News digest for August 12

While the court was extending the measure of restraint for a municipal deputy from Moscow, the metropolitan police again detained a member of Pussy Riot. About this and other news for August 12 - in the OVD-Info digest.

• Municipal MP Ketevan Kharaidze has been extended house arrest until mid-September. She is charged with an article on fraud - Kharaidze herself links the criminal prosecution with plans to participate in elections to the State Duma.
• A journalist from Novosibirsk, Nikolai Salnikov, who is accused under an article on fraud on an especially large scale, changed has had his preventive measure : he was sent under house arrest instead of a pre-trial detention center. A criminal case was brought against him because of an investigation into the connection of local officials with a criminal group.
• The Investigative Committee refused to initiate a criminal case against Arseniy Vesnin, a journalist from Echo of Moscow in St. Petersburg, on charges of libel. After the winter actions in support of Navalny, Vesnin wrote about how in one of the departments the police ate burgers intended for detainees at the rally. Because of this, a check was carried out against the journalist on the “fact of slander” against the security forces.
• to the campaign headquarters of the candidate for the State Duma deputies Kirill Goncharov In Moscow, the police came . They threaten those present with drawing up a protocol on violation of the mask regime.
• Unknown people tried to hack into the phone of The Bell journalist Irina Pankratova. To do this, the attackers forged a notarized power of attorney and tried to order from the telecom operator the details of calls and SMS from her mobile.
• The pressure on Pussy Riot activists continues. Rita Flores, a member of the art group, was detained at the exit from the detention center, where she was serving 15 days of administrative arrest.
• The court reviewed the decision in the case of Muscovite Alina Ivanova, who was photographed with bare buttocks near the police station. Her arrest was reduced from five to three days and released in the courtroom, taking into account the time served in the special detention center.