On the evening of February 11, civil activist Evgeny Kurakin was beaten in Reutov near Moscow. He is now in hospital with a suspected fracture of the jaw and temporal region. Kurakin himself reported this to Mediazona. Kurakin said that unknown people broke the headlight of his car and left a note asking him to meet. “They pulled me out into the street this way. A woman called, men came instead. Without talking, they immediately started beating me,” the activist said.

On the afternoon of February 11, the music public E:music on the social network VKontakte announced the detention of its administrators Mikhail Meerov and Abdula Kerimov. In the evening, the public explained this message as a “traditional holiday stuffing.” Earlier, E:music claimed that Meerov and Kerimov were detained in Moscow on the night of February 11, when they left the Dich club, and taken to the Kitay-Gorod police station.

The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, spoke about the preparation of a bill to ban “mirror” sites that are blocked by court decision. “We are considering the issue of introducing an amendment to the legislation with the definition of a “mirror” and the conditions for blocking it. Proposals should be prepared by mid-March and then submitted to the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications,” Zharov said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

On the night of February 11, two administrators of the popular music public E:music on the Vkontakte social network, Mikhail Meerov and Abdula Kerimov, were detained in Moscow, according to the community page. The young people were detained when they left the Dich club after the concert; they were taken to the Kitay-Gorod police station. Today at noon a lawyer came to see the detainees, but they released him after about three hours.

In Volgograd, a criminal investigation has been completed against former OBEP employee Anton Brulev, who is accused of killing an athlete and injuring five people. The representative of the victims, lawyer Andrei Sabinin, who collaborates with the human rights organization “Zona Prava,” reported this to Mediazona. According to investigators, in September 2015, a conflict occurred near a restaurant in the Dzerzhinsky district of Volgograd.

In Crimea, a criminal case was opened under parts 1, 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code (organizing the activities of a terrorist organization and participating in it) after an inspection by the FSB and the prosecutor’s office. According to the prosecutor's office website, four people were detained in this case. According to investigators, one of the detainees was a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami, banned in Russia, and organized a cell of the organization in Yalta and Alushta.

In Crimea, as a result of searches that began this morning in the houses of Crimean Tatars, eight people were detained, Krym.Realii reports , citing Abdureshit Dzhepparov, coordinator of the Crimean Contact Group for Human Rights. “In the Bakhchisaray district, after four searches, there are three detainees. Some were taken to Bakhchisarai, one of them was already released, two more were taken to Sevastopol, to the Sevastopol FSB.

After the death of a prisoner in Kopeisk IK-1, investigators opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, negligently resulting in the death of the victim). According to the preliminary version of the investigation, the cause of death of the convict was a traumatic brain injury. Investigators of the Chelyabinsk region are establishing the circle of people involved in his death.

The office of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow accepted the administrative claim of oppositionist Alexei Navalny against President Vladimir Putin, FBK director Roman Rubanov tweets . @FastSlon Office. It took a long time to agree with the chairman of the court whether to accept it or not.

The head of Moscow pretrial detention center No. 4, Alexey Khorev, wrote a resignation letter, writes , citing two knowledgeable sources. Novaya Gazeta According to the newspaper, Khorev was removed from office. One of the sources said that an inspection would be carried out against the head of the pre-trial detention center, during which “he was asked” to write a report of his own free will. “This information is still unofficial, but I treat it with confidence.

In Moscow, lawyer Pyotr Chikhun, who became the representative of the DPR at the International Criminal Court at the UN, was detained on suspicion of involvement in fraud with an attempt to seize a building in the city center, writes .

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny filed an administrative lawsuit against President Vladimir Putin. Navalny announced this on his website. The lawsuit was sent to the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow. According to the oppositionist, the president violated the federal law “On Combating Corruption.” According to Navalny, the head of state signed an order to allocate $1.75 billion from the National Welfare Fund to SIBUR, whose shares are owned by Kirill Shamalov, Putin’s son-in-law.

The court found agronomist Mikhail Golubev guilty of murdering a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Tver Region, a confidant of the president, Nikolai Popov, who was also the chairman of the Mir collective farm, the Investigative Committee reports . The agronomist was sentenced to nine years in a maximum security colony, and the court also decided to collect 800 thousand rubles from him as compensation for moral damage.

PARNAS Chairman Mikhail Kasyanov was pelted with eggs by NOD activists in Vladimir when the politician entered the building where a meeting with journalists was planned, TASS reports . Activists threw eggs at the politician's back as he got out of the car. According to the agency, NOD activists, before the press conference, unloaded mountains of snow at the entrance to the building and shouted slogans calling for people to leave Russia.

The Investigative Committee is investigating criminal cases of multimillion-dollar thefts in federal departments and in the state-owned Russian Railways company, TASS reports .