The Norwegian Police Security Service detained on August 15 in Oslo a person from the country for transmitting information to a foreign state that could harm the security of the country. This was reported on the service's Twitter. He was detained during a meeting in a restaurant with a Russian intelligence officer, clarifies newspaper the Aftenposten , citing a statement by the service's press secretary, Line Nigaard.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow fined Open Russia coordinator Tatyana Usmanova 30 thousand rubles for a tweet about a solidarity rally at the Belarusian Embassy. This was reported in the movement’s Telegram channel. Yesterday afternoon, Usmanova was stopped on Leningradsky Prospekt by officers of the 2nd operational police regiment. Without allowing her to park her car, she was taken in a paddy wagon to the Basmanny District police station, where she was left overnight.

The Moscow City Court dismissed the case of the author of the telegram channel “Protest MSU” Dmitry Ivanov, who was sentenced to 10 days of arrest for a single picket. He was released in the courtroom, his public defender Irina Yatsenko said on Facebook. The decision to arrest was made on August 13, when he was already serving 13 days of arrest in a special detention center, assigned due to the March action against political repression.

The magistrate of court district No. 359 of the Basmanny district of Moscow, Yunona Tsareva, fined Novaya Gazeta 200 thousand rubles and its editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov 60 thousand rubles because of a text about coronavirus infections in the military unit of the Northern Fleet in the closed city of Zaozersk. This was reported by MBKh Media.

The complaint about the new detention of Moscow region blogger Yan Katelevsky will be considered by the judge of the Ramensky City Court Olga Golysheva, the blogger’s lawyer Olga Balabanova told Mediazona. Earlier today, the Lyubertsy City Court decided to release Katelevsky from custody in the case of damage to property (Article 167 of the Criminal Code) and place him under house arrest, but almost immediately after this, security forces detained him in the courthouse.

In the Bashkir city of Ishimbay, a rally is held with a demand to dismiss the head of the Azamat Abdrakhmanov district after clashes between Shihan Kushtau defenders with Chop employees and security officials. This is reported by Proufu , video promotions are also published by eco -activists. The audience claims that yesterday, a person who looked like Abdrakhmanov led the actions of the guards and riot police against the defenders of Shihan and himself pushed the activists.

The Ishimbay City Court of Bashkortostan ordered administrative arrests to 34 defenders of the Kushtau Shikhan, detained on August 15 during the dispersal of their camp. This was reported by Apology of Protest. In total, during the clashes that day, more than 70 people were detained , several dozen of them were kept in the district department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs until trial.

The court of the Vidzeme suburb of Riga sentenced retired Colonel-Lieutenant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Latvia, 63-year-old Oleg Burak, to 15 years in prison in the case of espionage for Russia. this to TASS . reported His lawyer Imma Jansone The former head of the firearms registration department of the Information Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who retired in 2006 due to length of service, was detained and arrested in October 2018.

The Supreme Court granted the request of the Prosecutor General's Office to recognize AUE as an extremist organization. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. Now AUE is prohibited in Russia. The meeting was held behind closed doors. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, we are talking about a “youth movement of extremist orientation” AUE - “Prisoner Criminal Unity”.

Judge Victoria Kopsergenova of the Lyubertsy City Court placed video blogger Yan Katelevsky under house arrest until August 21. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. Previously, the same court arrested Katelevsky in a case of intentional destruction or damage to property (Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code). The higher authority saw a conflict of interest and sent the materials for new consideration.

On August 16, officers of the FSB department for Dagestan detained five teenagers in Khasavyurt on suspicion of preparing attacks on security forces in Makhachkala, Khasavyurt and Derbent. The department's press service reported this to TASS. According to Kommersant 's source in law enforcement agencies, 15-16 years old from the village of Tarki in the suburbs of Makhachkala went on a hike to Khasavyurt on August 12 to earn money. They had a tent, an ax and three knives with them.

The head of Bashkortostan, Radiy Khabirov, announced “criminal proceedings” due to clashes between defenders of the Kushtau Shikhan with private security company employees and the police. The broadcast of the meeting of the government of the republic was published on its YouTube channel. “The clashes [near Kushtau] resulted in injuries to both people and internal affairs officers. This is definitely unacceptable.

Transport trucks of the National Guard without numbers and identification marks with personnel inside move along the Russian E95 and M1 routes towards the border with Belarus. It is reported by Conflict Intelligence Team . Initially, a video with unidentified equipment-Ural and KamAZ trucks- published a Paris Burns telegram channel. Then, similar photos were sent by Medusa one of the readers.

Activists opposing the development of Mount Kuzhtau, August 15, 2020. Photo: Vadim Bryadov / TASS For almost two weeks, fierce protests against the development of Shikhan Kustau continued for almost two weeks. According to human rights activists and lawyers, about 80 people were detained, some of them have already been arrested.