The investigation softened the accusation of the Ingush activists Zelimkhan Tomov and Magomed Ozdoev, arrested due to a rally against changing the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia. This was reported to the "Mediazone" by lawyer Kala Achilgov. According to Akhilgov, initially Tomov and Ozdoev were charged with the use of violence that is dangerous for the life and health of a representative of the authorities (part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

A criminal case was opened against two Anapa police officers for coercing a minor girl into acts of a sexual nature (Part 2 of Article 133 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the Investigative Committee for the Krasnodar Territory. According to the department, on the night of August 26, police met a 17-year-old girl and her adult friend on the beach of the Vityazevo resort.

President Vladimir Putin awarded the honorary title “Honored Artist of the Russian Federation” to Mikhail Leontyev and Daria Shabalina, artists of the Sretensky Stavropegic Monastery. The decree was published on the legal information website. From 1995 to 2018, the abbot of the Sretensky Stavropegic Monastery was Metropolitan Tikhon (Georgiy Shevkunov). In 2013, the Financial Times called him “Putin’s confessor,” but Shevkunov himself refused to answer questions on this topic.

Police officers came to the Moscow Center for collecting signatures for independent candidates to the Moscow City Duma, Oleg Stepanov, coordinator of the Moscow headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny, told Mediazona. The center hosts lectures for those wishing to become observers in the Moscow City Duma elections. After about the third lecture, a local police officer came to the center and asked, “What’s going on here?” and demanded to see the rental documents for the premises.

The Moscow Metro demanded to recover 53.6 thousand rubles from unregistered candidates for the Moscow City Duma and Alexei Navalny due to the additional work of employees on July 27 in connection with the protest, writes MBKH Media with reference to the lawyer of the “Pravozashchita Postcard” Sergei Badamshin. The lawsuit says that since the rally was not approved, the employees had to go to work on their day off.

The assistant to the head of the FSB department for Moscow and the Moscow region, Marat Medoev, was fired after a criminal case against Meduza correspondent Ivan Golunov and the subsequent publication of an investigation into the capital’s funeral market. this RBC reports with reference to sources close to the intelligence service. “Marat was filmed about a month ago,” the publication’s source said. RBC's sources did not specify what exactly was the reason for Medoev's dismissal.

In the Leningrad District Military Court in the case of a former FSB officer Ilya Kirsanov, a coexistered witness under the pseudonym Vladimir Dudyshev spoke, the correspondent of Mediazones reports. Kirsanov is accused of the fact that during a search of entrepreneur Igor Salikov, he caused him damage with a carbine, who put the victim into the anus.

Rosreestr renamed the vice-mayor of Moscow Alexander Gorbenko to Ivan Fedorov in an extract for a suburban plot of 2 hectares. This is stated in the investigation of the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny, published on his website. Navalny claims that Gorbenko “holds meetings where the limit on arrests is approved” and decides “how many people should be detained” during protests. In 2013, Alexey Navalny published an investigation about the deputy mayor’s dacha.

YouTube channel, The host of the Navalny LIVE Vladimir Milov, was released after 30 days of arrest, reports the head of the politician’s headquarters, Yana Gerasimova. On July 29, the oppositionist was arrested for 30 days for repeated violation of the rules of the rally (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences) and was sentenced to another 15 days of arrest for disobedience to the police (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

A 21-year-old resident of the Black Spirit station of the Orenburg region, Roman Chikvladze, said that the policeman tortured him with an electric shock for the theft of five thousand rubles from his 82-year-old father. This was reported to the Mediazone by the press secretary of the "Committee against torture" Ivan Zhiltsov. On the evening of August 10, his father accused the two sons of theft of money and called the police, Roman Chikvladze was taken to the Black -Stop of the Village Council.

The chairman of the Meshchansky District Court, Irina Belchenko, ordered “not to let anyone in” onto the floor where the hearing on the criminal case against Yevgeny Kovalenko, accused of using violence against a police officer at the July 27 rally, is taking place. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent who is in the courthouse.

HSE Vice-Rector and Moscow City Duma candidate Valeria Kasamara refused to hold a debate with the general producer of “Navalny LIVE ” Lyubov Sobol. this Kasamara reported on her telegram channel. “Debates as a form of political dialogue presuppose equality of participants. Lyubov Sobol and I are obviously in unequal positions, which means political debates between us are impossible,” Casamara wrote.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Saratov Region opened a criminal case on the negligence of officials, which resulted in a violation of the rules and interests of citizens (Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code), due to the fact that civil servants did not take measures to destroy rodents - sources of fever. This is reported on the department's website.

Based on a note on the REN-TV website, the prosecutor’s office demanded through the court that two daughters be taken away from Pyotr and Elena Chomsky because of their participation in a protest in support of independent candidates on August 3, it follows from the case materials, which Mediazona has read. The documents were handed over to the editors by Apology of Protest.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined Danil Beglets, accused in the “Moscow case”, 20 thousand rubles, finding him guilty of blocking the road at the rally on July 27 (Part 6.1 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences), a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. Judge Elena Bulgakova found it proven that Beglets took part in an uncoordinated march from Stoleshnikov Lane to Kamergersky and blocked the road along with other demonstrators.