The Kolomna City Court imposed 25 hours of compulsory labor on environmental activist Vyacheslav Egorov for organizing a rally that did not take place. MBKH Media talks about this with reference to Egorov himself. reports Judge Svetlana Belyaeva found Egorov guilty under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (organizing a public event without approval). The material on which the accusation was based was Egorov’s article in the public “NO to the Kolomna landfill” on VKontakte.

On July 26, the Central District Court of Simferopol sentenced Kharkov resident Alexander Steshenko, who was involved in the case of arson of the house of Mufti Emirali Ablaev, to two years. The CrimeaSOS portal talks about this with reference to lawyer Konstantin Rustemov. colony-settlement reports Steshenko was found guilty under Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (deliberate destruction or damage to property - arson).

In Chuvashia, Open Russia activist Yuri Sidorov was charged with an administrative case for giving a bouquet of flowers to the speaker of the local State Council, Valery Filimonov. This is reported by "7 × 7" with reference to the activist himself. Sidorov was accused of carrying out the activities of an undesirable organization on the territory of Russia (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

In the village of Pokrovskoye, Sverdlovsk Region, a 63-year-old woman was charged with an administrative case for wanting to talk to reporters about the lack of hot water in her house. This is reported by "Between the Lines". On August 1, the woman was going to meet with journalists from Vesti URAL State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, and the day before she hung up an announcement in the entrance about their arrival with an offer to take part in the meeting.

More than 200 Russian followers of the religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses have asked for political asylum in Finland. This was reported by Meduza with reference to the Finnish publication Aamulehti. In 2018 alone, about a hundred Jehovah's Witnesses came to the country. It is noted that so far the migration service has considered only 10 applications. For most of them, a decision was made to refuse, but the Russians have already appealed several refusals in court.

Anti-fascists Yuli Boyarshinov and Viktor Filinkov, defendants in the case of the terrorist community “Network,” were brought to a pre-trial detention center in Penza. This was reported by Boyarshinov’s father Nikolai. “Information from Penza, from Parental Network, that they were brought there. They also wanted to donate medicine, but apparently that won’t work. We've just arrived. Shishkin is apparently still in Yaroslavl,” said Nikolai Boyarshinov.

Kristina Polopep with her husband Denis / Photo from the personal archive of Christina Polopp A young married couple from the Krasnodar Territory submitted documents for asylum in Georgia. Now they have passed several interviews in the migration service. Young people are sure that in case of returning to Russia, criminal cases and prison imprisonment await them.