The Kirovsky District Court of Kemerovo extended house arrest until October 1 and banned blogger Mikhail Alferov from walking. His mother reported this to OVD-Info; the editorial office has the resolution. Alferov is accused of inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) because of a video in support of Alexei Navalny.

While courts are rubber-stamping verdicts in politically motivated cases, opposition activists continue to leave Russia. Read about what August 30 will be remembered in the OVD-Info digest. The court sentenced the person involved in the “sanitary case”, municipal deputy Dmitry Baranovsky, to one and a half years of restriction of freedom.

In the Altai Territory, customs officers fined a German citizen one thousand rubles because she had a Jehovah's Witnesses brochure with her. This was reported on the website of the Siberian Customs Administration. The woman was charged with failure to comply with customs prohibitions and restrictions (Article 16.3 of the Administrative Code). She was carrying the brochure “Humanity in Search of God,” which, as the SOVA Information and Analytical Center notes , was declared extremist in 2009.

Kira Yarmysh, press secretary of politician Alexei Navalny, left Russia - presumably, she went to Helsinki. Interfax reports this with reference to its sources. The oppositionist herself has not yet confirmed this information.

The Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended until February 19 the term in the pre-trial detention center for the person involved in the "palace case" Eldar Garipov. This is reported by lawyer Igor Skachko, who cooperates with OVD-Info. Garipov is accused of using non-life-threatening violence against a representative of the authorities (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code) at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 31.

In Khabarovsk, a prosecution witness testified in favor of the ex-head of Navalny’s local headquarters, Alexei Vorsin, against whom a case was opened under the “Dada” article. This was reported in the telegram channel of Vorsin’s team. The hearing took place in the Central District Court of Khabarovsk. The state prosecutor called witnesses and questioned them about the winter protests.

In Moscow, municipal deputy Dmitry Baranovsky was sentenced to one and a half years of restriction of freedom as part of a “sanitary case.” This was reported by the politician’s lawyer Alexey Vasiliev, who collaborates with OVD-Info.

Bailiffs from the Moscow Region have added the website of the publication Readovka to the register of banned publications, reports . Roskomsvoboda The decision to enter the site readovka.ru into the register was made by the interdistrict department for the execution of special enforcement proceedings No. 1 of the UFSSP in the Moscow Region. Now the publication's website can be accessed at readovka.news. Access was restricted due to a lawsuit filed by United Russia deputy Dmitry Sablin.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs declared the stay in Russia of comedian Idrak Mirzalizade, who recently spent 10 days under arrest because of a joke about Russians, undesirable for life. This decision is reported on the agency's website. “In his public speech, Idrak Mirzalizade made expressions that incite hatred and enmity towards persons of Russian nationality, degrading their human dignity.

Police officers in the city of Monchegorsk (Murmansk region) detained the director of the Sami Heritage and Development Foundation Andrey Danilov. This is reported by Novaya Gazeta with reference to the activist himself. On August 29, Danilov was at a mass celebration in the city center when police approached him and demanded to see the contents of his backpack.

At a meeting of the Central District Court of Chelyabinsk, the prosecutor demanded that six years in a general regime colony be imposed on the spouses Dmitry Tsibukovsky and Anastasia Safonova, who are accused in the case of hanging the banner “FSB is the main terrorist.” The head of the international human rights group “Agora” Pavel Chikov reported this in his Telegram channel.

In St. Petersburg, the police detained the activist of the Other Russia E. V. Limonov, Kirill Unchuk, and the leader of the Mars movement, Dmitry Moralikov. This was reported to OVD-Info by an eyewitness to the detention. According to him, he was walking along with the activists in the Vasileostrovsky district of the city. They were followed for a long time by a police gazelle; when Unchuk and Moralikov went ahead, the car stopped, detained them and took them away in an unknown direction.