On August 17, the Armavir City Court of the Krasnodar Territory fined activist Sergei Solomakhin two and a half thousand rubles. He was found guilty under the article on the production or sale of materials with extremist symbols (Part 2 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code) because of the “Smart Voting” leaflets. The SOVA information and analytical center drew attention to the court ruling .

The Perm Regional Court toughened additional punishments for five Jehovah's Witnesses: instead of banning them from holding leadership positions in religious organizations, they were banned from religious activity in general. This was reported by the SOVA Information and Analytical Center. In addition, Igor Turik was banned from leaving Perm for a year and a half.

In Moscow, at least six people were detained outside the Afghan embassy, ​​standing in single pickets in support of Afghan women. Broadcast from the scene is conducted in the YouTube channel "Another Opinion". Among the detainees were activists of SotsFemAlternativa Ksenia Bezdenezhnykh and Socialist Alternative Ilya Lukhovitsky, as well as Daria, Anna and Sophia. The sixth detainee, also Anna, was taken away despite the fact that she was standing without a poster.

A court in Perm increased the fine to the leader of the Perm National Bolsheviks, Kirill Imashev, from 20,000 to 40,000 rubles, allegedly due to evasion of punishment (part 1, article 20.25 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by the telegram channel "Direct Action". A protocol on non-payment of a fine against Imashev was drawn up after he was released from a special detention center, where he served 15 days of arrest due to a rally for fair elections.

An activist from Kaliningrad was chosen as a preventive measure, the prosecution requested punishment for a Jehovah's Witness from Birobidzhan, and the Prosecutor General's Office recognized four foreign religious organizations as “undesirable.” We'll tell you about the main things for August 23rd. The court refused to send Kaliningrad activist Evgenia Fedulova to a pre-trial detention center.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkortostan filed a fourth lawsuit against the ex-coordinator of Navalny’s Ufa headquarters, Liliya Chanysheva, and activists Olga Komleva and Ilgam Yanberdin. The ministry considers them the organizers of the rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23. The police demand 529,400 rubles to be recovered from the activists. This is reported by “Apology of Protest”.

The Central District Court of Kaliningrad refused to send into custody activist Evgenia Fedulova, suspected of repeated violations at rallies (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code). Local writer and blogger Nikolai Gorelov reported this to OVD-Info. Thus, the court refused to satisfy the investigator’s request to place the activist in custody. Fedulov on August 19, since then she has been in a temporary detention center. She is defended by OVD-Info lawyer Maria Bontsler.

The Belogorsky District Court of Crimea fined a priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Father Damian, under the article on violations in the implementation of missionary activities (part 4 of article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). about this on his Facebook page Serhiy Zayats, a Ukrainian human rights activist , wrote . The priest was fined 15,000 rubles. On August 8, the security forces disrupted the service in the monastery church and drew up protocols.

The Moscow City Court upheld a fine of 10 thousand rubles for Anna Narinskaya, imposed due to participation in a series of pickets near the FSB building on Lubyanka. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Sergei Telnov. A series of pickets took place on July 16, 2020, two days after the state prosecution requested punishment for those involved in the “New Greatness” case.

The Prosecutor General's Office declared four religious organizations associated with Latvia and Ukraine "undesirable". This was reported in the telegram channel of the department.

In the Birobidzhansky District Court on August 19, the prosecutor during the debate asked Jehovah's Witness Andrei Gubin to serve four years in prison and two years of restriction of freedom. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers in Russia. The believer is accused under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The case was opened in February 2020.

In Moscow, near the building of the Prosecutor General, the police detained picketer Natalya Makusheva. She herself informed OVD-Info about this. According to Makusheva, a gang of drug cultists supervised by the police kidnapped her 3-year-old grandson and 22-year-old daughter. The kidnapped began to have health problems. In addition, a year after that, the woman's apartment was taken away.