News digest for July 15

Recognition of Project Media as an undesirable organization, pressure on the lawyer from OVD-Info and mass searches of Jehovah's Witnesses. The main thing about political pressure for July 15 is in the OVD-Info digest.

• The Prosecutor General's Office recognized Project Media as an undesirable organization and added journalists from Project, Open Media and Radio Liberty to the list of foreign agents. The Institute of Law and Public Policy was also recognized as a foreign agent.
• Employees of the Investigative Committee conducted more than 30 searches of Jehovah's Witnesses from the Kurgan region. Security forces detained believers in Kurgan, Shadrinsk and other cities in the region.
• Former coordinator of Navalny's Arkhangelsk headquarters Andrei Borovikov, sentenced to two and a half years in prison for publishing a Rammstein video, had his sentence commuted . His sentence was reduced by three months.
• Truck driver Mikhail Vedrov, who opposed the Platon system, also had his sentence commuted. His suspended sentence imposed under the article on the use of violence against a government officialwas reduced by six months.
• In the Nizhny Novgorod region, a former employee of Navalny’s team, Evgeny Goligorov, was searched for a local “sanitary matter.” He was taken for questioning - presumably he is in the status of a witness.
• Activists of the pro-Kremlin movement SERB deflated the tires on the car of lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov, who regularly collaborates with OVD-Info. The pressure on Zakhvatov is connected with one of the publications in his Telegram channel.
• Mathematician Azat Miftakhov was transported from Moscow to pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Kirov. In January, the court sentenced him to six years in a general regime colony in the case of a broken window in the United Russia office.
• The former head of Navalny’s headquarters in Yekaterinburg, Alexei Gresko,left the country due to pressure from the authorities. Now the oppositionist is in Germany.
• In Smolensk, a criminal investigation officer interviewed activists Alexei Volkov and Sergei Komandirov in the case of money laundering at FBK. They were asked questions about a fight that no one had heard about.
• The court awarded Shies's defender Vladimir Kogut 100 thousand rubles in compensation. During the dispersal of the eco-camp in March 2019, the activist’s ribs were broken.
• Lawyers collaborating with OVD-Info achieved the cancellation of the fine for a participant in the rally in support of Navalny on January 31 and the dismissal of the case of the activist detained during the rally on January 23.