On August 2, a regular court session on the “Case of February 26” was held over the deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars, Akhtem Chiygoz, who took part in the process via video link. According to lawyer Nikolai Polozov, Chiygoz's request for personal presence was rejected, and this decision will be appealed. The court adjourned the hearing several times to fix technical problems with the video link. The next meeting will be held on August 9 at 10 am.

The case of contempt of court, initiated in Chechnya against Ukrainian citizen Stanislav Klykh, was transferred to the Zavodskoy District Court of Grozny. This was reported by lawyer Marina Dubrovina, representing the interests of Klykh. OVD-InfoThe reason for opening the case was the insult of the prosecutor at one of the meetings in the case of participation in hostilities in Chechnya, where Klykh was accused along with his compatriot Nikolai Karpyuk.

Photo: Olga Domozhirova Evgeny Domozhirov, an opposition policy from Vologda and a candidate for State Duma deputies, tried on July 31 a search during which mothers damaged his hand. Together with the police, the district police officer Cyakishev was present, she clarified that the criminal investigation officers came. At night, from August 1 to August 1, Cyakisheva called and promised to figure out and take explanations from her mother of Domozhirov about injuries.

The Moscow City Court upheld a 1,000-ruble fine imposed on activist Vasily Nedopekin for a rally in Alexander Garden on March 25 in support of Nadezhda Savchenko. Then Vasily Nedopekin and Viktor Kapitonov were detained with the flag of Ukraine. Nedopekin himself spoke about the decision of the Moscow City Court OVD-Info.

The Moscow City Court dismissed a house arrest complaint against Imam Makhmud Velitov, who was accused of publicly calling for terrorism. It is reported by RAPSI. The imam of the Yardyam mosque in Moscow, Velitov, was detained on July 11 and then placed under house arrest, because, according to investigators, on September 23, 2013, he publicly delivered a speech in the mosque justifying the activities of the activist Abdulla Gappaev, who was killed in Kizlyar.

Yegor Savin, the leader of the Novosibirsk branch of PARNAS, was charged with an administrative case on the public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). According to Savin himself, quoted by Continent Siberia, the reason was a swastika found on the fake page of the politician on the VKontakte social network. Indeed, the photo is mine. But such a fake page is made in a couple of minutes. I found this page.

The court in Tver, considering the case of inciting hatred against employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Tver region, refused to attach the opinions of independent experts to the case.

Several journalists failed to get to the briefing of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov in Yekaterinburg. According to Znak.com, this happened after Shuvalov's assistant demanded that journalists tell what questions they were going to ask the official before the briefing.

Vladimir's administration agreed on a rally by A Just Russia against amendments to anti-extremist and anti-terrorist legislation, called the "Yarovaya package", which is to be held on March 3. However, it will not take place in the place where the organizers planned, and with a ban on the use of cars with a portrait of a member of the Federation Council, leader of the local branch of the SR Anton Belyakov. This is reported by the publication "ProVladimir".