Photo: Mediazona The Sandarmokh forest in Karelia, one of Russia’s Northern regions, is the place of one of the largest mass graves of the victims of Stalin’s Great Purge. Since historians uncovered the site in the late 1990s, the remains of more than 6,000 people executed by the NKVD in 1937–1939 have been found here. On August 5, the International Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression, a memorial is held annually in Sandarmokh.

The judge of the world judicial section No. 374 of the Tagansky district of Moscow Alexander Mikhalev fined 600 thousand rubles of Ivan Kvast, who is called the project manager of the Mangalib LLC, a legal entity of the Mangalib manga online bastard. Attention to the decision of the judge was drawn by the Mediazon. Mikhaleva appointed Kvasta of 200 thousand rubles a fine for each of the three protocols about the “propaganda of LGBT”, which amounted to it on June 24 and 27.

The Sevastopol City Court in the annexed Crimea sentenced 42-year-old Victoria Strilet and her 24-year-old daughter Alexander, accused of state treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), to 12 years old. This was reported by the prosecutor's office of the city. According to the security forces, Alexander Strilet for the remuneration “decided to conduct confidential cooperation” with representatives of Ukraine “against the security” of Russia and attracted the mother to this.

Art: Maria Tolstova / Mediazona A nationwide crackdown in Russia is targeting ordinary citizens, with at least 76 criminal cases launched across 38 regions for donating to Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF, known as FBK in Russian).

The authorities of the Kaluga region did not agree on the holding of the Signal festival at the Nikola-Lenivts art park. This was announced by TASS by the head of the information policy department of the administration of the regional governor Ilya Zenov. The abolition of the festival in a conversation with the “rise” was also confirmed by the governor Vladislav Shapsha himself.

Two residents of St. Petersburg were faced with a refusal to pass the subway, since they had discharged electronic equipment with them. This was reported by Fontanka. One of the passengers tried to enter the Veterans Avenue station with a computer monitor, which he was driving to his wife, but security officers asked him to connect the device and show his work.

Photo: Mediazone In the forest tract of Sandarmokh near Medvezhyegorsk in Karelia, one of the most massive burials of the victims of a large terror-since the late 1990s, when historians became aware of this place, more than 6 thousand people have found the remains of the NKVD in 1937-1939. On August 5, on the International In memory of the repressed, a memorial action takes place in Sandarmokh annually. This year, she collected, according to Mediazons, up to a hundred participants.

The Leninsky District Court of Omsk received administrative materials about the participation in the activities of an “unwanted” organization (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) against the founder of the opposition telegram channels of Stopwarcrime and Putin's Gulag Dmitry the Great, Mediazona noticed . What exactly was charged with a blogger is unknown. The meeting on his protocol is scheduled for August 28.

In the Perm Territory, the Kudymkarsky city court sentenced a 70-year-old resident of the Yusvinsky district on July 28 by 250 hours of compulsory work in the criminal case on the financing of an “unwanted” organization (part 2 of article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the court.

Against the former coordinator of the movement of conscious refuser (DSO) Elena Popova, to whom they came with a search, initiated a criminal case on the spread of military "fakes" (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by "Paper" and the source of "Mediazone". Human rights activists from the First Department clarify that the case against Popova was opened on July 2, 2025.

The former head of the radio engineering service of the first-ranking of the first rank Oleg Lopatiev was sentenced to 9 years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 16.5 million rubles in the case of receiving bribes on an especially large scale (part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code), the press service of the military investigative bodies of Russia said .

In Abakan, the man was detained due to a false bell about mining. In the video published by the Khakassia Ministry of Internal Affairs, the man explained his actions by turning off the Internet.

In the Tula region, against two 17-year-old adolescents, a criminal case of sabotage was opened as part of an organized group (part 2 of Article 281 of the Criminal Code), they were sent to a pre-trial detention center. This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, on July 24, 2025, they set fire to a relay cabinet on the railway near the station of Aleksin.

Goryachklyuchevsky City Court of the Kuban fined 30 thousand rubles to the passenger of the train under the article on the "discredit" of the army. Attention to the publication of the decision was drawn by the publication “Caution, News”.

The British organization Zimin Foundation was included in the list of "undesirable" organizations in Russia. This was reported by the Prosecutor General. The agency accused the Fund of “financial and informational assistance to persons and organizations involved in extremist activity and terrorism, foreign agents”, as well as “anti -Russian rhetoric” during the war with Ukraine.