The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Penza fined Yelena Vasyagina, an assistant to a City Duma deputy, for 10,000 rubles because of a picket against the illegal operation of slot machines. This is reported by the publication "7 × 7". A supporter of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation came out with a single picket to the police department after she wrote a statement demanding to remove the machine guns.

Roskomnadzor demanded that Apple remove Alexei Navalny’s app from the App Store. Navalny’s team spoke about this. In a letter addressed to the corporation, officials report that the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and Navalny's headquarters are recognized as extremist organizations and their activities are prohibited in Russia.

In Moscow, 15 volunteers were detained at a meeting with the State Duma candidate from the Yabloko party and Moscow City Duma deputy Sergei Mitrokhin. This was reported by the coordinator of legal assistance at OVD-Info, Alexandra Tsarvulanova. The detainees were taken to the Basmanny police station, and a lawyer from OVD-Info, Sergei Telnov, came to their aid. It is still unknown what the detainees are charged with.

A sentence for a participant in the January protests in support of Navalny, a mitigation of the preventive measure for an entrepreneur from Nizhny Novgorod, and a request for punishment for a defendant in the “sanitary case.” We tell you the main thing for August 19th. The defendant in the “palace case,” Said-Mukhamad Dzhumaev, was sentenced to five years in prison. He was found guilty of using violence against a government official at a rally on January 23.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced Moscow State University student Said-Mukhamad Dzhumaev to five years in prison in the case of a fight with riot police at a rally on January 23. Lawyer Murad Musaev reported this to OVD-Info. On August 18, the prosecution asked that Dzhumaev be sentenced to six years in prison. At the same time, in May, at the trial, the prosecutor requested five years in a general regime colony for him.

The prosecutor's office requested two years of restriction of freedom for Pussy Riot member and municipal deputy Lucy Stein on a “sanitary matter.” Stein announced this on Twitter. The activist is accused of inciting violation of sanitary and epidemiological standards (Part 1 of Article 236 of the Criminal Code with the use of Part 4 of Article 33 of the Criminal Code) in connection with the rally on January 23 in support of Alexei Navalny.

The City Court of St. Petersburg dismissed the appeal against the extension of the preventive measure for the defendant in the “palace case” Ivan Punegov. This was reported by lawyer Sergei Podolsky, who collaborates with OVD-Info. The court scheduled an appeal hearing for the preventive measure, which was scheduled before August 11, after its expiration.

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined Google six million rubles under the article on failure to remove “prohibited content” at the request of the authorities (parts 2 and 4 of article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by Novaya Gazeta. The court imposed a fine of two million rubles each for three protocols on non-removal of prohibited publications. Roskomnadzor regularly files lawsuits against Google, Facebook and Twitter .

Roskomnadzor sent to the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow new reports on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and its CEO Andrey Shary due to violations of the labeling of publications. about this . writes Radio Liberty The publication clarifies that the court received the first protocols from a series of 130 fines. They are related to the absence of the “foreign agent” marking on the publication’s website.

The Birobidzhan District Court sentenced Jehovah's Witness Anastasia Guzeva to two and a half years probation. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers. The believer was also sentenced to two years of probation and a year of restriction of freedom. The prosecutor requested four years in prison for Guzeva. The woman was found guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

In Kaliningrad, police detained local activists Evgenia Fedulova and Anastasia Nekhaeva. Ivan Luzin reported this to OVD-Info. The girls were taken for questioning to the Investigative Committee. In June it became known that Fedulova was subject to a pre-investigation check under the article on repeated violations of the procedure for holding public events (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code - “Dadinskaya”).

In Chechnya, lawyer Alexander Nemov was not allowed to see LGBTQ representatives Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, who were arrested on charges of participating in an illegal armed group (Part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot". The staff of the pre-trial detention center stated that the young people were sick with the coronavirus, but did not provide the lawyer with any documents confirming this.

In Perm, bailiffs detained the head of the local branch of the Other Russia party E. V. Limonov, Kirill Imashev, because of a fine under an article about a violation at a rally. reports SOTA . The meeting on the National Bolshevik case was supposed to take place on August 18, but it was postponed to August 23 due to the absence of the activist. “I was brought to court. Now they tell me that I did not appear before the bailiff, but this is not so.

The Moskovsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod imposed a new preventive measure on businessman Mikhail Iosilevich - a ban on certain actions - in the case of participation in the activities of Open Russia , recognized as an "undesirable organization." Kommersant writes about this. Iosilevich was prohibited from using the Internet and telephone, communicating with witnesses in the case and participating in political events.

Six defendants in the "Moscow case" are still in colonies. One of them is Yegor Lesnykh. He was supposed to be released on parole back in January, but the prosecutor's office appealed this decision and Lesnykh remained behind bars. There, unbearable working conditions were created for him and other prisoners, the administration specifically reduces the time for visiting relatives, and books from parcels are constantly lost.