In the capital of Crimea, on August 20, police officers did not allow the previously agreed rally “Deceived Crimea” to be held. The organizers of the event, ataman of the Crimean Cossacks Sergey Akimov and the chairman of the Crimean Anti-Corruption Committee, Ilya Bolshedvorov, as well as activist Anna Shaulskaya, were detained. The incident is reported by the portal “Crimea.

On August 20, journalist Yulia Latynina was attacked in Moscow, at the place where she parks her car. According to Latynina, there were two attackers. They doused the journalist with feces, writes . Ekho Moskvy According to Latynina, the attackers were well prepared. “One of them was wearing a motorcycle helmet so that he could not be identified. The second was waiting on a motorcycle, ”the journalist quoted the publication as saying.

In Moscow, on August 20, near the Tretyakovskaya metro station, employees of the metro police department detained civil activist Mark Galperin. He reported this to the OVD-Info hotline. In his hands was a poster "Creating a movement for a change of power." According to the activist, he had repeatedly held a solo picket in the same place - in front of McDonald's, but the police were interested in him for the first time. It turned out that a certain man complained about Galperin.

Those detained in St. Petersburg at a people's gathering dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the August putsch of 1991 were released from police station No. 2. Unfortunately, there are no details regarding the protocols drawn up. Among the detainees were Yana Turbova, Aleksey Kiryanov and 75-year-old Igor Andreev, also known as Stepanych. The names of two other detainees are unknown at the time of writing.

Those detained in St. Petersburg at a people's gathering dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the August putsch of 1991 are in police station No. 2.

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. This week, many people's attention was focused on the trial of Patimat Gadzhieva, who was charged with publicly calling for terrorism for reposting materials related to the Islamic State. The prosecutor demanded that Gadzhieva be sentenced to four years in a penal colony, but the court limited herself to a fine .