A 68-year-old woman named Lyudmila was detained on Moscow's Red Square because of the inscription " GUR " on the monument to Minin and Pozharsky. ASTRA reports this. A case of destruction or damage to cultural heritage sites (probably Article 243 of the Criminal Code) was opened against the pensioner. According to security officials, the woman left the inscription under duress from fraudsters.

The Moscow City Court has upheld an appeal to Anastasia Ageyeva, a participant in Moscow anti-war protests, for eight years in prison in absentia under the article on military "fakes". This was reported by her lawyer from OVD-Info, Evgeniya Grigorieva. In March, the Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow found Ageeva guilty of distributing "fakes" about the Russian army motivated by hatred (paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

Convicted 17-year-old high school student Yegor Balazeikin was transferred from the Arsenalka pretrial detention center No. 5 in St. Petersburg. This was reported by his support group. According to their information, the young man will be taken to the Arkhangelsk correctional colony. In November last year, Balazeikin was sentenced to six years in a correctional colony. In April 2024, the sentence was upheld on appeal.

Convicted 17-year-old high school student Yegor Balazeikin was transferred from the Arsenalka pretrial detention center No. 5 in St. Petersburg. This was reported by his support group. According to their information, the young man will be taken to the Arkhangelsk correctional colony. In November last year, Balazeikin was sentenced to six years in a correctional colony. In April 2024, the sentence was upheld on appeal.

The Investigative Committee for Moscow reported on the initiation of a criminal case under the article on insulting the feelings of believers (Part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code) against a blogger who “trampled on the Christian cross.” According to investigators, the man "committed public actions with the purpose of insulting religious feelings" on July 12 while broadcasting live. The blogger was detained and taken to the Investigative Committee. He is a suspect.

The Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg has released two participants in the case of the photo shoot at the city cemetery, Anna Panteleeva and Yaroslava Gumenna, from the pretrial detention center. This was reported by "Network Freedoms". Panteleeva was placed under house arrest as a preventive measure, and Gumennaya was given a written undertaking not to leave town.

The Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg has released two participants in the case of the photo shoot at the city cemetery, Anna Panteleeva and Yaroslava Gumenna, from the pretrial detention center. This was reported by "Network Freedoms". Panteleeva was placed under house arrest as a preventive measure, and Gumennaya was given a written undertaking not to leave town.

The Kolpinsky District Court of St. Petersburg has denied parole to the performance artist and artist Pavel Krisevich. This was reported by his support group. In June 2021, the court sent Krisevich to pretrial detention on a case that was opened after his action on Red Square in support of political prisoners. During the performance, he fired several shots into the air from a blank-firing weapon and simulated a shot to the head.

Security forces have completed the investigation of the case against a Jehovah's Witness from the village of Pavlovskaya (Krasnodar Krai). The materials have been transferred to the court. This was reported by the regional Investigative Committee. The man was charged with participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and involvement in the activities of such an organization (Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Moscow Region Military Court of Appeal has upheld a two-year prison sentence for Norilsk resident Maksim Polovnikov; he is being prosecuted for calls to terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to comments on VKontakte. OVD-Info found information about this on the court's website. The 1st Eastern District Military Court in Khabarovsk sentenced Polovnikov in April.

The crowdfunding platform Boosty blocked the page of the publication "Discourse" at the request of Roskomnadzor. This was reported on the Telegram channel by the publication itself.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has declared Tatarstan political scientist and head of the public movement "TatPolit" Ruslan Aisin wanted. Information about this was found in the department's database by "Mediazona".

On July 10, security forces for the second time dropped the criminal case against lawyer Ruslan Artamonov for hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the No Future project, citing Artamonov's wife Anna Dmitriadi. Now the lawyer is preparing a claim for compensation for the damages he suffered in connection with this case.

The editor-in-chief of the Yekaterinburg publication TochkaNews, Dmitry Fomintsev, was put on the wanted list in a criminal case on insulting the feelings of believers (Article 148 of the Criminal Code). He reported this on his Telegram channel "Irod Uralsky". "Has anyone seen the boy? They lost him here," Fomintsev wrote. The day before, he said that the Investigative Committee had called his parents in for questioning and asked them about their son's character.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put investigative journalist Andrei Zakharov on the wanted list, who is being prosecuted in a criminal case for repeated violation of "foreign agent" legislation (Part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona drew attention to the wanted list card in the department's database. The case against the journalist was opened on April 17.