A criminal case has been opened against an independent candidate for municipal deputies in St. Petersburg, Igor Demidov, for a fake diploma, the local headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny reports on the telegram channel. The police opened a case under Part 3 of Article 327 of the Criminal Code (use of a knowingly forged document). She faces up to a year in prison.

Nikita Chirtsov. Photo: Daria Guskova / Mediazone The 22-year-old participant in the action on July 27 Nikita Chirtsov was detained in Minsk and sent to Moscow, since he was in the search basis for the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. During the detention in Belarus, Chirtsov said that he was wanted in the case of “riots”, but after landing at Domodedovo airport they did not detain him. Mediazona talked with Chirtsov.

The participant of the Moscow protest campaign on July 27 Nikita Chirtsov flew to Domodedovo Airport after sending from Belarus due to the fact that Russia put him on the international wanted list. This was reported by the correspondent "Mediazons". Photo: Daria Guskova / Mediazone The detention of Chirtsov in Minsk became known on August 28. The next day, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus confirmed that he was put on the international wanted list.

Communist Party candidate Vladimir Bortko said that he will not participate in the elections for governor of St. Petersburg. this He said during a debate on the St. Petersburg TV channel. “I don't want to play these games. The card is marked, there are five aces in the deck, I came to play football, but they tell me, no, I have to play the “throwing fool”. I don't want to be that fool, I'm withdrawing my name from the election.

The investigation ordered an examination of the video from 21-year-old student of the Higher School of Economics Yegor Zhukov, accused in the case of “mass riots” at the July 27 rally. Zhukov’s lawyer Ilya Novikov told Mediazona about this. According to Novikov, nine videos were sent for examination. Almost 140 thousand people have subscribed to the student’s blog; the most popular video has collected 744 thousand views.

Members of the Assembly of Deputies of the city settlement of the island of the Pskov region ahead of schedule deprived the powers of the deputy Arkady Markov because he was fined 700 thousand rubles in the case of publication in social networks of the NTV series fragment. About this writes 7 × 7 . In March 2019, the court found Markov guilty of justifying terrorism (part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). The island of the damned.

In Chelyabinsk, the police dropped the criminal case against the coordinator of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters, Boris Zolotarevsky, suspected of hooliganism due to the “He is not our king” campaign. this on his Telegram channel. reported Pavel Chikov, head of the international human rights group Agora, According to the decision to terminate the criminal prosecution, the investigation did not find sufficient evidence of Zolotarevsky’s involvement in the crime.

In Astrakhan, three police officers were detained on suspicion of attempted drug trafficking in order to improve detection rates. This was reported on the website of the Southern Transport Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee.

In St. Petersburg, the police detained three participants in the Vesna movement allegedly due to a report that activists are going to hang out a banner against the acting governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov. This was reported by the correspondent of "Mediazons". Detention of activists "Spring". Photo: David Frenkel / Mediazone The detention, according to him, was attended by about 10 police officers and an employee of the EE Center.

The Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg for the second time canceled the registration of candidate for municipal deputies of the Svetlanovskoye municipal district, Daniil Ken. He himself wrote about this on Twitter.

The Novorzhevsky District Court of the Pskov Region canceled the registration of Sofia Pugacheva, a candidate for the post of head of the district from the Yabloko party. about this on Facebook . wrote The head of the local Yabloko branch, Lev Shlosberg, Thus, judge Valentin Voronov satisfied the claim of the Growth Party candidate Alexei Ivanov, who demanded to deregister his competitor due to the use of the musical work LUX by Italian composer Daniele Dinaro in his election video.

during a broadcast on the radio station "Moscow Speaks" The Commissioner for Entrepreneurs' Rights in Moscow, Tatyana Mineeva, said that businessmen whose organizations allegedly suffered losses due to protests refuse to write complaints about the damage. Mineeva noted that 10 people personally contacted her “orally”; colleagues of the Commissioner for Entrepreneurs’ Rights “are constantly called.” “When you ask entrepreneurs to write, they are afraid.

In Moscow, the administration of the Lefortovo detention center did not allow lawyers to visit convicted Ukrainians. this in his Telegram channel . announced The head of the international human rights group Agora, Pavel Chikov, According to him, lawyers Olga Dinze and Svetlana Sidorkina were not allowed to see their clients Vladimir Balukh and Alexander Kolchenko. “This is a direct violation of the law, and no exchange justifies it,” Chikov emphasized.

The head of correctional colony No. 4 in the Orenburg region, Andrei Sviridov, was fined two thousand rubles for submitting “characterizing materials on convicts” who filed applications for parole, and for other violations in the colony, later than the appointed time. This was reported on the website of the regional prosecutor's office.

Saratov police called the detention of three participants of the “Parental Supervision” movement, who picketed against the “optimization of medical institutions” during the visit of Russian Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova to the city, legal. about this . writes Free News In March 2019, Skvortsova came to Saratov for a meeting. Activists picketed near the “Russia - My History” museum, where the meeting took place.