In the center of Moscow, a procession was held, which was organized by the producer "Navalny Live " Lyubov Sobol. The march was called “against political repressions”: the opposition demanded the admission of independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma and the release of the arrested participants in protests. Although the procession was not agreed by the Moscow authorities, the police did not detain anyone.

The Investigative Committee brought final charges against programmer Aidar Gubaidulin, who was arrested for the action on July 27. The young man’s lawyer, Maxim Pashkov, told Mediazona about this. Initially, Gubaidulin was accused of participating in mass riots (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code), but now the charge was brought against attempted violence against a government official (Part 3 of Article 30, Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

The home of HSE student Yegor Zhukov, who was arrested in the “Moscow case,” was searched. write about this without citing sources Novaya Gazeta and the editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow Alexey Venediktov . “At that moment there were only a minor child and his grandmother there. Yegor Zhukov's parents are urgently returning from the city, and at that very moment the lawyers were at the investigative actions in the detention center.

An unregistered candidate for the Moscow City Duma, Yulia Galyamina, was released from a special detention center, where she served three administrative arrests in a row. This was reported on Galyamina’s Twitter. On August 22, an unregistered candidate received 10 days of arrest for a Facebook post about the August 3 protest . Before that, she was arrested twice more because of the July 27 action .

The 39-year-old blogger from Azerbaijan Elvin Isaev, who lives in Russia and criticized the Azerbaijani authorities in his video, deprived the Russian passport and are going to expel, reports Reuters. For almost 20 years, Isaev was a citizen of Russia. He lives in St. Petersburg with his wife, born in Russia. According to the relatives of the blogger, on August 23, Isaev detained two dozen police officers at his own house.