In Moscow, members of Pussy Riot were detained, who, in police uniform, ran onto the field during the final match of the World Cup. Information appeared on the website of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate that they were taken to the territorial police department. Mediazona, citing a source familiar with the situation, writes that the members of Pussy Riot were taken to the Luzhniki police station.

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested for five days Yegor Ekimov, who was detained the day before with a poster against the World Cup. Ekimov himself reported this. OVD-InfoPiketchik was found guilty under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (holding a public event without filing a notification). Ekimov on July 14, when he stood in a single picket detained with a drawing by Ukrainian artist Andrei Ermolenko criticizing the World Cup.

The administration of Cheboksary refused to coordinate a rally in support of the LGBT community. A copy of the notice is posted on the meeting page on VKontakte. In their response, officials referred to the law prohibiting propaganda of non-traditional relationships among minors. They also considered that the event could harm the health, moral and spiritual development of children (Part 1, Article 14 of the Law “On Basic Guarantees of the Rights of the Child in the Russian Federation”).

Sofiko Arifjanova after the attack / photo from the telegram channel Alexander Savelyev In Krasnodar, two unknown people in medical masks spray pepper gas to journalists and participants in the Moloko Plus team Sofiko Arifjanov and Pavel Nikulin. The local activist Alexander Savelyev, who became an eyewitness to the incident, was informed about this on the hotline of the OVD-Info. In the telegram channel Moloko Plus wrote that the attackers shouted “Hallow Ukraine”.

On the border with Finland, three activists of Open Russia, Evgeny Litvinov, Peter Trofimov and Svetlana Utkin, were detained. This is written in the telegram channel of movement. The detainees planned to deploy a “freedom of political prisoner” during a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump in Helsinki.