The Moscow Department of Transport Commission banned the 11th Velonoch, which was supposed to take place on August 18. The organizer of the event, historian Sergei Nikitin, told Mediazona about this. “We don’t understand why Velonoch was banned. The approval process takes place within forty days. We met with the Department of Transport at commissions, called, contacted the traffic police. Not a single question was put forward to us, not a single request to change the route, which happens.

In Simferopol, the Investigative Committee is conducting a pre-investigation check against the Crimean Tatar teacher of Russian language and literature Aliya Kenzhaliyeva because of her poems dedicated to the celebration of Victory Day. Alexey Ladin, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, told Mediazona about this. We are talking about three poems published on May 9 in the local newspaper Qirim .

In St. Petersburg, Gorelektrotrans fired trolleybus driver Dina Garina, who was convicted for publishing “VKontakte,” Vitaly Cherkasov, a lawyer for the international human rights group “Agora,” who represents Garina’s interests, told Mediazona. According to the lawyer, Garina was fired on the 16th on the basis of Article 83 of the Labor Code (termination of an employment contract due to circumstances beyond the will of the parties).

The unknown man who died in the fire was confused with 58-year-old Kemerovo resident Sergei Gapeev and buried under his name, reported . Vesti-Kuzbass On the night of August 2-3, 2018, a fire broke out in house No. 128 on Central Street. The police found the body of a middle-aged, short man in a burnt house. Neighbors of the deceased told them that his name was Sergei.

The Bryansk Regional Court detained activist Ildar Dadin, who came to a hearing on an appeal to extend the arrest of Denis Bakholdina. OVD-Info about this . told Lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina According to her, Dadin was detained because he shouted slogans in court. A protocol is drawn up against him for violating the order of the court hearing.

In Gelendzhik, the organizers of a rally against the mayor of the city, Viktor Khrestin, filed a lawsuit against the city administration, which allowed the event to be held only in the village of Kabardinka, Free Media writes , citing a copy of the lawsuit. According to the applicants, local authorities did not respond to them within three days, as required by law.

Two weeks ago, on August 3, an explosion occurred in Kaluga at the entrance to the local branch of the Pension Fund. Despite the fact that the explosion itself was widely covered in local and federal publications, there is still no information about the criminal case after the incident or the detention of the suspects. The explosion at the Pension Fund occurred at about four in the morning on the night of August 3. It was reported that a small funnel formed at the entrance.

From the email address of the Public Relations Center of the FSB of Russia (fsb@fsb.ru), the editors of several publications received letters asking them to write about finding an accomplice of the Islamic State militants. The department claims that it did not disseminate such information, reports . Dozhd According to the TV channel, the authors of the letter asked to report that Balashikha resident Yuri Sagaidachnov was recruiting people to participate in hostilities in Syria.

In the Moscow region, employees of Center “E” detained Viktor Karpovich and his friend, whose name was not specified, during the Icebreaker music punk festival. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to Karpovich himself. The detention of two festival participants was also reported on the Prometheus telegram channel. It was alleged that the police were inspecting people approaching the railway station in the Ramensky district.

Nikolai Lyaskin (left) during a meeting on August 9, 2018. Photo: Emin Jafarov / "Kommersant" In Moscow, a verdict was sentenced in the case of an attack on Nikolai Lyaskin - the former head of the Moscow headquarters Alexei Navalny. The recidivist who arrived from the Leningrad Region, Alexei Shcherbakov, who does not deny that it was he who beat the opposition with a metal pipe in the fall of 2017, was assigned correctional labor for 11 months.

In the Jewish Autonomous Region, on August 13, 2018, the Obluchensky District Court upheld a fine for a former police officer who was found guilty of careless storage of firearms resulting in grave consequences (Part 1 of Article 224 of the Criminal Code). This is reported on the website of the regional IC.

The Ezhvinsky District Court of Syktyvkar sentenced a 40-year-old local resident to four years in a general regime colony for VKontakte posts, according to the prosecutor’s office website. A local resident was found guilty of public calls for extremist activity (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), as well as inciting hatred and hostility on the Internet (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

In Moscow, the Investigative Committee began checking information about the abandoned police department and the abolished Federal Migration Service, writes Kommersant with reference to the department’s press service. As the newspaper reports, citing sources, after an inspection, “most likely” a criminal case will be opened for negligence (Article 293 of the Criminal Code). Later, the Investigative Committee confirmed that they were conducting an investigation under this article.

The editor of the African publication Palmares Centrafrique Saint-Regis Zoumiri, who is associated with CAR intelligence, put up for sale a document in which, according to him, the testimony of the driver Bienvenu Nduvokama, who accompanied the Russian journalists killed in the Central African Republic, was recorded. The transcript was at the disposal of Novaya Gazeta.

YouTube, at the request of Roskomnadzor, blocked the Coit of the Belarusian LSP group in Russia. When trying to open the video, a notification appears that the video is blocked at the request of the state body. Screenshot with YouTube The LSP group reports that the video was blocked due to the fact that, according to Roskomnadzor, it contains information about the methods of suicide, as well as calls for suicide. At the time of blocking, the video scored almost 40 million views.