Vitaly Ioffe on a picket in support of the activist Olga Smirnova The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested the activist Vitaly Ioffe for five days due to picket in support of Olga Smirnova, who was sentenced to six years in a colony under an article on fakes about the army, the correspondent of North Realia reports. On August 18, St. Petersburg activists held an action on Senate Square in support of Olga Smirnova.

Dmitry Peskov The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that convicts for serious crimes in Russia "would redeem their blood" at the front in Ukraine. So he answered the question of Radio Kommersant FM about the pardon of Vladislav Kanyus, sentenced to 17 years in the colony for the murder of Vera Pekhteleeva and was released after being in the war.

In St. Petersburg, OMON and FSB officers broke into one of the most popular clubs in the city, Cosmonaut, and tore off the concert of the Zero People group, which came about three hundred spectators. According to eyewitnesses, law enforcement officers behaved hard, putting the audience on the floor, although a formal reason for a visit to the club was a check of documents, after which they came to the concert.

Alexey Malov The Ministry of Justice of Russia on Friday declared “Foreign Agents for Students for Students“ Thunderstorm ”, an independent media about the problems of Ecology“ Cedar ”, journalist Sergei Koldomsky, known under the name Shelin, and the Pskov opposition politician Alexei Malov. Sergey Shelin - a political observer. For many years he worked in the St. Petersburg news agency Baltinfo.

The Riga City Court appointed 8.5 years in the case of espionage to the former deputy of the Sejm and ex-head of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs, Janis Adamns, the second convicted person-the former KGB officer Gennady Silonov-received 7.5 years, reports LSM. According to the court, Adamns "purposefully collected closed information" and transmitted the FSB through Silonov.

Volodya and Vika Shishikina in Ulma Ukrainian refugees continue to travel from occupied territories to the European Union through Russia. According to the volunteers who help them, there are now more so -called "heavy shoots" - elderly, sick people go to their previously left children. The correspondent of North. Realia recorded several stories of refugees, which were helped by volunteers.

Alexandra Garmazhapova, president of the Free Buryatia Foundation The Soviet District Court of Ulan-Ude in absentia appointed a St. Petersburg journalist and head of the Free Buryatia Foundation Alexander Garmazhapova seven years of the colony in the case of Fakes about the Russian army, reports network freedoms. The activist herself lives abroad. The criminal case against Garmazhapova was brought up in September 2023 because of her interview with the Ukrainian project "Groshi".

An illustrative photo In Karelia, the security forces came home to the deputy of the Petrosovet from Yabloko Olga Tuzhikova. According to the "capital on the One", she is suspected of extremist activities. For which specifically is not specified. The publication claims that the law enforcement agencies initially became interested in Tuzhikova, since she allegedly supported “too active relations” with “ex-journalists officially declared in Russia by foreign agents”.

A graduate student from St. Petersburg Alexei Gribanov was convicted for three years conditionally in the case of an attempt to set fire to the historical and literary museum in Pushkin in April this year. This was reported by the press service of city courts. Gribanov, who fully pleaded guilty, was also appointed two years of the trial period. Earlier, his business was retrained from hooliganism, committed with the use of weapons or by conspiracy, to simply "hooliganism".

FSB officer In the Arkhangelsk region, a criminal case of calls against the security of the state was instituted to the resident of the village of Ilnsko-Podoskoye Ruslan Gubkin. Before that, he was arrested several times, but now he does not get in touch. This was reported by Sota and OVD-info .