Navalny was charged more than 3 million for the investigation into supplies to the Russian Guard.

On August 26, the Moscow Arbitration Court recovered from Alexei Navalny more than 3.3 million rubles in legal costs to pay for lawyers in a lawsuit from the Friendship of Peoples meat processing plant due to an investigation into the supply of products to the Russian Guard, which was carried out by the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by the politician. This was reported in the FBK Lawyers telegram channel.

The investigation stated that the plant, by order of the government, in 2018 became the only supplier to the Russian National Guard, after which prices for some products soared several times.

The meat processing plant sued Navalny, and in January 2019 the court granted the claim. After this, the politician was fined more than once for refusing to delete the video with the investigation.

The head of the Russian Guard, Viktor Zolotov, after the publication of the video, recorded a video message in which he announced that he was challenging the politician to a duel, and promised to make a “juicy chop” out of him.

• On August 25, it became known that Navalny and FBK lawyer Lyubov Sobol were ordered to pay 88 million rubles to businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin in connection with an investigation into the supply of low-quality food to children's educational institutions, in which the Moscow Schoolchildren plant, managed by Prigozhin, was declared responsible for this. Concord company.
• Navalny fell ill on the morning of August 20 on a plane flying from Tomsk to Moscow. He was dropped off in Omsk and taken to a local emergency hospital. Relatives and friends are sure that this is poisoning, but the hospital doctors said that there are no signs of poisoning. He has been in a coma since August 20. His wife Yulia was not immediately allowed in to see him. According to Yarmysh and Navalny’s associates, there were plainclothes operatives on the hospital grounds.
• Navalny’s sending to the Berlin Charité clinic, which his relatives requested, was preceded by a long process of negotiations with the participation of German resuscitation doctors who specially arrived in Omsk on August 21. At first, doctors at the Omsk hospital, contrary to the demands of his relatives, refused to let Navalny go to Germany, explaining that they had all the conditions necessary for his treatment. German doctors reported on August 24 that they had found a toxic substance in the politician’s body.