The leader of the Movement in Defense of the Khimki Forest, Evgenia Chirikova, was taken into custody on August 5. This happened after she, along with lawyer Artur Grokhovsky, left the Khimki police department from interrogation. With them was another activist in defense of the forest, Yaroslav Nikitenko.

In the Kremlin PR in a fire August 5, 2010 Anton Oresh It all started with innocent conversations about the weather. Ah, heat, ah, heat. However, already in early July, when it was steamed for two weeks in a row and, according to the forecasts of the early decline, the heat was not expected, many ordinary citizens began to ask simple everyday questions: what will happen if the peat light up or lights up? These are quite natural issues that are dictated by life experience.

In Ulan-Ude, on August 4, members of the “Coalition for Free Elections” Nadezhda Nizovkina and Tatyana Stetsura were detained, who were collecting signatures for maintaining direct elections of the city mayor and against amending the city charter, according to which the mayor would be elected not by the people, but by city council deputies.

In the opposition Evgenia Chirikova: On the protection of the Khimkinsky forest August 5, 2010 Alexey Makarkin It is generally accepted that in modern Russian politics there are no new leaders. In fact, this is not so - there are leaders, but they are not informed of the television channels under the control of the state. New leaders are not appointed from above - they appear in the political struggle.

The Ingushetia prosecutor's office demanded that local providers limit access to the blog ingushetiya-ru.livejournal.com. Its owner, Alauddin Dudko, was detained in early May on charges of drug possession, and the prosecutor’s office saw signs of extremism and terrorism in the blog itself. The self-name of the blog is the news feed of the North Caucasus, it reports on various political events and clashes in Ingushetia and beyond.

In the opposition Triumph of captivity August 5, 2010 Natella Boltyanskaya I recently drove from the city. Late in the evening. The road is empty, but on an empty highway, two wheels on the oncoming lane, the owner of a flashing light rushes. What, I want to ask? Nobody on the road. But he can’t do otherwise. If anyone has any exclusive right, then it turns out not to use this right of the western. Here, for example, the police. They have the right to hit a person with a club.

Today we were not allowed to carry out any actions. In the morning, when we were still supposed to be heading to the place where the public hearings were to be held, we were forcibly taken away from our house and taken to court. They took me away without presenting any documents, did not tell me where they were taking me, took me by the hands and dragged me into a civilian car. The trial was based on the fact that they qualified it as picketing, although it was a collection of signatures.