Philip Bobkov. Photo: kremlin.ru In Moscow, in the 94th year of life, the former first deputy head of the KGB of the USSR, Army General Philip Bobkov, who for many years headed the 5th (ideological) department of the department. This was reported by TASS with reference to the head of the apparatus of the club of military leaders Nikolai Deryabin. According to Deryabin, Bobkov died after a long illness.

Igor Rudnikov in the Basmann District Court, 12/21/2017. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru The Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg retrained the case of journalist Igor Rudnikov, accused of extortion, to an article on attempt on arbitrariness (part 3 of article 30 of Article 330 of the Criminal Code). According to Mediazona, Rudnikov was sentenced to 550 hours of compulsory work and released in the courtroom.

Leonid Volkov. Photo: Leonidvolkov.ru The Moscow City Court reduced the comrade -in -arms of Alexei Navalny Leonid Volkov, who was arrested for 15 days for broadcasting a rally against raising the retirement age in St. Petersburg on September 9 last year, the arrest period of up to 8 days. This was announced on Twitter by the lawyer of the Corruption Fund Ivan Zhdanov. Volkov is released from a special detention center on Tuesday.

Andrey Kobyshev. Photo: "Radio Liberty" The 48-year-old native of the Volgograd Region, which disappeared in Chechnya, was in a secret prison together with the detainees on suspicion of homosexuality, Radio Liberty reports with reference to the explanations of the photographer Maxim Lapunov, which he in February gave the lawyer the committee against torture. Lapunov is the only gay that have been persecuted in Chechnya, who revealed their name.

Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo He died and carried away a secret with him - a universal formula. We all carry in ourselves and carry something unique, but here is a special case. Philip Bobkov , the legendary chief of the 5th KGB Directorate, the famous wrestler with ideological sabotage, the worst enemy of dissidents, a tested friend of the Soviet intelligentsia and its tireless recruiter, died.