Investigators charged Sergey Abanichev in the case of mass riots on July 27. Agora head Pavel Chikov writes that investigators believe that Abanichev threw a jar at a police officer. “He didn’t do anything at all, he just threw out a paper cup from under Coca-Cola without looking, he didn’t aim at anyone,” Abanichev’s lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina told MBKh Media.

On the ground at Moscow’s August 3 march for fair elections On August 3, the latest in a series of protests for fair elections took place in Moscow, with protesters demanding that opposition candidates be freed from jail and permitted to run for Moscow City Duma seats. The demonstration’s organizers called on Moscow residents to march en masse along the city’s Boulevard Ring.

Updated . The shooting killed 20 people and injured 26, said . Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen In the city of El Paso (Texas), they opened fire at a Walmart shopping center. At least 22 people were injured, there are at least a few dead. CNN reports, citing the city's mayor, that police have detained three suspects. The police said , in turn, that one person was detained, and information about several suspects was not confirmed.

Update. Sobol's interrogation is over . She is still in witness status. FBK lawyer, unregistered candidate for the Moscow City Duma Lyubov Sobol was taken for interrogation to the Investigative Committee in the case of mass riots, which was initiated after the rally on July 27 in Moscow. Sobol will be interrogated as a witness in the investigation department of the Investigative Committee for the Troitsky and Novomoskovsk administrative districts.

How Moscow police violently arrested hundreds of protesters and bystanders on August 3 Meduza How Moscow police violently arrested hundreds of protesters and bystanders on August 3 Warning: The video above contains violent imagery that could upset sensitive viewers. On August 3, demonstrators in Moscow protested for the fourth straight weekend, protesting against election officials' refusal to register dozens of independent candidates for the September City Duma race.

Judge of the Shcherbinsky District Court of Moscow Darya Salnikova fined FBK lawyer Lyubov Sobol 300 thousand rubles for repeated violation of the rules for holding a rally. As Ivan Sustin, a lawyer for the Apologia Protesta, told Mediazona, a protocol was drawn up against Sobol for the July 15 action on Trubnaya Square. Moreover, Sobol's protocol repeats the protocols against Alexei Navalny's Moscow headquarters coordinator Oleg Stepanov and libertarian Mikhail Svetov.

Updated . at the police station overnight . were left At least 19 people Police detained 828 protesters for free elections in Moscow. It is reported by "OVD-Info". MBKh Media reports that some detainees are required to hand over their phones and give their passwords. “I can say for sure about the Department of Printers <...> In this department, everyone is subjected to such a procedure.

Subscribe to our YouTube on August 3 in Moscow a promotion was held for free elections. The city authorities did not agree on the event, and the action took place in the format of a walk along the Boulevard Ring. The Ministry of Internal Affairs estimated the number of participants at 1.5 thousand people, 600 of whom were detained.

Investigators of the Investigative Committee detained Daniil Konov on suspicion of riots. Konov at that moment was in the building of the Investigative Committee on Novokuznetskaya Street, lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina went to see him, said the head of Agora, Pavel Chikov. to Konov On the morning of August 3 , they came with a search. Prior to that, a district police officer came to “get acquainted” with him.

On August 3, an inconsistent campaign was held in Moscow with a request to allow independent candidates to the Mosgorduma elections. The organizers called on supporters to go to the Boulevard Ring and arrange a mass walk along it. Most of the participants gathered in Trubnaya and Pushkinskaya squares, where they began to harshly and massively detain the police and the Russian Guard. In total, nearly 700 people got into the autozaki.

On the day of the protests in Moscow on August 3, the International Society "Memorial" organized a stand at the "Afisha Picnic" called "One day in the life according to the magazine "Zuboskal" . At some point, a counter of arrests at the protest action was displayed on the stand.

Evgeny Feldman Alexey Navalny in the office of the FBK, February 2017 The Corruption Foundation is suspected of laundering "order of a billion rubles" The Investigative Committee of Russia describes the crime of the FBK so. Within three years-from the beginning of 2016 to the end of 2018-employees of the FBC and “persons related to his activities” received cash from someone. Moreover, the suspects knew that it was cash, which someone earned illegally.

Group "Leg brought down!" refused to perform at the Mayor’s Office-organized Shashlik Live festival in Gorky Park on the day of mass protests in Moscow. The leader of the band Max Pokrovsky wrote about this on Instagram. He did this in the caption to the photo of the inscription “#allow” – a reference to the requirement to allow independent candidates for elections to the Moscow City Duma.

Update. The press service of the Russian Guard said that the fighter was hospitalized with a hand injury, without specifying the nature of the injury. At a rally in Moscow, a member of the special forces of the Russian Guard suffered a dislocation of his arm while detaining a protester, TASS reports, citing an unnamed source in emergency services.

Updated . A protocol has been drawn up against Yankauskas for organizing or holding a public event without filing a notice . He is accused of calling for an action on July 14 on Pushkinskaya Square. The politician will remain in police custody until Monday, his wife Olga Gorelik said . Unregistered candidate for the Moscow City Duma Konstantin Yankauskas was detained immediately after leaving the special detention center where he was serving an administrative arrest.