In the city of Kudrovo, Leningrad Region, at about nine o'clock in the evening, an unknown person attacked activists of the Strategy 18 initiative, who were holding a picket in support of the Crimean Tatars. The police detained both the picketers and the attacker. The activists themselves told OVD-Info about what happened.

Police officers near the Zlynka station in the Bryansk region detained the journalist of Current Time Roman Perl and his cameraman Igor Osipov, who were interviewing local residents. The detainees themselves reported this to OVD-Info. The reason for the arrest was that the journalists were filming a few kilometers from the border zone. The operator was required to write an explanatory note about why he had a tattered passport. Formally, the detainees have not yet been charged with anything.

The Ministry of Justice included the public movement in defense of voters' rights "Voice" in the new register of "unregistered associations performing the function of a foreign agent." The Interfax news agency reports about this. reports the corresponding entry on the website of the Ministry of Justice. At the moment, Golos is the only association that is on the new register.

In St. Petersburg, employees of Rospotrebnadzor came to public hearings on the reconstruction of the 1912 Basevich house. This is reported by the publication Znak. The event was held in the building of the congress hall "Vladimirsky". Representatives of the department, who appeared before the start, forbade holding hearings. As the city defender Oleg Mukhin told Znak, the organizers were threatened with completely closing the building or fined 500,000 rubles.

Massive police visits to Navalny’s supporters, a verdict in the “palace case” and forced treatment for comments on social networks. Read the main news for August 18. Since the evening of August 17, the police managed to visit the addresses of at least 100 Muscovites, whose data ended up in databases allegedly associated with the websites of Navalny’s projects. The security forces demanded an explanation about the FBK donations and the person’s entry into the database. In St.

The prosecution, during the debate in the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, asked to impose six years in prison for Moscow State University student Said-Mukhamad Dzhumaev in the case of a fight with riot police at a rally on January 23. The lawyer of the accused, Murad Musaev, announced this on RusNews. At the same time, at the trial in May, the prosecutor asked Dzhumaeva for five years in a general regime colony.

The Moscow Regional Court extended the term for the journalist of "Rosderzhava" Alexander Dorogov in a pre-trial detention center until October 28. This was reported in the telegram channel "Katelevskiy and Dorogov info". The journalist and his colleague Yan Katelevsky are accused of extortion (clause “b” part 3 of article 163 of the Criminal Code) and insulting an official (article 319 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the case was opened in July 2020.

In Moscow, near the Pushkinskaya metro station, Sergey Nesterov, Yuri Nazarova and Irina Popov, who stood with posters in support of Alexei Navalny and against United Russia, were detained. The OTD-Info was reported by the detainees themselves.

Presumably, the aim of the visit of the security forces is the statement against the FBK and Alexei Navalny about the violation of the law on personal data. The Russian BBC service wrote that the presidential administration is behind calls and visits.

During a hearing in the Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg, the prosecutor's office asked the defendant in the "palace case" Ivan Punegov to serve a year and a half in prison. This was reported by lawyer Sergei Podolsky, who collaborates with OVD-Info. Also, lawyer Maria Belyaeva defends Punegov’s interests on behalf of OVD-Info.

In Yevpatoria, on August 16, security forces conducted a search in the apartment of a bedridden patient; his name was not specified. This was reported on the website of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia organization. The security forces called an ambulance for a medical examination of the man. Investigative measures took place within the framework of the case of Jehovah's Witnesses Daria and Taras Kuzio. According to security forces, believers meet in the searched apartment to discuss the Bible.

The Southern District Military Court found Yevgenia Tkach, a resident of the Rostov region, guilty under the article on justifying terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of comments about an explosion in the Arkhangelsk FSB. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the press service of the court. The weaver was released from criminal liability and a compulsory measure of a medical nature was prescribed.

Photo from the personal page of Eduard Ataev on Facebook Police officers came to the former coordinator of the headquarters of Navalny in Makhachkala Eduard Ataev in connection with a single picket against lawlessness in the city. This was reported by the publication "Caucasus. Realii".

A court in Tyumen arrested for 10 days the journalist Viktor Egorov, nicknamed Santa Claus, who announced a campaign from Nizhny Novgorod to Moscow in support of the Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev. This was reported on Facebook journalist. Yegorov said that he was arrested on August 17 "for calling for unauthorized public actions (walking from Nizhny Novgorod to Moscow) for Sasha, for a free Russia." The activist announced the trip to the capital on August 13.

In Moscow, on the evening of August 17, police began visiting people whose personal data ended up in the databases of the Smart Voting and Freedom for Navalny websites, as well as those who sent donations to FBK. OVD-Info is aware of. at least 100 such cases. Judging by the reports received, the police come in civilian clothes and introduce themselves as the criminal investigation department. They demand an explanation about FBK donations and how a person got into the database.