News digest for August 4

While the prosecutor was requesting punishment for one of the defendants in the “sanitary case,” the appeal court approved the decision to recognize Alexei Navalny’s structures as extremist. Read about the main news for August 4 in the OVD-Info digest.

• The person involved in the “sanitary case”, Oleg Navalny, was asked to receive a year of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of three years. He is accused of inciting violations of sanitary and epidemiological rules due to the action on January 23.
• The Court of Appeal upheld the decision to recognize FBK and Navalny’s headquarters as “extremist organizations.” At the meeting, communications were jammed and the lawyers were demanded to hand over their phones, since earlier the prosecutor’s office had complained that “before they had time to say anything, it appeared on social networks.”
• A former employee of Navalny's team, Yevgeny Goligorov, was again searched - this time in Moscow. The activist is a witness in the Nizhny Novgorod “sanitary case”.
• The courtupheld the decision on the measure of restraint for the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Maxim Reznik. He will remain under house arrest on the drug charges. The politician connects the criminal prosecution with his plans to participate in the elections.
• Former director of Open Russia Andrei Pivovarov was also refused to change the preventive measure. The oppositionist is in a pre-trial detention center in the Krasnodar region, he is charged with participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization.”
• In the Khabarovsk Territory, after a search, a criminal case was opened against 68-year-old Jehovah's Witness Alexander Shutov. The believer is accused of participating in the activities of an extremist organization.
• Opposition candidate Olga Surnacheva was removed from the elections to the Berdsk City Council because of a letter from the Ministry of Justice. It said that the activist was involved in “extremist organizations” because she “carried out information support for unauthorized protests.”
• The former head of Navalny’s Murmansk headquarters, Violetta Grudina, will also not be able to run. The Election Commission refused to register her as a candidate for the Murmansk City Council elections.