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The Seliger Forum was held for the eighth time in the Tver Region. This time, the organizers positioned it as “apolitical,” promising to focus mainly on social projects. Nevertheless, politics could not be avoided, and Vladimir Putin's visit became the central event of the forum.

At the end of July, Bakhtiyar Aliyev, a native of Azerbaijan, was sentenced to one year in prison for a fight in Sergiyev Posad in which biker Leonid Frolov was killed. Outraged by what they saw as an excessively lenient punishment, Frolov’s associates traveled to the town on August 3 to demand a meeting with local authorities.

A report on Tesak and his political actions. After his release from penal colony, Maksim Martsinkevich, better known as Tesak, founded the movement Occupy Pedophilia. Tesak and his supporters lure alleged pedophiles to staged meetings and subject them to abuse with impunity. In addition to this group, there are other far-right organizations in Russia that target dealers of synthetic drugs (“spice”), migrant workers, and homosexuals. Despite the fact that the activists themselves upload videos of their attacks, law enforcement agencies have so far shown almost no reaction. On August 1, it became known that Senator Konstantin Dobrynin had asked the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General’s Office to investigate the activities of Occupy Gerontophilia, a group of Tesak’s followers who hunt underage gay youths.

Rehearsal for the "Spasskaya Tower" festival on Red Square in Moscow.

Sergey Sobyanin's speech during the election campaign.

During a major special operation in Moscow, the police detained approximately one thousand illegal immigrants from Vietnam, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan. A tent camp was set up in Golyanovo for the detained migrants, where they awaited a decision on their fate. A “press conference” was held in the camp: a propaganda channel conducted interviews, expressing outrage that none of the refugees spoke Russian and asked questions like “When are you going home?”. Lenta journalists were asked to leave the area after they requested a translator for the refugees.

The father of Daniil Konstantinov, a defendant in the Bolotnaya Square case, speaks on stage and relays his son's words from prison.

Campaigning for Yevgeny Roizman as mayor of Yekaterinburg.

A line to the St. Andrew's Cross brought to Moscow and displayed at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Memorial service for Mikhail Gorshenev, lead singer of the band "Korol i Shut," at the Yubileiny Sports Palace in St. Petersburg.

Inside Moscow City Racing — an auto and motorcycle show with Formula 1 teams in central Moscow.

Alexei Navalny is met at Yaroslavsky Station after his release.