Several opposition candidates for Moscow City Duma deputies reported that election commissions rejected their signature lists, which could serve as a refusal to register for the elections. An employee of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Lyubov Sobol, who is running in the 43rd district, said that 725 of her signatures were invalidated, or 15% with a permissible defect of 10%. In connection with this, the oppositionist went on a hunger strike.

In the center of Moscow on Red Square, police detained activist Yegor Kruk. He demanded that independent candidates be allowed to run for elections to the Moscow City Duma. about this . Kruk himself told OVD-Info The activist’s double-sided poster read “Sobyanin is a coward!” I demand registration of independent candidates" and "Putin is a thief! He stole the election from us.” Crook was taken to the China Town police department.

Relatives forcibly took a 20-year-old girl to Chechnya who ran away from home to the Moscow women's crisis center "Kitezh" because she was forced into marriage, activist Daria Serenko told Mediazona. The girl's name is not disclosed for security reasons. As Serenko said, the girl lived in a Moscow apartment with her parents. Her father threatened to take her to Chechnya and marry her there.

In Ingushetia, the former author of the opposition telegram channel “Fortanga ORG ” Rashid Maysigov was detained, writes . the telegram channel itself Ferdovs Maysigova, Rashid’s mother, said that early in the morning of July 12, masked people came to their house, handcuffed their son and began to conduct a search. “We went up to the second floor, started looking for something, and suddenly one of the security officers had a bag with a white substance in his hand,” she claims.

Security forces detained Ingush oppositionist Zarifa Sautieva in connection with a March rally against an agreement on a new border with Chechnya, said lawyer Bilan Tsuro. She is charged with organizing the use of violence against government officials (Part 3 of Article 33, Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). Tsuro clarified that Sautieva was taken to Nalchik and would soon have to choose a preventive measure.