In the punishment cell of Moscow's SIZO-4 "Medved", 52-year-old businessman Igor Kotelnikov, from whom FSB officers demanded to testify against former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, died. The telegram channel "VChK-OGPU" was the first to report this, citing its sources. Information about Kotelnikov's death was confirmed by Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC). According to the human rights activist, Kotelnikov died on Monday, July 8.

Five people were killed in Donetsk Oblast by Russian shelling in one day. This was reported by the head of the region, Vadim Filashkin, on his Telegram channel. According to him, three people were killed in Mirnohrad , and two more in Konstantinovka . In addition, as Filashkin writes, Russian aviation dropped a bomb in the area of ​​the city of Liman, four people were injured there.

An information security specialist under the pseudonym ValdikSS confirmed that the slowdown of YouTube in Russia is due to deliberate actions by the authorities, and not to equipment wear and tear or a technical error, as Rostelecom claimed. As the expert writes on the technical forum ntc.party , providers are deliberately slowing down YouTube on the *.googlevideo.com domain.

The Memorial Human Rights Center reported that after an attempted escape from Pretrial Detention Center No. 1 in Rostov-on-Don, during which prisoners took FSIN officers hostage, at least four Muslim prisoners were taken out of the detention center. Human rights activists fear that they may be tortured to force them to confess that they were accomplices of the captors. Three of them are Chechens, one is a Dagestani, they were transported to Pretrial Detention Center No.

The High Court in Podgorica has acquitted the defendants in the case of preparing a coup d'etat during the parliamentary elections in October 2016, Vijesti reports . The attempted coup became known after the elections in November 2016, when the Montenegrin prosecutor's office announced that a group of "nationalists from Russia" was preparing an assassination attempt on the life of Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic.

The Ministry of Justice has included the German NGO MitOst eV and The John Smith Trust from Great Britain in the register of "undesirable" organizations. This follows from an update to the Ministry of Justice register, which was brought to the attention of the OVD-Info project. The decisions to recognize these organizations as “undesirable” were made by the Prosecutor General’s Office on June 20 and 26, respectively.

Ivan Filippov. Photo: Personal page on Instagram The Prosecutor General’s Office demanded that Ivan Filippov’s novel “Mouse”, whose action takes place in Moscow during a zombie apocalypse, was removed from the sale. In the book, among others, Patriarch Kirill and propagandist Margarita Simonyan are mentioned.

The Ministry of Justice declared activist Darya Bogdanova and the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel "foreign agents". The list also included former municipal deputy from St. Petersburg and feminist Anna Karulicheva. The project "Russian Crime"/"VChK-OGPU", according to the department, formed "a negative image of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation", criticized the policy of the Russian authorities and distributed materials of "foreign agents".

The Krasnoyarsk Regional Court, despite the prosecutor's office's petition, did not mitigate the sentence of local resident Alexander Borodin, who fought in Ukraine and was sentenced in March to 9 years in prison for the murder of his ex-wife. He was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm resulting in the death of the victim (Part 4 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code). The decision was found on the court's website by Verstka.

The Maykop City Court of the Republic of Adygea has sent the defendant in the case of preparing a terrorist attack on an Orthodox church to a pretrial detention facility until September 10. This was reported to TASS by the united press service of the regional courts. The day before, the FSB reported on the prevention of an attack on a church in Adygea.

A Sukhoi Superjet 100NEW-95 plane crashed near Kolomna in the Moscow region, SHOT and RIA Novosti report. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, three crew members were killed, and there were no other casualties. According to SHOT, the plane took off for testing from the Zhukovsky airfield. Kolomna Mayor Alexander Grechishchev writes in a Telegram channel that there were two pilots and a navigator on board.

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow fined local resident Vladimir Safonov 1,000 rubles for throwing a girl out of a train car, mistaking her for a man because of her short hair. This was reported by the joint press service of city courts. Safonov chased the girl through the entire carriage and called her "a disgrace to the Russian people." He was found guilty under the protocol on petty hooliganism (part 1 of article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

During the debate in the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow, the state prosecution requested 8.5 years in prison for Yelena Kotenochkina, a municipal deputy of the Krasnoselsky District who left Russia. This was reported by OVD-Info, citing lawyer Tatyana Solomina. Kotenochkina is accused in absentia of distributing military “fakes” motivated by political hatred (clause “d” of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

The Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Vladimir Mironov, a postgraduate student at Alferov University, to 4 years in a general regime penal colony. In February 2023, he broke the windows of the Vyborg District military registration and enlistment office and wrote anti-war graffiti on its walls.

Illustration: Maria Tolstova / Mediazone More and more citizens of Russia are behind bars due to disagreement with the authorities who unleashed the war against Ukraine. The expense of political prisoners is hundreds - even if their names are known, human rights defenders are increasingly difficult to keep track of the fate of everyone. "Mediazone" is trying to regularly remind of these people.