News digest for August 11

The Investigative Committee brought a new charge against Alexei Navalny, the National Bolshevik was arrested after leaving the special detention center, and a criminal case was opened against a Muscovite who climbed a tree with a crossbow as part of a protest against the renovation. We talk about the main things for August 11th.

• The Investigative Committee has brought another charge against politician Alexei Navalny - he is charged with creating an organization that infringes on the personality and rights of citizens. Under this article, the oppositionist faces up to three years in prison.
• A criminal case was opened against Muscovite Olga Kuzmina, who tied herself to a tree as part of a protest against renovation and planned to defend herself with a crossbow, under an article of hooliganism. On August 10, her home was searched.
• The Federal Penitentiary Service has withdrawn the decision to take into custody the defendant in the “sanitary case” Anastasia Vasilyeva. The document was withdrawn from consideration “to eliminate shortcomings.”
• The former head of Navalny's Kurgan headquarters, Alexei Schwartz, was put on the wanted list. He twice failed to appear at the hearing in the criminal case that the security forces opened against him in March under the article of violating the secrecy of correspondence.
• The court in Izhevsk did not extend the house arrest of Jehovah's Witness Alexander Kutin. Instead, the believer was ordered to prohibit certain actions in the case of organizing the activities of an extremist organization.
• The police dismantled the tent camp of the defenders of the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain. Activists protest against the cutting down of trees in a natural park.
• In Krasnodar, the coordinator of the Citizen Observer project, Vitaly Nemtsev, was fined one thousand rubles because of a banner about the search for independent election observers. According to the activist, the protocol against him was drawn up with violations.
• After leaving the special detention center, activist of “The Other Russia E.V. Limonov” Mikhail Galyashkin was arrested for 10 days under the article of disobedience to a police officer. The day before, his comrade-in-arms, National Bolshevik Mikhail Borovskikh, was also detained after his release - he is awaiting trial.