The administration of the Oktyabrsky district of Rostov-on-Don did not agree on a picket dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the August coup. This is reported by the publication "Kavkaz.Realii". As one of the organizers of the action, Valentina Tolmacheva, said, the participants planned to come out with posters and photographs dedicated to the events of August 1991. Officials considered the event "controversial".

Irina Dolinina and Alesya Marokhovskaya, journalists for Important Stories, reported that on August 17, SMS and “dumb” calls were continuously received on their phone numbers, writes . Novaya Gazeta “Non-stop texting from shops, banks and other places with different codes. I have received almost 400 SMS since the morning, and so far the flow has not stopped for a minute. Weaker phones may even hang because of this or lose mobile communications, ”Novaya Dolinina is quoted as saying.

Lawsuits against supporters of Alexei Navalny after the January rallies, house arrest of a Muscovite protesting against renovation, and release of activists from Voronezh and Nizhny Novgorod from pre-trial detention centers. We talk about the main news for August 17. Moscow resident Olga Kuzmina, who climbed a tree with a crossbow as part of a protest against renovation, was sent under house arrest. A criminal case has been opened against her under the article of hooliganism.

On appeal, the Moscow City Court upheld the house arrest of the defendant in the “sanitary case,” municipal deputy Dmitry Baranovsky. This was reported by lawyer Alexey Vasiliev, who collaborates with OVD-Info. On July 21, the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow extended Baranovsky’s house arrest until October 6.

In Voronezh, Grigory Severin, accused of calling for extremism via the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), was transferred to house arrest after almost two months in a pre-trial detention center. Lawyer Georgy Lutskevich told OVD-Info about this. The decision to change the preventive measure by the Central District Court of Voronezh during the preliminary hearing. The case will begin to be considered on August 25. received Severin on June 28.

On August 17, the Babushkinsky District Court placed Muscovite Olga Kuzmina under house arrest until October 9. She had earlier taken a crossbow and climbed a tree as part of a protest against the renovation. Lawyers from OVD-Info report the court's decision. The woman is charged with hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). At the hearing in the case of Olga Kuzmina, lawyers announced falsification of evidence.

Our headquarters has existed for a long time; over the past three years we have held more than a hundred protests. Last year I went to the City Council as a self-nominated candidate - they cut me down on signatures, recognizing some of them as non-existent, although we were ready to bring these people. They said: we have bases and there is no reason not to trust them.

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Novosibirsk region filed a lawsuit against local oppositionists for police work at a January rally in support of Navalny. One of the defendants in the lawsuit, assistant to the Novosibirsk City Council deputy Daniil Markelov, reported this on Twitter. According to him, the police are demanding 2.8 million rubles.

The Moscow District Court in Nizhny Novgorod changed the measure of restraint for local businessman Mikhail Iosilevich, accused of participating in the activities of Open Russia, recognized as an "undesirable organization." This was reported to OVD-Info by German Knyazev, a witness in the case. What measure of restraint was assigned to Iosilevich is still unknown. Prior to the start of the case, the accused, according to Knyazev, should be at home.

Security forces detained the alleged head of the Yalta branch of Jehovah's Witnesses, who was put on the wanted list. This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee. The Kyiv District Court of Simferopol sent the believer to a pre-trial detention center. A Jehovah's Witness was detained at the Nekhoteevka checkpoint in the Belgorod region while trying to leave for another country.

In Novosibirsk, journalist Pyotr Manyakhin was fined 32,000 rubles for shooting from a drone, writes NGS.ru. The decision was made by the department of Rostransnadzor for the Siberian Federal District.

The Krasnoyarsk Regional Court upheld the house arrest of Jehovah's Witness Ildar Urazbakhtin. The believer’s lawyer, Nikolai Munsky, reported this to OVD-Info. Urazbakhtin was placed under house arrest in July after a series of searches of believers in Krasnoyarsk. The court did not take into account the arguments that 58-year-old technical inspector Urazbakhtin is the sole breadwinner of the family and lives with his wife with disabilities and young grandchildren.

The security forces conducted mass searches of the Crimean Tatars, as a result of which they detained at least five people. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity". The search began at 4 am. In the Nakhimovsky district of Sevastopol, activists Rustem Murasov and Rustem Tairov were detained, in the Balaklava district - Dzhebbar Bekirov, in the Bakhchisarai district of Crimea - Zavur Abdullayev, in Simferopol - Raif Fevziev.

The 1st Eastern District Military Court of Khabarovsk, at an off-site meeting in Kansk, softened the preventive measure for teenagers Denis Mikhailenko and Bogdan Andreev, who are accused of being trained to commit terrorist attacks. They were given a ban on certain activities. This was reported by the head of the international human rights group "Agora" Pavel Chikov.

In St. Petersburg, the police detained and took to the Investigative Committee Anna Vellicock, a friend of Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) investigator Georgy Alburov. She herself reported this to OVD-Info. They want to question Wellicoke as a witness in the fraud case brought against Alexei Navalny. She was detained while she was visiting a doctor, on the basis of a detention order. The interests of the detainee will be represented during interrogation by lawyer from OVD-Info Evgeniy Kheifets.