The alleged organizer of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, Ruslan Mukhudinov, who was put on the international wanted list and arrested in absentia, is on the territory of Chechnya. According to a Rosbalt source in law enforcement agencies, such information is received by operatives working on the Nemtsov murder case.

The Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) has declared prohibited the information contained in five articles in the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia about the distribution of drugs. This was reported on the Roskomnadzor website on Wednesday, November 18.

Activists Nikolai Trubitsyn and Alexander Shelkovenkov received three and five days of administrative arrest, respectively, under the article on violating the procedure for holding public events. The day before, they were detained at Moscow's Basmanny Court at a rally in support of activist Ildar Dadin, who is accused of repeatedly violating the rules for holding a public event (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

At the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow, Alexander Sidorov, an orphan and disabled person of the second group, was detained, who staged a single picket after the court’s recent refusal to provide him with housing. this on Wednesday, November 18, on her Facebook page. reported Activist Katrin Nenasheva “The same guy, Sasha Sidorov, who brushed his teeth at the State Duma, came today and lay down at the Mausoleum - just recently the court denied him legal housing.

In the Murmansk region, a criminal case has been opened against a resident of the village of Murmashi, who gouged out her son’s eyes with a knife and cut off his genitals so that he would not “spoil the lives of others.” agency reported this on Wednesday, November 18, FlashNord citing the regional prosecutor's office. The incident occurred on the night of November 16.

The Murmansk police are conducting an investigation into the attack on the TV-21 television crew on board the Trepang fishing vessel. agency reported this on Wednesday, November 18, The SeverPost citing Nadezhda Ptitsyna, media relations inspector for the Murmansk Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In Yaroslavl, a 20-year-old homeless man received multiple injuries during the demolition of the wooden house he was inside. He later died in the hospital, according to the website of the regional Investigative Committee on Wednesday, November 18. The incident occurred on the morning of November 17, during the demolition of an abandoned two-story wooden house located on Poselok Zavoda Street No. 50.

The Donetsk City Court of the Rostov Region continues the trial of former Ukrainian serviceman, Verkhovna Rada deputy Nadezhda Savchenko, accused of complicity in the murder of Russian journalists near Lugansk in the summer of 2014. The court decided to question behind closed doors the leader of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic, Igor Plotnitsky, as a witness, reported on Wednesday, November 18.

Four detectives from the police department of the Moscow region town of Kurovskoye will appear in court. Depending on the role of each, they are accused of exceeding official authority, causing grievous bodily harm, including negligently causing the death of a person, and violating the inviolability of the home. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee on Wednesday, November 18.

Krasnodar activist Sergei Titarenko, accused of calling for extremism for reposting a message on the VKontakte social network, refused amnesty. The website of the OVD-Info project reported this on Wednesday, November 18. On Wednesday, the Krasnodar Regional Court considered an appeal against Titarenko’s sentence. At the meeting, the prosecution proposed amnesty for the activist. He refused the amnesty, insisting on an acquittal. The meeting was postponed to November 24.

A resident of the village of Korzhovka-Golubovka, Klintsovsky district, Bryansk region, beat a fellow villager and stuffed leaves into her mouth, causing her to suffocate and die. He has been charged with murder, according to the website of the regional Investigative Committee on Wednesday, November 18. The incident occurred on the evening of November 14, 2015. According to investigators, a 26-year-old man quarreled with a 34-year-old fellow villager and beat her.

Leftist activist from Lipetsk Alexander Ognev was detained in an apartment in the south-west of Moscow, his friend Elena Bezrukova told Mediazona about this. “In the morning, police officers and witnesses came to us. Ognev was on the federal wanted list in connection with a desertion case that had been initiated in Lipetsk several years ago; I was summoned several times as a witness.

A special forces brigade of 50 people was sent to the city of Nizhneudinsk, Irkutsk region. There, according to preliminary data, contract soldiers got into a fight with local residents, and then staged a protest, Interfax reports, citing a source in law enforcement agencies on Wednesday, November 18.

At the request of a resident of Ufa, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against a 25-year-old policeman who is suspected of beating a detainee. This was reported on Wednesday, November 18, on the website of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Bashkortostan. A criminal case has been initiated against a 25-year-old assistant to the operational duty officer of the district police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Bashkortostan.

A 53-year-old local resident died in the Sberbank office in Irkutsk while he was waiting in line. FlashSiberia agency reported this on Wednesday, November 18, citing a source in law enforcement agencies. According to the agency, the incident occurred in the Sberbank office on Sovetskaya Street. A FlashSiberia source said that the 53-year-old man, according to preliminary data, became ill while he was waiting for his turn. Doctors who arrived at the bank office pronounced the man dead.