Saratov video blogger Evgeny Shirmanov was fined one thousand rubles under Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (petty hooliganism) after being detained in Moscow near the Ministry of Transport, near which he parked his car, the blogger himself reports on his page. As Shirmanov clarified to Mediazone, the Meshchansky court imposed a fine of one thousand rubles.

A criminal case has been opened against former Deputy Minister of Finance Sergei Aleksashenko under an article on smuggling, writes Moskovsky Komsomolets with reference to the press service of the Domodedovo customs.

In Moscow, at the exit from the Third Transport Ring to the region, activist Konstantin Altukhov (also known by the nickname Parkman) was detained, activist Vadim Korovin told Mediazona. According to the activist, Altukhov, together with Korovin and Jan Katelevsky, took part in a raid on August 23 against the illegal installation of signs stating that only employees of the organization could park near the building.

Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky commented on the arrest of director Kirill Serebrennikov, reports . Interfax “This is a very sad situation. “Very regrettable,” said the Minister of Culture. Medinsky also assured that the director’s work was not ordered. “I know for sure that it’s not custom-made. I have a source,” the minister added. According to him, the ministry will be able to do only one thing in this situation - strengthen control over the acceptance of grant documents.

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan arrested Elvira Dmitrieva, coordinator of the election headquarters of Alexei Navalny’s presidential campaign, for ten days for organizing the illegal distribution of leaflets, writes Idel. Realities." Employees of the Center for Countering Extremism detained Dmitrieva on the morning of August 23, when she was leaving her house.

The Arbitration Court of Bashkortostan partially satisfied Rosneft's claim against AFK Sistema and decided to recover 136.3 billion rubles from the latter in favor of the state-owned company, an reports from the courtroom. Interfax correspondent Rosneft and its subsidiary Bashneft filed a lawsuit against Sistema on May 2.

The Oryol department of Roskomnadzor demanded that the Oryol News publication remove the comment under the news “An Oryol official staged a race from an NTV film crew. Brief retelling." attention to this . drew The publication TJ We are talking about an anecdote that one of the readers of the publication wrote in the comments.

German authorities extradited Alexander Lomov to Russia, who shot down a National Guard employee in Moscow to death, reports , citing a representative of the supervisory agency Alexander Kurenny. Interfax Russian citizen Lomov was extradited on August 23, accompanied by officers from the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Russian Interpol Bureau.

A 37-year-old prisoner with HIV died in correctional colony No. 3 in the village of Fornosovo, Leningrad Region, reports the Operational Cover agency. The press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Leningrad Region confirmed to Mediazona that a convict who had a certain illness died in the colony. There are no external signs of violence on the body of the deceased. As the department clarified, the prisoner was found in his sleeping place.

At the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, Russian Konstantin Konovchenko is being extradited from Spain, who is accused of organizing a criminal community, the press service of the Russian department told Rosbalt. Konovchenko, hiding from criminal prosecution, left Russia. In February 2016, he was put on the wanted list. In May 2016, the Prosecutor General's Office sent a request for his extradition to the “competent authorities” of Spain, which was granted in July 2017.

Moscow police detained a woman with a second group disability who is suspected of murdering a previously convicted man, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti. According to the agency's interlocutor, the 44-year-old woman was detained a day after the murder. The police believe that at the entrance of a residential building on Korovinskoye Highway, she hit a man three times in the heart area with nail scissors, from which he died.

Salim Akhobekov, who was arrested for five days for performing a lezginka in Gelendzhik, was transferred from a hospital in Nalchik to a Pyatigorsk hospital due to tear gas poisoning, the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center Valery Khatazhukov told the Caucasian Knot. On August 12, young people performed Lezginka on the street in Gelendzhik, city residents and tourists gathered around them.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs in Dagestan did not find any violations in the actions of the police during the attack on journalists at the anti-corruption rally on June 12 in Makhachkala, the organizer of the action, Marat Ismailov, said on his Facebook, who sent an appeal to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At an anti-corruption rally in Makhachkala on June 12, people in civilian clothes knocked journalists' phones and cameras out of their hands and took them away.

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A court in St. Petersburg fined activist of the “Spring” movement Nikolai Artemenko 150 thousand rubles for an action in front of the city administration building with the banner “Hyde Park will now be here,” Andrei Pivovarov, coordinator of the regional branch of Open Russia, wrote on Twitter. Artemenko was accused of repeated violation of the procedure for holding a protest under Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code.