The head of the Ukrainian Cultural Center, Leonid Kuzmin, was forced to leave Crimea because of the threats he received. about it Writes "Crimea. Realii" with reference to Kuzmin. He said he decided to leave the peninsula after "persuasive conversations." The head of the center received various messages saying that he was facing the fate of Volodymyr Balukh, a Ukrainian activist convicted of possession of explosives and ammunition.

The criminal prosecution of the leaders of the "Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus" Andrey Rudomakha and Dmitry Shevchenko was discontinued for lack of involvement. This was reported to OVD-Info by the lawyer of the International Human Rights Group "Agora" Alexander Popkov. He noted that the case itself was not stopped - it will be suspended due to the absence of persons to be held accountable.

The authorities of Syktyvkar refused to agree on a rally and a picket on the topic of the unsatisfactory work of public transport to activists of the Syktyvkar-Bus group. about this . writes The portal "7 × 7" The rally was planned to be held on September 2 near the city administration. In their refusal, the authorities referred to the regional law, according to which rallies cannot be held closer than 50 meters from the entrance to buildings where local governments are located.

The Murmansk administration did not give the activists of the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny a rally against the governor Marina Kovtun. This was reported to OVD-Info by Violetta Grudina, coordinator of the headquarters. In the refusal, the authorities noted that the declared territory is adjacent directly to the gymnasium. At the same time, on June 12, a rally against corruption was held in the same territory. The rally was scheduled for September 10th.

An activist from the Obninsk branch of the Union of Communist Youth told OVD-Info that on August 31, during the “Select and Divide” action in the local Hyde Park, Anatoly Moskalev, an employee of the city administration, took away the newspaper “Other Russia” from him. According to the activist, Moskalev took the newspaper from the bag with his belongings, which was lying on the bench, and did not return it at the request of the owner, but took it with him.

Photo: "Apple" In Yaroslavl, the police took the 130,000th circulation of the election newspaper of the local branch of the Yabloko party at 9 am. The seizure protocol was not drawn up, according to the party’s website. The police referred to an anonymous statement that the newspaper allegedly contains illegal materials. According to them, the circulation will be checked for the presence of such materials in it. “This can take about 10 days - just before the day of voting,” the party said.

In Krasnoyarsk, the investigator refused to initiate a criminal case on the creation of a computer virus against Leonid Volkov, the head of the federal headquarters of Alexei Navalny. Volkov writes about this on his Twitter. All seized equipment was returned to headquarters.

Ukrainian citizen Stanislav Klykh, sentenced to 20 years in a maximum security colony on charges of participating in hostilities in Chechnya in the 1990s, showed up at the Regional Psychoneurological Hospital of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Magnitogorsk. “Grani.ru” wrote about this on August 31. Ru" with a link to a Facebook post by lawyer Ilya Novikov.

Investigator Aleksey Severilov, who is in charge of the case of schoolboy Mikhail Galyashkin, singled out materials on the use of violence against a young man during detention into a separate proceeding. About this writes "Open Russia" with reference to the lawyer Sergei Badamshin. Galyashkin is accused of spraying pepper spray in the face of a member of the National Guard during a rally on June 12.