Independent candidates for deputies to the Moscow City Duma “brought the situation to the point of absurdity and clashes with the authorities,” said President Vladimir Putin. His words are broadcast by RT. “No one, neither the authorities nor any groups of citizens, have the right to violate the current law and bring the situation to the point of absurdity, or to a clash with the authorities,” the president said.

The SOVA Information and Analytical Center reported the first known case of dismissal of a case under Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (incitement of hatred or enmity) due to the insignificance of the offense. A link to the relevant court decision is published on the project website . Thus, on June 14, the Ordzhonikidze District Court of Magnitogorsk considered an administrative case against local resident Olga Kochetkova.

The Investigative Committee transferred to the prosecutor's office the case of Moscow activist Konstantin Kotov, accused under the “Dada” article about repeated violations at rallies (212.1 of the Criminal Code). Kotov’s lawyer Maria Eismont reported this to Mediazona. According to Eismont, over the weekend she managed to interview 30 witnesses to the activist’s detentions.

The prosecutor's office canceled the decision to initiate a case on the purchase of a prohibited drug, which the mother purchased for her child suffering from seizures, TASS reports citing official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office Alexander Kurennoy.

The Investigative Committee has cleared TV director Dmitry Vasilyev of suspicion in the case of “mass riots” (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code), TASS reports citing lawyer Alexander Zinurov. “Today Vasiliev came to Tekhnicheskiy Lane and took all his personal belongings. He becomes a witness – this is a fait accompli,” the lawyer said. Zinurov added that today his client will be discharged from the hospital.

In Kursk, police detained a minor who stood in a single picket as a sign of solidarity with Vladislav Barabanov, who was arrested in the case of “mass riots.” This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to eyewitness Maria. The incident occurred near the Drama Theater. The police decided to call the detainee’s grandmother and together with her took him to the department to draw up a report.

The Kirovsky District Court of Astrakhan sentenced to a year in a penal colony an operative of the internal security department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan, who, together with his girlfriend, beat the police, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. His accomplice was sentenced to eight months in a penal colony. Both were found guilty under Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code (use of violence against a government official).

Roskomnadzor demanded that article the Meduza be edited: “If you smoked a joint, you won’t quit. If you tie a person to a bed, he will stop injecting heroin. Actually, no,” according to the department’s website. The note was published on August 8.

On August 5, the Kalininsky District Court of Tyumen fined a policeman 200 thousand rubles, who himself made a dummy bomb and reported on its discovery, according to the court’s website. According to the case file , the policeman's name is Evgeniy Kabulov. He was accused of knowingly falsely reporting an act of terrorism (Part 1 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code), he fully admitted his guilt and repented.

The magistrate of the judicial district of the Central District of Chelyabinsk imposed a fine of five thousand rubles on pensioner Olga Stepanova, who called the police at the protest against pension reform “creatures” and “pigs,” reports the head of Agora, Pavel Chikov. Stepanova was accused of insulting a government official (Article 319 of the Criminal Code). Lawyer Andrei Lepekhin told Mediazona that she did not admit guilt.

The Troitsky District Court of Moscow returned to the police a report drawn up against an unregistered candidate for the City Duma, Ilya Yashin. This was reported by MBKH Media with reference to the press secretary of the court, Ksenia Alekseeva. “The case materials were returned to the police department to eliminate the shortcomings. Today the Trinity Court will not consider the case,” Alekseeva said.

State Duma deputies were called back from vacation to conduct an “investigation into interference in Russia’s internal affairs” due to protests in Moscow, speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said , RIA Novosti reports. The Duma created a special commission for this purpose, headed by the head of the security committee Vasily Piskarev, Interfax reports. He will have four deputies from each faction. In total, the commission will include 12 people.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk returned to the police a report on “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors” (Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code), drawn up by the LGBT+ initiative group “Rakurs”. This was reported to Mediazona by the Russian LGBT Network.

The head of the drug control department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chuvashia, Danis Shakurov, sued 20 thousand rubles from a resident of Novocheboksarsk, Anatoly Kleshnev, who published the petition “Stop torture in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.” This was reported in the decision of the Novocheboksarsk City Court.

The head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, commented on elections to the Moscow City Duma and protest shares, RBC reports . “It is obvious that people are very annoyed, and this is not good for anyone. In general, my civic position is as follows: the presence of a sound opposition is for the good of any body, the representative meeting and ultimately the state. Some should be an alternative force that suggests something and gives signals in one way or the other way, ”Chemezov said.