On July 24, the Central District Military Court imposed compulsory medical measures on Tatarstan resident Pavel Stepanov in the case of repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) and calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). OVD-Info drew attention to the case file.

The Ministry of Justice has recognized the publication BILD na russkogo and political scientist Ilya Matveyev as "foreign agents." Information about this appeared in the updated register on the department's website. Officials also traditionally indicated the “reasons” for adding individuals to the register. "BILD na russkogo" is the Russian-language editorial office of the German publication BILD.

The court has declared illegal the decision to assign the status of "flight prone" to Krasnoyarsk Legislative Assembly deputy Alexander Gliskov, who is in custody in a case of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6, Article 290 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by his support group. Gliskov was assigned this status because of a drawing of a cell that he made to file a complaint about the conditions of detention in Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1.

A criminal case has been opened against a resident of Staraya Russa (Novgorod Region) under the article on damage to a memorial structure to participants in the Great Patriotic War (clause "b" of Part 2 of Article 243.4 of the Criminal Code) due to the burning of memorial wreaths in the Eternal Flame. This was reported by the local Investigative Committee, and Sever.Realii drew attention to the news.

In Orel, a criminal investigation was completed under the article on the desecration of symbols of Russian military glory by prior conspiracy (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) due to the painted over letter Z and a pro-war slogan against two residents of Orel, Stepan Sitnik and Alexander Kulakov. Information about this appeared on the website of the local Investigative Committee. According to investigators, Sitnik painted over with white paint the image of the St.

On March 20, employees of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Yaroslavl Region dropped the criminal case against Jehovah's Witnesses from Rybinsk Olga Golovacheva, Evgenia Samoilova, Mikhail Ovchinnikov and Dmitry Lebedev. This was reported by a portal covering the persecution of believers. The believers became defendants in a criminal case in the summer of 2022, when mass searches were conducted in Rybinsk.

During the debate in the Gorno-Altaisk City Court, a representative of the prosecutor's office demanded that the founder of the local publication "Listok" Sergei Mikhailov be sentenced to nine years of imprisonment in the case of disseminating "fakes" about the Russian army motivated by political hatred (paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by "Network Freedoms".

An entrepreneur from the Leningrad region, Dmitry Skurikhin, who served his sentence in IK-5 in a case of repeated "discrediting" of the army, was released from prison, Bumaga reports . On August 3, 2023, the Lomonosov Court of the Leningrad Region sentenced Skurikhin to one and a half years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony in the case of repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code).

The Ministry of Justice added the Anti-Russian Separatist Movement, banned in June, and 55 organizations that officials considered to be “structural subdivisions” of the latter to the register of extremist organizations. The First Department drew attention to the update of the register of extremist organizations on the Ministry of Justice website.

The Kalininsky District Court of Novosibirsk received a criminal case against an employee of the meat department of the market, Dalerdzhon Achilov, for consideration on the merits under the articles on dissemination of military "fakes" (clause "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and on hooliganism motivated by hatred (clause "b" of Part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). Information about this appeared on the court's website.

During the debate in the Vologda City Court, the prosecution demanded that local lawyer Yevgeny Molotov be sentenced to two and a half years of correctional labor with 5% of his earnings withheld in favor of the state in the case of donations to Navalny's team. This was reported by SOTAvision.