The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested activist Mikhail Krieger for ten days under the article on disobedience to police officers (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by the lawyer from OVD-Info Maria Varaeva, who defended him in court. On July 28, Krieger was detained by the traffic police because of the stickers on the car “Navalny is my president” and “I am against Putin.

The Ministry of Justice added to the register of media outlets - “foreign agents” and added Mitya Aleshkovsky, co-founder of the Need Help Foundation, writer Dmitry Bykov and editor-in-chief of The New Times, Evgenia Albats, to it. At the end of December 2020, the State Duma adopted changes to the legislation on "foreign agents".

The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended the arrest of artist Sasha Skochilenko until September 1. Information about this appeared in the telegram channel in support of the girl. Skochilenko is accused under the article on “fakes” about the Russian army (clause “d”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) - she faces up to ten years in prison.

The Ministry of Justice entered the legal entity Foreign Agent AAV LLC, created by the former editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, Alexei Venediktov, into the register of media outlets as "foreign agents". This is reported by the telegram channel SOTA. Venediktov created a legal entity with the right to publishing activities to comply with the legislation on "foreign agents" in early June.

The mayor's office of Novosibirsk refused to allow 97-year-old veteran of the Great Patriotic War Vladimir Stepanov to approve a rally against corruption, reports . 7×7 Stepanov planned to hold an event on July 30 in the city center and also raise the problem of the low standard of living of Russians. The administration refused the veteran, referring to the event of the branch of the "Young Guard".

On July 14, the Avtozavodsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod re-entered the case of Jehovah's Witness Gevorg Gevorkyan, who is accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the SOVA Information and Analytical Center. Initially, Gevorkyan was a witness in the case of the other five believers. In November 2021, a criminal case was opened against the man, which was separated into separate proceedings.

The investigation is trying to put pressure on Jehovah's Witness Yaroslav Kalin, who is accused of organizing and participating in the activities of an extremist organization (part 1 and part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and is in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in the Irkutsk region. His daughter told OVD-Info about this.

The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended the detention of Belarusian citizen Yana Pinchuk in a pre-trial detention center for three months. It is reported by RusNews. 25-year-old Pinchuk was detained in St. Petersburg at the request of the Belarusian authorities, where she is accused under five articles . At home, the girl faces up to 19 years in prison. According to investigators, she ran opposition telegram channels, which are recognized as extremist in Belarus.

A criminal case was opened against Marina Egorova, the wife of politician Leonid Gozman, due to late notification of the migration service about second citizenship (Article 330.2 of the Criminal Code). The politician talks about this on Facebook. wrote “They just announced to us that a criminal case has also been opened against my wife for the same terrible crime - for late notification of second citizenship! The mafia did not touch their wives and children during their showdowns.

The Tyumen Regional Court sentenced a 23-year-old local resident to six months in a colony settlement under articles about “fake news” about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). Information about this appeared on the website and.

The 38 member states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe activated the Moscow Mechanism for the third time since the beginning of the armed conflict in Ukraine. What is the Moscow Mechanism The possibility of launching such a mechanism and its operation were developed by the OSCE participating States in 1991, during the Conference on the Human Dimension held in Moscow - from where the mechanism got its name.

The lawyer Alexander Nemov was again not allowed to be convicted by LGBTK-Yunosha from Chechnya Saleh Magamadov. This was reported by the OTD-Info in the press service of the crisis group SK SOS. The employees of the T-2 Vladimir Central told the defender that there was no Magamadova in the institution. At the same time, on July 25, human rights activists received a notification from the censor of the FSIN - it said that the young man was handed a letter in this prison.

In Moscow, three supporters of the creator of the “Police Ombudsman” project, Vladimir Vorontsov, were detained as part of a criminal case - they had previously made a film where they talked about the illegal actions of the investigation in his case. The channel “Police Ombudsman 2” writes about this. The detainees are former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Andina, Vasily Fedorov and Evgeny Moiseev.

The former coordinator of Navalny’s Kemerovo headquarters, Ksenia Pakhomova, was taken to the Investigative Committee for questioning. Police officers stopped her at the station when she arrived from St. Petersburg to Moscow, former FBK employee Dmitry Nizovtsev writes on Twitter. It is not yet known what case the interrogation is being conducted on. Pakhomova headed Navalny’s headquarters in Kemerovo in 2017–2018. Now she lives in St. Petersburg.

The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg dismissed a lawsuit filed by local resident Alexander Sizov alleging excessive use of force by police at an anti-war rally on March 6, Anatoly Svechnikov, regional coordinator of OVD-Info, said. The plaintiff was represented by a lawyer from OVD-Info, Roman Kachanov. On the day of the rally, Sizov saw how the police forced the participants of the anti-war protest to their knees - this took place on Lenin Avenue in Yekaterinburg.