Stepan Strogin, who was detained during early voting in the election of the head of the city of Reutov near Moscow, was released from the police department. As it turned out, currently Strogin is not a member of the election commission, as previously reported. He was detained at the moment when, as a correspondent for the newspaper "Civil Voice", he was filming outside the building where the voting was taking place.

Stepan Strogin, a member of the election commission of the city of Reutov near Moscow with the right to an advisory vote, was taken to the local police department. As OVD-Info was told, before that he attended a meeting of the commission, where he observed early voting. What exactly was the reason for Strongin's transfer to the department is still unknown. The official reason is document verification. Strogin was also detained in the elections last year.

The blocking of Navalny's blog in LiveJournal was recognized as legal. This decision was made by the Moscow City Court, reports RIA Novosti . In addition, during the trial, it finally turned out that the blog was blocked due to two entries, in each of which the author urged readers to come to the Zamoskvoretsky court to support the defendants in the Bolotnaya case.

On the night of July 28, Alexander Skobov, a well-known opposition activist in St. Petersburg, was attacked, reports Fontanka.ru . RU". Skobov was stabbed and is in the operating room of the Elizabethan hospital. Other details are not yet known. From 2009 to 2011, Skobov was a member of the St. Petersburg branch of Solidarity, before that a member of Yabloko. Regularly participated in the events of the "Strategy-31". In Soviet times, he was a member of the Left Opposition group.

Last week, a new law finally entered into force, designed to punish the right to use the right to reach the area guaranteed by him by the 31st article of the Constitution, it is also the Law “On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in terms of improving the legislation on public events”.

practice Participants in a rally of solidarity with Ukraine detained in Moscow "Grani.ru", July 27 : “Six participants of the “ We are with you, Ukraine ” action were detained on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow. According to a Grani correspondent, about 20 people with yellow and blue symbols on their clothes gathered at 17:30 on Pushkinskaya Square without banners or flags.

Arkady Galker. Photo: Alexander Kuporov On April 27, in Nizhny Novgorod, a coordinated picket was held dedicated to the events in Ukraine, during which the police detained the organizer, the activist of the Civil Resistance movement, Arkady Galcar. The reason was the poster held by the galker - on it next to the slogan "Putin, out of Ukraine!" A photograph of a person was placed in which the features of Putin and Hitler were simultaneously guessed. In the police department No.