The Surgut City Court tightened the preventive measure for Jehovah's Witness Timofey Zhukov: a recognizance not to leave was replaced by arrest in a pre-trial detention center for six months. This was reported by the Jehovah's Witnesses portal. Timofey Zhukov is accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and of financing extremism (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). In September 2021, his case went to trial .

“Mediazona”, through the press service of the Moscow courts, learned (, ) about the next fines under the law on “foreign agents”. 1 2 Thus, on August 17, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined Levada Center 300 thousand rubles under the article on failure to provide the Ministry of Justice with a report on its activities (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code).

The Ministry of Justice has expanded the register of “foreign agents” to include: writer Linor Goralik; lawyer, head of the human rights group “Citizen. Army. Law" by Sergei Krivenko; political scientist, public figure Andrei Piontkovsky; Deputy Chairman of the Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk People Vladimir Dovdanov; economist Andrei Illarionov; activist of the Free Yakutia Foundation Sargylana Kondakova; writer and literary critic Tatyana Sotnikova (pseudonym Anna Berseneva).

In St. Petersburg, security forces detained Vitaly Ioffe, Ekaterina Mistryukova and another activist: they all went to the city center with posters for the release of Olga Smirnova, a participant in the “anti-war cause.” The detainees themselves told OVD-Info about what happened. The activists were taken to OP No. 28. A lawyer from OVD-Info, Sergei Podolsky, came to their aid. All detained St. Petersburg activists are left in the department overnight.

In Kemerovo, the investigation of a criminal case against a 16-year-old teenager accused of setting fire to a relay cabinet has been completed. This was reported by the security forces-affiliated Telegram channel "Kuzbass without Extremism". The case materials under the article on sabotage (Part 1 of Article 281 of the Criminal Code) were transferred to court. The young man was detained and sent to a pretrial detention center in April.

In Moscow, Tatyana Kim was detained on the Kuznetsky Bridge, holding a picket with a poster “No to the ban on trans crossing.” Her girlfriend reported this to OVD-Info. The detainee was taken to the police department in the Tverskaya district. 22:40 Tatyana Kim was released from the police department with an obligation to appear for the drawing up of a report on August 22. The detainee is charged with an article on LGBTQ propaganda (Part 1 of Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code).

In Nizhny Novgorod, the police detained and took to police department No. 5 Vera Vorobyova and Lyudmila Kalinicheva, who came to lay flowers at a spontaneous memorial in memory of the self-immolating journalist Irina Slavina. The detainees themselves told OVD-Info about this. Residents of Nizhny Novgorod bring flowers every Friday to the police building near which Slavina died, and they are regularly detained.

Convicted Crimean activist Oleg Prikhodko was transported from the Vladimir region to correctional colony No. 2 in the Krasnodar region. About this in the volunteer group “Fairy Tales for Political Prisoners.” wrote: He will participate in court hearings on the new case via video link from the colony. Prikhodko is under psychological pressure in the institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Ukrainian human rights center ZMINA by his daughter Natalya.

In an appeal, the Altai Regional Court toughened the sentence of 26-year-old Jehovah's Witness Pavel Kazadayev: three years of probation were replaced by real imprisonment. This was reported by the Jehovah's Witnesses portal. On May 26, the Industrial District Court of Barnaul found the believer guilty under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Central District Court of Kemerovo has placed opposition blogger Mikhail Alferov under house arrest. This was reported by the Telegram channel "No to Krapivinskaya Hydroelectric Power Station! - Channel". informs Blogger of charges under articles on the use of violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code), incitement to hatred (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code), and slander against a judge (Part 1 of Article 298.1 of the Criminal Code).

The Basmanny District Court has ordered that the co-chairman of the Golos movement, Grigory Melkonyants, be sent to a pretrial detention facility until October 17. Mediazona reports this from the courtroom. reports The day before it became known that a criminal case was opened against the activist for organizing the work of an "undesirable" organization (Part 3 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). Melkonyants and other participants of the movement were searched in several regions of Russia.

The Ostankino District Court of Moscow arrested Twitch streamer YokoBovich (Anna Bazhutova) for two months in the case of military “fakes” (clause “d”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The telegram channel “Caution, news” is about this. Case card on the court website.

On August 4, the Yoshkar-Ola City Court sentenced local resident Pavel Pekpaev to five and a half years in a general regime colony in the case of “fake stories” about the army motivated by political hatred (clause “d”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Information about this is available on “Mari Vatnik”. The court website in the channel The reasons for the persecution of the man are not reported.

The Moscow City Court liquidated the Sakharov Center at the request of the Ministry of Justice. About this Business FM. reports The formal basis for the liquidation of the organization was the results of an unscheduled inspection initiated by State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoi.

On August 2, Novosibirsk resident Dmitry Kozlov’s home was searched as part of the case against Chita anarchists Alexander Snezhkov and Lyubov Lizunova. about this . He told the Taiga publication Snezhkov and Lizunova are being persecuted because of the graffiti “Death to the regime”; they are also accused of approving the arson of military registration and enlistment offices.