The Novosibirsk Regional Court sentenced local resident Yevgeny Arkashov to seven months in a penal colony in the case of beer poured on the Eternal Flame. This was reported by the regional Investigative Committee press service, the Sova Research Center noted . The 22-year-old man was found guilty under the article on public desecration of symbols of military glory of Russia (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code).

A criminal case has been opened against 63-year-old Kazan activist Irina Nikolskaya for repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). Her friend told OVD-Info about this, and the Telegram channel "Respublikasy" also writes . On the morning of August 6, the activist's home was searched. Two phones, a computer, and a router were confiscated. The pensioner was forced to sign a pledge not to leave the area.

The Industrial District Court of Izhevsk has sent a local resident to a pretrial detention facility for two months in a case of repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the Udmurt courts. The name of the arrested person is not specified, he is 42 years old. According to the investigation, in 2023 he wrote comments under some posts on VKontakte. The content of the messages is not specified.

Lyudmila Razumova, who was convicted for her posts on Odnoklassniki, was sent to a punishment cell for three days. This was reported by her lawyer from OVD-Info, Andrey Donskoy. The formal reason for the penalty was that the woman left her workplace at an unspecified time. As Donskoy explained, Razumova went out to smoke without asking permission. At the same time, according to him, the other prisoners also do not ask for a break, since the senior barracks officer is usually not there.

Security forces in Magadan detained a local resident and private security company employee Andrei Petrovsky in a case of calls for terrorism and its justification (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the telegram channel "Operativnye Sudovki", associated with the Russian military and law enforcement agencies. According to the investigation, the man "called for violent actions against the top leadership of our country" in one of the online discussions.

The Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg sentenced Rustam Fararitdinov, the brother of Bashkir activist Ruslan Gabbasov, to five years and six months in prison for aiding terrorist activity (Part 1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Idel.Realii. Fararitdinov will have to serve the first two and a half years in prison, and the rest of his term in a maximum security penal colony.

In the Komi Republic, blogger Nikolai Farafonov, sentenced to six years in prison because of publications about the arson of military registration and enlistment offices, was transported from Syktyvkar to Pre-trial Detention Center No. 2 in Sosnogorsk. This was reported by the Komi Political Zek telegram channel. Farafonov has been in the Sosnogorsk pre-trial detention center for almost a month. Probably, after some time he will be taken to one of the regional colonies.

Documentary filmmaker Vsevolod Korolev was transferred from the Kresty pretrial detention center No. 1 in St. Petersburg to an unknown location. This was reported by his support group. Several people who tried to send letters to the convict received a response from "F-letter" stating that the addressee had left for another institution. Korolev’s relatives believe that he will probably be transferred to IK-5 in the settlement of Metallostroy. In March, the Vyborg District Court of St.

The Savelovsky District Court of Moscow refused to arrest journalist and LGBTQ blogger Karen Shainyan in absentia. Mediazona drew attention to the corresponding information from the court's website. According to the case file, the blogger is accused of financing extremist activity (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). The court registered the case on August 7, and the motion was rejected on the same day. Details of how the hearing took place are unknown.

The charity foundation "Nuzhna Pomosh" announced that it was ceasing operations due to its "foreign agent" status. The foundation wrote about this to its donors in a letter, Meduza reports . "After the foundation was recognized as a foreign agent on March 1, 2024, we looked for opportunities to continue our activities with the new status, but this turned out to be virtually impossible. The foundation's board decided to liquidate the organization," the letter says.

On July 25, the Omsk Regional Court upheld the in absentia verdict in the case of military "fakes" (paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) due to a post on VKontakte by the former head of the local branch of the "Doctors' Alliance" Olga Belova. This was reported by the court's press service. In May, the Leninsky District Court of the Omsk Region sentenced her to 6 years of imprisonment and a ban on administering websites on the Internet for four years.

The defendant in the case of the protests in Baimak, Umutbay Davletberdin, has been charged with the final charge: in addition to the article on mass riots (Article 212 of the Criminal Code), he is charged with the article on the use of violence against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by his lawyer from OVD-Info, Sergei Podolsky. The snowball hitting a riot police officer's helmet was considered violence.

The Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the administrator of the Moscow Calling Telegram channel, Andrey Kurshin, to six and a half years in prison in a case of disseminating "fakes" about the Russian army motivated by political hatred (clause "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Mediazona, citing a correspondent in the courtroom. The court also banned the blogger from administering websites for four years.

On August 6, the Military Court of Appeal upheld the sentence of Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko under articles on dissemination of military "fakes" motivated by political hatred (clause "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), and incitement of hatred (clause "a" of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code). The card is available on the court's website.