Today we see a terrible trend of politicization in youth contingents (up to 30-35 years old). This is the main event, the main phenomenon of this cold summer There were few people at today's rally. That is, it is, of course, one of the largest rallies in the last 10 years. And that's great. But the most important thing for the story: did something new happen? Here on Bolotnaya it was new: before that, 7-8 thousand people went to large (!) rallies, and here - 50.

After a search and interrogation, a member of the Yabloko party, Valery Kostenok, was charged in the case of "mass riots" in Moscow on July 27. On Monday, August 12, the Basmanny Court will determine a preventive measure for him. This night Kostenok will be taken to the temporary detention center, the press service of Yabloko reports. The report notes that the information that appeared in the media that Kostenok allegedly pleaded guilty to participating in mass riots is not true.

Sarov - in Soviet times Arzamas-16, a closed city - an institute near Nizhny Novgorod (in Soviet times, the closed city of radio physicists Gorky). It was there that employees of Rosatom worked, who died during the tests of a cruise missile with a nuclear installation "Petrel" at the Nenokse test site near Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region. Russian President Vladimir Putin first announced this rocket in a message to the Federal Assembly on March 1, 2018.

At least 40 Russian cities hosted various actions of solidarity with protesters in Moscow On August 10, both mass rallies and a series of single pickets took place in the regions. Their participants demanded fair elections, the release of political prisoners and the termination of criminal cases on "mass riots" in Moscow. The most massive actions were held in Khabarovsk and Yekaterinburg, where 500 and 300 people took to the streets, OVD-Info reports .

Dmitry Vasiliev, who was detained in the case of "mass riots" and later hospitalized from the temporary detention facility to the intensive care unit, was discharged from the hospital, the UK reported. The department emphasizes that the investigator did not make a decision to take insulin from Vasiliev, and the detention center staff was informed that the detainee had health problems.

They are checking whether it is possible to simply intimidate all the dissatisfied. And if Moscow is bent, then it will be so throughout Russia. But they won't be able to Independent candidates arrested. Fabricated criminal cases. People in prisons for peaceful protest. Night searches and interrogations. Power is seized by anonymous bandits in black masks. What is going on? We are being tested on a new, purely forceful, format of relations between the authorities and society.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has refused a petition for the arrest of the director of the Doctor TV channel, Dmitry Vasiliev, who is accused of participating in mass riots. Vasiliev was not brought to court because he is in the hospital.

The material is updated Professor Konstantin Sonin: The cause of violence Gennady Gudkov, it seems to me, writes correctly. An important, perhaps the most important, cause of violence in the summer of 2019 in Moscow is the arrests of politicians, beating the participants in the demonstrations, night searches - these are attempts to provoke a reaction. Attempts to cause violence on the other side. True, unlike Gudkov, I believe that they do it “inadvertently”, unconsciously.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expressed "a strong protest in connection with another visit, on August 10, 2019, uncoordinated with the Ukrainian side, by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine - the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol." According to Kyiv, this trip is a gross violation of the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.

Chief of Staff Ivan Zhdanov Boris Zolotarevsky, who on August 10 called for a “walk” after the rally on Sakharov Avenue, was charged with an administrative protocol on organizing the rally without notification. This was reported to MBKh Media by lawyer Grigory Chervonny. According to him, Zolotarevsky is in the Kitai-Gorod police department, where he will stay until the trial, which will take place on August 12.

Today we see a terrible trend of politicization in youth contingents (up to 30-35 years old). This is the main event, the main phenomenon of this cold summer There were few people at today's rally. That is, it is, of course, one of the largest rallies in the last 10 years. And that's great. But the most important thing for the story: did something new happen? Here on Bolotnaya it was new: before that, 7-8 thousand people went to large (!) rallies, and here - 50.

In connection with the actions on August 10, the police detained about 340 people in five cities. 257 in Moscow, 79 in St. Petersburg, 13 in Rostov-on-Don. Detentions were also carried out in Bryansk and Syktyvkar. These are the data of "OVD-Info" . At least seven people spent the night in the departments of Moscow and St. Petersburg, one teenager in St. Petersburg was sent to a detention center for juvenile offenders.

Representatives of the Investigative Committee came with a search to the apartment of a member of the Yabloko party, a volunteer of the election headquarters of the Moscow City Duma candidate from the party Valery Kostenok. According to the press service of the party, he asked them to wait for a lawyer who should arrive at the scene within an hour. But those who came began to break down the door, he was forced to let them into the apartment until the lawyer arrived.

Roskomnadzor sent a letter to Google with a request to take measures to prevent advertising of unauthorized mass actions on YouTube video hosting. “According to the available information, a number of structures with YouTube channels purchase advertising tools from YouTube (such as “push notifications”) in order to disseminate information about unauthorized (illegal) mass events, including those aimed at disrupting federal and regional elections .

My name is Aleksey Polikhovich, and I served three years, three months and three days in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square Hello people. My name is Aleksey Polikhovich, and I served three years, three months and three days in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square. I served time for grabbing riot police by the hands with which they beat demonstrators. And now I'm standing in front of you because I'm furious. I'm furious that history is repeating itself.