On July 27, 39-year-old pianist Pavel Kushnir died in one of the pretrial detention centers in Birobidzhan after a dry hunger strike. This was reported by the publication Vot Tak, citing his pianist friend Olga Shkrygunova and the head of the Rus Sidyashchaya foundation Olga Romanova. Romanova said that Kushnir was on a dry hunger strike and "his body couldn't take it." How many days the hunger strike lasted and what the reasons were were not specified. Kushnir was detained at the end of May.

A bill has been introduced to the State Duma that allows the Prosecutor General's Office to transfer criminal case materials to other countries. Information about this appeared on the agency's website; the publications Sirena and Sibir.Realii are paying attention to it.

A press conference of Russian political prisoners released in a prisoner exchange is taking place in Germany: Vladimir Kara-Murza, Andrei Pivovarov, Ilya Yashin. OVD-Info tells the main story. 21:27 Ilya Yashin closes the press conference with an answer to a question about how to achieve the release of those political prisoners who remain in Russia. "When we met with colleagues who were released yesterday, they noticed my condition.

A 61-year-old resident of the Kemerovo Region was sent to a pretrial detention center for two months in a case of confidential cooperation with foreigners (Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by TASS, citing the regional FSB department.

A criminal case on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) against Jehovah's Witness Andrei Sazonov is being investigated in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. This was reported by the local publication Muksun.fm, citing a source in law enforcement agencies.

In Kaliningrad, FSB officers detained 53-year-old nurse Elena Nikolaenkova in a case of justification of terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to a comment about the Russian Volunteer Corps. This was reported by Sever.Realii. On the night of August 2, a search was conducted in Nikolaenkova's house. She is currently in a temporary detention facility; a preventive measure has not yet been chosen for her.

Six defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case from annexed Crimea — Abdulmedzhit Seytumerov, Ametkhan Umerov, Eldar Yakubov, Seidamet Mustafayev, Remzi Nimetulayev and Ruslan Asanov — were transferred from Pretrial Detention Center No. 2 in Simferopol to Pretrial Detention Center No. 1 in Rostov-on-Don, Krymskaya Solidarnost reports . On August 12, their case will begin to be heard by the Southern District Military Court.

The Federation Council approved a law that will allow any foreign organizations to be recognized as “undesirable organizations,” including those whose founders or participants are government agencies of another state. RusNews writes about this.

A second criminal case has been opened against 18-year-old St. Petersburg activist Darya Kozyreva under the article on discrediting the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Fontanka. According to the publication, the reason for the new criminal prosecution was a video published on YouTube in which the girl “publicly discredits the Russian army.” This video has now been deleted.

In St. Petersburg, Center "E" officers detained a 28-year-old local resident for pacifist graffiti and an inscription "insulting the president" written in a passageway near Victory Square. This was reported by Fontanka. A criminal case of vandalism (Article 214 of the Criminal Code) was opened against the man. Law enforcement officers found six cans of paint at his home. The defendant has now been released on bail.