Pavel Vazhenin, the last defendant to date in the case of the events on Manezhnaya Square in December 2010, was sentenced by the Tverskoy District Court to three years in prison. Earlier, the prosecution in the debate asked to sentence him to four years, while the defense asked for a suspended sentence. The human rights center "Memorial" recognized Vazhenin as a political prisoner.

Navalny's ally, Konstantin Yankauskas, deputy of the Zyuzino municipal district, was left under house arrest, the Moscow City Court made such a decision. Jankauskas is one of the defendants in the case of fraud in Navalny's 2013 Moscow mayoral election campaign. The second defendant, Nikolai Lyaskin, is under house arrest, the suspect Vladimir Ashurkov is on the wanted list.

The defense of Yaroslav Belousov, who received the shortest sentence of all the defendants in the "Case of Eight", filed a petition with the Tverskoy Court for parole (parole) of his client, RIA Novosti .

According to OVD-Info, lawyer Eduard Shcherbakov, who represents Mikhail Feldman, who is accused in the case of hanging the German flag on the building of the Kaliningrad FSB, a new criminal case has been opened against his client - under Article 222. Criminal Code, on illicit trafficking in explosives.

changes The Duma is going to adopt in the second reading a bill that will toughen penalties for violating the rules of holding a rally. RBC daily, June 26 : “Any citizen who violates order at rallies three times in six months can go to prison for five years. The State Duma is preparing to adopt such a bill in the second reading after clarifications made by Senator Andrei Klishas.

Economist and human rights activist Olga Romanova, nominated by deputies of the Moscow City Duma, refused to install campaign cubes to collect voter signatures. Romanova wrote about this in her Facebook account. Romanova is going to run from the constituency No. 44, including the municipal districts of Taganka, Yakimanka, Tverskaya and Zamoskvorechye.

Photo: Andrey Zubets (fragment) The so -called "bill against the Internet and Finance" entered into force. In addition to the introduction of a new article in the Criminal Code, which punishes the financing of extremist activity, the bill establishes criminal liability up to imprisonment for five years for public calls for extremist activities committed on the Internet.