Moscow civil activist Konstantin Kotov was detained near his house and taken to the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow. Details are still unknown. There is no information yet about what kind of criminal case Kotov was detained. A lawyer from Maria Eismont went to the Investigation Department.

Police officers in the Perm Territory, after the expedition of "Memorial" to the cemetery of the repressed, opened a criminal case on illegal felling of forest plantations (Article 260 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by Novaya Gazeta. Employees of "Memorial" planned to improve the cemetery of the Lithuanian and Polish repressed in the Kudymkarsky district, as well as to install memorial signs in the village of Velva-Baza.

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow appointed Ivan Ulyanov, an employee of an office adjacent to the FBK, to 8 days of arrest. He was detained for trying to film a search at the FBK on August 8. It is reported by Mediazona. Ulyanov was arrested under the article on disobedience to the police (part 1 of article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because he filmed the actions of the security forces during a search on August 8 at the FBK office.

The Basmanny District Court sent Valery Kostenok to a pre-trial detention center until October 11. It is reported by Mediazona. Kostenok is an activist of the Yabloko party. On July 27, he participated in a protest action in the center of Moscow, during which he was detained. The Kuntsevsky court ordered him to be arrested for two days. On August 11, came representatives of the Investigative Committee to Kostenok's apartment with a search.

Dmitry Vasiliev, one of the defendants in the case of "mass riots", was discharged from the 20th city hospital, where he was in a temporary detention center. This was reported to OVD-Info by his lawyer Tatyana Prilipko. The defender added that Vasilyev was going to go to the hospital. He was not charged, he is being treated as a suspect in the case. On August 11, the Basmanny Court refused to send Vasilyev into custody due to his absence from the meeting.

Investigators seized phones from Dmitry and Olga Prokazov, parents whose child the prosecutor's office demanded to be taken away because of his presence at the rally on July 27 in Moscow. This was reported by MBH Media with reference to lawyer Natalia Kaplina. “Yesterday there was a seizure of telephone sets as part of a criminal case under Article 212 of the Criminal Code on mass riots. We arrived at the Investigative Committee and handed over the phones of Dmitry and Olga.

In Volgograd, police detained five people at a rally for the rights of young people, including at least three minors. The detainees themselves reported this to OVD-Info. Young people were detained when they were giving comments to a journalist. They were surrounded by men in civilian clothes, who said that they were engaged in illegal propaganda and called the police. The police took the activists to department no. 2. All the minors were taken to the basement.

The Volodarsky District Court of Bryansk dismissed a contempt case against a local resident named Makeeva, who was charged with publishing “information showing clear disrespect for the President of Russia” on the Internet. The decision was published on the website of the court, it was discovered by MBKh Media.

Nikita Zaretsky / Photo from the personal archive During the protests on August 10, 80 people were detained in St. Petersburg. One of them, Nikita Zaretsky, was lucky not to get into the autozak on the pickets, but then he was detained by the traffic police for posters and the flag in the car. In the police department, Zaretsky was interested in whether the opposition would really track the children of the police. OVD-Info recorded his story.

On August 10, more than 40 Russian cities held protests for fair elections and against political repressions. In Moscow, on Sakharov Avenue, the largest coordinated rally in recent years was held with the number of participants about 60 thousand people. In Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Bryansk and Syktyvkar, police detained 352 people. OVD-Info monitors court decisions.

During the protests in Moscow on July 27, on August 3 and 10, the security forces rudely detained and harshly beat people. Many of them are now submitting applications to the Investigative Committee with a request to attract employees of law enforcement agencies. OTD-Info publishes information about well-known affairs.