News digest for September 17

The election of a preventive measure for those involved in the case of “mass riots”, the request for a real prison term for the ex-chief of Navalny’s headquarters and election violations. We talk about the main news for September 17.

• The Basmanny Court of Moscow chose a preventive measure for five defendants in the case of mass unrest during the elections. Maria Platonova, an ex-employee of the headquarters of Duma candidate Anastasia Bryukhanova, was placed under house arrest by the court, and Dmitry Chebanov, Zhanna Chernova, Nikita Kreshchuk and Alexei Kurlov were placed in custody for two months. In Krasnoyarsk, Alexey Yanochkin was sent to a pre-trial detention center for the same case.
• In Khabarovsk, the prosecutionrequested two years in prison for the ex-head of Navalny’s local headquarters, Alexei Vorsin. He is being tried under the “Dada” article about repeated violations of the rules for holding public events.
• A resident of Chita was sentenced to six years in a general regime colony under the article on justification of terrorism. According to investigators, the man “posted materials online” justifying the explosion in the building of the Arkhangelsk FSB - it was committed by anarchist Mikhail Zhlobitsky on October 31, 2018.
• Muscovite Olga Kuzmina, who protested on a tree against renovation, is going to be forcibly hospitalized for an examination of her mental state. Previously, a criminal case was opened against the activist for hooliganism.
• The Navalny app has disappeared from the Google Play and App Store. Journalists found that Russian authorities threatened to open criminal cases against several Google employees if the company did not remove it itself.
• Ivan Petryakov, an employee of the House with a Lighthouse hospice, was detained near the Moscow City Hall building. Petryakov accompanied two of his charges on single pickets, who demanded that they be provided with medications against spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) .
• A court in Nizhny Novgorod fined Igor Kalyapin, chairman of the Committee against Torture, 10 thousand rubles. He was found guilty of collaborating with an undesirable organization.
• In Moscow and the Moscow region, police detained at least 18 Muslims. Presumably, the arrests are taking place as part of the Hizb ut-Tahrir case.
• In the Novosibirsk region, on the night of September 17, unknown persons set fire to the house of Alexei Astafiev, the first secretary of the local branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Previously, police and officials from the district administration warned Astafiev about possible arson.
• All day long, the police and PEC members obstruct those monitoring the election: observers are removed from polling stations or not allowed into them, and PEC members are detained. OVD-Infobroadcasts violations.