On August 18, FSB officers of Russia took the deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Ilmi Umerov, from the hospital in Simferopol, where he is being treated , for a psychiatric examination. about this on Facebook The first deputy head of the Mejlis, Nariman Celal, wrote . According to Dzhelal, the detainee was transferred from the hospital to a psychiatric dispensary located on Rosa Luxembourg Street in Simferopol, reports the Crimea.ru portal . Realities".

RBC journalist Alexander Sokolov, who has been in pre-trial detention for more than a year in a case of extremism, complained about illegal detention due to exceeding the arrest deadline and demanded immediate release. Sokolov’s defense filed a corresponding petition with the Moscow prosecutor’s office. For the same reasons, the defense demanded the release of the defendants in the case, Valery Parfenov and the famous publicist Yuri Mukhin.

On August 18, the Moscow District Military Court sentenced Patimat Gadzhiyeva, a fifth-year student at the Sechenov Medical University in the capital, who posted symbols of the Islamic State banned in Russia on her page on the VKontakte social network, to a fine of 400,000 rubles. It is reported by RAPSI.

The Moscow City Hall refused to coordinate the action dedicated to the anniversary of the 191st Putch, in the center of the capital, one of its organizers, a member of Solidarity, Mikhail Schneider, told Echo of Moscow. The authorities refer to road work and “possible interference with pedestrians”. The authorities proposed to transfer the mourning action on August 20 from the scene of the defenders of the White House to Hyde Park in Sokolniki, and the rally on Suvorovskaya Square.

Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, restricted access to five web resources with information about the boycott of the Duma elections, including through actions of mass disobedience, Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Vorobyov told RIA Novosti at a meeting on preparations for the elections. “Information was posted on the Internet aimed at boycotting the upcoming elections to the State Duma, including through the so-called actions of mass disobedience.

On August 17 in Moscow, in front of the building of the permanent representation of the Republic of Karelia under the President of Russia, defenders of the Gold of the White Sea camp, closed by the Karelian authorities after the mass death of children on Syamozero, were planning to hold a picket in support of its arrested director Denis Orlov, reports the Chernika portal . According to "Chernika", there have never been any pickets near the Karelian representative office.

A special website will be created for street artists, where it will be possible to book a venue for themselves. this Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced on the air of the radio station "Moscow Speaking". “I consider it a stupid situation when people who absolutely do not interfere with anyone, play classical, some other music, act so harshly. This issue has not been resolved. What to take from the police? She is doing her job.