The Butyrsky District Court in Moscow has sentenced another…

13.04.2026

18:00

Ekaterina Wagner, who was detained at Bolotnaya Square, was not released from the detention centre when her arrest period ended, reports SOTAvision.

Her relatives told the outlet that Wagner had been hospitalised from the detention centre. She spent several days in hospital. These days were not counted towards her administrative detention period, so Wagner will only be released from the detention centre on 18 April.

According to the outlet, new charges have been pressed against the Moscow resident—for violating the regulations on holding a public event (Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

Wagner was detained at Bolotnaya Square on 29 March along with her nephew, Artur Wagner. He said that police used force against him at the station and made him give testimony against his aunt. He himself was released without any charges.

Today, three people detained at Bolotnaya Square were released from the Sakharovo detention centre: Mikael Markaryan, Yaroslav Polyakov, and a young man who requested anonymity.

Polyakov said that after being detained, he was beaten, and he was also forced to reveal his phone password.

“When we were detained at Bolotnaya Square and put into a vehicle, two men in plain clothes arrived: we were beaten, our phones taken, they tried to get our passwords. They told me I was working with the Anti-Corruption Foundation, because ‘this protest was organised by the Foundation.’ They said I was facing ‘extremism’ charges, but if I showed them my phone, they’d see I was a ‘good person,’ that I just happened to be in the wrong place, they’d look at my phone and then let me go home. One played the good cop, the other the bad cop,” he said.

Polyakov was not given his SIM card back after his arrest. He does not live in Moscow, and now, as RusNews notes, he will have to make his way home with no means of communication.

07.04.2026

19:01

On 25 March, the Vakhitovsky District Court in Kazan fined the moderator of the “Scarlet Swan” chat group, Mikhail Tolkin, 20,000 rubles (approx. US$220) in a case concerning the organisation of an unauthorised rally (under Article 20.2 of the Administrative Offences Code). This was noted by 7×7.

The Centre for Combating Extremism (“Centre E”) called Tolkin the “main moderator” of the “Scarlet Swan” chat and accused him of spreading calls for unauthorised rallies across the country. The young man pleaded guilty.

01.04.2026

16:40

Krasnodar Krai

The Adler District Court in Sochi fined Viktoria Krivoshchapova, a moderator of the “Alyi Lebed” (“Scarlet Swan”) chat, 15,000 roubles (approximately US$160) under the article on organising an unauthorised rally (Part 2, Article 20.2 of the Administrative Offences Code). The court’s decision was reported by the 7×7 news outlet.

The decision was issued on 27 March, two days before rallies against internet blocks were planned in different cities across Russia.

Krivoshchapova was accused of encouraging chat members to join a protest in Moscow against the blocking of Telegram.

“At the same time, notification of the public event was not filed in accordance with the established procedure, and the rally itself was planned to be held at Bolotnaya Square without approval from the public authorities,” the court decision said.

The document shows that Krivoshchapova attended the hearing without legal representation. She pleaded guilty.