The magistrate of court district No. 2 of the Nizhny Novgorod judicial district fined the Committee Against Torture, which has now been liquidated, 300,000 rubles. The reason for the decision was a picket organized by the "Committee against Torture" in Nizhny Novgorod on June 26.

The Oktyabrsky Court of Arkhangelsk extended for a month, until September 8, the term of arrest of Ilya Azovsky, editor-in-chief of an opposition newspaper. According to the online publication 29.ru, in court, Azovsky complained about his health and a difficult psychological state; doctors say that he was on the verge of a stroke twice. Azovsky was detained on June 8 on suspicion of purchasing and storing amphetamine.

Today, the Rostov Military District Court continues to consider the “Case of Crimean terrorists” against Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko, and defense witnesses have begun speaking. Today, the court also agreed to add to the case file an extract from the statement of the Rostov PMC about a visit to Gennady Afanasyev, who was previously convicted in the same case.

Arrested in Kostroma, the head of the campaign headquarters of the democratic coalition, Andrei Pivovarov, was charged with incitement to abuse of power. This is part 4 of Art. 33 art. 286 of the Criminal Code. Previously, a case against him was opened under Part 3 of Art. 272 (illegal access to computer information).

On August 6, the Tverskoy Court fined several participants in a walk along Red Square wearing T-shirts of the movement for the preservation of the Torfyanka park. Nina Arziani, Denis Goncharenko and Elena Plyukhova were fined 10 thousand rubles, as were several people the day before .

The OVD-Info announces the “Week of Titus”: over the next days, a series of stories of activists will be published about how they came across aggression emanating from the pro-Kremlin movements. The cycle will end with a review text about the problem. The first publication is the story of Nadezhda Mityushkina, executive director of Solidarity.

On August 5, mass searches were held in the south of the Stavropol Territory. Books and brochures were seized at least in 19 residents of Essentuki, Mineral Water, Pyatigorsk, Kislovodsk, Lermontov, Patrimon, Andropovsky and Mineralovodsky districts. Five people were detained and interrogated in the prosecutor's office, after which they were presented with decisions to initiate criminal cases and released on a recognizance not to leave.