In St. Petersburg, three participants in single pickets were detained in defense of the media, the OVD-info reports with reference to themselves. The police detained the administrator of the Avtozak Live telegram channel Ekaterina Goncharova, the editor of DOXA magazine Viktor Ershova and Anastasia Karpin. Ershov stood with a poster "I need freedom of speech, not torture and dictatorship." Doxa published a video of his detention. Victor Ershov. Photo: doxa

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of “ecocide” (Article 358 of the Criminal Code) due to the construction of a dam in 2014 in the Kherson region, which blocked the flow of water from the Dnieper to Crimea. This is reported on the department's website. As the release states, in 2014, “those opposed to the reunification of Crimea with Russia” decided to “cause damage to the economic, social and environmental situation” on the peninsula by blocking the North Crimean Canal.

The police drew up a report against Astrakhan journalist Fyodor Alekseev under the article about working for a foreign publication without accreditation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Part 1 of Article 19.20 of the Administrative Code). Alekseev himself told Mediazona about this. With “he collaborated under the pseudonym Todar Baktemir. This afternoon the police came to the journalist’s home , took him to the department and drew up a report.

President Vladimir Putin proposed a one-time payment of 15 thousand rubles to military school cadets and security forces. this He said during a speech at the United Russia party congress, broadcast by the Rossiya 24 TV channel. “Let everyone receive this payment in the same amount. Regardless of the number of stars on the shoulder straps. Well, excuse me, everyone should be equal in this case, like in a bathhouse,” he emphasized.

The Ministry of Justice reports that the Dozhd TV channel was included in the register of “foreign agents” due to receiving 130 thousand euros from the European Union and “distributing and quoting” materials from other publications - “foreign agents.” “For the period from July 2020 to July 2021, Roskomnadzor identified facts of dissemination and quoting in the online publication tvrain.ru and the Dozhd TV channel (founder of TV Dozhd LLC) materials of foreign media outlets performing the

President Vladimir Putin fired the Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Lieutenant General Rostislav Rassokhov. His decree was published on the portal of regulatory acts. Rassokhov took office in May 2020, replacing Igor Krasnov, who became Prosecutor General.

The authorities blocked the section from 318 to 326 km of the Perm-Ekaterinburg federal highway due to a forest fire, reports E1.ru citing the traffic police press service. “Motorists planning trips in this direction should plan their route in advance, taking into account detours, or refrain from traveling altogether,” the department added. By seven in the evening it became known that traffic on the highway had been resumed, reported . TASS Updated at 7:13 p.m.

Illustration: Kostya Volkov / Mediazone At a carefully protected airfield for special britutes - an emergency: from a unique aircraft in which the air command in the event of a nuclear war is equipped, secret equipment was stolen.

On August 12, the Kirovsky District Court imposed a two-year suspended sentence on the former head of police department No. 3 of Ufa, Vadim Fattakhov, who broke the jaw of a subordinate. This was reported by the local publication “Proof” with reference to the press service of the court. According to investigators , on March 11, a police officer punched a subordinate operative in the face and broke his jaw. This happened at the police department.

The FSB is conducting an investigation into Khabarovsk graffiti artist Maxim Smolnikov, known under the pseudonym Xadad , because of a song about police officers on his VKontakte page. This was reported in the telegram channel dedicated to his case. The investigation due to the PolitZek group's cover of "" is being carried out under the article on calls for extremism (Article 280 of the Criminal Code). The song, according to the investigator, was posted on the artist’s page in 2016.

In Northern Cyprus, the criminal court of the city of Kyrenia sentenced former Altai investigator Alexander Satlaev to 12 years in prison for the rape of a minor girl. This was reported in April by local publications Kibris Postasi , Yeniduzen and Haber Kibris ; attention to the publication . drew News of Gorny Altai Satlaev, who was the son of the chairman of the court near Gorno-Altaisk, worked as an investigator of the Investigative Committee.

The Armavir City Court of the Krasnodar Territory fined local activist Sergei Solomakhin 2.5 thousand rubles for purchasing leaflets about politician Alexei Navalny. the publication of the decision on August 17 were The first people to notice . The man was found guilty of purchasing symbols of extremist organizations for sale (Part 2 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). According to the decision, on August 11, police stopped Solomakhin with a pack of thousands of leaflets.

The Ministry of Justice added the public organization “Fourth Sector,” which unites freelance journalists, to the register of “foreign agents” due to criticism of the security forces and “propaganda of ideas of a loyal attitude” towards LGBT people. this on Facebook .