In Cherkessk, security forces detained several followers of the Citizens of the USSR movement. This was reported by REN TV, and the SOVA center drew attention to the news. It is reported that among those detained are Oleg Bondarenko and several of his followers. What they are charged with is still unknown. The publication emphasizes that the detainees “convinced gullible residents not to pay utility bills and to obtain a temporary passport from a country they had invented.

The Second Western District Military Court, at an off-site hearing in Voronezh, sentenced local residents Ilya Migachev and Sergei Kopylov to 8 and 9 years in prison in the case of attempting to set fire to a transformer booth. Mediazona reports this with reference to the press service of the court. announced on August 16.

Ruslan Sungatov, sentenced to 22 years in a maximum security penal colony in the Kazan Hizb ut-Tahrir case, reported that he was under pressure in Penal Colony No. 8 in Udmurtia. He went on a hunger strike for a week. A letter from the convict telling OVD-Info about this was given to his relatives.

Journalist and politician Vladimir Kara-Murza was transported from Moscow pre-trial detention center-5 “Vodnik” to an unknown direction. This was reported by the telegram channel of Kara-Murza’s support group with reference to his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov. His wife Evgenia Kara-Murza also reported that the journalist was taken out of the pre-trial detention center.

The Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow fined blogger Dmitry Ivanov, known as Kamikaze Di, 30 thousand rubles due to the absence of a “foreign agent” sign in the video. There is information about this in the courts, and Mediazona has paid attention to it.

The Nelinovsky District Court of the Rostov Region received a case against six “USSR citizens” Oleg Kolesov, Elena and Alexander Akulinichev, Galina Moreva, Lidia Takhmatova and Maria Kamenskaya, accused of extremist charges. The information was published on the court’s website, and SOTA drew attention to it. Kolesov is accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Crimean Tatar activist Akim Bekirov, sentenced to 14 years of strict regime, was transferred from a pre-trial detention center in Novocherkassk. This was reported by Crimean Solidarity with reference to his wife. He was taken from there on August 26, and the next day he, along with Rustem Seitkhalilov and Asan Yanikov, ended up at a transit point in Volgograd.

In Simferopol, Crimean Solidarity activists Abdulmedzhit Seitumerov and Seidamet Mustafayev, arrested under the article on the activities of a terrorist organization (Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code), complained about the conditions of detention in pre-trial detention center-2. “Crimean Solidarity” is about this. reports FSB Investigator Vitaly Vlasov denied Seitumerov’s father, mother and wife a meeting with the prisoner in the pre-trial detention center.

Anarchist and mathematician Azat Miftakhov was detained at the exit from the colony and taken by car to Kirov. DOXA reports this. The trial to select a preventive measure for him in the new criminal case will take place on September 5. It became known on August 25. The young man is suspected of public calls for terrorist activities (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of his comments while watching a TV show with other prisoners.

Tomsk journalist Igor Kuznetsov has been finally charged in the "Left Resistance" case; he is charged with participation in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). Lawyer Alexey Pryanishnikov reported this on his Telegram channel. "In addition, Kuznetsov I.V. ... developed a plan ... according to which Kuznetsov I.V. was assigned the responsibility of notifying the Tomsk City Administration about holding public events.

The St. Petersburg City Court approved the sentence of amateur search engine Oleg Belousov, who was sentenced to five years and six months in a general regime colony because of anti-war comments on social networks. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Grigory Grigoriev, who represents the interests of the defendant.

English version A. Introduction These materials were sent to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (hereinafter referred to as the Committee) by the organizations “Network Freedoms” and OVD-Info.