The Oktyabrsky District Court of the city of Murmansk rejected the claim of the Moscow LGBT activist Nikolai Alekseev against the administration of the capital of the Murmansk region. Alekseev complained about the refusal of the mayor's office to agree on the holding of a gay parade and an LGBT rally in the city, reports.

Ingush imam Khamzat Chumakov appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin and FSB head Alexander Bortnikov with a complaint about the actions of Georgian border guards, reports .

The police released the candidate for the Moscow Regional Duma from Yabloko Yevgeny Kurakin after the meeting of the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov with the residents of Reutov, Kurakin told OVD-Info.

The Prosecutor General's Office requested from law enforcement agencies information and materials confirming the existence of threats to the foundations of the constitutional order of Russia, the country's defense capability or the security of the state on the part of the Jehovah's Witnesses, the reports Ekho Severa newspaper .

In Reutov, before the visit of the governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov, a local oppositionist, a candidate for the Moscow Regional Duma Andrei Kurakin, was detained. He told Kasparov.ru that he was taken to the police in connection with his own beating. Kurakin, as chairman of the HOA in Reutov, won a case against the Tsentrstroy group of companies in arbitration.

Hello! We continue to raise money for the work of the monitoring group. Thanks to everyone who has already supported us. You can help OVD-Info here. The important news of the past week was the release from custody of St. Petersburg architect Sergei Akhmetov, who is accused of snatching a policeman’s shoulder strap at a gathering in support of Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov on July 18, 2013, where, apparently, he was not present.