The Moscow City Court has rejected the claim of municipal deputy Yulia Galyamina against the district election commission, which refused to register her for the Moscow City Duma elections. This was stated on Galyamina's Twitter. Galyamina is currently serving 15 days of arrest for the July 27 protest . According to Interfax, she participated in the court hearing via video link from a special detention center in Mozhaisk.

The Moscow authorities did not agree on a march in support of independent candidates to the Moscow City Duma on August 17. This was announced by one of the applicants of the action, municipal deputy Andrei Morev. He posted on Facebook a copy of the response from the Department of Regional Security Anti-Corruption of the Moscow government. The document says that the applicants of the procession violated the deadlines for filing a notification.

US President Donald Trump announced that on August 8, a cruise missile with a nuclear power plant , Burevestnik (NATO classification: Skyfall), exploded in the Arkhangelsk region of the Russian Federation. "The United States is learning a lot from the Russian missile explosion. We have similar, though more advanced, technology. The Russian Skyfall explosion has people worried about air pollution in the test area and far beyond. Not good!" Trump tweeted.

Daria Sosnovskaya, who was hit in the stomach by a police officer during her arrest at a rally for fair elections on August 10, was hospitalized. This was reported to RTVi by Sosnovskaya's lawyer Tatyana Molokanova. “She told me that she was hospitalized. Which hospital, I don't know yet. Yesterday she went to the traumatology department. Today she began to feel worse. Before applying to the UK, she had headaches, her chest hurt, ”Molokanova said.

The publication “My friend, you are a transformer,” at the request of Roskomnadzor, removed the satirical material entitled “An ideal text about death by suicide.” The publication itself reported this. The text was written by “Father” journalist Pyotr Manyakhin in April 2016, after Roskomnadzor published draft recommendations for covering suicide cases in the media.

Updated . Kotov was charged under the "Dadin" article, OVD-Info reports , citing his lawyer. A criminal case has been opened against Moscow activist Konstantin Kotov for repeated violations of the procedure for holding a rally . This was reported to Mediazona by Kotov's lawyer Maria Eismont, who cooperates with OVD-Info. According to the lawyer, the investigator verbally told her that Kotov was a suspect in the case. Eismont added that she had not yet seen the case materials.

The Village publication showed the Renders of the fence, which is planned to be installed around the public space "Yama" on Khokhlovskaya Square in Moscow. In recent months, people have repeatedly detained people in the “pit”; In addition, a serial poisoner expectedly acted there. The fact that the public space can be embraced by a fence was reported on August 9 by the municipal deputy Viktor Kotov with reference to the response of the prosecutor's office of the Basmanny district of Moscow.

Celebrated literary critic Elena Makeenko dies at 32 Stanislav Lvovsky / Polka On August 11, the celebrated literary critic Elena Makeenko passed away in Israel after fighting cancer for two years. Makeenko, 32, was central to two major literary projects: the online journal Gorky and the educational resource Polka . She also curated the Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair. Meduza literary critic Galina Yuzefovich remembers Makeenko’s exceptional life and work.

Members of South Korean pop group BTS will take a break from work. This was reported by the record company Big Hit Entertainment, which acts as an agent for the group. It is noted that while on vacation, the BTS members "will enjoy the normal life of young people." Big Hit Entertainment stressed that this is BTS' first official hiatus since the group's inception in 2013. The company did not specify how long it will last, but called it long-term. in October 2019 .

Mikael Sjoberg / Bloomberg / Getty Images Poster with Yimmy October, leader of the Swedish Democrats party, during the country's parliament. September 2018 Russia helped the ultra -right Party “Swedish Democrats” to achieve record success in the parliamentary elections in 2018, warming anti -migrant sentiments and promoting sites and groups in social networks associated with nationalists.

Moscow's Troitsky Court fined unregistered candidate for the Moscow City Duma Lyubov Sobol 300 thousand rubles for a protest on August 3 , RIA Novosti reports. Sobol was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules for mass events . On August 3, police detained Sobol before the start of an uncoordinated protest on the Boulevard Ring. Later that day, she received a fine of 300,000 rubles for the July 15 protest on Trubnaya Square.

"Anonymous Channel Dmitry Korzev" Roskomnadzor made a complaint to the Yekaterinburg publication “Itʼs My City” due to the lack of age-related marks. This was told in Telegram by the project publisher Dmitry Korzev. According to him, Roskomnadzor said that in the poster of events on the website “Itʼs My City” the age qualification of each event is not indicated, which violates the law on the protection of children from harmful information.

Subscribe to our YouTube on August 10 in Moscow on Sakharov Avenue a agreed rally was held. The audience demanded to allow independent candidates to the Moscow City Duma and terminate the case of riots under which the participants of inconsistent shares are accused. Up to 60 thousand people (according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 20 thousand) gathered on Sakharov, according to the “White counter”.

On July 30, the Investigative Committee opened a case under an article on the riots, which allegedly took place on an inconsistent campaign on July 27 in the center of Moscow. For two weeks, 14 people became the defendants in Moscow, information about another detained has not yet been confirmed. In most cases, the courts sent the defendants to the pre -trial detention center, despite the lack of specific accusations or evidence of their participation in the riots.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow has arrested Alexey Polikhovich, a defendant in the Bolotnaya case, for 13 days, Mediazona reports. He was found guilty of petty hooliganism. He did not admit guilt. About 40 people came to the court hearing to support Polikhovich. 25 people vouched for him. Polikhovich was detained several hours after a rally for free elections that took place on Sakharov Avenue on August 10.