In St. Petersburg, on Nevsky Prospekt, Vladimir Shipitsyn was detained, holding a single picket in honor of Ukraine’s Independence Day. He told OVD-Info about this himself. The activist is currently in a paddy wagon. 20:00 Activist Olga Smirnova was also detained at the rally dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine. The telegram channel “Peaceful Resistance named after Elena Grigorieva” writes about this.

While the person involved in the “palace case” was transferred from the Vladimir region to Moscow, the activist who protested against the renovation on a tree was charged. About the main news for August 24 - in the OVD-Info digest. Muscovite Olga Kuzmina, who climbed a tree with a crossbow as part of a protest against the renovation, was charged . She is charged with an article on hooliganism committed by prior agreement with the use of objects used as weapons.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don returned the case of the fourth Hizb-ut-Tahrir group from Bakhchisaray to the prosecutor's office, since the indictment was not written in Braille - this violated the rights of the defendant in the case, Alexander Sizikov, who became blind as a result of an accident. This is reported by the publication "Grati". Sizikova's defender filed a motion to return the case to the prosecutor's office.

Rosfinmonitoring included in the list of extremists and terrorists the former Interior Minister of Ingushetia, Akhmed Pogorov, who was detained in the case of police clashes with protesters at a rally in Magas in 2019. Information about this is published on the website of the department.

Muscovite Olga Kuzmina, who climbed a tree with a crossbow as part of a protest against renovation, was charged with hooliganism. This was reported by lawyer from OVD-Info Katerina Tertukhina. According to the decision to bring her as a defendant, Kuzmina carried out her action by conspiring with “unidentified persons”; The document also states that the activist used a “pre-prepared object used as a weapon” - a crossbow.

The defendant in the “palace case,” Roman Pichuzhin, who was sentenced to two years in prison under the article on the use of violence against a government official, was transported back to Moscow. Presumably, he will be placed in pre-trial detention center-7. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov, who represents the interests of the activist. In July, Pichuzhin was transported from Moscow to pre-trial detention center No.

On August 23, the Investigative Committee for the Murmansk Region questioned the former coordinator of Navalny’s local headquarters, Violetta Grudina. She is a witness in a new criminal case brought against Alexei Navalny under the article on the creation of an organization that encroaches on the personality and rights of citizens (Article 239 of the Criminal Code). Grudina reported this on her Telegram channel. According to the activist, the interrogation lasted only 15 minutes.

In Astrakhan, the police came to the journalist of the Idel.Realii publication Fyodor Alekseev, who writes under the pseudonym Todar Baktemir. He himself informed OVD-Info about this. According to him, the police stand at the door, knocking and refusing to give reasons for the visit. “If you open it, we’ll tell you,” the journalist quoted the security forces as saying. He doesn't open the door yet. 14:00 Employees of the Center "E" came to the journalist's home.

On August 17, the Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in Moscow upheld the verdict of the defendant in the “palace case” Vitaly Timofeenko. Information about this follows from the case file on the court’s website. In March, Timofeenko, who lives in the Vladimir region, was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony under the article on the use of violence dangerous to life and health against a representative of the authorities (Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

In Moscow, in the Krylatskoye district, the police, without explanation, detained Ilya Kuroyedov, an agitator for the candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko, Kirill Goncharov. This is reported by the telegram channel "This is Goncharov!". Kuroyedov was taken to the Krylatskoe police station. This is not the first time that the police have detained volunteers from Kirill Goncharov's team.

Khabarovsk artist Maxim Smolnikov (Xadad), accused in the case of justifying terrorism, was taken to the FSB for questioning. An investigation is being carried out against him based on a publication made in 2016 on VKontakte with the song “ACAB” by the group “PolitZek”. This was reported in the telegram channel covering the Smolnikov case. According to the authors of the channel, we are talking about Article 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities).

Vladimir Dubovsky, a member of the Civil Society and former coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Vladivostok, decided to leave Russia due to political pressure. He announced this on his Twitter. According to the activist, a month earlier he was summoned to the Investigative Committee: “The investigator claimed that allegedly, according to their information, I literally “sponsored” the protests that took place in Moscow in January and February 2021.

In Moscow, near the building of the Prosecutor General's Office, police detained teacher Natalya Makusheva, who was planning to picket. She herself reported this to OVD-Info. Makusheva came from Samara to get a meeting with Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov. As she told OVD-Info, a gang of drug sectarians, supervised by the police, kidnapped her 3-year-old grandson and 22-year-old daughter. The abducted people began to have health problems.