Chronicle of current events

May 27–31

Employees of the Levada Center, from which they require re-registration, leave the office

May 28, Tuesday

A high -profile case was revised about the death of Sergei Titorov, who died after beating in the police in 2010. The Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court changed the conviction against two former district police officers of the Sarovsky Internal Affairs Directorate. Sergei Belokobyl punishment was reduced from 13 years in prison to 3.5 years, and Alexander Schukin from 5 to 3.

Maria Alekhina was hospitalized in the medical part of IK-28. Berezniki. This happened on the seventh day of a hunger strike, declared by Maria demanding to soften the regime of content.

May 29, Wednesday

The Kostroma Center for Support for Public Initiatives was recognized by the court by a foreign agent. The center was assigned a fine of 300 thousand rubles “for non -fulfillment of legislation”. The executive director of the center was fined 100 thousand rubles.

Preliminary hearings on the “Twelve case”, allocated from a large “swamp business”, will begin in the Moscow City Court on June 6. The hearings will be held closed.

May 30, Thursday

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation was interrogated the head of the Moscow branch of the Left Front Vasily Kuzmin and his two associates, Elizabeth Puchkin and Kristina Krasnov. Previously, Kuzmin was held searches, now he is a witness to the "Swamp business".

The sociological “Levada-Center” temporarily suspenses financing from foreign sources. The Levada Center decision made after the prosecutor’s office to register as a foreign agent. To raise funds for the above projects, an Internet wallet on Yandex.Money will be opened. The estimated budget of the project from two surveys is 670 thousand rubles, taking into account taxes.

May 31, Friday

The Presidium of the Moscow City Court decided to release the entrepreneur Alexei Kozlov from the custody. The judges again returned to the Kozlov case after the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, which on April 18 resumed supervisory proceedings in his case. Kozlov will be released in the near future, as soon as in the colony-settlement they receive documents from the Moscow City Court. He had to sit for eight months.