The parties to the trial in the Yves Rocher case in the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, in which the brothers Alexei and Oleg Navalny are accused, have agreed on the date of the debate. They will take place on December 19. On the same day, the accused will make their final plea. The accused Alexei Navalny spoke about the need to schedule a hearing on this date. Representatives of the prosecution, defense and the judge, after listening to him, granted the request.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg accepted the complaint of the mother of Hermitage Capital auditor Sergei Magnitsky, who died in the capital’s pre-trial detention center, and notified the Russian authorities about it. This is reported on the ECHR website. In addition to the complaint from the mother of the deceased, Natalya Magnitskaya, Sergei Magnitsky’s own complaint, filed back in 2009, is being considered.

The founders and participants of the Caucasus Emirate cell in Bashkiria received from 10 to 13 years in a maximum security colony for robbery, banditry, theft and extremism. They carried out anti-Russian propaganda in the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Chelyabinsk region, and also stole a cow and robbed a postal van delivering pensions. The defendants in the case were charged under Part 1 of Art.

More than 100 people went on a hunger strike in protest against the conditions of detention and the inaction of employees of the Federal Migration Service in a special institution of the Federal Migration Service of Kazan. They report being kept in excessive isolation and deportation cases pending for years. According to those who recorded the video message , 103 people are participating in the hunger strike.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow on Monday questioned opposition leader Alexei Navalny as a defendant in the case of theft from the Yves Rocher Vostok company. In the dock are Navalny and his brother Oleg. According to the investigation, they committed fraud and money laundering by convincing Yves Rocher Vostok to enter into a contract for freight transportation with the Main Subscription Agency, an enterprise controlled by Navalny.

Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, accused of complicity in the murder of journalists, involvement in the murder of VGTRK Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, as well as illegal border crossing, went on a hunger strike because a doctor was not allowed to see her. Savchenko’s lawyer Mark Feigin announced this on his Twitter. Today in the Moscow City Court, Nadezhda, who participated via videoconference, went on a hunger strike.

The Nakhodka City Court sentenced the leader of the trade union organization of the Russian Trade Union of Dockers (RPD) of the Vostochny port, Leonid Tikhonov, to 3.5 years in prison on charges of embezzlement and misappropriation of trade union funds. A criminal case against Tikhonov was initiated in 2012; it was initiated not by members of the trade union, but by the managing director of the port, Anatoly Lazarev, the Confederation of Labor of Russia reported on Monday.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan revealed violations of federal legislation in 17 temporary detention centers and 12 special reception centers of internal affairs units: they lack daylight, toilets and running water. Sixteen of the 29 premises in which violations were detected are located in basements and semi-basements, the Open Information Agency reports , citing data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic.

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation proposes to introduce compulsory treatment for alcoholism or mandatory preventive measures for people who have committed road accidents and other administrative offenses while intoxicated.

Investigators intend to petition for the arrest of a 29-year-old resident of the village of Nachalo, Rossoshansky district, Voronezh region, who shot a traffic police inspector with a hunting rifle. So he took revenge on the policeman for drawing up an administrative report on driving while intoxicated. The traffic police officer received serious injuries, but survived.

The Supreme Court of Russia did not initiate cassation proceedings on the complaint of the lawyer of politician Alexei Navalny in the criminal case of Kirovles Olga Mikhailova. RAPSI reported this on Monday with reference to the official website of the Russian Armed Forces. “We asked for the verdict to be overturned, of course.

The Moscow City Court has scheduled for Thursday, December 18, a hearing on the merits of the Prosecutor General's Office's claim to liquidate and ban the activities of the "People's Militia of Minin and Pozharsky" Vladimir Kvachkov. Retired Colonel of the General Staff of the GRU Kvachkov, convicted of preparing a rebellion, will participate in the hearings via video link, reported RAPSI on Monday. He is serving his sentence in correctional colony No. 5 in Mordovia.

Former deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and former assistant to Mayor Anatoly Sobchak, Yuri Shutov, died in the White Swan colony for those sentenced to life imprisonment. Shutov’s death with reference to its sources reports Fontanka . According to the publication, the 68-year-old ex-deputy died last Saturday; the cause of death was not disclosed.

The unregistered party “Other Russia” announced the withdrawal of its claim to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for the liquidation and ban of its predecessor party, the National Bolshevik Party (NBP), in 2007. “The so-called “international law”, from a tool for resolving interethnic conflicts, has long been turned by the West into a convenient tool for imposing its policies on independent states.

The head of the investigation department of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Eastern district of Moscow, Lieutenant Colonel Tlisov, who beat a traffic police officer, was injured during his arrest: he had a broken spine and a bruised kidney. A police investigator has been dismissed from the Ministry of Internal Affairs; he faces criminal charges for assaulting an officer while on duty.