News digest for August 17

Lawsuits against supporters of Alexei Navalny after the January rallies, house arrest of a Muscovite protesting against renovation, and release of activists from Voronezh and Nizhny Novgorod from pre-trial detention centers. We talk about the main news for August 17.

• Moscow resident Olga Kuzmina, who climbed a tree with a crossbow as part of a protest against renovation, was sent under house arrest. A criminal case has been opened against her under the article of hooliganism.
• The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Novosibirsk Region filed a lawsuit against local oppositionists Sergei Boyko, Elena Noskovets, Daniil Markelov, Natalya Pozdnyakova, Vyacheslav Yakimenko and Arkady Yankovsky. The security forces want to collect 2.8 million rubles from them for their work at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny.
• Nizhny Novgorod activist Mikhail Iosilevich, who is charged with participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization,” has had his preventive measure changed . He was released from the pre-trial detention center.
• The Moscow City Court upheld the house arrest of the defendant in the “sanitary case,” municipal deputy Dmitry Baranovsky. The politician is accused of inciting violations of sanitary and epidemiological standards in connection with the action on January 23.
• Security forces conducted massive searches in Crimea in connection with the case of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir. At least five Crimean Tatars - Rustem Murasov, Rustem Tairov, Dzhebbar Bekirov, Zavur Abdullaev and Raif Fevziev - were detained.
• Voronezh activist Grigory Severin was released from pre-trial detention center under house arrest. He is accused of calling for extremism due to publications on the Internet.
• A court in Krasnoyarsk upheld the house arrest of 58-year-old Jehovah's Witness Ildar Urazbakhtin, who is charged with organizing the activities of an extremist organization. His co-religionist from Crimea, accused of the same article, was sent to a pre-trial detention center.
• The preventive measure was softened for Kan teenagers Denis Mikhailenko and Bogdan Andreeva. They were ordered to prohibit certain actions within the framework of the case under articles on undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities, illegal production and storage of explosives.
• In St. Petersburg, four administrative cases that were filed against participants in the April 21 rally were discontinued . In court, the interests of the activists were represented by lawyer Olesya Vasilchenko, who collaborates with OVD-Info.