Ivan Podkopaev, a defendant in the case on July 27, was charged with using violence against government officials that is not dangerous to life and health (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code ). This was reported by legal assistance coordinator Alla Frolova. OVD-InfoInvestigation claims that Podkopaev sprayed pepper spray towards the Russian Guard fighters. The accused does not deny that this episode took place. The case has been separated into separate proceedings.

Members of the pro-Kremlin movement SERB interfere with a human rights training held at the Sakharov Center. This was reported in the telegram channel "Flowers for Volodya". Vera Oleinikova, administrator of the channel, told OVD-Info that SERB activists called the police. According to her, there are about 15 provocateurs themselves. They are trying to prove to the police that human rights activists are sponsored by the State Department. On the YouTube channel of the Sota.

Ukrainian political prisoner Roman Ternovsky returned to Ukraine after imprisonment in a Russian colony. This was reported in the “Union of Relatives of Kremlin Political Prisoners” group on Facebook. According to activists, Ternovsky was released due to the end of his prison term. Now he is already in Ukraine, heading home to the Kharkov region.

Eight Ukrainian political prisoners were transferred from the regional institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service to the Moscow SIZO-2 Lefortovo. Perhaps they are being prepared for a prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine. The fact that they ended up in Moscow was reported by journalist Viktoria Ivleva, who on August 20 brought parcels addressed to Vladimir Balukh, Pavel Grib, Nikolai Karpyuk, Stanislav Klykh and Alexander Kolchenko to the isolation ward.

In Saratov, Navalny's local headquarters is forcibly evicted from the office, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs decides on a criminal case against the staff of the headquarters. This was announced by the coordinator of the headquarters Alexander Zykov.

In Novokuibyshevsk, candidates for the City Duma went on a hunger strike against unfair elections. In response, the police issued them summonses to the district police officer. This was reported to OVD-Info by one of the candidates, Grigory Oganezov. Communist Party candidates Mikhail Abdalkin, Sergei Chernov and Oganezov went on a hunger strike against the disruption of election campaigns and fake candidates from the government.

The Moscow City Court left in custody the defendants in the case of "mass riots" (part 2 of article 212 of the Criminal Code) - Aidar Gubaidulin and Valery Kostenok. This was reported by the telegram channel "Arrested 212". The investigator of the Investigative Committee did not appear at the meeting on the case of Gubaidulin. The defendant himself participated in the meeting by video link.

The Reutovsky Court of the Moscow Region returned the materials of the criminal case of the activist and head of the local branch of the Yabloko party Evgeny Kurakin to the prosecutor's office. This was reported by lawyer Dmitry Sotnikov. OVD-InfoAccording to him, the court returned the case to the prosecutor's office on formal grounds: the indictment did not indicate the actual circumstances of the crime.

In St. Petersburg, investigators detained and interrogated the head of the FBK sociological service, Anna Biryukova, in the case of money laundering (Article 174 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the head of the International Human Rights Organization "Agora". According to Chikov, Biryukova came to St. Petersburg for a few days for work. Yesterday evening she was detained and taken for questioning to the investigative committee, where her bank card and mobile phone were confiscated.

The case of Konstantin Kotov, accused under the article on “repeated violations at rallies” (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code), was sent to court. The head of the international human rights organization "Agora" Pavel Chikov talks about this. According to Avtozak LIVE, Kotov’s lawyer Maria Eismont filed a petition with the Tverskoy District Court for a preliminary hearing. information Earlier, Eismont appealed the limitation of the period for familiarization with the criminal case.

In the city of Mozhaisk, the Moscow Region, police are trying to detain an unregistered candidate for deputies of Moscow City Duma Julia Galyamin. This was reported by the legal assistance coordinator of the OTD-Info Alla Frolova. Law enforcement officers met Galyamin at the exit from the special receiver, where she was serving arrest for participating in the action on July 27. The police informed the woman that she was detained for calls for the action on August 3.

The materials of the criminal cases of Danil Beglets and Kirill Zhukov were received by the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow. This was reported by the head of the international human rights group "Agora" Pavel Chikov. Zhukov and the Runaway are charged under the article on the use of violence against a representative of the authorities (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). The criminal cases of young people on this charge were separated into a separate proceeding.

Mikhail Biryukov / Photo by Alexandra Astakhova About three thousand people were detained on shares for honest elections. Hundreds of administrative cases and several criminal cases were instituted. All this time, lawyers work with convicts, one of them is Mikhail Biryukov. How do you think, why did the elections in the Moscow City Duma become such an important event? Elections to the Moscow City Duma from the point of view of the country are quite an ordinary event.