Updated (14:42) The lawyer Yegor Zhukov Leonid Solovyov told MBH Media that he has yet perceived Venediktov’s information as his personal opinion, since Zhukov himself has not yet explained anything. “He was on his feet all night, there was a night search, for another 4-5 hours we were simply kept in the Investigative Committee without any clear explanations. We were only persuaded to admit that we did not. So far I do not know Yegor’s position, ”Soloviev said.

On August 5, students and graduates of the Higher School of Economics will begin daily single pickets near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow on Petrovka, 38 in support of a 21-year-old student of the university of Yegor Zhukov, who was arrested in the case of riots on the action on July 27. This was announced by the MBH Media graduate of the Higher School, one of the coordinators of the movement for the liberation of Zhukov Roman Kiselev.

In St. Petersburg on Lenin Square, a rally was held in defense of the Khachaturian sisters, the North-West correspondent reports. MBH Media. " According to the organizers, about a thousand people took part in it. The action was agreed, there were no detentions and provocations. The audience chanted: “Freedom to the sisters of the Khachaturian!”, “The rights of women are human rights!”, “There is no police state!”. Activists demanded the adoption and observance of the law on domestic violence.

The investigation charged the participation in the riots (part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code) of two more participants in the action on July 27 - Vladislav Barabanov and Daniil Konon. This was reported by MBH Media lawyer Ilya Utkin and the coordinator of the OVD-info Alla Frolova. Thus, the number of accused in the case reached nine people.

The Investigative Committee in Moscow has started a criminal case on the initiation of hatred or enmity, within which a resident of the Moscow Region Vladislav Sinitsa was detained. This is stated in the message of the department. SK notes that a tit, under the pseudonym “Max Steklov” on July 31, 2019 in one of the social networks “called a wide range of persons to illegal actions of a violent nature against children of law enforcement officials”. The title has already been charged.

In the first six months of 2019, 7.6 thousand forest fires arose in Russia, the damage from which amounted to 2.4 billion rubles, the Facebook account reports .

Architects Sergei Skuratov and Ilya Zalivukhin, who proposed to increase the population inside the garden ring four times at the Moscow Urban Forum , tell the MBH Media, which, in their opinion, should be the capital's center and where several million migrants who will inevitably come to Moscow.

During the walks of boulevards disagreed with the authorities in support of the admission of independent candidates for the elections to the Moscow City Duma, the townspeople were faced not only with the gross actions from the police, the Russian Guard and the riot police. Cellular communications did not work in the center, it was impossible to use car sharing, the metro stations were closed, the streets were blocked, people were inspected.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the application of violence against a representative of the authorities against a participant in the action on August 3 in Moscow. It is reported by TASS with reference to the source. “The investigator of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against citizen Ustinov under part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,” he said.

The registered candidate for the Moscow City Duma, Sergey Tsukasov, was delayed twice because of the action on August 3, after the second detention he was interrogated in the criminal case of riots. He told MBH Media about this. He added that to detain the registered candidate, the law needs the sanction of the prosecutor, but the police did not pay attention to his words about this. For the first time, Tsukasov was detained during a single picket.