The temporarily suspended mayor of Yaroslavl explained through his lawyers the reasons for his hunger strike, which became known on Thursday. He explains the protest as “legal lawlessness, a total violation of the law and its right to defense.” “The materials that were not provided to him for review contain conversations between GUEBiPK employees about preparing and carrying out provocations against him,” lawyer Sergei Golubenkov, who represents Urlashov’s interests, told Mediazona.

The senior investigator for particularly important cases, General of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee, Alexey Serdyukov, was removed from cases related to the possible organizer of the assassination attempt on journalist Oleg Kashin by the general director of the Prominvest management company, Alexander Gorbunov, RBC reports , citing a source familiar with the case materials.

Activist from Krasnodar Daria Polyudova was sentenced to four days of administrative arrest for publishing Boris Sevastyanov’s song “This, baby, is rashism” on the social network VKontakte, Viktor Chirikov reports on Solidarity activists’ Facebook page. According to OVD-Info, Polyudova was found guilty under Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code (propaganda or public display of Nazi symbols or paraphernalia).

The temporarily suspended mayor of Yaroslavl, Evgeny Urlashov, and his former adviser Alexey Lopatin, accused in the case of a bribe on an especially large scale, went on a hunger strike in the pre-trial detention center, the defendants' lawyers told Mediazona. The reasons for this decision differ between Urlashov and Lopatin.

Roskomnadzor today, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, included more than 20 videos and three YouTube channels in the list of prohibited sites, reports the Roskomsvoboda project. Among the banned videos are six videos of opposition leader Alexei Navalny giving his last word at the trial in the Yves Rocher case, the description of which announced a public gathering on the day of the verdict of the Navalny brothers.

The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he does not know about the participation of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk in the war in Chechnya in the 1990s, reports . Interfax “I don’t have any information that he was in Chechnya during the war. He is a real coward and a traitor, and is not capable of fighting with anyone,” Kadyrov said while talking to reporters.

The court sentenced a 58-year-old resident of the Kurgan region to correctional labor on probation with a probationary period for disclosing the secret of adoption (Article 155 of the Criminal Code).

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced the presenter of the Europe Plus St. Petersburg radio station, Vladislav Gross, to five years in a general regime colony, finding him guilty of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm dangerous to human life (Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code). According to the city prosecutor's office, the court also satisfied the victim's civil claim to recover 300 thousand rubles from the radio host as compensation for moral damage.

In the North Medvedkovo area, three men were beaten by activist of Nikolai Caucasian, when he walked at home on Shirokoy Street and carried out campaigning as part of the election campaign to the local council. As the activist himself told Mediazone, who attacked him - men at about 50 years old. Caucasian notes that they were drunk. The incident occurred at the entrance of House 20 on Shirokoy Street. Men were unhappy that the Caucasian was campaigning in the entrances.

The Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region has completed an investigation into the criminal case against the former head of the department for investigating crimes against property of the Lyuberetskoye intermunicipal department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, according to the department’s website. The ex-policeman is accused of attempted fraud (part 3 of article 30, part 3 of article 159 of the Criminal Code).

In the Akshinsky district of the Trans-Baikal Territory, a mother of two children reported to the police that unknown people were receiving child benefits instead of her, which were intended for her child. According to the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, the woman spoke about the misappropriation of more than 26 thousand rubles by unknown persons.

The Department of the Investigative Committee for the Kirov Region opened a criminal case into the death of a one-and-a-half-year-old child in the Shabalinsky central district hospital, according to the department’s website. The case was initiated under Part 2 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code (causing death by negligence due to improper performance by a person of his professional duties).

A court in Komi sentenced Olga Chimorina, a local ambulance paramedic at the Knyazhpogost Central District Hospital, to a fine of 20 thousand rubles for leaving a pensioner in danger (Article 125 of the Criminal Code). According to the Investigative Committee, Chimorina was released from punishment because she was amnestied. According to investigators, on November 26 last year, an ambulance team went to a 91-year-old local resident who was in serious condition, unconscious.

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow acquitted the base jumpers in the case of painting a star on the spire of a high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. Judge Marina Orlova acquitted the paratroopers of charges of vandalism (Article 214 of the Criminal Code), and acquitted all five defendants of charges of hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

The Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, opened a criminal case against the magistrate of precinct No. 40 of the Komarichsky district of the Bryansk region, Alexander Amelin, under Part 1 of Article 305 of the Criminal Code (deliberately issuing unjust sentences and other judicial acts). According to the Investigative Committee, there are six episodes in the case: Amelin is suspected of making decisions in six cases, the materials of which were previously destroyed.