The Kirov administration refused to agree on a picket in defense of political prisoners. This was announced in his telegram channel by local activist Vadim Ananyin. The notice of the picket with three participants was submitted by PARNAS member Svetlana Marina. Officials refused, citing the coronavirus pandemic. Ananin notes that a month ago the administration organized a celebration of the city's 647th anniversary. Covid restrictions did not affect the holding of this event.

The ex-coordinator of Open Russia in Saransk, Igor Rogov, said that he and the volunteers of his headquarters were being followed. On July 5, Rogov was nominated for the post of deputy of the city council of the city. this The politician announced on his Telegram channel. “People unknown to me staged a whole special operation: with harassment, changing cars and driving on a red light,” writes Rogov. According to him, he found suspicious cars following him twice.

In St. Petersburg, police detained Mark Safin, a participant in the picket in support of Alexei Navalny. The activist himself reported this to OVD-Info. Safin stood on Nevsky Prospekt with a poster: “Navalny has been in Putin’s prison for 169 days. Freedom for political prisoners #freenavalny.” The detainee is taken to police department No. 28. 22:10 The detainee at the police department will be defended by lawyer Rafail Polyakov, who collaborates with OVD-Info.

An employee of Siberia Legal, Vladimir Taranenko, who was arrested in a case of extortion (Article 163 of the Criminal Code), reported torture and an attempt by FSIN employees to gain access to the YouTube channel of a human rights organization. This was reported by Sibir.Realii with reference to information from the coordinator of the Gulagu.net project Vladimir Osechkin, which he received from an anonymous source in the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Kemerovo Region.

The Kiev District Court of Simferopol extended the arrest of Crimea.Realies freelancer Vladislav Esipenko for six months. The publication itself reports this. Esipenko is accused of manufacturing explosives (Part 1 of Article 223.1 of the Criminal Code) and storing them (Article 222 of the Criminal Code). He will remain in isolation until December 18. On March 10, FSB officers detained Elizaveta Pavlenko and Vladislav Esipenko at a rally in memory of Taras Shevchenko in Crimea.

Photo from the personal archive of Vasily Efanov In Moscow, a participant in a single picket was detained on Red Square in support of political prisoners Vasily Efanov. He himself told the OVD-Info about this. The picketer stood with the poster “Participation in the elections - this is not extremism #freedom to Navalny #Freedom Pivovarov #Freedom to Political Plane”. The detainee was delivered to the police department in the Kitay-Gorod district.

The ex-head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region Alexander Shestun, sentenced to 15 years in prison, spoke about the beating in the hospital at the Federal Penitentiary Service in the city of Torzhok (Tver region). This was reported to OVD-Info by his wife Yulia. A copy of the lawyer's interview and medical report is at the disposal of OVD-Info. As Shestun told lawyer Alexei Baranovsky, on June 21 he was summoned to the office of the acting head of the medical unit, Bordachev.

The Kazan defendants in the “palace case” have had their charges increased, the ex-coordinator of Navalny’s Khabarovsk headquarters has had their house arrest extended, and a lawyer is not allowed into the detention center to see the former director of Open Russia. We talk about the main news for July 6th. Kazan defendants in the “palace case” Elnar Efimov and Kamilla Khaibullina were charged with another article - about calls for participation in mass riots.

Sticker posted by the detainees / Photo: Telegram channel "Molotov!" In Perm, the police detained three minor supporters of the party “Another Russia E. V. Limonov”. This is reported by the telegram channel "Molotov!" As the associates of the detainees clarify, the National Bolsheviks stuck campaign materials when a policeman approached them and announced the detention without explanation.

On July 5, the Moscow City Court ruled to return to the court of first instance the materials on the complaint about the refusal of the police to initiate a criminal case in connection with the publication of the personal data of activists who participated in the protests in the summer of 2019. Mikhail Ignatiev, a lawyer from OVD-Info, reports this.

The prosecutor's office appealed against the refusal of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow to choose a measure of restraint for the aunt of politician Dmitry Gudkov, Irina Yermilova. This is reported by her lawyer Anastasia Samorukova. At the moment, in the case of causing damage to the Department of Property of Moscow, Yermilova is under a written undertaking not to leave.

In Kazan, two participants in the January protests, Elnar Efimov and Kamilla Khaibullina, were charged with yet another article - on incitement to mass riots (part 3 of article 212 of the Criminal Code). This was reported to OVD-Info by Bulat Khairullin, a member of the local branch of the Yabloko party.

A lawyer is not allowed to see the former director of Open Russia Andrei Pivovarov in SIZO-1 in the Krasnodar Territory. This was reported by the telegram channel "Freedom to Pivovarov". The authors of the channel specify that the lawyer was supposed to come to Pivovarov to discuss his nomination to the State Duma in the Krasnodar Territory and the details of the election campaign.

The Investigative Department of the SK in the Chelyabinsk region issued a press release on the detention of the defendants in the case under the article on participation in the activities of a terrorist organization (part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code). The ZNAK publication clarifies that we are talking about the Hizb Ut-Tahrir Islamic Party.

Jehovah's Witness from Saratov Alexey Budenchuk left IK-1 Orenburg after serving his full sentence. The European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses reported this to OVD-Info. On September 19, 2019, Budenchuk was found guilty under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Together with him, five other believers from Saratov received real sentences.