The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg recognized the legality of the Ministry of Justice’s inclusion of “Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg” in the list of foreign agents, reports RIA Novosti . Last November, the Russian Ministry of Justice refused to exclude the organization from the register of “foreign agents,” and NGO lawyers tried to appeal this decision in court.

On Monday, in the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg, in the case of provocation on the day of Eid al-Adha, a key witness recanted his testimony and stated that he had slandered the radical nationalist Nikolai Bondarik after being beaten and threatened by police. this RAPSI reports with reference to Bondarik’s lawyer Sergei Kostyuk.

Ex-police officer Andrei Okulovsky, who participated in the beating of a detainee at the police department, after which he died, was found guilty of abuse of power with the use of violence (clause “a”, part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code) and battery (part 1) Article 116 of the Criminal Code). He received a 3-year suspended sentence, reported on Monday.

President of Russian Railways OJSC Vladimir Yakunin filed a defamation claim against The New York Times in Moscow's Presnensky Court, RAPSI reported on Monday, citing the court's press service. As Yakunin’s representative, in turn, told RAPSI, the reason for going to court was a publication in which the head of Russian Railways was “accused of violating the law.” It is not specified which publication we are talking about.

In the city of Baley (Trans-Baikal Territory), lawyer Ekaterina Markedonova was not allowed to interrogate her client Dmitry Shcherbinin, who a few days ago asked to be released from a pre-trial detention center, accused of attempted murder of local resident Alexander Zakharov. Previously, Mediazona wrote in detail about the criminal case against Alexander Zakharov. Unemployed Dmitry Shcherbinin tried to steal from a store owned by the common-law wife of the accused.

Investigative actions in the editorial office of the Crimean Tatar television company ATR are carried out as part of the investigation into the criminal case of the death of two residents of Crimea during a rally on February 26, 2014. A criminal case was initiated under Article 109 of the Criminal Code (causing death by negligence), the press service of the Investigative Committee said in a statement.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow on Monday extended until March 1 the arrest of Oleg Mironov, an activist of the unregistered Other Russia party, accused of trying to disrupt Andrei Makarevich’s concert, a RAPSI correspondent reports from the courtroom. Mironov’s defense attorney presented to the court appeals from State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Tetekin, journalist Alexander Prokhanov and writer Zakhar Prilepin.

The Legislation Committee recommended that the State Duma adopt in the second reading a bill introduced by the administration to mitigate penalties for bribery. As wrote Pravo.ru on Monday, not a single amendment to the document received from the presidential administration was received. It is planned that deputies will consider the document in the second reading on January 30.

A court in the Vologda region found Tatyana Davtyan and ex-policeman Mikhail Kovanov guilty of attempted illegal sale of narcotic drugs (part 3 of article 30, paragraph “d”, part 4 of article 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Kovanov, in addition, was found guilty of preparing for sale of narcotic drugs on an especially large scale (Part 1 of Article 30, Part 5 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the reported on Friday.

A quarter of the employees of the Moscow Mission Control Center (MCC) will be laid off, TASS reported on Monday, citing a source in the rocket and space industry. “Out of approximately 800 employees, 200 people are planned to be laid off,” the agency’s source said. According to him, the reduction will take place in stages and will last until mid-April.

Lawyers from the interregional public organization “Committee against Torture” sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on behalf of Nizhny Novgorod resident Ekaterina Zaitseva, who was hit on the head with a baton by a riot policeman during a rally. this on Monday .

On Monday, the Kanavinsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod was supposed to make a decision on the legality of the actions of the investigator, who refused to initiate a criminal case after a complaint from the imprisoned anarchist Ilya Romanov. However, the court received a document from the Investigative Committee, according to which this refusal has already been canceled by the leadership of the Investigative Committee, lawyer Evgeny Gubin told Mediazona.

The Moscow City Court on Monday rejected Crimean anti-fascist Alexander Kolchenko and his defense’s appeal against the decision of the Lefortovo District Court, which at the end of December extended Kolchenko’s detention until April 16, 2015. His lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina told Mediazona about this. Alexander Kolchenko was arrested in Simferopol in May 2014.

Security forces are conducting a search in the building in Simferopol, where the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR is located, and there are many investigators from the FSB and the Investigative Committee on site, reported on Monday, citing its sources. Ukrayinska Pravda “A full KamAZ arrived with security forces, a bunch of investigators from the FSB and the Investigative Committee. Now they are talking with management. An armed man was posted near each office.

The Russian Commissioner at the European Court of Human Rights, Georgy Matyushkin, recognized the conditions of detention in the Yekaterinburg pre-trial detention center, which were described in his complaint by ex-prosecutor Konygin, as intolerable and causing suffering. Matyushkin offered the applicant to pay compensation of 7,500 euros in exchange for dropping the case, but he refused, the website sutyajnik.ru claims .