The Russian branch of the international human rights organization Amnesty International appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office, the Ministry of Justice and the Bank of Russia with a demand to clarify the provisions of the law on undesirable organizations, Kommersant writes .

Vladimir Putin supported the idea of ​​the Supreme Court to mitigate liability for minor crimes Vladimir Putin supported the idea of ​​the Supreme Court to mitigate liability for minor crimes Chairman of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev, who for three years tried to realize his dream-idea of ​​decriminalizing minor crimes and transferring them from the criminal to the administrative plane, found support in the President. And this support was unexpected.

The West Siberian District Military Court sent the head of the 242nd training center, Oleg Ponomarev, under house arrest, Oleg Ponomarev, who is in a pre-trial detention center, reports . Omskinform Ponomarev's preventive measure has been changed, and tomorrow he will be released from the pre-trial detention center. The head of the 242nd training center will be under house arrest until September 13.

New US sanctions against Russian citizens and companies will not go unanswered by Russia, according to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. “The United States has once again demonstrated that they have made a choice in favor of intensifying confrontation.

During a meeting of the government of the Voronezh region, Russian presidential aide Igor Levitin proposed to postpone the start of the academic year to September 15, reports . RIA Novosti According to Levitin, this move can increase the flow of tourists to Russian resorts, because by the beginning of September people are just returning from vacation. “From August 25 to September 1, the whole country sits at airports.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court upheld the sentence of Elvira Sultanakhmetova, a resident of Pervouralsk, who called on Muslims not to celebrate the New Year and other non-Muslim holidays, reports , citing her lawyer Roman Kachanov. Mediazona Now Sultanakhmetova is awaiting 120 hours of corrective labor assigned to her by the Pervouralsky City Court.

The democratic coalition led by Parnassus announced that it was withdrawing from the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Kaluga Region. This was stated in the message of the press service of the party. As it turned out, the headquarters discovered the massive falsification of signatures too late. “Obviously mercenary people who“ drew ”the signatures themselves, we immediately noticed, someone was even handed over to the police.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation denies involvement in the appointment of Archpriest Sergius Khalyuta to the post of director of the Tauride Chersonese National Nature Reserve in Crimea, TASS reports . According to the head of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, Mikhail Bryzgalov, final decisions on appointments to such positions rest with the regional authorities.

Policeman Aleksey Nikanorov, who was arrested along with Andrey Pivovarov, head of the Parnas headquarters in Kostroma, retracted his confession, saying that he gave it under duress. “During the bet, Nikanorov said that he had given his previous confession under duress. The operatives threatened him with imprisonment and demanded that Pivovarov be slandered,” wrote on Facebook.

The working group of the Kaluga electoral committee today sorted out the signatures "Civil Initiative" There were 1246 signatures that did not suit the electoral committee - this means that the "Civil Initiative" does not overcome the barrier. It is important that the representatives of the party were not allowed to attend the meeting - policemen were standing in front of the doors of the hall, as Maxim Katz, the head of the Kaluga headquarters, wrote on his Twitter.

The Babushkinsky Court of Moscow issued a decision to terminate the proceedings in the case of the construction of a temple in the Torfyanka park, reports Yod. Activists who oppose the construction of a temple in a public area during today's court hearing found falsifications in documents from the prefecture about holding public hearings. “The applicants withdrew the claim, the case will continue to be considered within the framework of the prosecutor's check.

Photo: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Belgorod Region 9 people were injured in a collision between a passenger train and a truck in the Belgorod region, reports . the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region The driver of the KamAZ loaded with rubble drove onto the rails, despite the red traffic light. As a result, the Moscow-Belgorod train crashed into the truck.

In St. Petersburg, police officers began a search in the apartment of Raisa Tyurina, the mother of the arrested head of the Kostroma headquarters of Parnas Andrei Pivovarov, Rosbalt reports , citing Pivovarov’s colleague Natalya Gryaznevich. According to Gryaznevich, law enforcement agencies entered the apartment when the woman went outside. “Maybe they wanted to knock themselves, but it turned out that they just stood and waited,” Gryaznevich said.

The Electoral Commission refused to register for the elections to the City Duma the journalist of the television company TV 2 Victoria Muchnik. The voters' signatures she collected turned out to be imperfect. As Victoria told the Vtomsk website, she collected them herself, bypassing the entrances of residential buildings of the Academic constituency.

The Kirsanovsky District Court of the Tambov Region refused to reduce the punishment for environmentalist Yevgeny Vitishko, reports . the Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus The court attached to the case the conclusion of the public monitoring commission of the Tambov region, which states that Vitishko does not pose a danger at large. Also during the meeting, a prison psychologist spoke, he positively described the environmentalist.