Journalist of the Saratov publication “Public Opinion” Sergei Vilkov was released from the city department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he reported on his Facebook. Earlier on Tuesday, police detained him near his home. "I'm already home. The cops kidnapped me in order to sign a non-disclosure agreement regarding the preliminary investigation. That is, completely disarm,” Vilkov wrote.

The criminal case initiated into the death of people in a fire at the Novokhopersky psychoneurological boarding school in the Voronezh region was transferred for investigation to the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee. this TASS reports with reference to official representative of the department Vladimir Markin. The building of the Novokhopersky psychoneurological boarding school caught fire on the night of December 13.

FSB officers detained two suspects in connection with a homemade bomb explosion that occurred in St. Petersburg on October 8, 2015. this TASS reports with reference to the regional department of the FSB. “As a result of the implementation of a complex of operational-search measures, two residents of St. Petersburg were detained, involved in the commission of especially serious crimes using improvised explosive devices,” the department reported.

Riot police disperse protesters against paid parking on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow. The action is taking place in the format of a meeting of deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation with voters, reports . a correspondent of the Dozhd TV channel As Dozhd reports, riot police occupied the entire Pushkin Square. They also dismantled and took away the equipment of the protesters.

The Investigative Committee for the Krasnoyarsk Territory has completed its investigation into the case against a former employee of the Achinsky police department, who kidnapped his common-law wife, according to the department’s website.

Journalist of the Saratov publication “Public Opinion” Sergei Vilkov was detained near his home by police officers, reports the local agency “Svobodnye Novosti”. Vilkov told the agency that he was being taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Saratov. The journalist reported his detention to lawyer Andrei Eremin, but he cannot go to the journalist because he is in court.

In Perm this afternoon, FSB officers detained the head of the local branch of the Democratic Choice, Ilya Sretensky, the head of the Perm branch of PARNAS, Mikhail Kasimov, said on Facebook. “He was taken into the car to get acquainted with some kind of court order,” Kasimov wrote. Later, Tatyana Sretenskaya, the activist’s wife, said that their home was searched and the system unit, tablet and phone were confiscated.

Olga Lopatina, the ex-wife of Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin, demands in a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity to recover four million rubles from the Anti-Corruption Foundation and to remove a film about the family of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika from YouTube, RBC reports , citing lawyer Viktor Grib. The lawsuit was filed against Alexei Navalny, fund employees Georgy Alburov and Lyubov Sobol, FBK, as well as Google.

Law enforcement agencies of the Krasnodar Territory have opened a case of forgery of documents to include the ex-wife of Deputy Prosecutor General Olga Lopatina among the founders of the company "Sugar Kubani", TASS reports, citing a source in the authorities. The case was initiated under Part 3 of Article 327 of the Criminal Code (use of a knowingly forged document).

Lawyer Mikhail Gavryushin said that Olga Lopatina, the ex-wife of Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin, is indeed filing a lawsuit to protect her honor, dignity and business reputation due to an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, founded by Alexei Navalny, Vedomosti writes . The newspaper has the text of the lawsuit. In the document, Lopatina is listed as the plaintiff, lawyer Vladislav Grib is her representative.

In the Tomsk region, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case about the beating of a man in the “Veselaya Zateya” store by a private security company employee, who later died.

The Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region has completed a criminal investigation into three employees of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Solnechnogorsk region, who are suspected of beating Tajik citizen Farrukh Urozov to death. The case materials will soon be sent to court, according to the Investigative Committee’s website.

Lawyer Vladislav Grib denied information about filing a lawsuit against Alexei Navalny and employees of the Anti-Corruption Foundation on behalf of Olga Lopatina, the ex-wife of Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin, RBC reports . “I don’t know her and I’m not her lawyer,” said Vladislav Grib. An assistant to another lawyer, Viktor Grib, also told RBC that this lawyer is not involved in Olga Lopatina’s claim.

Law enforcement officers are again conducting a search in the Library of Ukrainian Literature, the lawyer of director Natalya Sharina, accused of extremism, reports on Facebook. “They just came to the library of Ukrainian literature with another search,” wrote lawyer Ivan Pavlov. The day before, the official representative of the Investigative Committee's Moscow department, Yulia Ivanova, reported searches of several library employees.

Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court Oleg Sviridenko was not deprived of his Doctor of Law degree for plagiarism in his dissertation, . Lyubov Sobol, an employee of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, tweets According to her, 17 members of the dissertation council of the Moscow State Law Academy voted against depriving Sviridenko of his scientific degree, two abstained.