnant wife. During the investigative actions, laptops, phones and flash drives were seized from the apartment.

On March 28, a girl was detained in the Moscow metro using a facial recognition system because of a picture with the slogan “Orthodoxy or Death,” published a year and a half ago on VKontakte. She herself informed OVD-Info about this, asking not to indicate her name. The girl was detained in the evening at one of the metro stations, after which she was taken to the police department in the Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo district. Her lawyer came to see the detainee, but they were not allowed to meet.

On March 28, the European Court of Human Rights issued rulings on complaints from 83 clients of OVD-Info and Human Rights Center Memorial. The decisions were published on the official website of the court. Information about the complaints is contained in the decisions “ Chirkunov and others against Russia ”, “ Kamentsev and others against Russia ”, “ Mamonov and others against Russia ”, “ Pogorelova and others against Russia ”, “ Skorokhodov and others against Russia ”, “ Sokolov and others v.

The Kirov District Court of annexed Crimea fined the independent Muslim community “Eski Kyrym” 100 thousand rubles for storing prohibited literature. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity movement. The community was found guilty under the article on mass distribution of extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Administrative Code). The organization was charged with possessing a book with the collected works of Said Nursi “Risale-i Nur” “Munajat (Prayer).

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sent SOTAvision journalist Antonina Favorskaya to a pre-trial detention center for two months, until May 28, in the case of participation in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the prisoner's support group. The judge closed the hearing at the request of the prosecution. The investigator explained the demand by saying that some members of the “community” were wanted. Favorskaya and her lawyer opposed it.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has sent SOTAvision journalist Antonina Favorskaya to pretrial detention for two months, until May 28, on charges of participating in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the prisoner's support group. The judge closed the hearing at the prosecution's request. The investigator explained the request by the fact that some members of the "community" were wanted.

On March 26, a criminal case was opened against activist Alena Smyshlyaeva, who emigrated from the city of Rezh, Sverdlovsk Region, for re-discrediting the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code), Astra wrote . The reason was the woman’s anti-war publications on VKontakte. Smyshlyaeva left Russia back in May 2022. Then they investigated her under the article on “fake news” about the army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), but they did not initiate a case.

On March 27, the 2nd Eastern District Military Court sentenced Denis Ruzaev to two and a half years in a general regime colony due to publications on VKontakte. The press service of the court reported this.

The City Duma of the ZATO Seversk terminated the powers of Yabloko deputy Vladimir Petrov after a fraud verdict came into force against him (Part 1 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). The announcement was published on March 28 on the website of the legislative body. On February 5, Petrov was sentenced to 300 hours of compulsory labor, but was released from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.