The Kordai District Court of Kazakhstan's Zhambyl Region has released Kyrgyz citizen Alina Gorshenina, who is wanted in Russia in a criminal case on threats or violence in connection with the administration of justice (Article 296 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Network Freedoms project. The girl was detained on the border of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan on June 1, 2024. Her arrest became known nine days later.

The Russian military in the border area of ​​the Kursk region, August 15, 2024. Photo: press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation / AP / TASS The Kursk region, like other "secondary" directions on the Russian-Ukrainian border, protect the units equipped with conscripts. When the invasion of the Armed Forces began, the draftees were on the front line. Many of them were captured or were listed as missing.

The authorities of the Belgorod Region are completely closing entry to six settlements in the Grayvoronsky and Valuysky Districts, as well as in the Krasnoyarsk District, from August 19. This was reported by Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. The villages in question are Novostroevka-Vtoraya, Novopetrovka, and also the settlements of Sovkhozny, Dobropolye and Kazachok. Gladkov reported that the residents of these settlements will be "relocated" and helped to remove their property.

The Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg has changed the measure of restraint for the last arrested defendant in the case of the photo shoot at the Bolsheokhtinskoye Cemetery. This was reported by the project "Network Freedoms". Photographer Sergei Yevstyukhin was transferred from a pretrial detention center to house arrest.

The PayPal payment system has blocked the account of Kira Yarmysh, Yulia Navalnaya's press secretary. She herself reported this on her Twitter. “It hasn’t even been three hours since Putin’s government declared me a terrorist, when PayPal rushed to execute and block my account,” Yarmysh wrote on the social network.

Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree pardoning 30 political prisoners, the Telegram channel "Pool of the First" reported . According to the channel, among those pardoned are 14 women and 16 men, including pensioners. Some have serious illnesses.

The Rubtsovsk City Court of the Altai Territory sentenced former prisoner Danil Orlov, who returned from the war in Ukraine, to six years in prison in the case of the attempted murder of an FSIN officer. Verstka drew attention to the sentence . According to the verdict, Orlov invited the penal colony employee to his home. He agreed to come because he wanted to talk to the prisoner who "took part in the SVO." Orlov's testimony indicated that they had "good relations" in the colony.

The Ministry of Justice has declared the anonymous Telegram channels Brief, Brief Important, and Nezygar to be “foreign agents,” according to the agency’s updated list. Among the participants of the Brief channel are journalists Vladimir Dergachev, Ekaterina Vinokurova and Dmitry Kovalenko, and of Nezygar - only Kovalenko.

The Zyuzinsky District Court of Moscow has sent Yevgeny Smirnov to pretrial detention for two months in the case of the arson of a Rosgvardia vehicle. This was reported by the joint press service of the capital's courts. Smirnov is charged with attempted murder of law enforcement officers (Article 317 of the Criminal Code), which carries a life sentence. According to the press service of the Moscow courts, there were National Guard officers in the car at the time of the arson.

A farewell ceremony for pianist Pavel Kushnir, who died in the Birobidzhan pretrial detention center after a dry hunger strike, was held in Tambov. The musician's ashes were brought home from the Far East, reports Tverdy Znak Tambov. Judging by the video from the ceremony, several dozen people came to say goodbye to Kushnir. "He felt the tragedy of existence very deeply and acutely. And the tragedy of our time is to blame for the tragedy in which our country and other countries found themselves.

The Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists” includes Alexei Navalny’s lawyers and employees of his Anti-Corruption Foundation. Among those included in the list: head of the international FBK Maria Pevchikh, Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh, host of the YouTube channel "Popular Politics" Dmitry Nizovtsev, producer of the channel "Navalny LIVE" Nina Volokhonskaya. Navalny's lawyers Olga Mikhailova and Alexander Fedolov were also added to the list.

The head of the self-proclaimed DPR Denis Pushilin reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a strike on the Galaktika shopping center in Donetsk. According to Pushilin, a fire has started in the shopping center. The area of ​​the fire is 10 thousand square meters. "The firefighting is complicated by the operational situation, which is forcing the employees of the Russian Emergencies Ministry to move to a safe distance," Pushilin added.

The Central District Court of Kemerovo sentenced the authors of the YouTube channel "Don't Be Inert" Maksim Lavrentyev and Sergey Kamensky to up to nine years in a general regime penal colony, as reported by "Network Freedoms". Lavrentyev received nine years of imprisonment. The court sentenced Kamensky to five years in a general regime colony; he was taken into custody in the courtroom. The third defendant in the case, Anatoly Sadovin, was given a suspended sentence of three years.

Ukrainian military in the Sumy region, Ukraine, August 10, 2024. Photo: Viacheslav Ratynskyi / Reuters “It’s not that I saw a lot of terrible,” says Gene with the call sign Wikipedia, a gray-haired 47-year-old man convicted in 2021 for murder and armed robbery. - Just Russian without the upper half. There is a lower half, but there is no upper. Nothing special". The Armed Forces of the Armed Forces in the Kursk region became the first operation in which the prisoners openly participate.

Moscow City Court Judge Elena Guchenkova sentenced Podolsk resident Mikhail Rylov to 6.5 years in prison for preparing to commit treason (Part 1 of Article 30, Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent. In addition, the court imposed a fine of 400 thousand rubles. It is unknown what caused the case to be opened; trials under articles on treason are held behind closed doors. "Thank you very much, Your Honor.