The United States will introduce new sanctions against Russia in connection with the poisoning of former GRU colonel Yuri Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the British city of Salisbury, reports Reuters . “The US State Department has announced that it has determined that Russia used nerve gas in an attempt to kill former spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in March, and new sanctions will be applied to the country,” writes Sky News.

The Russian journalists who died in the Central African Republic were introduced to a local consultant-fixer named Martin by RIA FAN correspondent Kirill Romanovsky. Meduza This was reported to by several acquaintances of the murdered director Alexander Rastorguev and confirmed by Romanovsky himself. The correspondent did not provide any other details.

In Thessaloniki, Greece, fans of the PAOK football club attacked Russian journalists who came to cover the match with Moscow Spartak. This was reported by “Championship” correspondent Dmitry Egorov. “Before the first match of the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League between PAOK and Spartak, fans of the Greek club attacked Russian journalists at the entrance to the press box. They hit one of the media representatives several times.

In Moscow, a member of the nationalist movement “Black Bloc” Artem Vorobyov and a former member of the movement Dmitry Makarov were detained, reports OVD-Info with reference to the coordinator of the Association of Popular Resistance Dmitry Karasev and lawyer Igor Popovsky, who represents Makarov’s interests. According to the publication, Vorobyov is charged with Articles 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity) and 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism).

In Irkutsk, five convicted police officers were injured in a mass brawl in correctional colony No. 3, according to the website of the main department of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the region. According to the department, the conflict between prisoners occurred on the afternoon of August 6. As a result of the fight, one of the convicts received a stab wound in the abdomen; he was hospitalized in the surgical department of a hospital at another colony.

In Transbaikalia, a case was opened under Article 321 of the Criminal Code (disorganization of the activities of institutions that ensure isolation from society) against a prisoner in correctional colony No. 5, Mikhail Kalmanov, who spoke about torture after the Russia-Croatia match, Dozhd writes , citing lawyer Anastasia Kopteeva. The TV channel published the act of Kalmanov's lawyer's questioning.

In Sochi, since 2016, the FSB has been bugging the editor-in-chief of the BlogSochi publication, Alexander Valov, who is accused of extorting a State Duma deputy from the LDPR. The lawyer of the international human rights group “Agora” Alexander Popkov, who represents the interests of Valov, told Mediazona about this. The Investigative Committee has completed its investigation into the criminal case of the 33-year-old journalist.

Rosneft will withdraw its lawsuit against Interfax after the agency apologized for publishing about thefts at the Far Eastern Zvezda plant, owned by the oil company, Rosneftegaz and Gazprombank, according to the Rosneft website.

The Kurgan City Court sentenced a National Guard employee to 10 years in a maximum security colony in a rape case, reports , citing the court’s press service. Interfax The defendant was found guilty of rape of a minor (clause “a” of Part 3 of Article 131 of the Criminal Code) and attempted rape (Part 3 of Article 30, Article 131 of the Criminal Code). On the night of December 28, 2017, the accused was drinking with two underage girls.

Magnitogorsk resident Sergei Fedotov told the local publication Verstov.Info that police officers threatened him with rape, and then beat him and tortured him for several hours, demanding that he give up his statement about the attack and robbery.

The Chkalovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced three former police officers who robbed banks, according to the website of the Investigative Committee for the Sverdlovsk Region, as well as the local publication E1.ru. Thus, the court sentenced Vladislav Poltorybatko to 14 years in a maximum security colony, his brother Stanislav Poltorybatko to 9 years and 10 months of maximum security, and Artem Lebedev to 13 years.

A court in Kyzyl found activist Oyumaa Dongak guilty under Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code on propaganda and public display of Nazi symbols for a post on VKontakte with a historical photo in which swastikas are visible. She herself wrote about this on Facebook. Dongak was fined two thousand rubles, Alexey Pryanishnikov, human rights coordinator of Open Russia, clarified in a conversation with Mediazona.

Pussy Riot participant Maria Alekhin was stopped at the Moscow Domodedovo airport by the FSB border service, not allowing her to fly out in London. Alekhina reported this to Mediazone. Alekhina said that at 16:00 she was supposed to fly out of Domodedovo to London, and from there to Edinburgh, where a theatrical performance under her book Riot Days was planned as part of the Edinburgh festival.

The Ministry of Justice included the public association of football fans “Sector 16” of the Bugulminsky municipal district of Tatarstan on the list of prohibited non-profit organizations (NPOs), according to the department’s website. The Ministry of Justice clarifies that “Sector 16” also bears the names “S-16” and BugulmaUltras. The association of fans was banned based on the decision of the Bugulminsky City Court of Tatarstan dated May 28.

Convicted in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, Zaur Dadaev left the punishment cell in the colony and stopped the hunger strike announced at the end of July, his lawyer Shamsudin Tsakaev told the Moscow agency. The lawyer clarified that the hunger strike lasted seven days. It was previously reported that prisoners Anvar Aslakhanov, Eduard Zasetov and Alexander Kuptsov also refused food; It is not yet known whether they have stopped their hunger strike.