In Tuva, journalist Oyuma Dongak was fined 1,000 rubles for reposting a four-year-old The New Times article. It is reported by MBH Media. Dongak was found guilty of public display of Nazi symbols (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of the photograph of the "Union of German Girls", which was an illustration for the article . The judge refused to call the author of the material Artur Solomonov as a witness and to conduct a cultural examination of the article.

The FSB tapped the phone and read the e-mail of BlogSochi editor Alexander Valov, accused of extorting 300,000 rubles from a local official. about this after receiving the case materials . , spoke Alexander Popkov, one of his lawyers and an employee of the Agora international human rights group On July 26, 2016, the Central District Court of Sochi allowed the Federal Security Service of the Krasnodar Territory to listen to the phone, read Valov's email, and monitor him.

In Moscow, Artem Vorobyov, a member of the nationalist Black Bloc, and former member of the association, lawyer Dmitry Makarov, were arrested in connection with an extremism case. The coordinator of the "Association of People's Resistance" Dmitry Karasev spoke about Vorobyov's detention. According to him, Vorobyov is charged under Articles 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of hatred or enmity) and 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism). He is a suspect in the case.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan approved a fine of 10 thousand rubles to the activist of the Libertarian Party Svetlana Krylova. This is reported by "Idel. Realities". On July 12, the Vakhitovsky District Court found Krylova guilty of violating the rules for holding an event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of her participation in the “opposition walk”.

Director Oleg Sentsov, who has been on a hunger strike since May 14, said in a letter to his sister Natalya Kaplan that he hardly gets up. She wrote on Facebook about her brother's condition: Everything is not just bad, everything is catastrophically bad. Oleg gave me a letter through a lawyer, he hardly gets up. He wrote that the end is near, and he is not about liberation. He asks if anyone else is interested in his hunger strike, no letters are handed over to him, no!

The Saratov Regional Court upheld compensation for journalist Sergei Vilkov, who was accused of slandering a deputy of the provincial Duma Sergei Kurikhin. about this Vilkov wrote on his Facebook page. Thus, the regional court upheld the decision of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Saratov that Vilkov should receive compensation in the amount of 150,000 rubles for unlawful prosecution in the libel case.

At Moscow's Domodedovo airport, FSB border guards stopped Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina and prevented her from taking a flight to London. about this with reference to Alyokhina herself. writes Mediazona She told the publication that the passport control officer, having seen the activist’s passport, immediately called somewhere and “almost said something in a whisper into the phone.” The girl said that Alyokhina's documents require additional verification.

The St. Petersburg City Court overturned the fine for disobeying the police to Natalya Voznesenskaya, a participant in the May Day demonstration. This was reported on the “Public Verdict” foundation’s Facebook page with reference to Voznesenskaya’s defender Ernest Mezak.

Ukrainian citizen Stanislav Klykh, sentenced to 20 years in a maximum security colony on charges of murdering Russian military personnel during the First Chechen War, was transferred from a psychiatric hospital to a colony. Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova wrote about this on Facebook. According to Denisova, she spoke with Klykh’s mother Tamara: the woman managed to communicate with her son by phone - something she had previously been denied.

In the courts of Cheboksary and Tsivilsk, Anton Kravchenko, coordinator of Open Russia in Chuvashia, was fined a total of 11,000 rubles. It is reported by "Idel. Realities". Kravchenko was found guilty of carrying out the activities of an undesirable organization (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

In Kurgan, local resident Evgeniy Lesovoy was sentenced to two years in a penal colony for messages in one of the Artpodgotovka chats. This was reported on the website of the regional Investigative Committee. The Kurgan City Court found the man guilty of public calls for extremist activities via the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code).

In the Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg, LGBT activists Alexander Khmelev and Vyacheslav Vereshchagin were fined for a series of one-man pickets on Palace Square on August 4. This was reported to OVD-Info by human rights activist Dinar Idrisov. Judge Oleg Tikhomirov found Khmelev and Vereshchagin guilty of repeated violation of the procedure for holding the event (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and fined 170 and 150 thousand rubles, respectively.