Moscow allocates $136.5 million to construction of new police headquarters for anti-riot police regiment Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS / Scanpix / LETA / Yandex Maps Officials in Moscow have allocated at least 10 billion rubles ($136.5 million) to the construction of a sparkling new headquarters for a special anti-riot police regiment that works primarily with public demonstrations. Meduza discovered multiple large city contracts that first appeared online in public records in April.

In the west, Moscow is building a headquarters for the 2nd special police regiment , whose main task is to work at rallies. The cost of the object is at least 10 billion rubles. The attention of Medusa attracted several large tenders to build a complex of administrative buildings at the address: Ryabinova street, ownership of 39. They appeared on the public procurement portal at the end of April. The largest tender is 9.3 billion rubles .

Moscow awards multimillion-dollar maintenance contract to business run by deputy mayor’s brother Kirill Zykov / Moskva News Agency Across the city of Moscow, there are 954 electronic parking meters where motorists can purchase temporary permit slips to display on their dashboards.

Kirill Zykov / Agency "Moscow" On Moscow streets, 954 machine guns were installed to pay for parking. Parkmen are not popular. This method of payment, Meduza reported in the Moscow Department of Transport, use only 1.3% of drivers, and 89% prefer the special application of Moscow Parking. Nevertheless, the available parking meters must be regularly served. Last year, 283.4 million rubles were allocated for these purposes. Then the tender won Datalain - a subsidiary of Rostelecom.

In 2011, the Russian government launched a multibillion-dollar gambit to strengthen the country’s pharmaceutical industry. Ten years later, it’s led to a wave of arrests — and not much else. Biocad press service / TASS In mid-March, Moscow’s Basmanny District Court arrested International Olympic Committee Executive Board member Alexey Vlasenko based on testimony from two previously detained businessmen.

There are many arrests, few drugs-and other results of Pharma-2020, programs for the transfer of Western technologies to Russia. Investigation "Medusa" BioCad / TASS press service At the end of May, the Basmanny Court of Moscow, on suspicion of fraud, was arrested by the deputy head of the Department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Olga Olgu and the former head of the same department Olga Kolotilova.

Meduza looked into Moscow’s Public Monitoring Commission and found rampant connections to the security business Moscow Public Monitoring Commission Moscow ONK members in a pre-trial detention center On April 6, the Russian Civic Chamber removed human rights activist Marina Litvinovich from Moscow’s Public Monitoring Commission (ONK), an organization tasked with overseeing the observance of prisoners’ rights.

Medusa studied the composition of the Moscow PMC, from where they kicked Marina Litvinovich, and found a company of friends related to the security business there Public Supervisory Commission of the city of Moscow members of the Public Supervisory Commission in the Moscow pre-trial detention center-7 On Tuesday, April 6, the Council of the Public Chamber of Russia terminated the powers of the active member of the Public Supervisory Commission (PMC) of Moscow, the well -known human rights

How Russian police officers use compromised witnesses to frame innocent people — and keep getting away with it Dmitry Kandinskiy / Shutterstock.com Reporters from iStories and Meduza examined Moscow court documents and found more than 140 “professional witnesses” — people who regularly testify in court cases related to drug charges. The practice is blatantly illegal, but judges send people to prison for years based on these witnesses’ testimonies.

To do this, we had to investigate all the judicial documents from the base of the Moscow City Court Dmitriy Kandinskiy / Shutterstock.com Journalists of “important stories” and “Medusa” investigated the documents of Moscow courts and found more than 140 “regular” witnesses in them, who regularly testified in the courts on narcotic articles. These are not passing by citizens, but familiar police officers or those who are dependent on them.

Meet the small firm behind the psychotechnology used by Russia’s military and intelligence agencies Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS After a Russian Secret Service officer died by suicide inside the Kremlin last month, Meduza special correspondent Maxim Solopov started looking into the psychological resilience of security officials.

Where did she come from and who makes it earn Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS After the suicide of the FSO officer right on the territory of the Kremlin, the Special Corps of Medusa Maxim Solopov became interested in the problem of the psychological stability of the security forces - and discovered a company that supplies the Russian special services, the police and the military “multipsychimeters”.

The witnesses against Meduza correspondent Ivan Golunov were part of a setup. Here’s how Russia’s police abuse a system that empowers them to jail virtually anyone. Alexey Smagin / Kommersant Late October marked the beginning of the trial against the former police officers accused of illegally detaining Meduza special correspondent Ivan Golunov and falsifying evidence against him. The five Interior Ministry officials arrested Golunov on July 6, 2019, and planted drugs in his bag.

The witnesses in the case of Ivan Golunov were fake. Now Golunov tells how this system is arranged, which allows you to send any person to prison Alexey Smagin / Kommersant In Moscow on October 28, the trial of the police began , who are accused of illegally detaining the Medusa specialist Ivan Golunov and falsifying evidence against him.

Doctors and patients in Russia are fighting for coronavirus drugs that hardly help anyone Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA In early September, more than one million Russians were battling the coronavirus. Statistics show that many regions are now in the midst of experiencing a second wave. However, no one seems to know how to treat the virus effectively as of yet.