Muscovite Mikhail Baranov, who opposed the war in Ukraine, was doused with brilliant green near his house. about this . The man told OVD-Info According to Baranov, when he was approaching his car, an unknown person ran out from behind the bushes and splashed brilliant green in his face. In this regard, the anti-war activist filed a report with the police. In July, as wrote , the inscription “traitor” was left on Baranov’s door and a Z was drawn.

Air defense systems were activated in Kerch and Sevastopol. This was reported by the adviser to the head of Crimea Oleg Kryuchkov and the governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev . According to Vladimir Rogov, a member of the council of the Russian military-appointed administration of the Zaporozhye region, a Ukrainian drone was shot down “at a great distance from the Crimean Bridge.” Razvozhaev also spoke about a downed drone in the area of ​​the Belbek airfield near Sevastopol.

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent Artem Avakyan and Valeria Garipova to pre-trial detention center in the case of the theft of a lizard from the Leningrad Zoo. This was reported by the joint press service of the city courts. A criminal case was opened against the residents of St. Petersburg under the article of theft committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy with illegal entry into the premises (clauses “a” and “b” of part 2 of article 158 of the Criminal Code).

Photo: Andrii Marienko / Ap Rescuers continue to disassemble the blockages of residential buildings in Kharkov, where the hostels fell under the shelling of the “Iskanders” last night - it is already known about 17 dead civilians. The Russian Ministry of Defense called the attack on the city of the “destruction of militants” and warned of the preparatory “provocation” at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. "Cold" wrote about the general drunkenness among volunteers who come to the exercises.

The magistrate of the Airport district court district in Moscow fined the Delivery Club service 80 thousand rubles in the case of leaking data of couriers and clients (Part 1 of Article 13.11 of the Administrative Code). this with reference to the press service of the Savyolovsky District Court of the capital. reports RIA Novosti Roskomnadzor drew up an administrative protocol for the service at the end of July.

The police detained the 30-year-old chief information security specialist of the Altai regional hospital; he was suspected of mining bitcoins using the equipment of the Covid hospital. this with reference to the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Human rights activist and journalist Elena Shukaeva went on a hunger strike in a special detention center, reports OVD-Info. “This is a protest against the arbitrariness of the police, against the distortion of meanings and the judges’ indulgence of any police fantasies,” Shukaeva wrote in a statement to the head of the special detention center.

The family from Mariupol crosses the border in Narva, Estonia, June 16, 2022. Photo: AP In mid -August, volunteers openly spoke that the Estonian border guards at the Ivangorod -Narva crossing began to noticeably more often refuse refugees from Ukraine at the EU entrance. Most of all the volunteers were surprised that the refugees almost on the same day managed to get permission to enter another Estonian checkpoint or in neighboring Finland.

In St. Petersburg, a criminal case was opened for the illegal imprisonment of city defender Oleg Mukhin (Part 2 of Article 127 of the Criminal Code), who opposed the demolition of the outbuildings of a mansion built in 1845. This was reported by the Directorate of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg. Unknown people beat Mukhin on August 16, when he was filming the dismantling of the outbuildings of Saltykova’s mansion in the center of St. Petersburg.

The Latvian Ministry of Internal Affairs has developed amendments to the Immigration Law, according to which citizens of Russia and Belarus will be able to extend their temporary residence permit only in exceptional cases. this reports Delfi with reference to the ministry. If the amendments are approved, the issuance of repeated residence permits to citizens of Russia and Belarus may be suspended until June 30, 2023.

In Rostov-on-Don, police detained a young couple suspected of setting fire to a Toyota Corolla car with a Z sticker on the rear window belonging to another police officer. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Rostov region. According to investigators, a 24-year-old and a 22-year-old Rostovite spent several days watching a parking lot near one of the city’s police departments.

In the Kaluga region, FSB officers came to search the apartments of anti-fascists Andrei Polyakov and Artem Vostrov. This was reported by the Antifa.ru project with reference to sources familiar with the situation and OVD-Info . According to human rights activists, Vostrov is charged with justifying terrorism. In June, the investigator summoned the anti-fascist for questioning, after which he clarified that the man was a witness in the case. The search of Polyakov’s house was his second.

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined former postman and activist Pyotr Trofimov, who had not been to Russia for two years, because of the anti-war rally on February 27. This was reported by the human rights project “First Department”. Judge Lyubov Suvorova found Trofimov guilty under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (organizing or holding a public event without filing a notification).

The garrison military court of Rostov-on-Don arrested for two months a serviceman from Ruza, Moscow region, who was detained on suspicion of murdering a taxi driver on Beregovaya Street, the told Kommersant Yug and 161.RU.

Firefighters on the site of the destroyed hostel in Kharkov, August 17, 2022. Photo: Sergey Bobok / AFP On August 17, Russia inflicted several missile strikes on Kharkov, the second in the population of the city of Ukraine. The missiles fell into hostel buildings, local authorities talk about ten dead and several dozen wounded.