The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow arrested oppositionist Alexei Navalny for 30 days, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. The founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules for holding street protests (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). The oppositionist was detained this morning at the entrance of his own house when he went for a run.

In St. Petersburg, about three thousand people came to a rally against election violations, reports Bamaga . At the same time, Fontanka, citing observers, gives a different figure - more than six thousand participants. According to the police , 2.2 thousand people took part in the rally. The action took place at the Finlyandsky Station, the rally was agreed upon.

​In Moscow, near the presidential administration, police detained two participants in single pickets dedicated to the murdered St. Petersburg activist Elena Grigorieva, OVD-Info reports . According to Novaya Gazeta, several dozen people came to the rally, they took turns standing with posters. According to OVD-Info, when Leonid Kriger stood up at the picket, he was approached by members of the pro-Kremlin SERB movement and a police officer.

The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow arrested the coordinator of Navalny’s Moscow headquarters, Oleg Stepanov, for eight days for calling on Facebook to go to a rally on July 27, the headquarters reports . Stepanov was found guilty of repeated violation of the legislation on rallies (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

FSB investigators opened a criminal case against a resident of the Krasnoyarsk village of Shushenskoye for public calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to a publication about an attack on the Arkhangelsk FSB department, reports . NGS24 The suspect, according to investigators, created an account “under the name of a well-known terrorist” and published a post about the explosion in Arkhangelsk.

Three men who attacked Kuban environmentalists Andrei Rudomakha and Viktor Chirikov in 2017 were helped to escape by a police officer. Investigator Alexey Shulga spoke about this in court, reports with reference to lawyer Alexey Avanesyan. Novaya Gazeta According to Avanesyan, the investigator did not name the policeman.

Doctors forcibly hospitalized the former head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, from the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center to a psychiatric hospital, deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Valery Maksimenko told the radio station Govorit Moskva. The radio station clarifies that Shestun has not yet been taken to the hospital; he and the doctors are on the road.

The Rybinsk diocese abandoned its intention to build a temple in a birch grove after the publication of a petition against the construction, writes 76.ru with reference to an official appeal from representatives of the church district.

The administration of the Moscow club Arena by Soho Family denies that security guards beat journalists Evgeniy Levkovich and Roman Popkov and Elena Borovskaya because of the “I’m furious” poster from the protest. This was reported by MBKH Media. “The statement on social networks of one of the guests states the fact of beatings.

A court in Dzerzhinsk sentenced a policeman who falsified the testimony of the victim in order not to initiate a criminal case. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the UK. In May 2018, a local resident came to the detective, whose name was not disclosed, and asked to open a case of theft. It is not specified what exactly was stolen from the woman. The policeman refused to initiate a case based on false statements that he himself compiled on her behalf.

The Central District Court of Novokuznetsk fined local activist Igor Gorlanov 30 thousand rubles, finding him guilty of disrespect for authority (Part 3 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). this Gorlanov reported on his Telegram channel. The activist added that the judge refused to grant his lawyer’s request to recognize President Vladimir Putin as a victim and also to summon him to court.

Alim Suleymanov, a correspondent for the publication Grani.ru, was expelled from a hearing in the North Caucasus District Military Court for a text broadcast on Facebook of the Crimean Solidarity association, reported journalist Anton Naumlyuk. This happened at an open meeting in the case of Nariman Memedeminov (Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code).

Chechen Information Minister Dzhambulat Umarov considered Novaya Gazeta's article that the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, personally wounded an alleged militant at his residence to be a “clumsy lie.” this . reports RBC “They should hire a good writer, a specialist in blockbusters and bestsellers. Somehow it doesn’t work out, at least a lie should work out.

In the Moscow City Court, while appealing the preventive measure against crime boss Oleg Shishkanov (Medvedev), singer Lev Leshchenko, artist Lyubov Uspenskaya and State Duma deputy Valery Gazzaev vouched for him, reports the Moscow agency and its correspondent Roman Kulguskin. They asked to soften the preventive measure against Shishkanov. Athletes Nikita Simonyan, Yuri Semin, Viktor Onopko, Mikhail Gershkovich and musician Alexander Serov joined the appeal.

Lawyer Ivan Novikov appealed to the Grozny District Court of Chechnya with a complaint about the refusal to initiate a criminal case for torture of the former director of the municipal enterprise "Teplosnabzhenie" Lom-Ali Elbiev. This was reported by the Memorial human rights center.