* Anna Shalunkina, the wife of Maxim Ivankin convicted in the Network case, sent an appeal to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin and Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov with a request to initiate a case on abuse of power by employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service, the FSB and the Investigative Committee. On the eve it became known that Ivankin confessed under torture in the case of the murder of Ekaterina Levchenko and Artem Dorofeev near Ryazan. Subsequently, he refused them, but still became the defendant.
After the publication of a video with bullying of prisoners, the Saratov department of the Federal Penitentiary Service fired Pavel Gatsenko, head of the regional tuberculosis hospital No. 1 (OTB-1), Sergey Salov, deputy head for security and operational work, Anton Bochkov, head of the operations department, and Sergey Maltsev, head of the security department. Documents were also sent for the dismissal of the head of the Saratov Federal Penitentiary Service Alexei Fedotov. Since its publication, the UK has filed a total of seven criminal cases. Today, the human rights project Gulagu.net published new recordings of the torture of prisoners in different regions of Russia. The Belgorod Department of the Investigative Committee has also already begun an investigation into the case.
In Moscow, was detained the former deputy head of the Ministry of Education Marina Rakova , who disappeared after searches in the case of embezzlement of more than 50 million rubles. After initiating a case against the official, she was fired from her post as vice president of Sberbank . They said that two more employees could not continue their work. The court also arrested Maxim Inkin, managing director of the Digital Education Platforms division of Sberbank, and Yevgeny Zak, managing director of Sberbank, for two months in a fraud case, and Rakova’s common-law husband Artur Stetsenko was also taken into . custody
Lyudmila Sachkova, the mother of Group-IB founder Ilya Sachkov, who was arrested a few days ago on charges of treason, sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin. She stated that she wanted to know what exactly was the treason that her son was accused of. Sachkova asked to honestly look into the case and release Ilya.
The "Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg", who provide assistance to conscripts and military personnel, have suspended work with them because of the list of information approved by the FSB, for the disclosure of which you can get into the register of foreign agents. The organization said that now their work "turns out to be unnecessary neither to the state nor to society." Human rights activists also fear criminal liability.
NATO will halve the size of the Russian permanent mission to the alliance. Eight employees were deprived of accreditation, two more were laid off. According to media reports, these workers turned out to be “undeclared Russian intelligence officers.”
Gas prices in Europe have renewed their maximum again. At today's auction on the ICE exchange, they exceeded $1,900 per thousand cubic meters. Amid rising prices , Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said he would turn to Russian leader Vladimir Putin for help. “The prices that are now on the stock exchange, not only Serbia, no one can withstand,” Vučić said.
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Benjamin List of Germany and David MacMillan of the United States for "development of asymmetric organocatalysis" . The organizers noted that the discovery of scientists "not only made chemistry more environmentally friendly, but also made it possible to simplify the process of synthesis of asymmetric molecules."