The Investigative Committee opened a case against employees of the Anti-Corruption Fund. Law enforcers claim that from January 2016 to December 2018, FBK employees received “from third parties a large amount of money in rubles and foreign currency, which were acquired by criminal means, knowingly for them.” The charge was brought under Part 4 of Article 174 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Mass detentions began at an unauthorized protest against the opposition's exclusion from the Moscow City Duma in the center of Moscow. Upd. According to OVD-info, as of 15:00 on August 3, 89 people were detained. The main areas of detention are Pushkinskaya and Trubnaya Squares, Rozhdestvensky Boulevard. The Bell's live stream of the protest can be read here . How the police operate.

Five minutes before the start of the rally, Moscow City Duma candidate Lyubov Sobol was detained at the exit from the signature collection headquarters. During the arrest, the policemen stated that the FBK lawyer had been detained under Article 20.2 (violation of the established procedure for holding a mass rally). Sobol was detained by a large number of police officers - she was surrounded and taken to a paddy wagon by 7 law enforcement officers.

On August 3, a mass action was held in Moscow against the lack of opposition to the elections to the Moscow City Duma. The Bell conducted an online report-here you can read what happened in the center of the capital. In short, the action was peaceful, but the police again acted harshly, delaying a total of more than 800 people.

A package of new sanctions against Russia related to the poisoning of the Skripals will enter into force tentatively on August 19, according to a document released by the US State Department. First, Congress will get acquainted with it, 15 days after that, the sanctions come into force. They will limit the issuance of any loans and make it difficult for Russia to receive assistance from international institutions (the IMF and the World Bank). What is banned.

The intermediate result of the political crisis in Moscow is the criminal prosecution of citizens Events in the center of Moscow July 27, 2019. Photo: Evgeny Feldman for "Medusa" Elections to the Moscow City Duma turned into a full -scale political crisis that unfolds before our eyes.