In Moscow, the police detained seven street musicians, artists associate what happened to the elections. Evgeny Melnik spoke about the incident of the ATS-Info. All detainees, including Antonina Goletiani and Georgy Malyshev, were delivered to the Arbat police department. What is charged with is still unknown. In addition, the police seized a sound -integrating column and a guitar from the artists. Similar detention of street musicians has been going on for several days.

Ksenia Lavrova, a candidate for deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, was denied approval for a picket in support of the ex-head of Open Russia, Andrei Pivovarov. It is reported by Activatica with reference to Lavrova's Twitter. The candidate for deputies submitted a notice of approval for holding a picket in support of Andrei Pivovarov to the administration of the Admiralteisky district. Three hours later, she received a call and was told that the approval had been denied.

The Investigative Committee referred to court the case of a blogger from St. Petersburg, Anton Myslivets, who is accused of disseminating deliberately false information that poses a threat to the population (Article 207.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the press service of the department.

A court in Tula arrested a local resident Sergei Sosov for 15 days - he was found guilty under the article on the public display of Nazi symbols (part 1 of article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by the Information and Analytical Center "Sova". The case against Sosov was brought because of the publication in Instagram. At trial, the defendant claimed that he did not publish the Nazi symbol, but the Buddhist swastika.

In Moscow, law enforcement officers detained activists of Maxim Shchukin and Mikhail Timonin. Men stood with posters “Freedom to Alexei Navalny” and “Freedom of Political Plane” near the Kremlin. Mikhail Timonin with a poster. The photo is provided to the detainees Maxim Schukin with a poster. The photo is provided to the detainees The picketers were taken to the police department in the Kitay-Gorod district. An Oksana Borodina, lawyer from the OVD-info, went to their aid.

On August 7, the Central District Court of Togliatti granted the investigator’s request to take into custody Maxim Morozov, a Jehovah’s Witness from the Kemerovo region. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers in Russia. Morozov is accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Real terms in the “palace case”, arrests of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Moscow and a request for punishment in the “sanitary case”. Read the main news for August 27. Participants in the action on January 23 in Yekaterinburg, Kirill Kudrin and Alexey Konkov, were sentenced to eight and ten months in a penal settlement, respectively. According to investigators, the protesters threw a smoke bomb and a training grenade towards the riot police.

In Moscow, unidentified persons attacked Elvira Vikhareva, a volunteer candidate for the State Duma from the Party of Growth. about this She wrote in her telegram channel. A volunteer was distributing leaflets when he was attacked. The man was hit, his clothes were torn, and campaign materials were ruined. “The reason for the violence was the involvement of a volunteer in the activities of an opposition candidate,” Vikhareva said.

The Pervomaisky District Court of Penza upheld the claim of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs against the former head of Navalny's local headquarters, Anton Strunin, and activist Yuri Tsepaev over the work of police officers at the rally on January 23. “Apology of Protest” writes about this.

In the summer of 2021, the nature of political violence in Russia has changed. The repressive system, assembled from individual bills and amendments—four types of “foreign agents,” a register of “undesirable” organizations, and a list of extremists—worked as a single whole. Having crushed the opposition, the state attacked the media. Since April, seven editorial offices and 20 more journalists have been declared “foreign agents.” One media outlet has become an “undesirable” organization.

The investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Izhevsk sent to court the criminal case of Anastasia Ponkina, a participant in the action on January 23. This was reported on the website of the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. Ponkina is accused of hooliganism motivated by political hostility (clause “b”, part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) due to her participation in a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23.

The Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow sent Jehovah's Witnesses Alexander Rumyantsev and Eduard Sviridov to a pre-trial detention center until October 23. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers in Russia. It is unknown what article the arrestees are charged with. Rumyantsev, Sviridov, and Sean Pike were detained on August 26 after searches that took place at at least five addresses in Moscow. They plan to choose a preventive measure for Pike later.

In Moscow, a protocol was drawn up against municipal deputy Sergei Vlasov on the dissemination of false information because of a video about the construction of sewage sludge processing plants. He himself informed OVD-Info about this. The protocol under Part 9 of Article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses was drawn up because of a video published in April on Vlasov's Telegram channel.

In Moscow, the prosecutor at a meeting of the Preobrazhensky Court asked to sentence the person involved in the “sanitary case”, the Mundane Deputy Dmitry Baranovsky, to one year and ten months of restriction of freedom. This was reported by the politician’s lawyer Alexey Vasiliev, who collaborates with OVD-Info.

Relatives of Dmitry Kamynin and Vladimir Taranenko, coordinators of the Siberia Legal project, spoke about the conditions in which their loved ones are kept in the pre-trial detention center. The accused complained of bullying and unsanitary conditions. Taiga.Info writes about this. Dmitry Kamynin, sent into custody in December 2020 on charges of drug possession (Part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code), is in pre-trial detention center No. 3 in the city of Mariinsk.