1,373 people were detained at a rally for free elections in Moscow on July 27, reports the OVD-Info project data as of 05:00. The project calls this a record number for at least "the last seven years." At least 152 people stayed overnight in the OVD. The Ministry of Internal Affairs previously reported the detention of 1,074 people.

The editor-in-chief of Dozhd, Alexandra Perepelova, left the interrogation at the Investigative Committee. This was reported live on the TV channel . According to Perepelova, the interrogation concerned Dozhd's coverage of protests in Moscow in July 2019. “They asked how we covered the rally, what we did, how we got information about the rally, how we learned about it.

On July 27, in Moscow, several thousand people entered an unauthorized action for free elections, which was appointed at the Moscow City Hall due to the failure of the election of the election of executive candidates for the Moscow City Duma. The police immediately began the detention with the use of force: several hundred people ended up in auto -zaks in the vicinity of Tverskaya Street, after which the protesters with different routes reached Trubnaya Square, where the detentions continued.

At least 938 people were detained in Moscow during a rally for free elections, OVD-Info reports data as of 21:00. Previously, the project reported 835 detainees. Around 21:30, the police reported that 1,074 people had been detained in Moscow. The action, which was not coordinated with the city authorities, was organized as a meeting of unregistered candidates for deputies of the Moscow City Duma with voters near the Moscow City Hall. Most of them were detained by the beginning of the action.

Municipal deputy Ilya Yashin said that the next action demanding the registration of independent candidates to the Moscow City Duma will take place on August 3, before the Central Election Commission considers complaints from unregistered candidates. Update. Approximately 40 minutes after this statement, Yashin announced that he had been detained in the area of ​​Trubnaya Square. Since July 14, independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma have been holding mass actions for free elections.

The Dozhd TV channel reported that a DDoS attack had been made on its server. “The Internet works intermittently in the editorial office, the website and broadcast may be unavailable,” the message says. Because of the attack, after 20:00 Moscow time, the live broadcast of Dozhd on the website and in social networks worked intermittently. Dozhd say they are working on troubleshooting. Dozhd covers a rally for free elections all day long on July 27, which is taking place in the center of Moscow.

Citizens were beaten with batons, the police came in the "Rain" and "Naval Live" studio Evgeny Feldman for "Medusa" Update. According to the OVD-Info at 05:00 on July 28, 1373 people were detained. On July 27, thousands of people again went out into the street with a demand to allow the opposition to the elections to the Moscow City Duma. Mass street protests have been continuing in the capital since July 14.

The police began arresting people who had gathered on Trubnaya Square for a rally for free elections in Moscow. Riot police began dispersing the protest when Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), an independent candidate in the Moscow City Duma elections, spoke to the protesters. Among those detained are Zhdanov, FBK lawyer Lyubov Sobol, independent candidates for Moscow City Duma Yulia Galyamina and Elena Rusakova.

Several thousand people on July 27 entered a protest campaign in the center of Moscow with a demand to allow independent candidates to the elections to the Moscow City Duma. The action was not agreed upon by the city authorities, the police began the detentions before it began. According to the latest data, more than 600 people were detained in total. Police used batons and stun gunners.

Evgeny Feldman for "Medusa" participants in the action for free elections in Moscow blocked the garden ring. Protesters require the admission of independent candidates for elections to the Moscow City Duma.

Municipal deputy Ilya Yashin, who was detained on the night of July 27, was released. The court in Troitsk, which received the materials of the Yashin case on violation of the procedure for holding rallies, postponed the consideration of the case. “The referee behaved strangely. At first he denied all my applications. Refused to question witnesses. He did not let the audience and the press in, essentially closing the meeting.

FBK lawyer, independent candidate for the Moscow City Duma Lyubov Sobol was fined 30,000 rubles under an administrative article on violating the procedure for holding rallies. The reason was a tweet in which Sobol wrote that on July 14 she would hold a meeting with voters in Novopushkinsky Square. The participants of this meeting then went to the Moscow City Electoral Committee. The police dispersed them, detaining about 40 people.

A monologue of a priest from a temple in the center of Moscow, where the protesters hid from the Russian Guard and the police Julia Zakharova Hieromonk John and protesters, replaced by security forces, in the temple. July 27, 2019 From two o’clock in the afternoon on July 27, a mass protest rally takes place in the center of Moscow, the participants of which require the admission of independent candidates for elections to the Moscow City Duma.

Novaya Gazeta journalist and municipal deputy Ilya Azar was detained at a rally in the center of Moscow. In total, according to the latest data from OVD-Info, 638 people were detained. Protesters in Moscow demand the admission of independent candidates to the Moscow City Duma elections. Street performances continue from July 14. Because of them, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case under the article on obstructing the work of election commissions.

Police officers came to the studio of the Dozhd TV channel, which tells live about the action for free elections in Moscow. The editor-in-chief of Dozhd, Alexandra Perepelova, was given a summons for questioning as a witness in a criminal case initiated by the Investigative Committee under Article 141 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - obstruction of the work of election commissions. The case was initiated in connection with mass actions for free elections.