In St. Petersburg, at a people's gathering dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the August coup, the police detained five people. Among the detainees on whom protocols are drawn up at the police department are Yana Turbova, Aleksey Kiryanov and 75-year-old Igor Andreev, also known as Stepanych. The names of two more detainees, as well as the number of the police department where the participants of the gathering are located, are unknown at the time of writing.

On August 18, a resident of Pskov, Dmitry K., published information on his page on the social network VKontakte that the police were investigating him. The reason for the check was the placement by Dmitry K. of Alexei Navalny’s video about the United Russia party, which in 2013 was recognized by the Novosibirsk court as extremist material due to the fact that it allegedly contains statements that negatively evaluate people belonging to the United Russia party.

RBC journalist Alexander Sokolov was charged with organizing the activities of an extremist organization. Sokolov will now have to familiarize himself with the case materials. It is reported by RBC with reference to Sokolov's lawyer Dmitry Dinze. Alexander Sokolov, according to the new charge, is charged with article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization that was banned in Russia).

The trade union activist from Magnitogorsk, Olesya Romanova, who left Russia, received another message from the senior operative of the economic security department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Chelyabinsk Region Alexander Amalikov, who is engaged in her criminal case. This is written on the blog by her husband, trade union activist Andrei Romanov.

On August 19, FSB officers searched the apartment of Fyodor Maryasov, co-chairman of the Krasnoyarsk environmental organization Nature of Siberia. about this on Twitter . wrote Pavel Chikov Two representatives of the FSB came to the ecologist's apartment, located in ZATO (closed administrative-territorial formation) Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, together with attesting witnesses and a search warrant issued by a court decision.

In St. Petersburg, five people were detained at a public gathering dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the August putsch. Rosbalt reports this. The police detained three people standing with posters in support of democratic forces, a picketer with two banners, one of which read “Russia needs freedom,” while taking photographs of the protest participants together on the steps of the Mariinsky Palace, as well as a man with the Russian tricolor in his hands and obscene inscription on a T-shirt.

In the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, a trial has begun against Khasavyurt Imam Magomednabi Magomedov, who is accused of promoting terrorism and inciting hatred. Most of the listeners in the case today are located in the corridor of the court, since the hall did not accommodate everyone, they were given the right to watch the hearing on the broadcast, reports .

The Greenpeace Russia expedition on Taimyr encountered unexpectedly strong opposition. To hide environmental disorders in the lower Yenisei, activists have not been released from the city of Dudinka of the Krasnoyarsk Territory for a week, the Greenpeace website reports . The engines of the two boats that were checked in Moscow, after delivery by the transport company, were faulty.

Kuban activist Daria Polyudova, who received two years for posts on the social network VKontakte, which were regarded as calls for extremism and separatism, filed an appeal against the decision of the Leninsky District Court of Novorossiysk, which released her on August 10. Another Krasnodar activist Nina Solovyova, who visited Polyudova the day before, spoke about this on her Facebook page. The colony-settlement refused parole, reported the colony-settlement.

A retired couple has been charged with illegal tree felling. Pensioners fought to preserve the green spaces of Sochi and claim that they were avenged for this struggle, writes "Caucasian Knot".

It remains unknown whether the criminal case has been instituted after the attack of the pro -Kremlin activists from the movements of the Serb and the GCD on the anti -war picket of "solidarity" on August 13. The “Tithers” attacked the picketers right in front of the video cameras, and also hit the policeman.

The editor-in-chief of Mezhdu Rows, Natalya Vakhonin, who is suspected of extremism, was interrogated by an investigator on August 19, where she gave an obligation to appear. This is written by the News Agency "Mezhdu Rows". This measure of procedural coercion implies that Vakhonin should appear before the investigator if necessary, but does not limit her freedom of movement - Vakhonin retains the ability to travel both outside Nizhny Tagil and Russia.

Ural video blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky is being checked by police for a video in which he catches Pokémon in a church in Yekaterinburg, reports. Life.ru With this video, Sokolovsky protested against attempts to restrict the new popular smartphone game in Russia.