In Vologda, the court imposed a fine of 30 thousand rubles on activist and ex-deputy of the legislative assembly Evgeny Domozhirov, who voted twice on amendments to the Constitution. about this Domozhirov himself spoke . The activist was found guilty of illegally obtaining a ballot (Article 5.22 of the Administrative Code). “We will, of course, appeal the decision. But there is a result, they have proven the main thing - the vote is fake,” he wrote.

In St. Petersburg, 7,106 people died in June, according to data from the city government. This is the highest monthly mortality rate from 2011 to 2020, . Interfax-Russia noted “The mortality rate was the highest in the ten-year history of observations: only in January 2016 and 2017, as well as in March 2018, did this figure rise above 6 thousand,” the agency notes. In St. Petersburg, according to the authorities, 1,520 people have died from the infection during the entire coronavirus epidemic.

St. Petersburg police began to detain participants in single pickets in support of Delivery Club couriers who went on strike due to non-payment of wages. According to the telegram channel “Objective of Realities”, seven people have already been detained. “Left Bloc” reports that among those detained are activists of the AltLeft movement and the editor of the online magazine “Levoradical”.

The 1st Western District Military Court sentenced Anna Solovyova, captain of the FSB department for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, to three years of suspended imprisonment, finding her guilty of disclosing state secrets (Part 1 of Article 283 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the St. Petersburg courts.

The Prosecutor General's Office approved charges against three police officers in the case of torture of Marina Ruzaeva, a mother of many children, at the Usolsky police department in the Irkutsk region. This was reported by the Public Verdict. Police officers Alexander Korbut, Denis Samoilov and Stanislav Golchenko are accused of exceeding official powers with the use of violence and special means (points “a”, “b” of part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code).

The prosecutor requested seven years in prison in the Jehovah's Witnesses case for 34-year-old Evgeny Spirin from the Ivanovo region. This was reported on the website of the religious organization. The FSB opened a case against Spirin in January 2019.

The Leninsky District Court of Perm imposed a suspended year of imprisonment on former Investigative Committee investigator Evgeniy Bugakov for falsifying materials in an attempted murder case. This was reported by the Zvezda publication. The court file indicates that Bugakov was sentenced. We are talking about the case against Perm residents Sergei Perevoshchikov and Nikolai Smirnov.

The Investigative Committee demanded that the publisher of Mediazona, Pyotr Verzilov, undergo a psychological and psychiatric examination in the case of failure to notify of a Canadian passport. His lawyer Leonid Solovyov reported this to Mediazona. As Mediazona was told in Agora, Verzilov was taken for a psychiatric examination immediately after interrogation in the department for especially important cases of the Investigative Committee.

“Party of the Dead” activist Maxim Evstropov and his five-year-old son were detained in St. Petersburg, reports the human rights project “Apology of Protest.” Evstropov and his child were detained as they left the house. The reason was a single picket, which the activist held on May 31. According to Apology of Protest lawyer Varya Mikhailova, police from the 78th police department tried to draw up a report with self-erasing pens. As a result, Evstropov was released with a protocol.

The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov called the connection between Ramzan Kadyrov and the murder of the Chechen blogger Mamihan Umarov, who criticized the head of Chechnya in Austria. “This has nothing to do with sound logic. The murdered citizen of Austria and Ramzan Kadyrov? If he criticized Ramzan Kadyrov and if he is a Chechen, then you need to immediately talk about Kadyrov? Agree, illogical, ”said Peskov.

A bill on blocking sites justifying terrorism and extremism has been introduced to the State Duma. The corresponding document was published on the website of the lower house of parliament. The changes will affect Article 15 of the Federal Law “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection”.

A bill has been introduced to the State Duma providing for up to 10 years in prison for inducing drug use on the Internet. The relevant information is published on the Duma website. The initiators of the bill were deputies from United Russia, including the head of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption Vasily Piskarev and former Crimean prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya.

In the Supreme Court of Belarus on July 9, representatives of the prosecution requested punishment for those involved in the “Vtyurin case,” reports Radio Liberty .

In the Kursk region, Danish national Dennis Christensen, convicted in the Jehovah's Witnesses case, was sent to a punishment cell after a court decision to release him from colony No. 5. This was reported on the website of the religious movement. On July 23, the court replaced his remaining sentence in the colony with a fine of 400 thousand rubles. Three days later, the believer was sent to a punishment cell, and on July 6 this punishment was extended for another five days.

Rosfinmonitoring included publicist Arkady Babchenko in the list of terrorists and extremists. Babchenko worked for Moskovsky Komsomolets as a war correspondent and collaborated with Novaya Gazeta and other publications. In 2017, he moved to Prague, fearing for his safety after a post about the crash of a Russian Ministry of Defense Tu-154 flying to Syria.