In the Moscow region, security forces dispersed the independent festival of self-organization and contemporary art "Inside Out". The creators of the project reported this on social networks. The festival was scheduled for August 24 and 25. The organizers sent the location manually to those who bought tickets a few days before the event. On Saturday evening, August 24, police officers arrived at the festival site.

The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg refused to remove the "foreign agent" status from the city's Legislative Assembly deputy Boris Vishnevsky. This was reported by RusNews. Lawyer Alexander Kobrinsky, who represented the politician's interests, noted that the provisions of the law on "foreign agents" do not comply with the principle of legal certainty. However, the court rejected the claim.

The materials of the case against six people persecuted in the wake of the people's gathering in Baymak were transferred to the Leninsky District Court of Izhevsk. OVD-Info found the case file on the court website.

The Leninsky District Court of Izhevsk has been handed over the case materials against six people persecuted in the wake of the people's gathering in Baimak. OVD-Info found the case file on the court's website.

The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld in cassation the sentence of Tofik Abdulgaziyev, Vladlen Abdulkadyrov, Izzet Abdullaev, Medzhit Abdurakhmanov and Bilyal Adilov in the second Simferopol case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir" . This was reported by "Krymskaya Solidarnost". "At the hearing, we, as lawyers, and our clients presented arguments that we have been making for many years.

On August 20, the Ninth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction (Primorsky Territory) upheld the sentence of 60-year-old Jehovah's Witness Valery Vyaznikov: two and a half years probation. This was reported by the Jehovah's Witnesses portal. In November 2023, the believer was found guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The appeals court upheld the sentence in January.

The Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in Moscow approved the verdict of the writer Dmitry Glukhovsky in the case of disseminating “fakes” about the Russian army with the artificial creation of evidence of the accusation, motivated by political enmity (clauses “c” and “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) . SOTAvision reports this.

The Chelyabinsk City Hall once again refused to allow activists of the Union of Maoists of the Urals to hold a rally; this time - against the isolation of the RuNet. This was reported in the movement’s Telegram channel. Activists planned to hold a rally in the Scarlet Field park near the Lenin monument on September 1 from 12:30 to 14:30. It was expected that up to 50 people would take part in the action. Officials said the site will be occupied from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Engineer Alexey Shchus has had his indictment approved in the case of three reposts about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This was reported by his lawyer from OVD-Info, Maria Spasibukhova. A criminal case was opened against Shchus on May 23 due to reposts on VKontakte made more than two years ago. He was charged with three reposts with his own comments. In the first, published in March 2022, the engineer talks about the bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol.

"Why do you hate your brother?" In April 2024, Anastasia Gordienko found testimony from Yuri Gordienko, her husband Sergei's brother, in the criminal case file. Yuri's wife, Maria Yakovlevna, sings in the "Kalynka" ensemble, which Anastasia created in the early 1980s - in the winter of that year, Maria told an OVD-Info correspondent that "there were and are no splits between families in the area." Yuriy Gordiyenko is 73 years old.

The Odessa District Court of the Omsk Region sentenced him to one and a half years probation 70-year-old Anastasia Gordienko in a case involving anti-war comments. Her lawyer Andrei Ognev told OVD-Info about this. The prosecutor's office requested two years in a general regime penal colony for Gordienko. The pensioner was also given a two-year probationary period and a ban on administering websites on the Internet for three years.

Activist Oksana Osadchaya, who held a solo picket in support of political prisoners, and a RusNews correspondent were detained in Moscow. This was reported on the publication's Telegram channel. Osadchaya stood with a poster that read, "No one should be left alone. Write letters to political prisoners." A police officer approached her and said that an anonymous complaint had been filed against the activist, so he had to question her.

On August 26, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow registered a criminal case against B.A. Filatov, who is being prosecuted under articles of distributing “fakes” about the Russian army motivated by hatred (clause “e”, part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and inciting hatred with a threat use of violence (clause “a”, part 2, article 282 of the Criminal Code). Information about this appeared on the court's website.

The online payment acceptance service CloudPayments (owned by T-Bank ) has stopped accepting donations for the publication Takie Dela. The publication itself spoke about this. “We have never violated the terms of the contract with the service, so this decision came as a complete surprise to us.

Journalist Gadel Ishmuratov, who criticized the head of Bashkortostan, reported that he was receiving threats. This is written by Aspects. First, a month after the man started the GadelIshmur Telegram channel, where he wrote about what was happening in Bashkortostan, he received a message on WhatsApp: “We strongly recommend that you support the current head of the republic.