In Voronezh, civil activist Pavel Sychev was detained because of a post on the Free People of Voronezh telegram channel depicting Vladimir Putin in a Nazi uniform. Sychev himself informed OVD-Info about this. The activist was taken to police station No. 6, he is charged with demonstrating prohibited symbols (Part 1, Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). On July 8, a hearing on his case will be held at the Central District Court.

The magistrate of precinct No. 15 in Moscow dismissed the criminal case under the article on insulting the feelings of believers (part 1 of article 148 of the Criminal Code) against four participants in the TikTok video - Alina Vlaskina, Maxim Zamyslayev and two more people. This is reported by Open Media with reference to the case card in court. One of the defendants in the case, Alina Vlaskina, had earlier apologized to the believers. The ROC accepted her apology.

On July 6, the prosecutor, at a debate in the Leninsky District Court of Kirov, requested punishment for three Jehovah's Witnesses, according to the website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.” 30-year-old Andrei Shchepin was recommended to be sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony, and Alexander Shamov - 2 years in prison, and elderly Evgeniy Udintsev - a fine of 600 thousand rubles, respectively.

On June 15, the Kaluga District Court sentenced streamer Ivan Bagnyuk to a fine of 50 thousand rubles under the article on the use of violence against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code); the sentence entered into legal force on the court’s website. published on February 14 by Bagnyuk in a bar due to his participation in the rally on January 23.

In Moscow, near the Timiryazevsky police station, four members of the unregistered party The Other Russia E. V. Limonov were detained. They were brought inside the department to check documents, their comrade-in-arms reported about this to OVD-Info. Among the detainees were Mikhail Aksel, Timofei Filin, Ekaterina Biryukova and Pavel Yevsyukov. 21:40 The detainees were released without protocol. A lawyer from OVD-Info Alexander Salamov went to see them, but he was not allowed inside.

Cases of justification of terrorism due to posts on social networks, blocking of Roskomnadzor and the latest detentions of Pussy Riot activists - we talk about the main news for July 7. A court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Kuban resident Pyotr Belyakov to four years in prison. He was convicted under the article of justifying terrorism due to comments on social networks about an explosion in the building of the Arkhangelsk FSB Directorate.

Former coordinator of Navalny’s Krasnodar headquarters Anastasia Panchenko left Russia. She plans to engage in activism remotely. This was reported by Kavkaz.Realii. “This is not a move for life, but simply, essentially, a vacation for an indefinite period of time. For security reasons, I do not want and cannot say where I am now.

In Moscow, near Kitay-gorod, Pussy Riot activist Alexander Sofeev was detained, reports . mediazona publisher Pyotr Verzilov Sofeev was detained after being vaccinated against coronavirus. Tonight he was released from the temporary detention center after 15 days of arrest. 17:17 Radio Liberty journalist Andrei Kiselyov and photographer Dmitry Vorontsov were detained together with Sofeyev, .

Yuli Boyarshinov, convicted in the Network case, was transferred to correctional colony No. 7 in Karelia, the support group RUPRESSION reports . On July 6, the prisoner was visited by a lawyer. Boyarshinov reports that he is fine and will spend the next three weeks in quarantine. IK-7 became known after political prisoner Ildar Dadin spoke about torture in this correctional facility.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Pyotr Belyakov, a resident of the Kuban, to four years in a penal colony because of comments about a terrorist attack in the FSB building in Arkhangelsk. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the court.

Alexei Navalny was arrested immediately after his return from Germany, where he was treated for poisoning, which the politician blames on the FSB. After these events and the release of the investigative film “Palace for Putin,” one of the most massive protest mobilizations began in Russia. Authorities admitted that in more than a hundred cities across Russia at the end of January and February 2021, they detained 17,600 protest participants.

Roskomnadzor has blocked the MariUver website dedicated to the Mari and other Finno-Ugric peoples, this is reported in the site's Facebook group. The MariUver administrator writes that the site has been blocked due to material about an action in memory of the Udmurt professor Albert Razin. Due to the threat of the extinction of the Udmurt language and culture, he set himself on fire in September 2019. The RKN considered that the note on the site described a method of committing suicide.

The Central District Court of Khabarovsk extended the detention of artist Maxim Smolnikov (Xadad) until September 11. This was reported by his fiancee Svetlana Gordienko. A criminal case was opened against Smolnikov under the article on justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of a post published on VKontakte in the Xadad group on October 31, 2018 - the day of the explosion committed by Mikhail Zhlobitsky in the FSB building in Arkhangelsk .

The Golovinsky Court of Moscow fined Navalny's associate Leonid Volkov 25,000 rubles because of a rally with flashlights on February 14. He reports this on his Twitter. Volkov was convicted under an article on violation of the rules for organizing a public event (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The former head of the security of the oil company Yukos , Alexei Pichugin, was transferred to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center in Moscow. He is serving a life sentence for murder. This is reported by Novaya Gazeta. On July 1, it became known that Pichugin was taken out of IK-6 (“Black Dolphin”) in the Orenburg region in an unknown direction.