In Moscow, the candidate in the State Duma from the Yabloko party Alena Popova refused to install campaign cubes. This was told by the OVD-Info by the press secretary of the Popova’s Popova’s campaign headquarters. In response to the application of the Popova Prefecture of the Eastern Administrative District, she refused to agree on a campaign. The reason for this was coronavirus restrictions.

In Moscow, in the Dorogomilovo area, at a meeting with residents dedicated to illegal construction, they detained the candidate for the State Duma from the Yabloko party Kirill Goncharov and two volunteers of his election headquarters - Ivan Dorofeev and Anton Surin. Goncharov himself spoke about the detention of Goncharov.

The person involved in the “Network” case was transported to an unknown destination, and the Yakut shaman, who was going to expel Putin, was sent for compulsory treatment. We talk about the main political press news for July 26. Roskomnadzor blocked 49 websites related to Alexei Navalny and the work of his team.

The Ministry of Justice included one of the legal entities of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters on the list of “foreign agents”. This was reported by MBKh Media. The list included the “Stab Foundation for the Protection of Citizens’ Rights”, registered in Ufa. The former head of the regional network of Navalny’s headquarters, Leonid Volkov, told Mediazona that this is one of the legal entities of Navalny’s team.

Viktor Filinkov, a defendant in the St. Petersburg “Network” case, was transported from the Kirov pre-trial detention center No. 1 in an unknown direction. This was reported by the publication “Idel.Realii” with reference to public defender Evgenia Kulakova. Kulakova was unable to meet her client in the detention center, since the prisoner was no longer registered with this institution. “Vitya was taken from Kirov somewhere further.

In Bogorodsk (Nizhny Novgorod region), the police interrogated local resident Yuri Isaichev as a witness in a “sanitary case.” Lawyer Mikhail Lipkin, who collaborates with OVD-Info, spoke about this. Isaichev was asked questions about the persons involved in the case - the former coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Nizhny Novgorod Roman Tregubov and journalist Natalya Rezontova.

For four months, the Fourth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction refuses to return to the court of first instance the materials of the criminal case against the former leader of Open Russia in the Krasnodar Territory, Yana Antonova. This was reported by the publication “Kavkaz.Realii”. In May, the Court of Cassation upheld Antonova’s sentence, which was handed down in October 2020.

The Yaroslavl Regional Court released from custody the accused Jehovah's Witnesses Andrei Vyushin, Pyotr Filiznov, Alexander and Maria Kuznetsov. This is reported by a website covering the persecution of believers in Russia. During the appeal hearing, the preventive measure for believers was changed from arrest to a ban on certain actions.

The former coordinator of Navalny's Murmansk headquarters, Violetta Grudina, who was forcibly placed in a Covid hospital, went on a hunger strike to protest against the hospitalization and her exclusion from participating in the elections. She wrote about this in her Telegram channel. Grudina demands that her application for nomination to the Murmansk City Council be transferred to the TEC.

The Vsevolozhsk City Court of the Leningrad Region refused to expel Belarusian citizen Zhanna Galeeva from Russia, who is being persecuted for recording a video in support of her compatriots. This is reported by the "Apology of Protest" with reference to lawyers Maria Zyryanova and Andrey Fedorkov. The court terminated the administrative case under the article on violation of migration legislation (part 3.1 of article 18.8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), initiated against Galeeva.

Roskomnadzor, by decision of the Prosecutor General's Office, blocked Alexei Navalny's website navalny.com. “Team Navalny” reported this on its Telegram channel. “MBH Media” writes that the site was blocked on June 15 with reference to the article of the Federal Law “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection” (Article 15.3).

On July 23, the security forces, including employees of the E Center, came to a concert of underground music. Vladislav Tretyak, one of the musicians who performed at the event, told OVD-Info about this. As Tretyak clarified, the concert was held behind closed doors. Three employees of the Center "E" came to the performance in civilian clothes, trying to impersonate club visitors. Law enforcement officers ordered a hookah and started filming the speakers.

Journalist Ivan Safronov, who is accused of treason, was interrogated as a witness in a criminal case against his lawyer Ivan Pavlov. about it . writes Interfax Pavlov is accused of disclosing data from the preliminary investigation (Article 310 of the Criminal Code). According to the security officials, without the consent of the investigator, he handed over to Vedomosti journalists a copy of the decision to bring Ivan Safronov as a defendant in the case of high treason.

Voronezh "After the protest": [email protected] Voronezh resident Alexander Druk participated in a number of human rights projects until 2017, but then other priorities appeared in his life - from his own furniture business to working as a labor teacher in a Montessori school. “When I had the strength to do something again [in the field of human rights], January 2021 came.

The Moscow City Court upheld the order on the arrest in absentia of the former director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Ivan Zhdanov. This was reported by the press service of the court. Earlier, the Nagatinsky District Court changed Zhdanov's preventive measure from a written undertaking not to leave the place and proper behavior to detention for a period of one month from the date of his arrest.