The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that for a long time representatives of the consulate could not meet with film director Oleg Sentsov and anti-fascist Oleksandr Kolchenko sentenced to 20 and 10 years in prison in the “Crimean Terrorists Case”. “The Embassy and consular offices of Ukraine in Russia for a long time (more than 2-3 months) are expected to receive more than 20 permits from the Russian competent authorities to meet with our compatriots.

The music festival “S.I.L.O.”, which was supposed to take place in the village of Siversky, Leningrad Region, was canceled by decision of the authorities three hours before the start. This was reported on the Novaya Gazeta website on August 3. During almost a year of preparation and organization, officials did not have any particular complaints about the form of the festival or the composition of the musicians.

According to the Moskva news agency, citing a source in law enforcement agencies, on the night of August 3, two participants in an uncoordinated motor rally in honor of the Airborne Forces Day were detained in Moscow near Zubovskaya Square. They were drawn up administrative protocols under Art. 12.12 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (travel to a prohibitory traffic light) and under Part 6.1 of Art.

The candidate for the State Duma from PARNAS and the head of the election list of the party in Tatarstan, Marcel Shamsutdinov, was summoned for questioning by the Investigative Committee. This was reported on August 3 by the Kazan Reporter online publication, citing Shamsutdinov himself. The investigator who conducted the interrogation asked the politician if he wrote extremist texts after the September 6 rally in Kazan in support of the Russian language.

On August 3, the court rejected an appeal to extend the term of detention of one of the defendants in the February 26 case, Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Akhtem Chiygoz. This was announced on Twitter by his lawyer Nikolai Polozov. Ahmet Chiygoz - Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people.

On August 3, the Kirovsky District Court of Yaroslavl sentenced the former mayor of the city, Yevgeny Urlashov, to 12.5 years in a strict regime colony and a fine of 60 million rubles. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee. Urlashov's adviser Alexei Lopatin was sentenced to 7 years in a strict regime colony. Second Deputy Mayor Dmitry Donskov was found not guilty and acquitted.

On July 12, in the Hyde Park on the Marse Field, participants in the LGBT-Initative Group “Exit” were detained, who went out with posters in defense of freedom of assembly, now they are threatened with fines of up to 20 thousand rubles. KRIS, a member of the Group “Exit”, told the OVD-Info about numerous attempts to coordinate the action in the place where, according to the law, it is not required to coordinate it.