In the Rostov region, law enforcement agencies detained two participants in a convoy of farmers and truck drivers that had left the Krasnodar Territory for Moscow the day before. Rosbalt reports this with reference to truck driver Andrei Bazhutin. As Bazhutin explains, a riot police vehicle arrived at the activists’ parking lot blocked by the police in the Rostov region. Two truck drivers, Rustam Mallamagomedov and Sergei Vladimirov, began recording a video. They were immediately detained.

A convoy of farmers and truckers that had left the Krasnodar Territory for Moscow the day before was blocked in the Rostov Region on the afternoon of August 22. Rosbalt writes about this with reference to truck driver Sergei Vladimirov. The incident occurred when the convoy stopped to rest in the village of Dorozhnoe. “We were surrounded by special services, police, traffic police, security forces - they are blocking us, like in Khimki.

As reports the daughter of the deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Ilmi Umerov, Aishe Umerov, on Facebook, the family is being monitored. She explains that her brother noticed the surveillance. Relatives are afraid of abductions. On our morning visit to my father, my brother noticed a white Lada Priora following us with numbers 193 of the Russian region. And now, when he went to visit his father, again the same car follows him. I got to the hospital, the girl writes.

On August 22, it became known that a new criminal investigation had been launched against nationalist Dmitry Demushkin on charges of publishing an “extremist” picture on a social network. Demushkin told OVD-Info about this by phone. The investigation appointed a new examination in Kazan, although the nationalist's defense insisted on conducting an examination at Demushkin's place of residence - in Moscow.

On August 22, the St. Petersburg Central Internal Affairs Directorate announced that a decision had been made to forcibly deport a 46-year-old citizen of one of the neighboring states. The Fontanka publication reports that this citizen is Ukrainian Pavel Duchenko, director of the international charitable foundation Open Heart. The Migration Department decided to deport Duchenko because he did not voluntarily leave Russia.

On August 19, the Kirovo-Chepetsky District Court of the Kirov Region refused to replace the punishment for Ukrainian Alexander Kostenko, who was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on charges of causing harm to the health of a Berkut employee in Kiev and illegal possession of weapons, to a milder one. It is reported on August 22 "Crimea. Realii” with reference to post by Kostenko’s lawyer Dmitry Sotnikov.

Left Bloc activist Danil Alferyev was detained on August 22 after a search of his rented apartment in Moscow. Presumably, they are going to forcibly transport him to Ulyanovsk, where a criminal case may be brought against him. Friends of the activist reported this. OVD-InfoAs reported by Left Bloc activist Grigory Oganezov, Alferyev called him on the morning of Monday, August 22, and said that unknown people in civilian clothes were breaking into his apartment on Varshavskoe Highway.

Farmers from the Krasnodar region, who left for Moscow on August 21 on 17 tractors from the village of Kazanskaya with the intention of obtaining a meeting with the federal authorities, were repeatedly stopped on the road. This was written on August 22 on Twitter by the director of the Galkinskoye agricultural enterprise Vasily Melnichenko.

The founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny, on August 1, appealed to the Supreme Court demanding an acquittal in the “Kirovles case” based on the decision of the ECtHR . writes about this on August 22 . newspaper The Kommersant Navalny's lawyers sent an appeal to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe with a request to facilitate the execution of the ECHR decision and the revision of the verdict, Kommersant reports.