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Earlier on 24 February, about 200 people were detained near Moscow's Zamoskvoretskiy court as the Bolotnaya defendants were being sentenced. Anti-corruption blogger Aleksey Navalnyy, opposition activist Ilya Yashin and two members of punk band Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Mariya Alekhina, were among the detainees. Opposition politician Ilya Yashin tweeted: \"They took 234 outside the court. On Manezhka [Manezhnaya Ploshchad] a further 315. Altogether, almost 550 detainees in a day. The Olympics have finished but OMON [special-purpose police] are continuing to break records.\"[2] Opposition leader Aleksey Navalnyy similarly tweeted that he was being charged under Article 19.3 \"resisting police\". \"Wonderful,\" he added.[4]

The leader of the nationalist association Russkiye (Russians), Dmitriy Demushkin, was among those detained, Interfax reported later separately. In his interview, Demushkin told Interfax that the police had accused him of being one of the protest's organizers \"together with Navalnyy\". He insisted that he had merely dropped in as an observer and to \"say hello to his friends\". Moreover, he had disagreed with the plan to hold a rally in the first place. \"So there you have it - absurd. Bystander Demushkin has been made out to be a protest organizer,\" he told Interfax.

Russian opposition leaders Sergey Udaltsov, Aleksey Navalnyy and Ilya Yashin were detained during the protest in central Moscow on 27 October. The protest took the form of \"one-man pickets\" and a \"peaceful walk\" in or near Lubyanka Square (home to the FSB's and its forerunner KGB's HQ), the Russian news agency Interfax reported. An Interfax correspondent reported posters at the protest with slogans such as \"We will not be intimidated!\", \"Against reprisals and torture!,\" \"Free political prisoners!\" and \"Abduction and torture are a criminal offence!\". As the police \"surrounded\" Navalnyy and Yashin and forced them into a police vehicle, their supporters shouted \"Shame on you!\" to the police, Interfax reported later. Several dozen activists proceeded in small groups towards the Investigations Committee's HQ.

Meanwhile, displaced protesters have been looking for an alternative camp site. [Ilya Yashin] promised that an alternative venue would be found \"at one of the Moscow parks or gardens,\" Interfax reported [10]. Judging by the latest tweets from Yashin and [Kseniya Sobchak], the location of choice - at least for the time being - is the garden near Barrikadnaya square on Moscow's Garden Ring. \"There are about 20+ people plus journalists in the garden at Barrikadnaya. People are trickling in. Come on over, it's pretty good here,\" Yashin tweeted at 0432 gmt [11]. A little later, state-owned RIA Novosti news agency quoted Yashin as saying that protesters would decide whether they will stay in Barrikadnaya or move elsewhere based on the reaction of police [12].

Moscow, 26 March: Magistrates court number 369 of Moscow's Tverskoy district has fined opposition figure Ilya Yashin, who was arrested following an opposition protest on 5 March, R1,000 [about 35 dollars], RAPSI/rapsinews.ru...

Police have detained opposition blogger Aleksey Navalnyy, Solidarity opposition movement leader Ilya Yashin, Left Front opposition movement leader Sergey Udaltsov and leader of the Movement...

[Presenter] Opposition activists Aleksey Navalnyy and Ilya Yashin are free again. They were released last night after a 15-day arrest. At exactly 0230 [2230 gmt on 20 December] the activists were supposed to leave the detention facility where relatives and about a hundred Russian and foreign journalists were waiting for them.

Moscow, 7 December: Moscow's Tverskoy court upheld the legality of the administrative arrest of opposition politician Ilya Yashin [one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement], who was detained at an unauthorized march protesting against the results of the State Duma election, an Interfax correspondent reported.

According to him, the police van in which he and blogger Aleksey Navalnyy were put was full of people. \"There are 20 people here,\" he said. [Ilya Yashin] said that the people detained near Lubyanskaya ploshchad [square in central Moscow] had been put in at least 10 similar vehicles.

Moscow, 5 December: According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs main directorate for Moscow, 300 people, including opposition politician Ilya Yashin and blogger Aleksey Navalnyy, were detained on Monday evening [5 December] for taking part in an unauthorized demonstration in central Moscow.