How the police and the Russian Guard dispersed Muscovites on August 3 Love Sobol is detained at the exit from the Center for the Signature Collection on Rozhdestvensky Boulevard. Photo: Vlad Dokshin /"New" On August 3, in Moscow, during inconsistent shares, more than 800 people were detained for honest elections to the Moscow City Duma (their final number is still being specified).

A shooting has occurred at a shopping center in El Paso, Texas, reports CNN . According to the channel, people died as a result of the attack, but their number is not specified. Mayor Di Margo said three suspects in the shooting have been arrested. Fox 5 reports that one of them is 21 years old. The TV channel, citing the police, writes that the police have confirmed "numerous deaths." The death toll ranges from 15 to 25, according to Fox 5.

The power support of the new political cycle begins with repressions against civil society Two criminal cases initiated under the article “Mass unrest” - “Swamp”, seven years ago, and the current one, whose name has not yet had time to take root, frames the beginning and end of the political cycle, which can be called a “long third term”. Actually, people went out to the swamp people, outraged by the fact that the deadline had begun, and now - because they want it to end.

Simple labor people will turn out in the zones the first Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS In vain, the news about the reorganization of the Gulag, namely, the FZ-179 of July 18, 2019 “On Amending the Criminal Executive Code of the Russian Federation”, about permission to build branches of colonies in large industries. Human rights activists even joked: they say, nonsense, the question, the forced labor of the prisoners did not go anywhere, the prisoners are sewing in the colonies now.

Lyubov Sobol, an unregistered candidate for the Moscow City Duma, was fined 300,000 rubles (part 8, article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for holding a meeting with voters on Trubnaya Square on July 15. Sobol was detained today on Rozhdestvensky Boulevard at the exit of the campaign headquarters, when she was going for a voters' walk along the Boulevard Ring.

NATO still considers the actions of Russia the reason for the US withdrawal from an agreement on medium and shorter missiles Photo: EPA The theme of the latter before the summer holidays of the press conference at the Brussels headquarters of NATO was long known. On Friday, Jens General of Jens Stoltenberg, journalists were waiting for the declaration of measures prepared in case of the preceded death of an agreement on medium and smaller missiles (INFMD).

In Moscow, 828 people were detained for the action “Let's Reclaim Our Right to Elections” along the Boulevard Ring, reports OVD-Info . Earlier it was reported about 685 detainees. The action began at 14:00 in several places at once. The police detained people on Pushkinskaya and Trubnaya squares, on Chistye Prudy, Tsvetnoy Boulevard and on Stary Arbat.

UPDATE 23:32 Sergey Abanichev was charged with riots for throwing a paper cup at a police officer, , reports Pavel Chikov, the head of Agora . Abanichev does not admit his guilt. The Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia detained Daniil Konon, a participant in the rally on July 27, in a criminal case on mass riots. This was announced by the head of the International Human Rights Group "Agora" Pavel Chikov.

In St. Petersburg, police detained 15 participants of the LGBT Pride, three of them were hospitalized, reported the Detained Aid Group . The rest were taken to the 78th police department. Daniil Maksimenko was hit with a baton several times, he also bled from the handcuffs around his wrist, Alexander Budko was taken away with a leg injury, and activist Maria Kozhevatova also suffered. Pepper spray was sprayed on the rest of the detainees in the paddy wagon, human rights activists said .

The legal professional community came out in support of independent candidates for deputies of the Moscow City Duma. An open letter from lawyers to the Central Election Commission was signed by about 300 people. “We teach our children that human rights are the soul of constitutionalism, and the separation of powers, elections and representative bodies are its hands that allow these values ​​to be realized.

UPDATE "OVD-Info" by 18:45 : the number of detainees reached 685 In the center of Moscow, more than 600 people were detained at a rally in support of candidates nominated for the Moscow City Duma, reports the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs . The same data at 17:45 is also provided by OVD-Info.

How Muscovites were intimidated before the action on August 3. Review of methods Photo: Anton Karliner, specially for Novaya Detentions and beatings at protests in Moscow on both July 27 and August 3 may in themselves be an argument for some dissatisfied citizens not to go out onto any streets in the future.

Mundep Konstantin Jankauskas, who was nominated for the Moscow City Duma, was detained at the gates of the special detention center, where he was serving 7 days of administrative arrest for organizing a meeting with voters on July 15 on Trubnaya Square, said Olga Klyuchnikova, head of Lyubov Sobol's headquarters. The reasons for the detention are not specified. Before the unsanctioned rally began on August 3, the police detained another unregistered candidate, FBK lawyer Lyubov Sobol.

Employees of the Investigative Committee conducted searches in the case of "mass riots" at the July 27 rally at Daniil Konon, the signature collector of the Moscow City Duma candidate Ivan Zhdanov's headquarters, reported OVD-Info . His status in the case is unknown, he was taken away for interrogation. After the search, activist Sergei Abanichev was also taken to the Investigative Committee for interrogation, his relatives told Apology for Protest.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the laundering of a billion rubles by employees of the Anti-Corruption Foundation of opposition leader Alexei Navalny (part 4 of article 174 of the Criminal Code). On the eve of the pre-investigation check on this matter, the sources of the "Project" reported .