The Perm regional court upheld 15 days of arrest imposed on the National Bolshevik Kirill Imashev due to participation in a rally for fair elections. This was reported by Dmitry Ivanov in the Protest MSU telegram channel. Imashev was arrested on July 31.

During the appeal hearing, the Saratov Regional Court reduced the sentence of Jehovah's Witness Rustam Seidkuliev by two months. This was reported by the SOVA Information and Analytical Center. On May 20, the Leninsky District Court of Saratov sentenced the believer to two and a half years in prison. He was found guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The prosecutor asked Seidkulieva for four years in prison.

The Central Election Commission registered Andrei Pivovarov, ex-director of Open Russia, for elections to the State Duma, but ordered the Yabloko party to indicate in its campaign materials the politician’s connection with a “foreign agent.” This is reported by Tatyana Usmanova in her telegram channel. Pivovarov, who is now in jail, will participate in the Duma elections in the Krasnodar Territory.

Real deadlines for the “palace affair”, closure of independent media and exclusion of opposition candidates from the elections. We talk about the main news for August 5th. A court in St. Petersburg sentenced Nicholas the Ninth, a participant in the January 23 protests, to four and a half years in prison. He was found guilty of using violence against a government official during a rally. Kazan resident Elnar Efimov was sentenced to one and a half years in prison.

Psychological-linguistic examination, commissioned by the investigation in the framework of the “Ingush case”, did not find signs of calls for violence in the words of the leaders of the protests in Magas in 2019. It is reported by HRC "Memorial". At a meeting on August 4, the defense of the defendants in the case asked for an examination to be included in the materials, according to the results of which, according to lawyer Bilan Dzugaev, charges should have been dropped from their clients.

The Sovetsky District Court of Kazan sentenced the defendant in the “palace case,” Elnar Efimov, to a year and six months in a penal colony. SOTA correspondent Bulat Khairullin reported this to OVD-Info. Efimov was found guilty under articles on calls for extremist activity (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and mass riots (Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code).

Detained during the picket. Photos of the OWD-info was provided by the activist himself In Moscow, a picket participant was detained on Nikolskaya Street Sergey Pinchuk. He himself informed the OVD-Info about this. The activist stood with the poster "Putin is afraid: Navalny, honest elections, people." The detainee was delivered to the China-Gorod police department. The police take his phone from him.

The Electoral Commission of Barabinsk (Novosibirsk Region) refused to register a candidate for city council deputy Sergei Tereshchenko. This is reported by "Taiga.info" with reference to the cousin of the politician, Konstantin Tereshchenko, who was registered in another district. The Electoral Commission declared 9 out of 14 signatures required for registration as a candidate "inaccurate".

Border guards detained a resident of Yalta, blogger Ludvika Papadopula. About this writes the publication "Grati" with reference to the lawyer Alexei Ladin. The blogger was detained on the administrative border with the Kherson region in the area of ​​the Armyansk border checkpoint, she was trying to leave for Ukraine. The reason for the detention was that Papadopoulou was allegedly put on the wanted list.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Nikolai the Ninth to four and a half years in a penal colony, accused of using violence against a government official (part 2 of article 318 of the Criminal Code) during protests on January 23 in support of Alexei Navalny. This was reported by the press service of the courts of St. Petersburg.

The head of the Sudak regional mejlis, Ilver Ametov, was sentenced to eight months of restriction of freedom in the case of possession of weapons. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity". The prosecutor demanded that the activist be given ten months of restriction of liberty. The Sudak city court found Ametov guilty of illegal possession of weapons (part 1 of article 222 of the Criminal Code).

Territorial Election Commission No. 30 in St. Petersburg refused to register Boris Vishnevsky for elections to the Legislative Assembly of the city. This was reported in the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party. The electoral committee considered that Vishnevsky incorrectly executed the decision of the party congress on the nomination, as well as the document on the coordination of his candidacy with the Federal Political Committee of the party.

The MBH Media project announced the termination of work due to the blocking of the site at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office. This was announced by the editor-in-chief of the publication Veronika Kutsyllo. “I am not ready to endanger the freedom and lives of other people. Mikhail Khodorkovsky - too. The MBKh Media project is closing," Kutsyllo wrote. The termination of work was also announced by Pravozashchita Postcards and Open Media, previously blocked by Roskomnadzor.

At a hearing in the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow, the prosecution asks that oppositionist Nikolai Lyaskin be sentenced to two years of restriction of freedom on a “sanitary matter.” This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Sergei Telnov, who represents the interests of the defendant. In addition, they want to prohibit Lyaskin from leaving Moscow and leaving his home from 22:00 to 6:00. On June 18, the Tverskoy District Court extended his ban on certain actions until November 26.

Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, blocked the website of the Profession - Journalist award, established by businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky. This was announced by the Roskomsvoboda project. On August 4, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, the websites of Open Media, MBKh Media, and Pravozashchita Otkryka ​​were also blocked .