Estonian Security Police (KAPO) employee Eston Kohver has been charged with new charges of weapons smuggling and illegally crossing the state border, his lawyer Evgeniy Aksenov told Interfax. “In total, Kohver was shown nine episodes of him crossing the Russian state border at different times, that is, from Estonia to Russia and back. The odd number of episodes is because during the last, ninth in a row, he was detained,” the defense lawyer explained.

The Russian Ministry of Justice included the charitable organization “Civic Assistance” in the register of non-profit organizations (NPOs) performing the functions of a “foreign agent”. This is reported on the department's website. “The fact that the said organization corresponds to the characteristics of a non-profit organization performing the functions of a foreign agent was established during an inspection by the Moscow prosecutor’s office,” the Ministry of Justice said in a statement.

The Soviet court of Tomsk on Monday found activist Leonid Rybakov guilty of violating Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (organizing an uncoordinated action) and fined him 25 thousand for holding single pickets last summer in support of those convicted and persecuted in the “Bolotnaya case.” The meeting on Rybakov’s administrative case lasted all day, TV-2 reports . The activist was brought to court from the police department, where he spent almost two days.

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow has begun examining allegations of possible torture against ex-fighter of the Sever battalion Zaur Dadaev, who is accused of murdering Boris Nemtsov. Rosbalt reported this with reference to an anonymous source on Monday. The Committee Against Torture knows nothing about the start of the inspection.

Ex-fighter of the “North” battalion Ruslan Geremeev, whom the investigation in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov failed to interrogate, may be in Abu Dhabi. Rosbalt wrote about this on Monday, citing sources close to the investigation. According to a Rosbalt source, Geremeev arrived in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, using documents in someone else’s name.

Former deputy head of LIU-9 of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Chelyabinsk Region, Sergei Efremov, was sentenced to 3.5 years in a general regime colony for bribes from relatives of prisoners. For a reward, the FSIN officer promised to arrange parole, allowed the transfer of food, and arranged a long meeting. The verdict in Efremov’s case was rendered by the Satka City Court, finding him guilty under Part 1, Part 2 of Art.

Opposition activist Sergei Mokhnatkin, convicted of using violence against police, went on a hunger strike in a pre-trial detention center and also cut his wrists in protest against being transferred to an unknown colony.

The Kiev District Court of Simferopol began consideration of the merits of the criminal case of Alexander Kostenko, accused of attacking a soldier of the Crimean special forces unit “Berkut” during the events on the Maidan in Kyiv in February 2014. The victim in the case will appear in court on Tuesday, April 21. Crimean Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya, who personally represents the state prosecution in the process, announced this during the meeting.

Perm artist Alexander Zhunev, who painted graffiti with the crucified Gagaren, was promised to be forcibly brought to the prosecutor's office, since he did not appear to testify. Zhunev himself states that he will come to the department voluntarily, but with a lawyer. “The artist did not appear at the prosecutor’s office on April 17. Now he has been sent a notice of forced detention to our department on April 22.

The Volzhsky District Court of Saratov fined Sergei Vilkov, a journalist of the Public Opinion media group, 1 thousand rubles for publishing a swastika on his VKontakte page. Judge Yulia Efimkina found Vilkov guilty under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or public display of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols), writes Versiya Saratov.

Chechen public figure and politician Ruslan Kutaev, convicted in a drug trafficking case, filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights. “The filed complaint contains a description of a whole “bouquet” of human rights violations, but the main thing, of course, is that it substantiates the unfair trial against Kutaev, the facts of falsification of evidence in his case.

The investigator allowed Alexander Pogrebov, one of the four defendants in the “high-rise case” who have been under house arrest since August last year, to go to work. Pogrebov’s lawyer Olga Lukmanova reported this to Mediazona. “Alexander’s parents are pensioners, his father is a disabled person of the second group, who are dependent on him. We have long discussed with the investigator the possibility of Alexander working, but he only agreed to meet us halfway now,” she said.

The case of the former director of Magnit in the Leningrad region, Olga Konyukhova, has been sent to court. Konyukhova managed the store where, in February of this year, an 81-year-old siege survivor was detained for allegedly stealing butter. The suspect died after being taken to the police station. The criminal case against Konyukhova was investigated under Art. 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing death by negligence) and Art.

Investigators opened a criminal case in connection with a fire that occurred at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations (INION) in January 2015. The case is being investigated under Part 1 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (negligence), says the official statement of the Investigative Committee.

Professor Mikhail Savva, who was convicted of fraud and left Russia, became a defendant in a new criminal case under the same article. According to investigators, he stole more than 150 thousand rubles from the budget of the Krasnodar Territory. A criminal case was initiated at the beginning of April 2015 under Part 2 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy), writes Yugopolis.