President Vladimir Putin signed laws introducing liability for participation in foreign and international non-governmental organizations, which the Ministry of Justice did not include in a special register. TASS about this.

The Bikinsky City Court of the Khabarovsk Territory sentenced Jehovah's Witnesses Olga Mirgorodskaya and Sergei Kazakov to fines of 300 thousand rubles and 500 thousand rubles, respectively. This is a website covering the persecution of believers in Russia. writes The verdict was passed on August 3.

A criminal case was opened against a 52-year-old resident of Tatarstan for public desecration of the symbol of military glory of Russia (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). Information and Analytical Center "Sova" about this. reports The investigation believes that on July 30, 2023, while intoxicated, the man came to the local Victory Park and began to burn metal wires in the flame of the Eternal Flame in order to sell them for scrap.

The Moscow City Court, at an off-site hearing in IK-6, Vladimir Region, sentenced politician Alexei Navalny to 19 years in a special regime colony. “Mediazona” is about this. Previously, the prosecutor for Navalny was sentenced to 20 years in a special regime colony.

Moscow's Babushkinsky District Court has ordered compulsory treatment in a psychiatric clinic for eco-activist Olga Kuzmina because of her protest against renovation and tree felling. This was reported by the lawyer representing her interests from OVD-Info. Kuzmina is charged with hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

The defendants in the case of the inscription “Putin is fucked, go away” on the monument to Lenin in Kasimov (Ryazan region) - journalist Sergei Erzhenkov and activist Sergei Skorkarov - are accused of violations of administrative supervision; Because of this, they may be sent to a colony. This is what SOTA is about.

Almost a year ago I decided to purchase Dante’s book “The Divine Comedy” on Avito. It was a collectible, very old edition - the book is almost 100 years old . I understood that I would not find this work in such a design and at such a low price anywhere. I called the seller. I drive up to the place where we agreed to meet - the private sector, a rural area. A guy about 27-30 years old comes out with a bottle of beer. We talked and smoked a cigarette. We talked for about five minutes.

In Russia, several portals with information about the war in Ukraine and the website of The Altai Project, which was considered “undesirable,” were blocked. Roskomsvoboda pays attention to blocking.

Activist from the Kaliningrad region Igor Baryshnikov, sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for an “anti-war case,” was placed in the medical unit of the Federal Penitentiary Service. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Maria Bontzler, who represents the man’s interests. Bonzler noted that next week the man should be taken to the hospital for examination, after which the question of whether he will be able to stay in prison will be decided.