On August 17, Judge of the Kirovsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don Alexei Fedorov found guilty of violating the law on public events the next participants in the picket "For Russia without Dictatorship", which took place on June 13 in Rostov-on-Don. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the activist of "Solidarity" Anastasia Shevchenko.

The Russian Investigative Committee in Sevastopol put on the wanted list the head of the local private school of foreign languages, Yuri Ilchenko, who was arrested by the FSB in July 2015 but later escaped from house arrest to mainland Ukraine. This was reported by the press service of the department. “In June 2016, Ilchenko Yu.G. evading the measure of restraint chosen by the court of appeal - house arrest, fled to the territory of Ukraine. Currently, Ilchenko Yu.G.

The Moscow District Military Court in St. Petersburg sentenced Eldar Ramazanov and Karim Ibragimov to 16 and 17 years in prison in a maximum security colony, finding them guilty of creating a cell of the terrorist organization "Hizb" in St. Petersburg, and Ilyas Kagirov for participation in a terrorist organization to 5 years in prison freedom in a general regime colony. About this RAPSI.

On August 16 in Perm, the police detained the artist Ilya Novikov in a costume of Christ with a wooden cross above human growth. The police delivered the artist along with the cross on the patrol car to the police station, where a preventive conversation was held with the man. After the conversation, the artist was released without charges. This was reported by the online publication "In the course".

On August 17, the Moscow District Military Court (MDMC) in St. Petersburg began a debate on charges against the alleged creators of a cell of the terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir in St. Petersburg. This was reported by the Russian Agency for Legal and Judicial Information (RAPSI).

Well-known LGBT activist Reida Lynn and Sofia Grozovskaya left Russia and asked for political asylum in France. Lynn announced this on August 17 on her Facebook page. I believe that in such situations the best thing is to leave the drunk, the abuser or the fatherland alone, and not engage in masochism...