The Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow fined Sergei Tsukasov, a municipal deputy of the Ostankinsky district and an unregistered candidate for the Moscow City Duma, 170,000 rubles. He wrote about it on Facebook. He was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules for holding a public event (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for picketing on August 3 at Trubnaya Square.

The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow has fined U.S. citizen Tatyana Brennik, who was detained in the center of Moscow on August 10, 10,000 rubles, reports Dozhd . She was found guilty of violating the established procedure for holding a rally (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Brennick, in an interview with Radio Liberty , said that she has two citizenships - Russian and American, but lives and works in Russia as a lawyer.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow arrested until October 21 the head of the district tax inspectorate No. 24, Maria Andreyanova. It is reported by TASS. “The Presnensky District Court of Moscow chose a measure of restraint in the form of detention <…> for a period of 1 month 29 days, i.e. until October 21, 2019,” the court said. She is accused of taking a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6, Article 290 of the Criminal Code).

Norwegian seismologists claim that on August 8 there were two explosions at the Nenoksa test site. Such data were recorded by the sensors of the Norwegian independent agency for monitoring seismic phenomena (NORSAR), reports Reuters. According to the agency, 2 hours passed between the two explosions, the second of which coincided with a sharp increase in the radiation background.

The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg has taken into custody until October 19 police officer Vyacheslav Tropin, whom the Investigative Committee suspects of participating in the rape of a 22-year-old citizen of Kazakhstan. This is reported by the portal E1. Earlier, the court also sent Tropin's colleague Andrei Bessarabov to a pre-trial detention center for two months, and a third police officer, Vadim Mustafin, was placed under house arrest.

Rospotrebnadzor refused to conduct an inspection of the Moscow City Election Commission at the request of Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora human rights group. He asked to check the building after the sofa standing in the Moscow City Electoral Committee, on which the unregistered candidate for deputies Lyubov Sobol was sitting, was taken out to shake out parasites and bedbugs. Rospotrebnadzor noted that Chikov's appeal does not contain the information necessary for an unscheduled inspection.

Ivan Brushlinsky, head of the psychological service of Sitting Rus', and Elvira Vikhareva, a member of the council of the Moscow branch of the Party of Change, filed a lawsuit against the Moscow mayor's office for refusing to agree on an August 31 rally for free elections and against political repression. It is reported by "Rain".

Ella Pamfilova can and should protect the electoral rights of Muscovites Photo: RIA Novosti The Central Electoral Commission (aka CEC) - exercises control over compliance with the electoral rights of citizens of the Russian Federation. This is not just a magnificent declaration, but Article 21 of the Federal Law of 12.06.2002 N 67-ФЗ “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights”.

The Chebarkul city court arrested for two months the former deputy head of the police department, Rif Biktimirov, in the case of rape and harassment of subordinates. It is reported by 74.ru. He is accused of harassing five subordinates (Part 1 of Article 133 of the Criminal Code) and of rape (Article 131 of the Criminal Code). The meeting was held behind closed doors.

Why and for whom a new generation of filmmakers in the mass order shoots its short films Frame from the film "Miner and Drummer" We searched for answers to questions on the annual show of short films “In short”. After analyzing 37 works, they came to the following conclusions. In our country alone, more than two thousand short films are removed. The figure itself encourages. But it’s not so easy to see them. The festivals are strict selection. In cinemas - in the afternoon with fire.

Three employees of the Kresty-2 pre-trial detention center in St. Petersburg were fired after checking complaints of torture. This was reported to TASS by the press bureau of the Federal Penitentiary Service. Another 20 employees and heads of the detention center and the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service were brought to disciplinary responsibility. The audit materials were sent to the investigating authorities “for decision-making”.

As an expedition of the Perm Memorial turned into two criminal cases Photo from the archive Police officers in the Perm Territory immediately opened two criminal cases after the expedition of the regional branch of Memorial in the Kudymkarsky district.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria released from house arrest the head of the Circassian organization "Khabze" Martin Kochesoko, who was previously accused of purchasing and possessing drugs (Part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code). to MBKh Media This was reported by his lawyer Timur Khutov. According to him, they will no longer conduct investigative actions in the Kochesoko case, and the state prosecutor had no arguments to extend the house arrest.

Google has removed 210 YouTube channels that posted videos related to the Hong Kong protests. This was reported on the company's website. "We disabled 210 YouTube channels when we discovered they were uploading videos related to the Hong Kong protests in a coordinated manner," Google said in a statement. According to the company, the creators of blocked accounts used VPN services and other methods to hide their location. This week, Twitter suspended 936 accounts originating from China.

The Koptevsky District Court of Moscow has arrested politician Dmitry Gudkov for 10 days for a rally in support of independent candidates on July 27 in central Moscow, the politician's press secretary Alexei Obukhov told Novaya Gazeta. According to the prosecution, Gudkov, having published a collective statement of unregistered candidates on his social networks, urged citizens to go to an unauthorized rally.