A street musician, saxophonist Artur Fomenko was detained on Nikolskaya Street. As writes his colleague, guitarist Oleg Mokryakov, on Facebook, Fomenko was detained when he was about to leave. The police did not introduce themselves and did not explain to the musician why he was being detained. Fomenko is being taken to the Kitai-Gorod police department. On June 30, Fomenko was also detained at Nikolskaya.

The Presidium of the Moscow City Court recognized as legal the decision to punish the organizers of the Moscow Gay Pride Nikolai Alekseev and Vadim Gruzdev in the form of 10 days of administrative arrest for disobeying the demands of the police. Thus, the judge dismissed the LGBT activists' supervisory complaints. They intend to appeal to the ECtHR.

A rally in the city of Buynaksk in Dagestan on August 25 was held by members of the "Party of Russian Veterans". They demanded to change the leadership of the city, stating unresolved communal problems, corruption and terrorist threats. The rally took place against the background of heightened security measures, military equipment was brought into the city, the passage to the place of the action was blocked by police cordons, the reports .

Kurgan police showed interest in United Russia agitators, who handed out party newspapers and talked with the population the day before on the central square near the Rossiya cinema. As . one of the agitators with whom the police conducted an explanatory conversation told Znak.com, law enforcement officers said that the EP campaign staff violated the law, being closer than 50 meters from each other Campaigning by EP, therefore, was equated with holding single pickets.

The Ukrainian government will send a lawsuit to the European Court of Human Rights about the violation of human rights, including those convicted by Oleg Sentsov and other citizens of Ukraine, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said at an expanded government meeting. “I can’t help but react to yesterday’s inhumane decision of the so-called Russian ostentatious court, because this cannot be called a court, it is political reprisal against Ukrainians.

Ilya Yashin was released from the police, but he will face trial under 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for disobeying the requirements of the police. At the same time, Vladimir Andreichenko, the second candidate on the list of the Democratic Coalition in Kostroma, also started having problems - local residents complained about the noise from his meeting and called the police.

The Khamovniki Court of Moscow yesterday rejected the complaints of the lawyer Alexei Chernyshev, who defended the detained ex-participants of the "Army of the People's Will" to initiate proceedings against RBC journalist Alexander Sokolov and to remove him from the case. Thus, the ex-editor of the Duel newspaper, Yuri Mukhin, is still without a defender.

The Supreme Court of Crimea has reduced the term of Maidan participant Oleksandr Kostenko: he will be in prison for 3 years 11 months instead of 4 years 2 months. Kostenko was convicted for attacking a Berkut fighter and possession of a weapon.

Ilya Yashin, leader of the list of the Democratic Coalition in the elections in Kostroma, was detained during a meeting with voters. He was taken to police department No. 1 in Kostroma. UPD: Yashin is issued a protocol under 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses - "for disobeying the legal requirement to hold a meeting without sound amplification."