The head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny, was taken home from the Arbat police station. Kira Yarmysh reports this on her Twitter. We just saw Alexey. He said that he was being taken home. They put him in the car, simply turned around, and then drove past us — Kira Yarmysh (@Kira_Yarmysh) January 14, 2015 However, after a few minutes, Yarmysh doubted that the police had taken Navalny home.

The head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny, was detained by police, he himself writes about this on Twitter. Well, great, on the way out of Ekho Moskvy the police detained me. They're taking me somewhere — Alexey Navalny (@navalny) January 14, 2015 The detention is confirmed by Ekho Moskvy journalist Irina Vorobyova.

The arrest of those involved in the case of an emergency in the metro has been extended until April 15, RAPSI reports . The court granted the investigator's request to extend the detention in order to familiarize the accused and lawyers with the case materials and send them to court. The defense asked to release the defendants in the case from the pre-trial detention center, but the representative of the Investigative Committee insisted that they could put pressure on the witnesses.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of Perm sentenced a man who provided forceful escort to a debt collector and beat a debtor to death. this on Wednesday with reference to the press service of the local Investigative Committee. reported Interfax A 34-year-old local resident was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm resulting in the death of the victim through negligence (Part 4 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code). The court sentenced him to 10 years in prison in a maximum security colony.

A group of 10-15 young people on the afternoon of January 14 broke into the prayer hall of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque in Vypolzovoy Lane. Young people shouted calls to go to the French embassy and provoked parishioners, reports , citing the press secretary of the Council of Muftis of Russia Gulnur Gazieva.

A procession is taking place in the Armenian city of Gyumri, the participants of which demand that a Russian military man suspected of murdering 6 members of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri be handed over to Armenia. As News.Am reports , the demonstration reached the regional administration building, where a dispute broke out between the protesters and the police and a brawl occurred. Several thousand people take part in the action.

Unidentified men broke into the Memorial office in the city of Gudermes in Chechnya and pelted the human rights activists inside with eggs. This is stated in a message on the organization’s Facebook page. “About an hour ago, five people in black clothes and masks burst into our Gudermes office (Chechnya). Only the head of the office, Lilya Yusupova, and employee Elsa Shukueva were in the room.

Employees of several Perm media reported phone calls from a representative of Roskomnadzor with a ban on the publication of cartoons from the French publication Charlie Hebdo. about this on Wednesday . wrote The SOVA information and analytical center A similar ban was reported by the director of News Media LLC, which owns the Perm News portal, and the editor-in-chief of the 59.ru portal.

In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a criminal case has been initiated against the former senior inspector of the duty unit of a separate traffic police battalion of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kamchatka Territory. As the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee reported on Wednesday, he is suspected of abuse of power (Part 1 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

One of the convicts in IK-18 in Magnitogorsk was injured while working, as a result of which his hand was amputated. After this, an inspection by the prosecutor’s office revealed numerous violations of working conditions in the colony, reported on Wednesday. the department’s press service “It has been established that in violation of the requirements of Art.

All metropolitan regional newspapers will soon stop publishing in paper form and will be transferred to electronic format. about this on Wednesday wrote Gazeta.Ru , citing the words of the head of the Moscow department of media and advertising, Vladimir Chernikov. According to Chernikov, this is due to the high costs of the mayor’s office for the preparation and publication of publications, as well as their low quality.

The Federal Penitentiary Service demanded that politician Alexei Navalny compensate for damages for a damaged electronic bracelet, which the politician cut with scissors when he refused to comply with the conditions of his illegal, in his opinion, house arrest. Navalny posted a copy of the document received from the Federal Penitentiary Service on his blog. The cost of the cut strap at the FSIN was estimated at 670 rubles.

Employees of the Saratov media group “Public Opinion” linked the beating of journalist Sergei Vilkov with his publications about regional Duma deputy and businessman Sergei Kurikhin. on Wednesday The statement was published by the head of the media group, Alexey Kolobrodov, on his Facebook page. “Attacks on journalists in Saratov have, unfortunately, become a tradition.

In correctional colony No. 14 in the Arkhangelsk region, an investigation is underway into the circumstances of the death of a 22-year-old convict, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported on Wednesday, citing the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. The body of a prisoner convicted of several arson was discovered in the medical unit of IK-14; during the autopsy of the body, two nails and a ballpoint pen were found in the stomach of the deceased.

The Supreme Court rejected the defense's complaint and upheld the sentence of Vadim Gusev and Yevgeny Sidorov, who were convicted of sending mercenaries to Syria, a RAPSI correspondent reported from the courtroom on Wednesday. The verdict was handed down to Gusev and Sidorov, the leaders of the private military company Slavic Corps, in October 2014.