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In Krasnodar, election observers have faced pressure exerted on them via their families or employers; therefore they were forced to reduce their presence time at polling stations.

In the Krasnodar Territory, election observers complained of violations during mobile voting and obstacles with their work at polling stations. In the Volgograd Region, portraits of the incumbent president hang at five polling stations.

Tamerlan Ivanov, a resident of Nalchik, who was found guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces with a pacifist inscription on his backpack, challenged the fine, but the Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria has refused to cancel the punishment.

In the Rostov Region, a court sentenced Vladislav Kovalyov to a fine, recognizing posts on his Telegram channel as discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

After the detention, law enforcers beat Makhachkala resident Mukhammed Djambulatov, who laid flowers at a spontaneous memorial to Alexei Navalny, and forced him to refuse a medical examination, which resulted in his arrest for 11 days.

The local offices of presidential candidates actually did not work; and the candidates themselves, who visited Volgograd, conducted extremely careful campaigning, without criticizing authorities and without raising sensitive topics, a journalist has noted, also telling about obstacles when visiting polling stations.

The 70-year-old human rights defender Oleg Orlov*, sentenced to freedom deprivation for his pacifist position, has received an offer at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where he is kept, to take part in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

The authorities of North Ossetia publicly reprimanded parents of the teenagers, who recorded a comic video about the special military operation (SMO), in order to defuse the situation and prevent attacks by SMO supporters on their children or on the parents themselves, bloggers believe.

Officers of the Centre to Combat Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre “E”) in the Stavropol Territory have been conducting searches for several days now at the apartments of the activists who were collecting signatures in support of the nomination of Boris Nadezhdin as a presidential candidate.

Residents of the village of Kabardinka Anna Gubanova and Anna Charochidi request investigators to check the actions of the local officials who are trying to recognize their houses as illegal buildings. The women and their families are at risk of being left on the streets after participating in the elections.

Policemen have been holding Roman Mirkin, a Pyatigorsk resident, for the second day, accusing him of displaying prohibited symbols in his personal correspondence on the Telegram. Mirkin had also placed posts in support of Alexei Navalny in social networks, human rights defenders have informed.

The prosecutor's office and the court were notified by his sister about the hunger strike of human rights defender Igor Nagavkin, who has been rejecting food at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the city of Leninsk for a week already, although the law obliges SIZO bosses to report about detainees' refusal to take meals.

Arsen Abdulkadirov, a former deputy head of the criminal investigation division of the Sovietsky ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala, has been arrested until April 21 within the case of torture and causing death by negligence, the Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala has informed.

Zarema Musaeva was never given a medical examination after the request to release her lodged in December 2023 due to her serious health condition, his advocate has stated. The defence has demanded to explain why Musaeva was not examined.

The teens have been identified, who, by lowering their trousers, made photos at the monument to those who perished during the Great Patriotic War (WW II) in the town of Prokhladny.

The human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) has declared Oleg Orlov*, who was sentenced to a colony term on charges of discrediting the Russian Army, as a prisoner of conscience and demanded his release.

One more law enforcer has been detained in a criminal case on the death of Kurban Dalgatov at the Makhachkala police department, sources report.

Two residents of Krasnodar were fined 50,000 roubles each because of a video in which they were kissing in a cafe.

The defence requested the protocols of court hearings in the case against Vladimir Atamanchuk, a 72-year-old activist from Sochi, since the protocol, which the defence had already managed to get for examination, contained words with an accusatory slant that were not voiced during the court hearing.

At the trial of workers of a wholesale and retail base in Anapa, accused of robbery, Alexei Sveshnikov has testified. He was treated as the suffered party; then he was accused of complicity in committing the above crime. Sveshnikov has stated that earlier, under law enforcers' pressure, he wrote a confession.