Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Civil Rights Andrei Mayakov was detained on suspicion of fraud, Kommersant reports , citing a TASS source. “This evening, upon receiving 900 thousand rubles for allegedly assisting in the termination of a criminal case, Andrei Mayakov, the deputy head of the “Committee for Civil Rights” of the famous human rights activist Andrei Babushkin, was detained red-handed,” says the agency’s interlocutor.

Investigators dropped the criminal case of tax evasion against the head of the Samara branch of the Golos association Lyudmila Kuzmina due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, the defendant’s lawyer Vyacheslav Tolstoy told Interfax. The defense lawyer added that by order of the investigation, the arrest of Kuzmina’s apartment and car was also lifted.

The City Court of St. Petersburg, based on the results of considering the prosecutor’s submission, banned the People’s Social Initiative (NSI), founded by neo-Nazi Dmitry “Schultz” Bobrov, as an extremist organization. As Fontanka reports , during the meeting, a representative of the prosecutor’s office recalled that in 2011 the court had already recognized the NSI unit in Cherepovets as extremist.

The Moskovsky District Court of St. Petersburg on Wednesday decided to extend the detention of Mikhail Kavtaskin, one of those accused of the attempted murder of journalist Oleg Kashin, until November 4, 2015. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. Kavtaskin asked to change his preventive measure to house arrest. He said that he admits his guilt and is ready to cooperate with the investigation.

Speaking in court to extend the arrest of Mikhail Kavtaskin, one of the perpetrators of the assassination attempt on Oleg Kashin, lawyer Alexander Gorbunov said that law enforcement officers were involved in the kidnapping of his client, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. “From the interrogations of the accomplices, it follows that law enforcement officers were involved in the abduction of Gorbunov, who have not yet been identified,” the defense lawyer said.

A former employee of IK-18, located in the village of Sosva, Sverdlovsk region, was sentenced to a real term of imprisonment and a large fine for accepting bribes from convicts, the press service of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service reported on Wednesday.

The Moskovsky District Court of St. Petersburg on Wednesday decided to extend the detention of Danila Veselov, one of those accused of the attempted murder of journalist Oleg Kashin, until November 4, 2015. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. Veselov himself and his defense asked to be transferred to house arrest.

Prosecutor of the Pskov region Sergei Belov demanded that the leadership of the Pskov regional assembly take measures against the deputy of the regional parliament and leader of the local branch of the Yabloko party Lev Shlosberg, the Pskov Information Agency reported on Wednesday.

The police detained residents of the Vedeno district of Chechnya; they are suspected of trying to join the ranks of the Islamic State (ISIS) militants and of recruiting young people to participate in hostilities in Syria, the Caucasian Knot writes on Wednesday with reference to the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs. All detainees are young people under 30 years of age.

In the Sverdlovsk region, the court turned into state income the cost of an expensive car of a correctional colony employee, who could not confirm its purchase from her own income, Pravo.Ru writes on Wednesday with reference to the press service of the regional prosecutor's office. The prosecutor's office appealed to the Ivdel City Court with an application to recognize the sale and purchase of a car previously owned by an employee of the Federal Penitentiary Institution No.

Police detained a resident of the Kalachevsky district of the Volgograd region, suspected of setting fire to the house of his former partner, reported on Wednesday. the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the region A 31-year-old local resident contacted the police and said that her former partner had set her house on fire. “As the police established, the young man was intoxicated at the time of the crime.

On Wednesday, the Leninsky District Court of Cheboksary is holding a debate in the case of civil activist Dmitry Semenov, who is accused of calling for extremism. Semenov asked the court to find him innocent, and the prosecutor demanded that the activist be fined in the amount of 200 thousand rubles, Semenov reports.

In the city of Nadym in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, a criminal case has been opened against a 31-year-old local resident who caused bodily harm to police officers. He has been charged with using violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code), reported on Wednesday.

The Motovilikha District Court of Perm fined the autonomous non-profit organization “Perm-36” and its director Tatyana Kursina for failure to comply with the requirements of the Ministry of Justice and refusal to register the autonomous non-profit organization as a “foreign agent”. this Kursina herself reported to Interfax, according to whom the court made this decision on Monday, September 14.

The Leninsky District Court of Novosibirsk sentenced the case of painting Lenin’s monument in the colors of the flag of Ukraine and other acts of vandalism. The court recognized Kirill Korzhavin, Nazar Collector, Sergey Belov and Vladislav Shipoval guilty, two of them were half -over, two more the court limited freedom, reports Flashsiberia on Wednesday.