Maxim Grigoryev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Ilya Yashin leaves the Shcherbinsky District Court after receiving jail time there. Moscow, July 29, 2019 On July 29, a group of district courts in Moscow issued jail sentences to Ilya Yashin, Konstantin Jankauskas, and Alexander Solovyov, all of whom have attempted to register as candidates for the Moscow City Duma and been rejected for what they say are political reasons.

The Moscow State Real Estate Inspectorate has declared the construction of the summer veranda of the Soho Rooms club in Bolshoi Savvinsky Lane illegal, RBC writes. The basis for the decision was that the structure “does not correspond to the approved architectural and artistic solution.” It is also reported that a summer cafe cannot contain structures made of durable materials. It has not yet been decided whether the veranda will be demolished, writes RBC.

Following the unauthorized protest in Moscow on July 27, “at least a dozen” criminal cases may be opened, the publication “Proekt” reports, citing sources close to the Moscow mayor’s office, law enforcement agencies, and the Russian presidential administration. As follows from the publication, the speech concerns possible cases of violence against government officials. Proekt does not specify what the sources are based on and whether the investigative bodies have materials for these ten cases.

Maxim Shemetov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The story, according to the police and Russia’s pro-Kremlin media The press office for Moscow’s Interior Ministry announced that 3,500 protesters attended the city’s unauthorized demonstration on July 27. Officials say 700 of these people were in fact journalists and bloggers.

As of July 29, forest fires have occupied more than seven million acres in Siberia and Russia’s Far East. A national environmental policy implemented in 2015 has pushed firefighters to let many of the fires burn completely untouched. Meanwhile, smoke has stretched across much of Russia’s enormous landmass, from the Pacific coast to the Volga River region. For more than a week, Russian Instagram users have been posting photos and videos of the results.

Moscow courts arrested on July 29 at least 40 people detained at the July 27 protest, OVD-Info reports. The full list of solutions can be found here . The project notes that the data is preliminary, since the trials, as of 22:30 Moscow time, are still ongoing. 79 people were sentenced to fines totaling 1 million 339 thousand rubles. One case was dismissed.

Former deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Oleg Korshunov was sentenced to seven years in a general regime colony and a fine of 900 thousand rubles in a case of fraud involving 263 million rubles.

In Moscow, a court arrested for 15 days the director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, an unregistered candidate for the Moscow City Duma, Ivan Zhdanov, who was detained at a protest on July 27. According to MBKh-Media, he was found guilty of participating in an action that resulted in obstruction of traffic. Update. Politician, host of the Navalny Live channel Vladimir Milov, who was also going to participate in the elections to the Moscow City Duma, was arrested for 30 days.

Politician Alexei Navalny has told how he developed an allergic reaction while in custody, which led to his hospitalization . The text he wrote in the detention center has been published on his website. Navalny said he began to feel symptoms on the fourth day of his arrest, July 27.

How REN TV Explained the Moscow Protests. A Brief Summary The candidates for the Moscow City Duma themselves did not come to the action - they waited out the danger in police stations, since they had all been detained in advance. Instead of themselves, they sent those who believed them to the barricades. There were special ringleaders on the streets, they were the ones who led people to where the clashes with the riot police began.

In Moscow, a court fined Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina 150,000 rubles, finding her guilty of repeated violation of the rules of the rally. Alyokhina was detained on July 27 for demonstrations for free elections. Together with her, her young man, activist Dmitry Enteo, was detained; they were both held in custody pending trial. Enteo was fined 15 thousand rubles. Alyokhina was charged with taking part in a rally near the Trubnaya metro station and shouting slogans.

Almost three million hectares of forests are burning in Siberia and the Far East. The main outbreaks are in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Irkutsk Region and Yakutia, most of them are not extinguished, referring to the fact that it is not economically feasible. The smoke from the fires covered Western Siberia, the Urals and reached the Volga region. Residents of these regions have been posting photos and videos of smoky cities for more than a week.

Maxim Grigoryev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Ilya Yashin after a decision on an arrest in the Shcherbinsky District Court on July 29 On July 29, Moscow district courts were arrested by Ilya Yashin, Konstantin Yankauskas and Alexander Solovyov; The arrest also threatens Dmitry Gudkov and several other unregistered candidates for the Moscow City Duma, who were detained due to the mass protesting campaign on July 27.

Maxim Shemetov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta What does the Ministry of Internal Affairs say and what Prochrevsky media pick up The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow stated that on July 27, 2019, 3,500 people came to the protest, of which 700 were journalists and bloggers.

The head of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Fedotov, said that the Moscow Mayor's Office agreed to hold a rally on Sakharov Avenue on August 3 against the exclusion of candidates to the Moscow City Duma from the elections. Fedotov explained that the Libertarian Party applied last week. “The Moscow Mayor's Office informed me that such approval had been received,” he said.