A resident of the Yakut village of Peleduy, Valery Leikin, blocked the technological highway to the oil fields of the Lensky region and for six hours fired back at the security service of Surgutneftegaz, which owns the highway. In winter, for residents of the village, this road remains the only way to get to the regional center.

President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma a bill regulating the procedure for excluding non-profit organizations from the register of “foreign agents.” The text of the document was published on the State Duma electronic database website. As noted in the explanatory note, the current legislation only determines the procedure for including NPOs in the register of “foreign agents”, but does not say how one can exit it if such activities cease.

Another suspect was detained in the case of mass riots near the building of the Supreme Council of Crimea during a rally on February 26 last year. He became a close relative of one of the coordinators of the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of the Crimean Tatar People, Abmedzhit Suleymanov, Asan Chebiev. As the Crimean Field Mission for Human Rights reports on Facebook, Chebiev was detained in the village of Sovetsky.

The Zlatoust City Court sentenced the former head of the colony-settlement No. 25 of the Chelyabinsk region, Evgeniy Tkach, to a year of suspended imprisonment, finding him guilty of theft of money allocated for the fireproofing of the institution's building.

The Novosibirsk Regional Court sentenced former district police officer Mikhail Bogachev, accused of killing a married couple after a quarrel over a dog, to 16 years in a maximum security colony. As reported on the website of the Novosibirsk prosecutor's office, in the spring of 2014, 56-year-old pensioner Bogachev came to the village of Dergousovo, Toguchinsky district, Novosibirsk region, to visit a married couple he knew.

The first deputy prosecutor of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, Semyon Berezikov, approved the indictment in the case filed against the former lawyer of the former head of the GUEBiK Ministry of Internal Affairs Denis Sugrobov, Georgy Antonov. According to investigators, he divulged data from the preliminary investigation.

The Perm Regional Court sentenced Anton Guchenko, a defendant in the case of a mass brawl with migrants from Tajikistan near the Perm Nemo bar, to four years of suspended imprisonment, accused under Articles 212 of the Criminal Code (organizing mass riots) and 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities).

Investigators opened a criminal case against a resident of the village of Slavnoye, Tver Region, who did not want to allow police into his house for a search and opened fire on them with a gun.

In Makhachkala, five unknown persons beat up an employee of the Memorial human rights center, lawyer Murad Magomedov. He is now in the hospital. “He was attacked by five people and beaten badly. He received serious head injuries and is now in the central republican hospital of Dagestan,” Oleg Orlov, one of the leaders of the Memorial center, told Interfax. Last year, Magomedov represented the interests of Georgy Khristokyan, accused of robbery on a bus en route Moscow - St.

The Abakan magistrate convicted 47-year-old lawyer Vladimir Dvoryak for disclosing investigative secrets. In court, the colleague was defended by ten lawyers at once.

Ilnar Ibatullin (left) and Almaz Vasilov (left to right) during the announcement of the sentence by the Volga Court of Kazan, July 16, 2014. Photo: Maxim Bogodvid / RIA Novosti The Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of Tatarstan softened the verdict by eight police officers from the Dalny police department in Kazan, who were convicted of brutal torture of the detainees.

The Moscow City Court rejected the complaint against house arrest of Svetlana Krivsun, a trainee dispatcher from Moscow's Vnukovo airport, who suffered a miscarriage after the preventive measure was taken. According to RIA Novosti, Krivsun’s lawyers indicated in their complaint that the girl’s release was necessary to provide her with timely medical care.

The number of cases of restriction of Internet freedom in 2014 increased by more than 1.5 times - from 1832 to 2951. Such data is contained in the Internet Freedom 2014 report prepared by the Internet Users Association. As follows from the report, in 2014 the number of cases of criminal prosecution for Internet activity decreased by almost half (132 versus 226 in 2013).

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan commuted the sentence of the lower court against former police officers from the Kazan “Dalniy” department.

A criminal case has been opened against employees of the administration of pre-trial detention center No. 1 of the Chelyabinsk region, where riots occurred last December, under the article of abuse of power. Investigators believe that the riot was provoked by their unjustified actions.