The Soviet City Court of the Kaliningrad Region registered a case against local activist Igor Baryshnikov, accused of distributing “fakes” about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Relevant information on the court's website. The criminal case against Baryshnikov was published in May. The resolution to initiate the case stated that the young man posted 18 posts on his Facebook page discrediting the Russian armed forces.

In Voronezh, a case was opened against local resident Andrei Biryukov under the article on justification of terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), the man was sent to a pre-trial detention center until September 25. The mother of the accused, Tatyana Biryukova, reported this to OVD-Info. The man was detained on July 28 after a search in the apartment where he lives with his mother’s elderly parents. His laptop, passport and higher education diploma were confiscated.

The Sixth Cassation Court upheld the decision of the Bashkortostan courts on compensation that local activists Olga Komleva, Ilkham Yanberdin and the former coordinator in Ufa must pay to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the work of security forces at the protests on January 23 and 31, 2021. RusNews reported this.

The Leninsky District Court of Orenburg ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to apologize for the illegal detention, delivery and prosecution of Vladimir Savchenko, a participant in the rally on January 31, 2021 in support of Alexei Navalny. Information about this appeared on the Team Against Torture website.

The Babushkinsky District Court extended the arrest of StopHam movement activists Kirill Bunin, Kirill Kotov and Alexei Gorbachevsky until September 23. This was reported to OVD-Info by Nikolai Sizikov, who was present at the meeting as a listener.

The Novosibirsk Regional Court upheld the order to conduct a search of local resident Ekaterina Vasilenko. This was announced by lawyer from OVD-Info Vasily Dubkov, who represents her interests. The search at Vasilenko’s place took place on April 2. Afterwards the girl was taken for interrogation. She is a witness in the case of a false report of mining a psychiatric hospital (Part 2 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code). Previously, Vasilenko participated in anti-war actions.

The TJ project announced its closure. The publication will cease operation on September 10. TJ also made a statement about this. on the website in social networks “We believed that against the background of a scorched clearing of media in the Russian-language segment, we were doing an important thing. After the blocking, traffic to the resource suddenly decreased by 5 times and continues to gradually fall from month to month,” noted representatives of the project.

The Krasnoflotsky District Court of Khabarovsk approved the sentence of a minor who was sentenced to 80 hours of compulsory labor in the case of insulting a police officer (Article 319 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Vitaly Tykhta, who defended the convicted person.

At least three people were detained in the Moscow metro using facial recognition cameras. Among the detainees are Zlata Evropeitseva and Mikhail Udimov. They themselves told OVD-Info about the detention. Udimov was detained at the Kaluzhskaya metro station and taken to Police Department No. 7 on the Moscow Metro. Previously, he was detained on February 20 during a solo picket on Pushkinskaya Square.

Vladimir Sergeev, a defendant in the “anti-war case,” was transferred from pre-trial detention center No. 2 “Butyrka” to a psychiatric hospital for examination. Former political prisoner Ivan Astashin talks about this in his Telegram channel. reports Sergeev's examination will take place at the Serbsky Medical Research Center for Psychology and Narcology. On July 31, another person involved in this case, Anton Zhuchkov, was transferred to the same center for examination.

On August 21, the Buinaksk City Court of Dagestan fined a local resident, Rasul Lukmanov, 1,000 rubles for publishing a court-banned video titled "Let's Remind Crooks and Thieves of Their Manifesto-2002." This is reported by Kavkaz.Realii. Lukmanov was found guilty under the article on the distribution of extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). According to the court, in July of this year, he posted a video on his personal page on VKontakte.

The State Duma adopted the bill «On control over the activities of persons being under foreign influence» in the third reading. It contains all the norms related to the activities of people and organizations recognized as «foreign agents». The adopted amendments should enter into force on December 1, 2022. We explain what will change in the law on activities of «foreign agents» after these amendments.