In Ulan-Ude, unidentified persons attacked an opposition journalist, editor-in-chief of the Asia-Russia Today website Yevgeny Khamaganov. This happened on the evening of July 12 at the entrance to his house, reports Radio Liberty . The journalist is in the hospital with a broken neck. head .

Alexander Byvshev, a schoolteacher from the city of Kromy, Oryol region, was sentenced to 300 hours of compulsory work. The Kromsky District Court found him guilty of inciting hatred on ethnic grounds for the poem "To Ukrainian Patriots", written in support of Ukraine after the events in Crimea in the spring of 2014.

The case of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko was sent to the Donetsk city court of the Rostov region. This was reported on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office. It also says that Savchenko is charged with murder and attempted murder.

The Human Rights Center “Memorial” recognized as a political prisoner Anton Izokaitis, a resident of Staraya Russa, who was sentenced to two years in a colony-settlement for speaking out at the police department, where he was taken for petty hooliganism on January 1, 2014. Izokaitis was found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred and publicly justifying terrorism.

OVD-Info apologizes to readers: animal rights activists were not detained in St. Petersburg on July 11. As explained to OVD-Info at the Vita Animal Rights Protection Center, the policemen only suggested to the activists: “If you want, we will go to the police station and draw up a protocol…”, but the activists did not agree with this. The activist, who was in a cage in a tiger costume, went outside and continued to stand with a banner near the cage.

In St. Petersburg on July 11, three animal rights activists, activists of the Vita Center, were detained. They held performances and solo pickets near the Sibur Arena, where the Zapashny Brothers Circus is touring. Activists oppose circus performances involving animals. According to "ZakS.Ru", the administration of the Petrogradsky district twice did not agree on the holding of a mass action, each time referring to different sports competitions.

The Leninsky District Court of Barnaul sentenced activist Anton Podchasov to a year and a half of suspended liberty, finding him guilty of inciting extremist activity and inciting hatred on ethnic grounds. Under both articles, Podchasov was convicted for reposting a text called “Russophobia Post” on the social network VKontakte.

Andrei Martsev and two activists detained with him, Kirill Kablov and Dmitry Krainov, were released from police department No. 1 of the Volga department of Saratov. They seized a tablet, flash drives, black and red ribbons, as well as the so-called "Yarosh business cards." For all three, protocols were drawn up under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (demonstration of Nazi symbols or symbols of extremist organizations).

Svetlana Volkova, key witness of the prosecution in the process of Ilya Romanov In a meeting on July 10, in the case of the Nizhny Novgorod anarchist Ilya Romanov, who is charged with preparation for a terrorist act, attempted public calls for terrorist activities, illegal production, storage, transportation and wearing of ammunition, and the departure collegium of the Moscow District Military Court interrogated as a witness to the NPO “United Russia” Andrei Andrei Soloviev.