A witness in the New Greatness case, identified in the materials as Ruslan D., told Dozhd that he does not work for the special services. “I am not an employee, agent, informant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, the Investigative Committee, the Russian Guard, the prosecutor’s office and others, and in any other relationship, except as a witness in the case, I am not affiliated with these structures,” he told the publication.

In Moscow, ten participants in a rally in support of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov were detained at the monument to Griboyedov. This was reported by one of the detainees, Konstantin Kotov. OVD-InfoThe reason for the detention was not explained to the protesters. According to Kotov, the detention took place in a rude manner. Now the detainees are being taken to the police station in the Basmanny District.

In Ulyanovsk, Lyudmila Shishkina, director of School No. 72 and a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, went on a hunger strike due to the fact that, following an inspection, city officials did not accept her school for the new academic year. about this on August 20.

The Petrozavodsk City Court has extended until October 26 the arrest of Yuri Dmitriev, a historian and head of the local Memorial Human Rights Center, who is accused of sexually assaulting his own adopted daughter. This is reported by 7x7. Yuri Dmitriev was arrested on June 28, on the same day he was charged with sexual assault against a person under the age of 14 (part 4 of article 132 of the Criminal Code).

The Moscow Regional Court upheld a fine to the coordinator of the Serpukhov branch of the "Left Bloc" Stanislav Kiryushkin, who was appointed for filing a notice to hold a picket against the pension reform. He himself informed OVD-Info about this.

Three alleged followers of Jehovah's Witnesses were detained in the city of Elizovo, Kamchatka Territory. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. A 41-year-old man, his 40-year-old wife and their 71-year-old friend are suspected of organizing the activities of a banned religious association (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

In Rostov-on-Don, a judge of the North Caucasus District Military Court returned the materials of the Yalta Hizb ut-Tahrir case to the prosecutor's office in order to re-draw the indictment. about this with reference to the lawyer of the Agora International Human Rights Group Aleksey Ladin, who represents the interests of one of the defendants in the Emir-Usein Kuku case.

Publicist Boris Stomakhin, sentenced to seven years in prison, spoke in a letter to Natalya Gorilskaya about threats from a prison officer in the city of Balashov. He stated that "one of the local chiefs" burst into his cell, kicked him in the legs and was about to hit him in the face. In addition, according to Stomakhin, the officer threatened him with a punishment cell and daily beatings in the punishment cell.

The Kirov administration refused to approve the rally and procession dedicated to the Day of the State Flag of the Russian Federation on August 22. This was announced by the event organizer Vadim Ananyin. A copy of the authorities' notice is at the disposal of the editors.

In Moscow, the activists of the “Left Front” Denis Nosov and Lev Skoryakin were detained at the State Duma building for the action with a coffin symbolizing the funeral of United Russia. Nosov himself reported this by the OVD-info. Photo: coffin / photo provided by Oleg Mokryakov According to Nosov, the coffin was part of the action against increasing the retirement age. Activists were taken to the police department in China-Gorod, so far they are not accused of anything.

In St. Petersburg on August 19, an unknown attacked activists of the Solidarity of St. Petersburg and Democratic Petersburg Elena Grigoryev, Vladimir Shipitsyn, Olga Smirnov and Vsevolod Neelaev. The human rights activist Dinar Idrisov spoke about this on Facebook. According to him, activists were shaeped after a memorable action near the Mariinsky Palace. They held in their hands packages with cleaned protest posters, as well as expanded Russian and Ukrainian flags.