The Yoshkar-Ola city court fined local journalist Aleksey Seregin 1,500 rubles for publishing in his article the symbols of the AUE movement banned in Russia. about this He told to the Idel.Realii publication. A few days ago, Seregin was summoned to the Yoshkar-Ola police department, where a protocol was drawn up against him on the demonstration of extremist symbols (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The editor-in-chief of the Proekt publication Roman Badanin and his deputy Mikhail Rubin left Russia and are now in the United States. About it writes "Rain" with reference to Reuters. Journalists do not plan to return to Russia due to pressure from the authorities. They also announced their intention to transfer part of the publication's team abroad.

The Supreme Court of Crimea upheld the verdict on the Rat-Tatar activist Ridvan Umerov, who was fined under the article on failure to report a crime (Article 205.6 of the Criminal Code). about this Writes "Crimean Solidarity". On May 28, the Sudak City Court imposed a fine of 30,000 rubles on the activist.

The Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced three Jehovah's Witnesses to real terms. The press service of the European Association “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” reported this to OVD-Info. Believers Alexander Parkov, Arsen and Vilen Avanesov were found guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction upheld the decision to extradite Andrei Kazimirov, a defendant in the case of mass unrest, to Belarus, despite the ban by the ECHR. This was reported by the Open Media publication with reference to the head of legal programs of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Roman Kiselev.

Sentences to participants in a rally against self-isolation, an attempt to place a person involved in a “sanitary case” in a pre-trial detention center, and pressure on former employees of Navalny’s team. About the main thing for July 29 - in the OVD-Info digest. The court found guilty of participating in mass riots five activists of the gathering against the self-isolation regime in Vladikavkaz in 2020: Atsamaz Tebloev, Khetag Samov, Georgy Khugaev, Arsen Brikhov and Artur Javadyan.

In Moscow, the First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction left ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal in jail until October 7. This was reported in the telegram channel "Furgal's Headquarters". The hearing began in open mode, but later it was closed at the request of the prosecution. Because of this, the journalists had to leave the courtroom, writes BFM.RU.

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow refused to take Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina into custody in response to the corresponding request from the Federal Penitentiary Service. “Apology of Protest” reports this on its Telegram channel. Alyokhina is currently under house arrest on a “sanitary matter” in connection with protests in support of Alexei Navalny.

The candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, Ivan Menshenin, was detained by the traffic police. The politician himself informed OVD-Info about this. Traffic police officers stopped Menshenin during the trip. They stated that he "fastened his seat belt as he walked." Then the police drove up to the car of the oppositionist. The security forces said they suspect the politician of taking illegal substances.

The Stavropol Regional Court upheld three and a half years in prison for Magomed Khamkhoev, a defendant in the Ingush case, who was convicted under an article on inciting violence at a rally in Magas in March 2019. This is reported by the publication "Kavkaz.Realii". According to lawyer Dzhabrail Kuriev, the court had to cancel the sentence of his client due to a number of procedural violations in the first instance.

In St. Petersburg, the police detained the National Bolsheviks Daria Dobrokhotov, Alexander Kolosov and Andrei Milyuk during the “For Freedom election” campaign, which they held at the Building of the Ministry of Justice. This was reported by the OVD-Info by representatives of the Party "Another Russia E. V. Limonov." Photo: National Bolsheviks During the Promotion / Screenshot from a direct broadcast in the VKontakte group “Another Russia E.V.

The Pskov Regional Court recognized as legal the decision to include journalist Lyudmila Savitskaya in the register of media outlets performing the functions of “foreign agents.” Sever.Realii writes about this. Savitskaya believes that she was added to the list of “foreign agents” because of her cooperation with Radio Liberty: “This is revenge for my work as a journalist.

In Moscow, the police detained at least 10 participants in the meeting with the State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Valery Rashkin, dedicated to the withdrawal from the elections of communist Pavel Grudinin. The online broadcast in which the detentions got into the YouTube channel "Another Opinion" is carried out . The police detained the candidate for deputies Pavel Ivanov and activist Vladislav Zhukovsky.

The Prosecutor General's Office, through Roskomnadzor, demands YouTube to block the channel of Novosibirsk deputy and ex-coordinator of Navalny's local headquarters Sergei Boyko. The oppositionist wrote about this on Facebook. The department's claims are not related to a specific video. “The prosecutor’s office demands that not a specific video or a pack of them be deleted, but the entire channel.

The staff of the Sakhalin newspaper "Uglegorskiye Novosti" resigned due to pressure on the editors on the eve of the publication of material on the activities of the "Eastern Mining Company" (VGK). This was reported on the publication's website. The mayor of the Uglegorsk urban district, Sergei Doroshchuk, on July 14, without explanation, fired the director of the Publishing House, which includes Uglegorsk News, Zinaida Makarova.