The Council of the Moscow Bar Association terminated the status of lawyer Andrei Stebenev, who defended Svetlana Davydova, a resident of the Smolensk region, accused of high treason. “Stebenev’s lawyer’s status has been terminated for violating the law on the legal profession and the code of professional ethics of lawyers,” Henry Reznik, vice-president of the chamber, told Mediazona. Stebenev defended Davydova as intended.

The famous documentary director Tamara Yakzhina was killed over her apartment in mid-March of this year, her body was buried in a forest in the Moscow region, not far from the Volokolamsk highway. Her neighbor, who was detained the day before as part of the case of Yakzhina’s disappearance, told investigators about this. It was previously reported that 70-year-old Tamara Yakzhina left home and did not return on March 16 of this year.

A bailiff of the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg was detained as part of a criminal case regarding the theft of 14 million 851 thousand rubles from the account of one of the companies operating in the city. He was preparing to withdraw another 14 million rubles from the account of another company, but failed to accomplish his plan. .

Two teenage girls from the Podgorensky district of the Voronezh region will stand trial for theft: they took furniture, blankets and books from their neighbor’s house in order to set up a reading room in an abandoned house. As writes Notepad with reference to the regional Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee, those accused of theft are 14 and 16 years old, they took things from the house of their neighbor, a resident of the village of Saprino.

The Perm artist Alexander Zhunev, who painted on one of the crucified houses of Yuri Gagarin, was called to a conversation in the prosecutor's office. Earlier, the artist was already interviewed by the police, and the work itself was painted over. “They called from the prosecutor's office. Invited for a conversation. Tomorrow I have to come to them. As far as I understand, the prosecutors also intend to find out the motives of my work, ”Interfax-Volga region quotes the artist.

Investigators from the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod Region are conducting a pre-investigation investigation into the unrest in the temporary detention center in the Gorodetsky district. Prisoners report that police in the temporary detention facility use gas on them.

The Kirsanovsky District Court of the Tambov Region refused to release on parole the environmentalist Evgeniy Vitishko, who is serving a sentence in a penal colony in the case of damaging the fence of Tkachev’s dacha. Vitishko’s petition for parole was not supported by either the representative of the colony or the prosecutor participating in the process. During the break, Zhenya Vitishko asks how things are in Russia.

Investigators in St. Petersburg completed the investigation of the case against the artist Peter Pavlensky. He is accused of vandalism: according to experts, Pavlensky, setting up tires on the small stable bridge, defiled him and showed disrespect for society. The charge for the action carried out on the bridge in February 2014 was submitted in the final edition under part 2 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism), the lawyer of Pavlensky Dmitry Dinze told Interfax on Wednesday.

Roskomnadzor has issued an official clarification stating that the display of Nazi symbols without propaganda purposes should not be interpreted as a violation of the law on countering extremism. A statement published on the Roskomnadzor website states that the agency has ordered a legal and linguistic examination of the law “On Combating Extremist Activities.” Specialists from Moscow State Law Academy named after.

The Vyborg City Court of the Leningrad Region decided to release on parole the St. Petersburg resident Denis Levkin, convicted of attacking a policeman during the seizure of the Warshavsky railway station warehouse. “The request for parole was granted by Judge Trikhlebov, Levkin will be released early,” Anna Savenkova, press secretary of the Vyborg City Court, told Mediazona. In February 2014, Denis Levkin was sentenced to 4 years in prison under Part 2 of Art.

The Ministry of Culture confirmed information about the recall of the rental certificate from the film "Number 44". “The rental of such films is in anticipation of the 70th anniversary of Victory is unacceptable,” the ministry said in a statement. The report published on the official website of the Ministry of Culture claims that the initiative to recall the application for a rental certificate came from the Central Partnership, which took on all the commercial consequences of this decision.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow on Wednesday extended until June 11, 2015 the arrest of Zyuzino district municipal deputy Konstantin Yankauskas, accused of fraud in raising money for the election campaign of Alexei Navalny.

Employees of the capital's police departments "Yakimanka" and "Basmanny" do not appear in the Zheleznodorozhny City Court of the Moscow Region, where the claim of six detainees is being considered. Activists detained during the mass protest reported tortured conditions in police stations. The interests of the victims are represented by the lawyer of the Public Verdict Foundation, Nikolai Zboroshenko.

The film “Number 44,” about a Soviet intelligence officer and a government conspiracy in the USSR during the Stalin era, which was scheduled to premiere on April 16, has lost its distribution certificate and will not be released. The reasons for the revocation of the certificate are not stated. According to TJournal, it was received two weeks ago and the premiere was supposed to take place on Thursday.

Nuclear scientist Vladimir Golubev, accused of divulging state secrets, was removed from the Nizhny Novgorod Region FSB investigators' undertaking not to disclose preliminary investigation data. The scientist himself told Interfax that the subscription was canceled by the deputy head of the investigative department of the FSB Directorate for the Nizhny Novgorod Region, recognizing the investigator’s actions as unfounded.