News digest for July 30

While Roskomnadzor is trying to block all opposition resources, the election commission continues to remove independent candidates from the elections. We talk about the main news for July 30th.

• In St. Petersburg, the person involved in the “palace case,” Nicholas the Ninth , is not released from the pre-trial detention center for court hearings. It started after the man spoke about extortions in the detention center.
• Another participant in the January protests in St. Petersburg, Eldar Garipov, had his detention period extended until August 10. He is accused of using violence against a police officer at a rally on January 31.
• Roskomnadzordemanded that YouTube block the channel of politician Lyubov Sobol and Navalny LIVE. The department alsoblocked the website of the human rights project Gulagu.net.
• Journalist from Nizhny Novgorod Natalya Rezontova, who is running for the State Duma from Yabloko, was denied registration for the elections. The basis for this was a certificate from the Ministry of Justice, which stated that Rezontova was related to “extremist organizations.”
• In Birobidzhan, Jehovah's Witness Natalya Krieger was sentenced to two and a half years probation under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization. Her co-religionist from Blagoveshchensk, Vasily Reznichenko, received a suspended sentence of two years. In Rostov-on-Don, the prosecution asks that Jehovah's Witness Andrei Okhrimchuk be given a four-year suspended sentence.
• After massive searches, believers from the Murmansk region were given a preventive measure: Alexei Eliseev and Yunona Ilyasova were given a written undertaking not to leave, and Roman Markin was given house arrest. They are accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization for involvement in Jehovah's Witnesses. Their co-religionists from the Amur region, Alexander Berchuk and Dmitry Golik, who were sentenced to real terms, were transferred to a pre-trial detention center in Ussuriysk.
• A court in Moscow recognized as legal the ban on entry and deprivation of residence permit of a participant in the January 23 rally from Kyrgyzstan.
• In St. Petersburg and Kemerovo , three administrative cases against participants in protests in support of Alexei Navalny were dropped. The activists were assisted by lawyers from Apology of Protest.