The Ordzhonikidzevsky court of Magnitogorsk (Chelyabinsk region) in June stopped the administrative prosecution of local resident Olga Kochetkova for a xenophobic comment due to the insignificance of the act. This is the first such decision after the decriminalization of the article on “incitement to hatred,” notes .

Twitter will ban government-controlled media outlets from purchasing advertising and paid promotion of publications, the company said in a statement. These publications will notify the decision shortly, they will have 30 days to remove ads from the platform. The decision for each media outlet will be based on criteria proposed by organizations such as Reporters Without Borders, Freedom House, The Economist and others.

The history of the only folk memorial in Russia Malevich began with barrier, and finished with bulldozers Facebook.com The prefecture of Moscow CJSC recognized as self -building and on June 17 demolished the center of Malevich - a two -story building near Skolkovo and Moscow Region Nemchinovo. Not a single official museum of Malevich in Russia exists, and this art center was created by enthusiasts who held exhibitions and excursions there.

The diary of the volunteer of the volunteer search and rescue squad "Lisa Alert" Photo: Lisa Alert / VKontakte I come to my first search in my life. Coordinator Olga immediately asks me: "How much time can you look for?" I easily answer that the same as everyone else. In response: "Well, I can be here for two days." We are looking for grandfather eighty years. At seven in the morning he left for mushrooms in a familiar forest. There is no phone, no water, no food with you.

In the Mikhailovsky castle of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, an exhibition of Konstantin Somov opened Photo: RIA Novosti Playful marquises and mischievous harlequins, portraits, porcelain, graphics-all these works of Konstantin Somov are collected in the exposition of the Russian Museum, dedicated to the 150th birthday of the artist.

On August 18, the Pentagon tested a ground-based cruise missile. The military report notes that the missile hit the target "more than 500 kilometers from the launch site" - at a distance that was prohibited by the INF Treaty. The tests took place at the California test site on the west coast of the United States: the launch was carried out from a mobile installation on San Nicolas Island.

The Nevsky Court of St. Petersburg extended for six months until February 15 the arrest of activist Vladimir Ivanyutenko in the case of the transfer of components of an explosive device (part 1 of article 222.1 of the Criminal Code). The record of the announcement of the decision was published by the coordinator of the Rus Sidyashchaya branch, Dinar Idrisov.

President Vladimir Putin, more than a month after the start of protest shares in the election at the Moscow City Duma, commented them at a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron. He stated that "citizens have the right to peaceful ... protests," but "no one ...

The Chelyabinsk journalist wrote about criminal schemes of local deputies and officials. They shot her in the head In Chelyabinsk, an attempt was made on the journalist of the regional publication "Public Defender" Julia Zybrin. The unknown shot the girl in the head of pneumatic weapons right at the entrance of her house. “It happened on August 8, it was evening, at about 23:30,” recalls Julia. - I had friends visiting, and I escorted them by taxi. We waited for the car when everything happened.

Residents of the village of Vostok in the Naro-Fominsk district of the Moscow region discovered an illegal dump with documents from the Ministry of Finance, reports . Baza Local residents paid attention to the trucks that were driving into the forest. Citizens called the police, but several cars managed to throw garbage at the edge of the forest. Some of the documents were signed by the head of the ministry, Anton Siluanov.

The Prosecutor General's Office decided not to open a criminal case against a woman who ordered Frizium, an unregistered drug in Russia, on the Internet for her child suffering from epilepsy.

Will the protests in Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland will spread? 1.8 million people took to the streets on August 18. Reuters The unrest in Hong Kong has been going on for more than two months. It all began with citizens' speeches against Bill on the local parliament on extradition, allowing the authorities to send the accused to mainland China. The head of the Hong Kong administration was forced to refuse this idea in early July. But the protests continued.

The Investigative Committee did not charge TV director Dmitry Vasiliev in the case of "mass riots." To this day, he has been a suspect in the case. Vasiliev's lawyer Alexander Zinurov told Novaya Gazeta that on Monday, August 20, 9 days from the moment of detention expire, during which the investigation, according to the requirements of the Criminal Procedure Code, must either charge the suspect or release him.

A court in Chelyabinsk found pensioner Olga Stepanova guilty of insulting a policeman (Article 319 of the Criminal Code) at an unauthorized rally against pension reform on September 9 last year and sentenced her to a fine of 5,000 rubles. this on his Telegram channel. announced Pavel Chikov, the head of the Agora human rights group, According to lawyer Andrey Lepekhin, there is a video in the case file showing how a man in plain clothes gave the police a command to detain him.

The Komi Supreme Court recognized the public association Union of Slavic Forces of Rus' (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR) as an extremist organization and banned its activities in Russia. This was reported on the website of the court. The decision came into force on 16 August. The court considered the case on July 11, when the prosecutor of Komi filed a lawsuit to recognize the organization as extremist.