In Karelia, they are preventing parent meetings in the village of Lambasruchey and the village of Velikaya Guba dedicated to. A dedication meeting at Lambasruch was scheduled for August 26th.

Vladimir Podrezov, accused in the case of painting a star on a high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment, testifying at a meeting in the Tagansky District Court, said that the investigators who interrogated him suggested that he take the blame. “I was offered to say that I painted the star, they said that they would give me a year and a half probation then. I said that I didn’t paint anything, that I was there, but I didn’t do anything, reports ”Mediazona his words.

Angelina Nikolaou, who testified for the prosecution in the Tagansky District Court of Moscow in the case of painting a star on a high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment, said that during the investigation she was pressured. “They put pressure on me, they forced me to say in general that it was basers (badjumpers, lovers of jumping from high-rise buildings - OVD-Info ) who carried out the action, but I didn’t say,” reports Mediazona her words.

In Kolomna, a deputy of the city council from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Sergey Golubtsov was killed. He was found dead in his own garage, Vyacheslav Yegorov, editor-in-chief of the Regional News newspaper, writes on Facebook. The journalist notes that Golubtsov actively fought "with exorbitant prices in funeral agencies" and with an increase in housing and communal services tariffs in Kolomna. was made on Golubtsov On June 24, an attempt , he was stabbed in the stomach.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court recognized as lawful the decision of the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg, which fined activist Yury Izotov for picketing against police arbitrariness on May 30. Izotov, as the applicant of the picket, was found to have violated the established procedure for holding public events.

All three men detained in Friendship Park were released in a paddy wagon without any consequences. According to activists, this happened after Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin arrived at the park, entered the paddy wagon and is currently trying to negotiate with the police that residents be allowed to stay in the park until it is clarified whether the construction is legal .

After demands to remove things from the Friendship Park, the police detained several people - according to the activists, all the men who were at that moment in place. At the moment, the detainees are in a paddy wagon near the park, the police are checking their documents.

In Friendship Park, where residents oppose the construction of a commercial sports facility, the police are expelling citizens and threatening to arrest them. As municipal deputy Nadezhda Barynina told OVD-Info, the police are demanding that the tents be removed. Meanwhile, the paths in the park are cordoned off due to the fact that earlier the police allegedly received a message about a bomb planted in the park , and activists cannot move tents and belongings anywhere.

Mikhail Barbotkin, detained in Friendship Park, was released from the Levoberezhny police station. A hearing is scheduled to take place in the Golovinsky District Court on August 28. What time is unknown; at 10:00 he is required to report to the duty station.

Mikhail Barbotkin, detained in Friendship Park for filming, is accused of disobeying the legal demands of police officers. As municipal deputy Nadezhda Barynina said, neither she nor the defenders were allowed into the Levoberezhny police station, where the activist was staying, and the door to the entrance was locked. At first it was reported that Barbotkin would be taken to court, but later Barynina was told that Barbotkin would be given a summons to appear in court and would be released.

An arrest took place in Friendship Park, where local residents are protesting against the construction of a commercial sports facility. As eyewitnesses said, the police arrived at the park, and the activists were told that a bomb had been planted in the park, and therefore they needed to leave the territory. While everyone was gathering, Mikhail Barbotkin was detained - as the activists explained, due to the fact that he was filming.

Saxophonist Artur Fomenko was released from the Kitai-Gorod Department of Internal Affairs. A protocol was drawn up against him under Art. 20.2.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses - "organization of mass simultaneous stay and (or) movement of citizens in public places that entailed a violation of public order." According to him, when he was detained, he not only stopped playing and was going home, but there was not a single person near him.

On August 26, in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnodar, preliminary hearings were held in the case of activists of the United Communist Party of Daria Polyudova, accused of calling for extremist activity and violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation in connection with publications on social networks. The activist tells how the meeting took place. In accordance with Art. 234 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, all preliminary hearings are held closed.