Judge Artur Karpov of the Basmanny District Court decided to deport Novaya Gazeta journalist Ali Feruz (Khudoberdy Nurmatov) “by forced deportation across the border.” In addition, Feruz was fined 5 thousand rubles. Novaya's special correspondent Ekaterina Fomina reports this. Feruz must be detained until deportation. Thus, the court sided with the police; against the journalist, the protocol under Part 3.1 of Art.

The city court of Zelenodolsk in Tatarstan declared illegal the refusal of the city authorities to agree on a picket for Navalny's supporters. This was reported on the website "Idel. Realities". On June 23, the executive committee of Zelenodolsk refused to agree on a picket in support of the nomination of Alexei Navalny in the presidential elections.

The Sovetsky District Court of Ulan-Ude fined Deputy of the People's Khural of Buryatia Bair Tsyrenov was fined 10 thousand rubles for picketing near the parliament building. Rosbalt reports this.

On August 1, the Collegium for Military Personnel of the Supreme Court of Russia rejected the appeal of the defense of the imam of the Moscow Yardyam Mosque, Makhmud Velitov, who was sentenced to three years in prison in the case of public justification of terrorism. Interfax reports this. “The verdict of the Moscow District Military Court of April 28, 2017 regarding Velitov Makhmud Abdulkhakovich is left unchanged, the appeal is not satisfied,” the Supreme Court decision says.

In Kurgan, on August 1, representatives of the city hall in the presence of police officers tore off the campaign picket of volunteers of the local election headquarters Alexei Navalny. The action took place in the Gide Park zone in the Central Park of Culture and Rest on a special platform allotted for public events. This was reported in the group "Navalny's team | Kurgan" on the social network "VKontakte".

The international intergovernmental organization of the criminal police Interpol has stopped the search for the leader of the art group "Voina" Oleg "The Thief" Vorotnikov, considering the request to search for the activist from Russia politically motivated. This was reported on the Free War website. The request for the arrest and extradition of Vorotnikov to Russia was removed from the Interpol website, as was his file.

The lawyer of the defendant in the “March 26 Case” Stanislav Zimovets, Svetlana Sidorkina, filed an appeal against the sentence of the Tverskoy District Court, Zimovets to two and a half years in prison. The lawyer reported this. The lawyer who sent the OVD-InfoV complaint asked to acquit the client due to the fact that during the trial the prosecution provided procedurally unacceptable evidence of Zimovets’ guilt, but the court did not give this a proper assessment.

On August 1, the St. Petersburg City Court dismissed the appeal filed by the defense of Maxim Reznik, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, against the decision to arrest him. about this on his Facebook page . wrote Lawyer Sergei Golubok “Judge Shirokova left the decision of the judge of the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg Vasyukov unchanged, and the defense lawyer’s complaint was not satisfied,” Golubok said.

On August 1, police officers detained Kerim Fatahov on a square in the center of Makhachkala, who was holding a solo picket there demanding an objective consideration of his case in court. This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot". According to Kerim Fatakhov, over the past year he was detained twice - on October 6, 2016 and January 6, 2017, after which two criminal cases were brought against him for possession of weapons and possession of drugs.

A policeman from Kurgan threatened to detain local businessman Alexander Musienko if he went to a solo picket at the reception of the Chief Federal Inspector. As a result, the businessman refused to hold a protest, Znak.com reports citing Musienko. The previous evening, a man called the businessman and introduced himself as a police officer, Chesnokov. He asked Musiyenko about his intention to hold a one-man picket.

A report is being drawn up against Novaya Gazeta journalist Ali Feruz, who was detained on August 1 in Moscow, under Part 3.1 of Art. 18.8 of the Administrative Code (Violation by a foreign citizen of the regime of stay in the Russian Federation), which implies mandatory deportation from the country. Feruz himself spoke about this on his Facebook page, noting that they are going to take him to the Basmanny District Court.

The Smolninsky District Court again received 15 cases against the participants of the action on March 26, which were returned to the police for revision. This was announced to OVD-Info by the lawyer of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny, Daniil Semenov. We are talking about administrative cases for participation in the action under Part 5 of Art. 20.2 (Violation by a participant of the procedure for holding a public event).

In the Razdolnensky Court of Crimea on August 1, during the debate of the parties in the case of Ukrainian activist Volodymyr Balukh, the prosecutor asked the court to sentence the defendant to five years and one month in prison in a penal colony. The Ukrainian activist is accused of possession of ammunition and explosives (under part 1 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Krym. Realities".

Police in Moscow detained Novaya Gazeta journalist Ali Feruz next to the editorial office, reports . Mediazona The policemen stated that it was necessary to “identify” the journalist and took him to the Basmannoe police station. On March 16, Feruz was detained at his house. Then the journalist mentioned that he saw a man in the corridor of the police department, whom he called an employee of the special services of Uzbekistan. A protocol was drawn up against Feruz under Part 3.1 of Art.

On August 1, the Far Eastern District Military Court sentenced a 24-year-old doctor from a Krasnoyarsk hospital to two years in a colony-settlement for posting on a social network. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the FSB of Russia. The young doctor was found guilty of public calls for terrorist activities or public justification of terrorism (under Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).