All five detainees were released from the Izmailovo police department, where they were brought from the Izmailovsky district court in order to “finish the case materials”. According to the latest data, court hearings will be held on August 21 at 14:00. As the activists told OVD-Info, according to police protocols, they are charged with holding an event similar to the March of Vatniks held on July 19, during which two of them were also detained.

Protest actions in Sevastopol are allowed to be held only in three places far from the center, according to the order of the city governor Sergei Menyailo. “For the safety of citizens”, specially designated places for holding public events have been appointed: the square near the monument to the Soldier and the Sailor on Cape Khrustalny, “Freedom Square” near the Cultural and Information Center (P.

Yevgeny Shirmanov, a video blogger and activist of the Saratov-OFDPS-Shirmanov community on the social network Vkontakte, received ten days of arrest in Penza for petty hooliganism, correspondent Kasparov reported on August 19. Ru. On the evening of August 15, Evgeny was detained on Lenin Square, where he was supposed to meet with community subscribers. The topic of the meeting was corruption in the traffic police, about 50 people came to talk with the blogger.

The trial of five activists detained yesterday in Izmailovo has been postponed until tomorrow. They wrote an undertaking to appear in court. UPD (17.20): The activists are being taken back to the Izmailovo police station to “finalize the case materials.” After this they are promised to be released pending trial. Andrey Korolevsky and Mikhail Chistov were charged with Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code. For the rest - Part 8 of Article 20.2.

The cases of the activists detained yesterday in Izmailovo will be considered at 3 pm in the Izmailovsky District Court. They are charged with part 8 of article 20.2 - repeated violation of the order of picketing. Five of them spent the night in the Izmailovo police department, Nikolai Glukhin was released from the police as a journalist.

Nationalist Alexander Belov (Potkin), who is under arrest in the case of legalizing the assets of BTA Bank and inciting interracial hatred in Kazakhstan, has been charged with another criminal case under article 280 of the Criminal Code (extremist appeals). According to his lawyer Ivan Mironov, this is a video clip featuring Potkin, cut from the film "Term". According to Mironov, Potkin could also face similar charges for speaking at an LDPR rally a few years ago.

Memorial has recognized Gennady Afanasiev, convicted in the case of “Crimean terrorists”, as a political prisoner. He was sentenced to seven years. At the preliminary investigation, he fully admitted his guilt and made a deal with the investigation. At the trial in the case of Sentsov and Kolchenko on July 31, 2015, Afanasiev retracted his earlier testimony, saying that he had given it under duress.

During the debate between the parties at the trial in the “Case of Crimean Terrorists,” prosecutor Oleg Tkachenko asked the North Caucasus District Military Court to sentence Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov to 23 years in prison. Another defendant, anti-fascist Alexander Kolchenko, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

The Moscow City Court transferred Yury Mukhin, former editor of the Duel newspaper, to house arrest. The court granted the complaint of the defense and changed the preventive measure from a pre-trial detention center to house arrest. Mukhin is forbidden to leave the apartment in Moscow or use the means of communication.

Lawyer Olga Chavdar/ Photo: Ivan Mikhailov The Moscow City Court considered a complaint about the decision of the Khamovnik court against the placement of Yuri Mukhin, Alexander Sokolov and Valery Parfenov, accused in the “Army of the Army of the Will of the People” : according to the investigation, they participated in the activities of the prohibited organization, renamed the initiative group to prepare the referendum “for the responsible power” (IGPR Calls).