The Center for Countering Extremism was unable to verify Project Saw, which threatened LGBT activists with attacks, arrests, and murders. It is reported by Open Russia. “Due to the fact that the specified address of the Internet resource is blocked, all information about possible illegal activities has been deleted, it was not possible to conduct an audit,” this is how the department responded to a request to conduct an audit.

In Moscow, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Vladislav Sinitsa, a participant in the August 3 rally. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the official representative of the UK Svetlana Petrenko. The man has already been charged with inciting hatred or enmity with the threat of violence (part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code).

In Moscow, participants in the July 27 rally received summonses to the military prosecutor's office. This was told by one of those detained at the rally, who later received such a document. Arseniy Levinson, a lawyer for the human rights initiative “Citizen and the Army,” added that several people received similar summonses. OVD-InfoSobesednik was summoned to the military prosecutor's office of garrison No.

The TASS news agency, citing a source in law enforcement agencies, reports that a criminal case has been opened under an article on the use of violence against a representative of the authorities at a protest rally on August 3 in Moscow. “The investigator of the Investigative Committee initiated a criminal case against citizen Ustinov under Part 1 of Art. 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, ”the agency quoted the source as saying.

On Malaya Sadovaya Street in St. Petersburg, Maria Malyshev was detained, who stood in a single picket against the criminal case of riots in Moscow. This was reported in the telegram channel "Group of Assistance to detainees." Maria with her poster The police explained the detention by the fact that she received a complaint in the book of accounting for reports of crimes. In which department she will be taken is still unknown.

In Moscow, at a rally for the admission of candidates to the Moscow City Duma, which took place on August 3, the security forces detained a suspect in calls for extremist activity (Article 280 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the Russian Guard. The department does not name the detainee. According to the National Guard, the man was detained at a rally on Novinsky Boulevard in order to draw up a protocol on an administrative offense.

In the Dubovsky district of the Volgograd region, Vasily Sivtsev, chairman of the public organization Law and Order, was detained, who was going to file a complaint about the misuse of budget funds by one of the district officials. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the detainee's wife Galina. The man was taken to the police department in the Dubovsky district, he should soon have a trial. Under what article he is going to be judged is still unknown.

Moscow: 1001 Presnensky 20 detained. Chertanovo Yuzhnoe 13 detained. Moskvorechye-Saburovo 19 detained. Kuncevo 20 detainees, at least Bakhrom Khamroev remains to spend the night at the police station. Konkovo 16 detained. Eastern Izmailovo 16 detained. Hamovniki 28 detainees. Obruchevsky 21 detained. South Medvedkovo 16 detainees, at least Roman Egorov, Artem Egorov, remain overnight at the police station.

Detention at the Pushkinskaya metro station, August 3, 2019 / Photo: Anastasia Medvedev for OTD-Info According to August 4, the police detained 1001 people in connection with the next action for fair elections. OVD-Info considered the number of detainees in the departments and the number left overnight. We do not publish the names of most people for security purposes, since investigators arrived in many police department and interviewed the detainees as witnesses in the criminal case of riots.

Igor Kalyapin at the police department / photo from the Kalyapin page on Facebook Igor Kalyapin, a member of the Presidential Council of Human Rights (HRC) and the creator of the committee against torture, told the OVD-Info how he was detained while he watched on August 3 to protests in the center of the capital, the work of the police and the Russian Guard.