Moscow activist Olga Misik said in her Telegram channel that after the start of the war in Ukraine, security forces began to put pressure on her. According to Misik, since the end of February, FSB and police officers periodically come to her home, who, among other things, ask neighbors about the activist. In July, a report was filed against the girl stating that she did not live at her place of registration.

In the Altai Territory, employees of the FSB border department seized more than a hundred copies of religious literature of Jehovah's Witnesses. The department reported this to the Kommersant-Sibir newspaper. The cargo was detained at the Veseloyarsk automobile checkpoint, which is located on the border with Kazakhstan. The seized literature is included in the federal list of prohibited extremist materials, border guards explained.

In Penza on July 26, the editor-in-chief of the publication “New Alternative” Maxim Denisov was searched in a criminal case of libel (Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code). He told The Politics portal about this. told During the search, the system unit from the computer was seized from the journalist. According to Denisov, the case was initiated at the request of Anton Sharonov, a candidate for the regional legislative assembly from United Russia.

The Kirov administration refused to approve a rally in memory of the victims of the Stalinist terror. This was announced to OVD-Info by its organizer Vadim Ananyin. The event was supposed to take place on August 5 - the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Great Terror of 1937-1938. The activist decided to hold it after trips to Solovki and to the Sandarmokh tract, which in the Soviet years became the site of mass executions.

The Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow counted the time that the former editors of DOXA magazine spent under a ban on certain actions. In this regard, the journalists still have to serve six months of correctional labor out of the two years that were imposed as part of the sentence. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov, who represents the interests of one of the defendants in the case, Alla Gutnikova.

A court in St. Petersburg awarded local resident Tatyana Yasnyuk compensation in the amount of 5 thousand rubles for illegal detention on April 21, 2021 at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny. Human rights activist Pavel Chikov writes about this. Yasnyuk was kept in police custody for 17 hours after the protest. A protocol was drawn up against her regarding her participation in a simultaneous mass gathering of citizens (Article 20.2.2 of the Administrative Code).

The Smolensk Region Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs filed a lawsuit against politician Alexei Navalny in the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow on July 13. The Telegram channel "We Can Explain" responded to this. The file drew attention to the fact that the co-defendants are Navalny's associates Ivan Zhdanov, Lyubov Sobol, Vladimir Milov, Oleg Stepanov and politician Ilya Yashin.

The Supreme Court of Crimea upheld the extension of the arrest of nurse and activist Irina Danilovich, suspected of possession of explosives (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code), “Crimean process”. On July 5, the Kiev District Court of Simferopol wrote that she would be kept in custody until September 6. extended The investigation believes that Danilovich kept 200 grams of explosives in the lining of her glasses case.

The administrator of the website of the Orlets publication, Artem Prokhorov, and the journalist of this publication, Vladimir Panfilov, were detained on charges of extortion. This was written about in the project’s telegram channel. The journalists were detained while receiving money from businessman Vladimir Tilman, Orlovskiye Novosti claims , citing sources in law enforcement agencies, adding that Tilman had previously been a victim in another extortion case.

Ex-director of Open Russia Andrei Pivovarov is being transported from Krasnodar pre-trial detention center No. 1 to a colony. The head of Pivovarov’s headquarters, Tatyana Usmanova, spoke about this with reference to the prisoner’s mother. wrote Which specific colony Pivovarov is being transferred to is still unknown. On July 15, the Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar sentenced him to four years in prison. He was also banned from engaging in social and political activities for eight years.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow awarded compensation of 170 thousand rubles to truck driver Mikhail Vedrov, who opposed the Platon system. The judge granted the driver's claim and declared his detention under house arrest illegal during the period after the verdict and until the consideration of the appeal against it. Vedrov’s interests were represented in court by lawyer from OVD-Info Maria Nemova.

Ivan Lyubshin, convicted because of a comment about an explosion in the FSB building, was reprimanded in IK-1 of the Yaroslavl region. His father Viktor Lyubshin reported this to OVD-Info. In 2020, a man was sentenced to five years and two months in a general regime colony under the article on justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court confirmed that the refusal of medical assistance to the defendant in the Artpodgotovka case, Oleg Dmitriev, who is serving a sentence in IK-5 in Nizhny Tagil, is illegal. Evening Gazette writes about this. In April, this decision was made in the first instance by the Ordzhonikidze District Court of Yekaterinburg. Dmitriev broke his leg before his sentencing while in the Moscow Butyrka pre-trial detention center in 2019.

The City Court of St. Petersburg upheld the decision to extend the detention in a pre-trial detention center until August 5 for Boris Romanov, a defendant in the case of “fake news” about the Russian army (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). RusNews about this. writes The City Court meeting took place on August 2.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Yekaterinburg left without action the police's lawsuit against opposition politician Yevgeny Roizman and other local activists. Vecherniye Vedomosti responded to this. drew attention Presumably, as the publication writes, the court found errors in the statement of claim and suggested that the police correct them.