Forcibly actions and detention from the state in relation to citizens who published socio-political content on the Internet, in 2020 took place twice as often than a year earlier. This was reported in the report “Freedom of the Internet 2020: the second wave of repressions” prepared by the “International Agora”, which was familiarized with The Insider. As the authors of the report calculated, this figure increased from 57 cases in 2019 to 103 cases in 2020.

At the request of the investigation, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow extended the arrest of the accused in the Stateismman to the adviser to the head of Roscosmos, the former correspondent of Kommersant and Vedomosti Ivan Safronov. The arrest was extended until May 7, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the court. The court session was held closed. Safronov does not admit guilt.

Antifacked Maria Zakharova and RIA Novosti tried not to notice in the statement of the UN specialist in the case of Navalny prosecution against Russia Yuri Bershid March 2, 2021 RIA Novosti announced the reaction of the representative of the Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova to the statement of the UN specialist in connection with the case of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny.

In Moscow, a member of the PEC Roman Pichuzhin was detained in a criminal case on the application of violence to an OMON employee (part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) for the rally on January 31. As lawyer Dmitry Grustatov told The Insider, Pichuzhin is now under interrogation in the Investigative Committee. Roman Pichuzhin was detained at the exit from the special reception of No.

President Putin congratulated Mikhail Gorbachev on the 90th anniversary of the First President of the USSR. This was reported by the Kremlin press service. “Dear Mikhail Sergeyevich! Accept congratulations on the occasion of a significant, 90th anniversary. You are rightfully belonging to the galaxy of bright, extraordinary people, outstanding statesmen of our time, who had a significant impact on the course of domestic and world history, ”the telegram of Putin Gorbachev says.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs conducts a check on the fact of death in the police department of St. Petersburg, a man who was detained for driving without rights. It is reported by Fontanka. As the publication clarifies, on February 23, 28-year-old Alexei Kustov, previously convicted of riding without rights, called to the traffic police, where they drew up an administrative protocol, and also notified the initiation of a criminal case of violation of traffic rules.

The Russian fund of fundamental research (RFFI) canceled its contest of fundamental research projects. The competition was the most massive of the grant contests of the fund. When the receipt of applications for it was not announced in 2020, the trade union of employees of the Russian Academy of Sciences turned to Vladimir Putin. The Russian Federation explained the solution with financial problems.

In Moscow, the sound engineer Dmitry Uryupin was detained, who wrote a post with a comic proposal to "protest with a flashlight." It is reported by the OVD-Info. According to the publication, the post of Uryupin appeared a week before the announcement of the campaign of Navalny’s headquarters on February 14.

Navalny was transferred to the sentence from the Sailor Silence to the colony on February 26. So far, the FSIN has not made official statements about which institution the opposition was delivered to. However, different sources reported that he was sent to IK-2 in the Vladimir region. In early February, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow decided to replace the conditional term of Navalny in the criminal case of Yves Rocher with a real one and appointed him 3.5 years in a colony.

The US Department of Defense announced the allocation of a military assistance package in the amount of $ 125 million. This is stated in the agency’s statement. Two modern Mark VI patrol boats, radars that allow you to identify sources of artillery fire, devices for obtaining and processing satellite images, as well as field medical equipment, will be transferred to Ukraine.

Bild reports that the sanctions were imposed against the prosecutor general Igor Krasnov, the head of the UK Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Russian Guard Viktor Zolotov and the head of the FSIN Alexander Kalashnikov. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov previously stated that the Kremlin is sure that the sanctions policy against the Russian Federation are not achieved.

The Soviet District Court of Tomsk translated the mayor of Ivan Klein from a pre -trial detention center for a house arrest for six months. This was reported by TASS with reference to the lawyer Kleina Marina Vikhlyantsev. It is noted that Klein is currently in the Research Institute of Oncology, where on February 25 he was undergoing an operation to remove the kidney and adrenal gland tumor.

The plaintiff, however, believes that he does not deserve dismissal, and hopes to win in court. In his lawsuit, Ruslan Agibalov asks to recognize the order to dismiss illegal and recover from the Ministry of Internal Affairs that the monetary allowance that was not received during the forced absenteeism. After dismissal, Ruslan Agibalov recorded another appeal in which he said that a FSB officer called him a few hours after publishing the video.

The US Department of Finance has published a list of Russian officials who fell under the sanctions of the country due to the persecution of opposition Alexei Navalny.

The Sverdlovsk District Court of Kostroma sentenced a 26-year-old man to one and a half years for coercive work under an article on the application of violence to a police officer (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code) during the campaign on January 23, the press service of the court in the publication “Deadline for Pinok” reports . Also, within a year and a half, 10% of his income will be deducted in favor of the state. According to the OVD-Info, this is probably about Alexei Vinogradov.