Omsk resident Artem Pisarenko was fined one thousand rubles under the article on violating the high alert regime (Article 20.6.1 of the Administrative Code) due to a single picket in support of the arrested politicians Alexei Gorinov and Ilya Yashin. He wrote about this on VKontakte. The court agreed with the police that the picketer violated the governor's decree banning public events. Pisarenko held a picket on July 16.

Human rights activists Ivan Astashin and Anya Kurbatova left for Lithuania. Kurbatova talks about this on Facebook. wrote: They both lived in St. Petersburg before leaving and were involved in supporting political prisoners. Ivan Astashin was a defendant in the “case”, for which he served 9 years and 9 months in prison. At the end of his sentence, he will receive eight years of administrative supervision.

St. Petersburg activist Dmitry Chernysh left Russia. This is what SOTA is about. Chernysh went to Lithuania and requested political asylum there. According to the activist, the security forces threatened him that they would continue to persecute him - the man had previously been detained at rallies. He feared that a criminal case could be brought against him because of anti-war statements on the Internet or because of donations from FBK.

On August 19, the Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow extended the term of detention in a pre-trial detention center until September 23 for lawyer Dmitry Talantov, accused of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army. This is what “First Section” is about.

Former independent candidate for the Novosibirsk City Council Vyacheslav Yakimenko left Russia. He tweets about this. “It was hard to make this decision, because I connect my life with my Motherland. However, the current government and Putin in particular do not want me to be the future of Russia,” he wrote. Yakimenko added that he will continue to be involved in Russian politics.