In St. Petersburg, officers of police department No. 78 decided to leave the detained LGBT activist Anna Grabetskaya in the police department until the court hearing in her administrative case, which is scheduled to take place on Monday, reports OVD-Info with reference to one of the organizers of the LGBT Pride on the Field of Mars, Yuri Gavrikov. At the same time, earlier today the activist was taken away from the police department by ambulance.

In Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region, a 53-year-old former colonel of the Ministry of Defense, convicted under Article 275 of the Criminal Code (treason), tried to escape from maximum security correctional colony No. 10, write Molodezhnaya Gazeta and 73Online.ru . Even earlier, on August 10, the regional prosecutor’s office reported the escape of a person convicted of treason , but at that time the name of the person trying to escape was not announced.

The victim as a result of an attack by a LGBT activist. Photo: David Frenkel / Mediazone In St. Petersburg, near Marsov Paul, where LGBT Prade was held today, several young people in sportswear attacked the participants of the action and journalists, the mediazone correspondent David Frenkel reports. The attackers sprayed pepper gas towards LGBT activists and representatives of the press. Up to 100 people participated in the action on the Marse Field.

In Crimea, the head of the temporary detention center in the village of Razdolnoye, Valery Tkachenko, hit Ukrainian Vladimir Balukh, who was convicted on charges of illegal possession of ammunition and explosives, Radio Liberty correspondent Anton Naumlyuk told Mediazona, citing the activist’s lawyer. Balukh is in the temporary detention center pending consideration of his appeal against the sentence. Balukh's lawyer contacted the local police department.

In the Pskov region, a serviceman of the airborne troops died as a result of an accidental shot from a tank machine gun by a colleague, writes Moskovsky Komsomolets, citing a source in the 76th Airborne Division. According to the newspaper's interlocutor, the military man did not check whether he had used up all the cartridges of the tank machine gun during the exercises.

In the center of Izhevsk, a volunteer from the headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny, who was distributing propaganda newspapers, was detained, according to the group “Team Navalny | Izhevsk". “Today at 13:30 (12:30 Moscow time - MZ), our volunteer Emil was detained on Pushkinskaya Street for distributing newspapers,” the message said. The volunteer was taken to the Pervomaisky police station.