Activists Dmitry Zhdanov and Viktor Kapitonov, who today tried to hold a rally dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine, near the embassy of this country in Moscow, were released home. This was reported by Zhdanov on the OVD-Info hotline. For several hours the police persuaded Zhdanov, who is in a wheelchair, Kapitonov and Vladimir Malov to go with them to the police station, but they refused.

On August 24, the Prosecutor General's Office suggested that the participants of the "tractor march" who are trying to get to Moscow to resolve problems with the land, write complaints to the supervisory agency. This was stated by the official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office Alexander Kurennoy, writes "Notepad".

On August 24, the Aksai District Court of the Rostov Region fined at least five participants in the "tractor march" from Krasnodar to Moscow. It is reported by RIA Novosti. The representative of the court said that the court had fined these farmers 10,000 rubles, while the rest of the trials are ongoing. “The court issued a fine to five farmers.

governor of the Rostov region, Irina Chetvertakova, head of the press service for On August 24, Novaya Gazeta journalists Elena Kostyuchenko and Anna Artemyeva were not allowed to attend a meeting of the starving miners with the the governor of the Rostov region. The meeting takes place in the city of Gukovo. “You are not accredited and have not passed security checks. Only proven press works at this meeting, ”Novaya Gazeta quotes Chetvertakova as saying.

It turned out that the court of the city of Aksay, Rostov region, arrested truck driver and activist of the Association of Carriers of Russia movement Sergei Vladimirov for 10 days at the protest tractor march on August 23. Olga Reznikova reported this by calling the hotline. detainee OVD-InfoAccording to her, Vladimirov was charged with Art. 20.2 of the Administrative Code (violation of the procedure for organizing a public event).

On August 24, the police drew up a police report for Dagestani truck driver Rustam Malamagomedov for “violating the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picketing,” under Article 20.2. Code of Administrative Offences. Rosbalt reports this. Malamagomedov was beaten on the evening of August 23 after he began filming police officers near farm tractors in Dorozhny.

In St. Petersburg on August 24, during a meeting with voters in Polyustrovskiy Park, PARNAS candidate Andrei Pivovarov and Open Russia coordinator Vladimir Kara-Murza were detained. this on Twitter . announced Civic activist Nikolai Levshits

At the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow, the police are trying to persuade activists Viktor Kapitonov, Dmitry Zhdanov and Vladimir Malov to go with them to the police station. Olga Mazurova reported this to OVD-Info on the hotline. Zhdanov is a disabled person and uses a wheelchair. He refuses to follow the police because it is simply physically difficult for him to drive in an ordinary passenger car. In addition, he believes that he did not violate any laws.

Journalist Arseniy Vesnin wrote on his Twitter that an activist, Igor Andreev, was detained at a rally in St. Petersburg dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine.

The police prevented the activists Dmitry Zhdanov and Viktor Kapitonov to hold an action by the Embassy of Ukraine in honor of the Independence Day of this country. For two hours, the police have been holding them on the street under the trump card of the nearest building. They say that they are waiting for the car in order to take the activists to the Presnensky police department.

Sergei Vladimirov, a member of the Association of Carriers of Russia (OPR), who was detained yesterday in the village of Dorozhny on a tractor march, cannot be found. This was reported by Elena Filippova by phone to the OVD-Info hotline. Vladimirov, who met with farmers from the Krasnodar region in the Rostov region in order to support their protest action, was detained on the morning of August 23 in Dorozhny, where the tractor march was blocked by police.

The secretary of the Krasnodar branch of the Communists of Russia party, Mikhail Abrahamyan, who was taken away on August 22 in an unknown direction by people in civilian clothes, got in touch. This was reported on August 24 by the Internet publication "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the party. Abrahamyan traveled from Krasnodar to the Stavropol Territory for debates on local television, as well as to participate in a picket near the regional administration building.

On August 24, the Aksai District Court of the Rostov Region fined two participants of the "tractor march" detained the day before, each 10,000 rubles. This was reported on Facebook by civil activist Vladislav Ryazantsev. Meetings on the rest of the detainees (in total, about sixty people were taken to the stations, 12 activists were left in custody) have not yet begun. The march participants are charged with art.

Law enforcement officers came to the Church of the Archangel Raphael belonging to the "True Orthodox Church" (TOC) with a search. This was reported on August 24 by the Interfax news agency. Headed by the Archbishop of Moscow, Metropolitan of All Russia Raphael (Motovilov), the TOC is not part of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 2015, the Basmanny Court of Moscow recognized one of the brochures written by Metropolitan Raphael as extremist material.

In Voronezh, on August 24, truckers were detained on their way to the Rostov region to help protesting Kuban farmers. This is reported by Novaya Gazeta. At about 12 noon, a group of truckers was stopped by the police for the seventh check in the last two days.