Participants of the rally in defense of Shies Alexei Yashin and Sergei Grebnev were detained in St. Petersburg. This is reported by the Detainees Assistance Group. The men were detained at 20:30 on Lenin Square. They are being taken to police station No. 78. Since August 2018, protests have been regularly held near the Shies station in the Arkhangelsk region, as well as in Arkhangelsk itself and in Syktyvkar.

Spectator Anton Tkachuk, detained after the disruption of the performance at the Theatre.doc, was fined 500 rubles under the article on petty hooliganism (20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by MBH Media with reference to lawyer Mikhail Ignatiev. “There was no trial, this is petty hooliganism, he was simply fined 500 rubles and released,” he said. For what actions a protocol was drawn up against Tkachuk, the lawyer could not specify.

In Yekaterinburg, police have detained Orthodox activist Oksana Ivanova, who advocates the destruction of the work "Suprematist Cross" by artist Pokras Lampas at Uralmash. about it She posted on Facebook. The woman was detained because of the action “Do not trample on love”, which she held on August 25. The protesters joined hands and lined up in T-shirts with slogans that formed the phrase “The cross is a symbol of Christ's victory over your death.

Yegor Alashaev, coordinator of Alexei Navalny's headquarters in Samara, was arrested for 10 days because of the action on August 10. about this Writes "Apology of Protest". Alashaev was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules of the action (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The police considered a series of single pickets a mass event.

Nikita Chirtsov, a participant in the action on July 27, detained in Minsk, is going to be deported to Moscow on August 30. Nasta Loika, a lawyer for the human rights organization Human Constanta, reported this to OVD-Info. The man is currently in a temporary detention facility.

Photo: Anastasia Medvedev for OTD-Info In Moscow, the Outdoor outdoor advertising operator dismantled the posters of the Feice concert after he spoke at a rally for fair elections on August 10. Concerts of the rapper in Ulan-Ude and Irkutsk were canceled. About this writes the "Russian BBC service". On the posters there was a slogan "Come or lose." They were posted on twenty billboards in the center of Moscow on August 15, and on August 21 was removed.

In the case of an attack on a Kaliningrad journalist and publisher of the Novye Kolesa newspaper, a new defendant appeared three years after the attack. They became Mikhail Vasyuk, who is serving a sentence in another double murder case. This is reported by the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg. Vasyuk is accused of attempted murder by a group of persons (part 2 of article 105 with the application of part 3 of article 30, paragraph “g” of the Criminal Code).

Vladimir Ratnikov (Komarnitsky), who is involved in the case of the nationalist Black Bloc, has declared a dry hunger strike in support of political prisoners. This was reported to OVD-Info by his father, Gennady Komarnitsky. Ratnikov declared a hunger strike on August 27, but did not write a statement about it. He, among other things, opposes the persecution of the defendants in the case of "mass riots" . Komarnitsky also said that lawyer Dmitry Dizze visited Ratnikov today.

The Megion City Court of the Khanty-Mansiysk District fined Alexander Durasov 30 thousand rubles for reposting a video about Vladimir Putin “KU-KU is me” in Odnoklassniki. about this Writes "7 × 7". The decision is published on the website of the court. “18 people have signed up for the user “Alexander Durasov”, 78 people are friends. The video titled “KU-KU is me” is also pinned in the notes of the user “Alexander Durasov”, the decision says.

In Cheboksary, the prosecutor's office is putting pressure on activist Elena Blinova after an action with an imitation of a national ritual. Law enforcement officials say they are interested in the safety of children. Blinova herself reported this to OVD-Info. On August 20, on the day of the city, Blinova imitated the Chuvash national rite tipshar, the purpose of which was to posthumously shame the enemy in his home.

Roskomnadzor entered into the register of prohibited information an interview with the magazine "Krot" with a professor of philosophy at the City College of New York, a specialist in stoicism, Massimo Pigliucci. This is reported by the telegram channel of the editorial office. According to the authors of the channel, the site was blocked for promoting suicide in an interview with Pigliucci.

The administration of pre-trial detention center No. 1 Matrosskaya Tishina did not allow lawyer Mansur Gilmanov to visit Yevgeny Kovalenko, the defendant in the case of "mass riots". this on his Telegram channel . announced Pavel Chikov, the head of the Agora international human rights group, “FSIN employees refer to the absence of the investigator’s permission, although (1) the case is already in court and (2) no one’s permission is required to communicate with the defendant,” writes Chikov.

​​ The police officers drew up administrative protocols for four activists who did not allow fuel trucks to reach the Shies station. This is written in the telegram channel of opponents of the construction of the landfill "Pomorye is not a garbage dump!".

The Tverskaya District Court appointed Ilya Yashin the fifth arrest for the Mosgodum for a month. He was accused of organizing the action on August 3.

On August 28, human rights activist Sergei Mokhnatkin was charged under Articles 297 (contempt of court) and 321 of the Criminal Code (disorganization of the work of a correctional institution). St. Petersburg human rights activist Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko reports this on his Facebook page. “Today, the investigator in Arkhangelsk resumed the case and brought charges against Sergei Mokhnatkin...