In Moscow, policemen invited the organizers of the agreed-upon rally on August 10 on Sakharov Avenue to a meeting at the Internal Affairs Directorate for the central district by phone. This was reported by MBKh Media with reference to one of the applicants for the action, Chief of Staff Gennady Gudkov Elvira Vikhareva. She suggested that the police plan to issue a warning to the organizers of the action. Vikhareva fears that after meeting one of them may be detained.

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested activist Dmitry Gusev for 10 days, who, during an agreed-upon rally on August 3, shouted “Putin is fucked” from the stage. It is reported by MBH Media. The activist was detained on August 3, but released without a protocol. again On August 6, Gusev was detained . Then several police officers came to his house and said that he had received a complaint in the book of records of reports of crimes.

The Supreme Court of Crimea extended the measure of restraint for the Crimean Tatar activist Edem Bekirov. This was reported in the Crimean Solidarity Facebook group. At the trial, the lawyer petitioned to change the measure of restraint to house arrest, referring to the health of the activist: Bekirov is a disabled person of the first group, before his arrest he suffered a heart attack and leg amputation.

Below are excerpts from the witness interview: Witness: This group had an office. They carried out political coordination there. The task of the group was to overthrow the constitutional order, the government, and carry out sabotage during the 2018 elections. Center “E” began to conduct intelligence activities - video, audio wiretapping. The materials were provided to them by a secret citizen who infiltrated the group, named Konstantinov (note: this is the provocateur Ruslan D.).

The Tverskoy District Court fined Novaya Gazeta correspondent Yelena Milashina 15,000 rubles for a rally on Red Square in memory of the deceased human rights activist Natalya Estemirova. It is reported by MBH Media. The judge rejected all 5 motions of the defense, including requesting information from the Kitai-Gorod police department about why some of the materials of Milashina's case were lost, and about interrogating the police officers who detained the journalist.

In Moscow, an unregistered candidate for the Moscow City Duma, Ilya Yashin, was taken from the special detention center to the Khamovniki court. This is reported by the politician's lawyer on Twitter. Yashin's term of administrative arrest, which was appointed to him by the Troitsky District Court, ends today. He was supposed to leave the detention center tonight, but he was taken to court. The lawyer suggests that the politician may be arrested again.

A search is underway at Navalny's headquarters in Izhevsk. This was reported by headquarters activist Denis and assistant coordinator Anastasia. OVD-InfoAccording to them, masked people burst into the office and began to search the premises. At the same time, Anastasia was kicked out of the room, and coordinator Rezeda Abasheva was asked to stay. The reason for the search is still unknown. In addition, a search took place at the headquarters volunteer Ildar Zakirov.

The mayor's office of Belgorod denied Navalny's supporters the right to agree on a solidarity rally with independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma because of planned rallies "in support of law enforcement officers in curbing illegal actions of participants in unauthorized events." This is posted on the event page .

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Krasnoyarsk Territory canceled the decision to initiate criminal proceedings against two Jehovah's Witnesses and removed the release about their detention from the official website. Taiga Info writes about this. The Investigative Committee announced the initiation of a case against a 45-year-old woman and a 62-year-old man on August 6.

In Murmansk and Tomsk, police officers come to activists of Navalny's local headquarters and demand that they sign warnings about the inadmissibility of participating in solidarity actions with unadmitted candidates for the Moscow City Duma. This was reported to OVD-Info by the coordinator of the Murmansk headquarters Violetta Grudina. The coordinator of the Tomsk headquarters, Ksenia Fadeeva , tweeted that they tried to give her a similar warning.

In the Tula region, unknown persons attacked Stanislav Skidan, candidates for the regional Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and Yury Koretsky, an animal rights activist. Koretskikh told OVD-Info about this. On August 7, the animal rights activist arrived in Aleksin to see candidate Aleksey Nosov, who is about to be removed from the elections. “I drove into a pine forest, with the felling of which Nosov is fighting.

Sergei Fomin, who was put on the wanted list in the case of mass unrest, voluntarily surrendered to the police. “Mediazona” is about this. reports The activist explained that he did not want to give the security forces the opportunity to say that he was hiding and was “caught,” he considers himself innocent and therefore decided to come to the Investigative Committee himself.

In Moscow, FBK employees Alexander Pomazuev, Evgeny Zamyatin and Vyacheslav Gimadi are searches in the criminal case of legalization of funds. It is reported by "Apology of Protest." The case under article 174 of the Criminal Code initiated the Investigative Committee on August 3. According to investigators, unidentified persons were transferred to the accomplices, including FBK employees, funds (about 1 billion rubles).

This week, on August 5 and 8, meetings were held on the “New Greatness” case. At the first of them, Denis Chizhov, an employee of the “E” Center, spoke about receiving information about “New Greatness” and about the start of development - there are many questions about this. At the second, they interrogated a woman who rented out an office to the “organization.” The meeting room was rented by the alleged provocateur Ruslan D.