The Kirovsky District Court in Yekaterinburg arrested Boris Redchenko, a participant in a solitary picket against the construction of a church on the water, for seven days. about this. writes The URA.RU portal Redchenko was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules for holding a public event under Part 8 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. For the first time, the court found him guilty after the action against corruption on March 26.

The former coordinator of the Association of Russian Carriers in Ryazan, Alexei Borisov, was detained at a distance of a kilometer from the plant site, where Vladimir Putin's helicopter was supposed to land. Half an hour before the arrival of President Borisov, traffic police officers stopped him and asked him to show documents, writes . the 7 × 7 portal “I admit that I had violations: I did not have an insurance policy with me, I was driving on winter tires.

On August 24, the Central District Court of Tyumen arrested Alexander Kunilovsky, coordinator of the local campaign headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny, for seven days for violating the rules for organizing a public rally (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). about this Kunilovsky writes on his Twitter. On August 22, came a police officer in civilian clothes to the headquarters and handed Kunilovskiy a summons to draw up a protocol.

On August 24, the Moscow Regional Court finally acquitted Jehovah's Witnesses Vyacheslav Stepanov and Andrei Sivak, they were accused of inciting hatred and enmity (Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code). The European Association of Christian Jehovah's Witnesses reports this in its newsletter. The court upheld the acquittal in July by the city court. issued by Sergiev Posadsky The case against the elders of the Jehovah's Witnesses community was initiated in April 2013.

At a court hearing in Rostov-on-Don, the state prosecution requested a year in a penal colony for Igor Oleinik, a supporter of the PARNAS party, who is accused of extremism for reposting on social networks. about this . writes The "Caucasian Knot" According to the public prosecutor, Oleinik's guilt has been proven and confirmed by the testimony of witnesses, his actions have been qualified correctly.

The prosecutor's office of the Central District of St. Petersburg returned the case of the nationalist Dina Garina to the Investigative Committee to eliminate violations and conduct an additional investigation. This was reported to OVD-Info by the lawyer of the International Human Rights Group "Agora" Vitaly Cherkasov.

Murmansk blogger Aleksandr Serebryanikov began receiving death threats after he published an investigation into the family of Governor Marina Kovtun and tax fraud. about this with reference to the blogger himself. writes Novaya Gazeta The text tells how the governor of the Murmansk region allegedly agreed with several companies to reduce tax payments in exchange for gifts and good positions for the children of the governor.

Leonid Volkov, the chief of staff of Russian presidential candidate Alexei Navalny, tweeted that the owner of the premises on Gilyarovsky Street, which now houses Navalny's headquarters in Moscow, sent a notice of early termination of the lease. The landlord does not name specific reasons for terminating the contract, indicating only that he urgently needed the premises for his own needs.

On August 23, the Moscow City Court upheld the suspended prison sentence for Dubki Park defender Dmitry Boynov. This is stated in the information on his case on the website of the courts of general jurisdiction of the city of Moscow. Earlier, Boinov was sentenced to three years and three months of probation with a probationary period of three and a half years on charges of beating (Part 2 of Article 116 of the Criminal Code) and hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, during a single picket, the police detained a candidate for deputies Alena Lapteva. Ksenia Li and Denis Kim were also detained, they did not participate in the picket, but were simply nearby. About this writes "Medazona" with reference to the lawyer Natalia Kasilova. At the police station, everyone was asked to write explanations.

In Simferopol, at the Railway Station, police detained activists of the Ukrainian Cultural Center Galina Baloban and Alena Popova. about this on Facebook . writes Journalist Anton Naumlyuk The police said that the activists were targeted and that they were engaged in "illegal activities." Saker and Popova were brought to the Zheleznodorozhny District Department of Internal Affairs, where, after a preventive conversation with a police officer, the girls were released without charge.

The Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested Alexander Eyvazov, the former secretary of the court session of the Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg, for two months. about this writes Interfax with reference to the message of the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg. As notes on Facebook, the decision was made on August 24 late at night.

Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, convicted in the Bolotnaya case, was released early in the morning of August 24. This was reported on the “Public Verdict” Foundation’s Facebook page. Nepomnyashchy was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on charges of participating in mass riots that allegedly took place on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6, 2012, and of using violence against police officers. He served his sentence in correctional colony No. 1 of the Yaroslavl region.