Ivan Nepomnyashchy, convicted in the Bolotnaya case, was placed in a punishment cell three days before his release from the colony, lawyer Irina Biryukova reports on Facebook. “He will be released from the punishment cell. I remind you that Vanya is to be released on August 24,” she wrote, without specifying the reasons for the punishment. Nepomniachtchi was placed in a punishment cell at the end of April, after he applied for parole, and then twice more in June.

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, a 41-year-old supporter of oppositionist Vyacheslav Maltsev was detained, allegedly calling for a revolution on November 5, 2017, reports the Criminal Chronicle publication. According to the publication, “a large amount of office equipment, a sawn-off shotgun, cartridges and various special equipment” were seized from the detainee’s house. A criminal case has been opened against him under Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity).

The Moscow techno club "Rabitsa" announced its closure. This was reported on the establishment's Facebook page. “[...] we are forced to close the club, a decision dictated by elementary security considerations, which we cannot guarantee to our guests at events at this address. At the same time, it is important not to forget that “Rabitsa” is not only a place, but, above all, the ideas and people thanks to whom this place came to life.

The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized Dmitry Borisov, the accused in the “March 26 case,” who is under arrest, as a political prisoner, according to a statement on the organization’s website.

On August 17, Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko signed a decree to exclude the Champ de Mars from the list of places with a special procedure for holding mass actions, reports . Fontanka The document was signed five days after the LGBT Pride took place on the Champ de Mars, after which activists and journalists were attacked with pepper spray. The event became possible after the organizers went to court.

Fontanka published a list of 40 Russians who died while fighting in Syria as part of a private military company known as the Wagner Group. The list is divided into three parts, the first of which contains 25 names (these are losses in 2016), the second - eight (losses on one day, October 19, 2015), the third - seven ("still fragmentary and incomplete information" about losses for this year).

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, summoned the head of the republican department of the FSB, Sergei Khvostikov, to “interrogate” him about the mass signing of a letter to Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika by residents of the village of Krasnaya Turbina, Novaya Gazeta writes . According to the publication, Khvostikov’s explanations “did not convince the Chechen leadership,” and FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov and the presidential administration had to intervene in the situation.

Relatives of the police officers killed during the attack on December 17, 2016 in Grozny organized a rally at the Staropromyslovsky Court in Grozny, where a hearing was to take place in the case of residents of the village of Krasnaya Turbina Magomed Taramov and Dzhamalai Tazbiev, who are accused of intending to leave for Syria, reports the agency . Chechen Republic Today". It is alleged that relatives of the deceased police officers gathered outside the courthouse with posters.

The former head of the internal policy department of the presidential administration, and now the chairman of the board of the Civil Society Development Foundation, Konstantin Kostin, filed a lawsuit against the Vedomosti newspaper demanding that it refute the data of a July article about its inability to come up with a “image of the future” for Vladimir Putin in the presidential elections, reports "BBC".

An employee of the patrol service of the police department in the Novoaleksandrovsky district of Stavropol became a defendant in a criminal case for abuse of power in connection with beating and threatening a woman who wrote a complaint against him, the regional department of the Investigative Committee said in a statement .

A powerful explosion occurred in the area of ​​a fire in the private sector in Rostov-on-Don on Teatralny Spusk, where more than ten private houses were burning, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the scene. According to eyewitnesses, there is a smell of gas in the area of ​​the fire. Yuga.ru writes that there were several explosions. According to local residents, gas cylinders in burning houses are exploding.

The Khabezsky District Court in Karachay-Cherkessia sentenced a former police officer to seven years in a maximum security colony for a bribe of 100 thousand rubles. This was reported on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office. The court also fined the policeman 200 thousand rubles and deprived him of the right to work in law enforcement for three years. The verdict has not yet entered into legal force.

Roskomnadzor is going to bring to administrative responsibility six media outlets on whose websites a “video recording of a popular rap battle” was posted, according to a message on the agency’s website. The message does not mention the participants in the battle, but recently publications on these sites have appeared about the battle between rappers Oxxxymiron and Slava KPSS (Gnoiny).

In the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan, the prosecutor asked to sentence the founder of the Tatar Patriotic Front “Altyn Urda” Danis Safargali to five years in a general regime colony, the international human rights group “Agora” told Mediazona. Safargali is accused of inciting hatred based on nationality (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code), hooliganism (213 Criminal Code), beatings (116 Criminal Code) and intentionally causing minor harm to health (115 Criminal Code).

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court found five students of the Reftinsky special school for teenagers with deviant behavior guilty of participating in mass riots that occurred in September 2016, reports New Day. The trial was held behind closed doors because some of the defendants were minors. The young people were accused under parts 1 and 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code (organizing mass riots and participating in them).