In Sochi, the police tried to disrupt the meeting with voters of the candidate for the legislature of the Krasnodar Territory from the Communist Party Igor Vasiliev. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the politician himself. During the meeting with the voters, approximately ten policemen in uniform and civilian clothes surrounded Vasiliev.

In Voronezh, the detained coordinator and employee of the election headquarters of Alexei Navalny was released from the police. Headquarters employee Ekaterina Yanshina told OVD-Info about this. The police took samples from the activists for drug testing and stated the reason for the arrest. It turned out that the reason was the words of a man who was detained in June for drug possession: he said that he received prohibited substances at Navalny’s headquarters.

On the evening of August 17, police officers conducted a search at the election headquarters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Voronezh. Staff employee Ekaterina Yanshina spoke about this. OVD-InfoLaw enforcement officers searched for drugs at the headquarters, but found nothing. Afterwards, they took the coordinator and the staff member to the police department to check them for drug use. The police told the detainees to turn off their phones.

The Alushta City Court limited the editor-in-chief of Tvoyaya Gazeta Alexei Nazimov and city council member Pavel Stepanchenko, who are accused of extortion, in terms of familiarizing themselves with the materials of the criminal case. This was reported on August 17 by the publication “Crimea. Realii” with reference to lawyer Aleksey Ladin. “The judge insistently asked Nazimov and Stepanchenko how much time they needed to get acquainted with the materials of the criminal case.

Khazir Akhkubekov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, who was arrested in Gelendzhik for dancing in the street, is not allowed to visit his parents. about this The "Caucasian Knot" wrote on August 17, citing the father of the arrested man, Hussein Akhkubekov. Akhkubekov Jr. was detained along with three other people on August 12 (earlier it was reported that the detention took place on August 13) when they were dancing lezginka.

The administration of Nizhny Tagil did not agree on a picket with the use of cubes in the city center to supporters of Alexei Navalny. About this writes the agency "Mezhdu strokov" with reference to the applicant for the action, Andrei Antropov. In response, the officials indicated the reason for the postponement - on that day, a picket of the United Russia party had already been agreed in the indicated place.

The Ministry of Justice included the “Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia” and 395 of their local communities into organizations banned for extremism. Analytical center "Sova" that now ordinary believers are under the threat of criminal prosecution under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organizing the activities of an extremist organization).

On August 16, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined Aleksey Zelenov, a participant in the rally on June 12, a thousand rubles under the article on disobedience to the lawful demands of a police officer (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Zelenov reported this to the OVD-Info hotline. On June 12, two protocols were drawn up against Zelenov - under Art. 19.3 and Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for holding a public event).

An activist from the campaign headquarters of Alexei Navalny in Kurgan is called to the police in connection with the installation of a cube in the local Hyde Park. This was reported to the OVD-Info hotline by Roman Matveev, who defends activists in the police in courts. Matveev told OVD-Info that Navalny's team in Kurgan had previously notified the city organization that on August 17 a picket in support of Navalny with a "prefabricated structure" would be held in the local Hyde Park (TsPKiO).

The municipal deputy of Zamoskvorechye Igor Brumel and the leader of the pro-Kremlin movement SERB Igor Beketov filed a lawsuit against Alexei Navalny for compensation for non-pecuniary damage for one million rubles. The reason for the lawsuit was a rally on Tverskaya Square in Moscow on June 12. According to Brumel and Beketov, he disrupted the celebration of the Day of Russia. It is reported by TASS with reference to the deputy.

The Moscow mayor's office refused to agree on the ceremony of hoisting the Russian flag on August 22 at the site of the death of Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov in 1991. about this on Facebook.

On Thursday morning in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, police officers filed a protocol against Navalny's headquarters volunteer Artem Khoroshevsky for not informing them that he would not hold a campaign with a cube. This was told to OVD-Info by another volunteer of Navalny's headquarters, Sergei Sokolyuk. Protocol under Part 1 of Art.

Police officers came to work for two opposition activists in Perm. The reason for the visit was their participation in taking photographs with the “Freedom for Maltsev” poster, Rosbalt reported on August 16. Earlier it was reported that the same photo became the reason for a fine for a member of the Democratic Coalition council, Boris Erokhin. The Leninsky District Court of Perm fined him ten thousand rubles on charges of participating in an unapproved event.

The City Court of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky awarded 20 hours of compulsory work to the supporter of Alexei Navalny Ekaterina Ogneva for participating in the action on June 12. This was reported by the Kamp 24 news agency. Supporters of Navalny on June 12 stood with a banner of “Kamchatka against corruption” near the stele “City of Military Glory”.

The Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk fined the organizer of the action in memory of the children who died in the Cheremkhovo boarding school in 2016 due to an intestinal infection for 23,000 rubles. This is reported by the portal “Taiga. Info" with reference to the press service of the court. in Irkutsk were detained On August 15 , two people , who brought black boxes stylized as children's coffins to the building of the regional government.