On August 19, the Telegram messenger blocked the account of the editor-in-chief of the publication “Important Stories” Roman Anin. Novaya Gazeta writes about this with reference to Anin himself. “Yesterday I couldn’t log into Telegram because it was deleted from me, and it said that my account was banned, banned in English. I can’t restore it yet,” the journalist said. He does not know the reasons for the blocking; the messenger support service did not answer him.

The court ordered “Important Stories” to remove the publication that Moscow dance teacher Aya Belova and Kazan resident Natalya Bogdanova participated in the purchase of Pirelli shares for one of Rosneft’s structures. The publication reported this on its Telegram channel. “We provided the court with documents that confirmed we were right.

The Voroshilovsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don extended the period of detention of Kirill Skripin in a pre-trial detention center until June 21. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the press service of the court. Skripin has been under arrest for more than three months. In April, a citizen of Rostov was charged with vandalism motivated by political hatred (part 2 of article 214 of the Criminal Code).

The Industrial District Court of Perm appointed Ivan Shilonosov 50 hours of compulsory work under the article on inciting hatred against a social group (Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of an obscene comment about police officers, the Sova information and analytical center . reports A comment left by Shilonosov under a post on VKontakte contained “insulting nominations” for police officers.

On August 19, the Moscow City Court upheld the decision to extend the house arrest of the defendant in the “sanitary case” Maria Alekhina. “Apology of Protest” writes about this on Twitter. On July 23, the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow extended the preventive measure for Pussy Riot art group member Maria Alekhina until January 8.

Another verdict in a “sanitary case”, an addition to the register of foreign agents and a visit by security forces to a mosque in the Moscow region. We tell you the main news for August 20. The ex-coordinator of Navalny's Moscow headquarters, Oleg Stepanov, was found guilty of inciting violations of sanitary and epidemiological rules. He was sentenced to a year of restriction of freedom. Police came to the Moscow mosque after Friday prayers.

In Moscow, the picket worker Evgeny Chachkov, who was holding a poster against United Russia, was detained in Moscow on Pushkinskaya Square. This was announced by the OWD-Info by Chachkov himself. The photo was provided by the detainee himself. The man stood for several minutes in a single picket, after which the police approached him and offered to travel with him to the police department in the Tver district.

On August 20, the Ministry of Justice in the register of media outlets acting as foreign agents. included the Dozhd TV channel and the Important Stories publication Seven new individuals-foreign agents also appeared on the list. These are the journalists of Important Stories Roman Anin, Olesya Shmagun, Dmitry Velikovsky, Alesya Marokhovskaya, Irina Dolinina, Roman Shleinov and the head of the non-profit organization Yakutia - Our Opinion Stepan Petrov.

The police officers came to the mosque near Moscow. They surrounded Muslims gathered on Friday prayer. This was reported by the OTD-Info by several people from the scene. The video from the mosque was also published by the Baza telegram channel, it shows how the police check the documents from the believers. As several people reported as ATD-INFO, a significant number of Muslims are kept in the mosque, they are not allowed to leave the building, demanding money from them for exit.

The Nagatinsky District Court of Moscow imposed a fine of four thousand rubles on the National Bolshevik Timofey Filin. The activist was found guilty under the article on disobedience to the lawful demand of the police (part 1 of article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported in the group “The Other Russia by E. V. Limonov” on VKontakte. Filin was detained early in the morning on July 31 - on this day, the National Bolsheviks were planning a rally for fair elections.

Roskomnadzor demanded that Google remove the Navalny application from the Google Play service. Interfax reports this with reference to the department's press service. Roskomnadzor justified the need to restrict access to the application by the fact that it is associated with the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which was recognized as an extremist organization. On August 19, the department sent a similar request to Apple to remove the application from the App Store service.

The police of the Leninsky and Domodedovo districts of the Moscow region are issuing warnings to local activists. This was reported to OVD-Info by a public figure Sergei Melnichenko. Information about this was also published in the INVISIBLE TV group on VKontakte. The warning was handed to Melnichenko when he was collecting signatures against the construction of an understudy for the Moscow Ring Road.

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow imposed a year of restriction of freedom on the ex-coordinator of Navalny’s capital headquarters, Oleg Stepanov, on a “sanitary case.” The Dozhd TV channel is about this. reports The activist was found guilty under the article of incitement to violate sanitary and epidemiological rules (Part 1 of Article 236 with the application of Article 33 of the Criminal Code) in connection with the rally in support of Navalny on January 23.

The Perm regional court dismissed the case and canceled the fine for local resident Elena Germanova, who participated in the recording of a video message to Vladimir Putin. about this She wrote on her page on VKontakte, posting a photo of the decision.

LGBTQ representatives Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, who are in custody in Chechnya, complained about torture and beatings. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the lawyer of the young men Alexander Nemov. Earlier, the defender was not allowed into the pre-trial detention center to see Magamadov and Isaev. The security forces stated that the young people were sick with the coronavirus, but did not provide the lawyer with any documents confirming this.