In St. Petersburg, the investigation asked that Eduard Nikitin, a disabled person of the second group, be sent for compulsory treatment, accused of inciting hatred or enmity because of a joke on VKontakte. This is reported by Interfax. In the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg, the consideration of the case began behind closed doors. The case against Nikitin under Article 282 of the Criminal Code was initiated in 2017.

The Moscow prosecutor's office did not find any grounds for responding to the actions of law enforcement agencies in the “New Greatness” case, since it did not detect incitement of the defendants. RBC reports this with reference to the response of the prosecutor's office to State Duma deputy Valery Rashkin.

The Sovetsky District Court of Bryansk extended until September 15 the arrest of Denis Bakholdin, accused of participating in the Right Sector volunteer battalion recognized as extremist during military operations in the Donbass. This was reported to OVD-Info by lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina, representing the interests of Bakholdin. Sidorkina filed a complaint against Bakholdin's detention with the investigative committee and the prosecutor's office.

In Moscow, the coordinator of the "Left Front" Sergei Udaltsov, who was arrested for 30 days, was transferred from the hospital back to the detention center. It is reported by Interfax with reference to his wife Anastasia Udaltsova. According to her, Udaltsov was transferred despite the fact that he "feels unsatisfactory." In addition, the police did not allow the activist to hand over personal belongings.

The coordinator of the Sverdlovsk branch of Open Russia, Maxim Vernikov, received a summons from the prosecutor's office demanding to appear "to resolve the issue of initiating a case" on the activities of an "undesirable" organization. this He announced on his Facebook page.

On August 17, the defendants in the “Network” case, Viktor Filinkov and Yuli Boyarshinov, were taken from pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Nizhny Novgorod to Penza. This was reported by the Rupression telegram channel. In mid-July, it became known that Filinkov and another person involved in the Network case, Yulia Boyarshinov, were going to be transferred to Penza for investigative actions.

The police of the city of Berezovsky, Sverdlovsk region, demanded to disperse the residents who gathered for a spontaneous public gathering after the murder of 20-year-old Dmitry Rudakov. about this. writes The portal 66.ru About 50 local residents gathered on the square in the city center. They tried to collect signatures for holding a rally on August 24 for an objective investigation into the murder.

Anastasia Udaltsova, wife of Left Front coordinator Sergei Udaltsov, tweeted about two arrests during solo pickets in his support. According to her, the police considered that there were not 50 meters between the picketers. Sergei Udaltsov was arrested for 30 days, accused of "destroying portraits of persons resembling state leaders" at a rally against pension reform. He declared a dry hunger strike. On August 19, the activist was hospitalized , but he continued to starve in the hospital.

On July 28, the Pervomaisky District Court sentenced Ukrainian citizen Roman Ternovsky to two years and three months in a general regime colony in the case of participation in the Right Sector organization, a recognized extremist organization in Russia. On the website of the Investigative Committee on August 20, the decision came into force.