The social network VKontakte plans to publish statistics on requests about users received from authorities, an unnamed representative of the company told the BBC. “We plan to make the process more transparent and share overall request statistics,” he said. The authenticity of the BBC information was confirmed by the VKontakte press service to Tjournal. At the same time, the social network did not say when the statistics will be available and what exactly will be reflected in them.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow arrested the coordinator of the “Left Front” Sergei Udaltsov for 30 days. about this on Twitter. wrote His wife Anastasia Udaltsova The court found the Left Front coordinator guilty of repeated violation of the rules of public events (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

Employees of Center “E” of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District of Moscow interviewed the leader of the Shahar movement and representative of the Israeli Likud party Alexander Kargin, lawyer Igor Zuber told Mediazona. According to the lawyer, employees of Center “E” check about 20-30 of Kargin’s publications on social networks. A psychological and linguistic study has been scheduled, the results of which will be known in a month.

Police came to the Moscow bookstore “Order of Words”, where an action in support of the head of the Grozny “Memorial” Oyub Titiev was supposed to take place, reports . OVD-Info According to the project, the police asked the store manager about the goals of the action and about the event in general. Because of this, the organizers decided to move the event to the Sakharov Center.

The Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow held the first hearing on the claim of former director of the League of Schools Sergei Bebchuk for the protection of honor and dignity against Meduza journalist Daniil Turovsky, the author of the material about harassment in this school, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. The judge rejected the petition of the plaintiff's lawyer Dmitry Nikolaev to consider the trial behind closed doors, which referred to the client's right to privacy.

The mayor of Orenburg, Evgeny Arapov, was detained on suspicion of taking a bribe, the Investigative Committee reported on Twitter. According to investigators, on May 19, 2018, together with his deputy Gennady Borisov, he received a bribe of 600 thousand rubles from the general director of a commercial organization for patronage in the construction industry.

In Tatarstan, the Investigative Committee began a pre-investigation check of information about the beating of a 16-year-old resident of the city of Nizhnekamsk by traffic police officers, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. On August 12, in the Nizhnekamsk Vkontakte group, an eyewitness reported that in the area of ​​the Dubki recreation center, a motorcyclist hit a traffic police officer. He survived.

Anti-fascist Viktor Filinkov, accused in the “Penza case,” is in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Nizhny Novgorod, wrote on Facebook. his lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov In mid-July, Filinkov was transferred from a pre-trial detention center in the Leningrad region to Penza for investigative actions. Later, the accused was found in the Yaroslavl detention center. “The St. Petersburg - Yaroslavl stage is a separate anecdote: on Friday we left St. Petersburg, Sat.

A picket “For a Free Internet” took place in Barnaul against criminal cases for publications on social networks, writes Novaya Gazeta. According to the organizers, 150-200 people came to the rally. The picket was approved by the city authorities. “People stand with signs like, “Why do I need pensions if I’m young and sit down to repost?” Since this is not a rally, but a mass picket, we could not set up a stage, and those who wish to speak simply in the center of the crowd.

In Moscow, the coordinator of the “Left Front” Sergei Udaltsov was detained, he is being taken to the Krasnoselskoye police station, his wife Anastasia Udaltsova wrote on Twitter.

In Tolyatti, the former head of the Samara “Community of Indigenous Russian People,” Lyubov Kuzaeva, was suspected of telling her supporters to post extremist materials on VKontakte. Timur Miftakhutdinov, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, told Mediazona about this. Later, the lawyer clarified that Kuzaeva had been detained. In September 2017, a criminal case on extremism was already initiated against Kuzaeva (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

The Investigative Committee will check the actions of the employees who lost the documents of two Orenburg residents who filed complaints about torture, said in a statement .

The Novosibirsk Regional Court overturned the decision to recognize the extremist painting “Great Beautiful Russia” by artist Alexei Kudelin, known under the pseudonym Vasya Lozhkin. about this on Twitter . wrote The head of the Human Rights Council, Mikhail Fedotov, The case was returned to the trial court. As reported , in November 2016, the decision to recognize the painting as extremist was appealed by the copyright holder, businessman from Moscow Alexei Khodorkovsky.

Some cases of criminal cases initiated over posts on social networks are “beyond the bounds of reason,” RIA Novosti quotes President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov as saying. “We can’t speak in general terms here, because each case is unique, it either falls under the relevant legislation or does not,” Peskov said, answering a question about high-profile cases of persecution for posts on social networks.

Kemerovo businessman Evgeny Khlopotov, 34, said that three plainclothes security officers detained him without explanation and took him to the forest after he refused to unlock his phone and talk to them, writes . Taiga.info As the businessman told the publication, security forces came to his home on the morning of July 24, two of them showed the IDs of customs service operatives. Khlopotov was put in a car and driven to Novosibirsk.