The police are dispersing the defenders of the Dubki Park - members of the unit, dressed in helmets and armed with batons, have already made the first arrests. As protest participant Galina Makarova told Dozhd, about 60 protesters are trying to disperse a squad of police officers who are demanding to know the reason why the activists are in the park. Road traffic in the park area is blocked.

Publicists Rizvan Ibragimov and Abubakar Didiev “apologized to the scientific community and clergy of Chechnya,” said the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov on his Instagram. Earlier, a source of the Caucasian Knot said that local security forces took Ibragimov and Didiev from their homes on April 1.

Investigators have completed a criminal investigation into a 40-year-old man from Kursk, who tore out the eyes of his partner and tried to kill his mother, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, on the night of July 29 last year, a man, while in a state of drug intoxication, decided to kill his 45-year-old partner out of jealousy.

The Tonshaevsky District Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region sentenced the 35-year-old head of correctional colony No. 8, Mikhail Barantsev, who allowed one of the convicts to live in a rented apartment for a bribe, to eight years and nine months of strict regime and a fine of 27.9 million rubles.

In the Irkutsk region, a criminal case was opened against two local residents who, in the Romashka gardening garden, beat and raped a previously convicted man for several days, according to the website of the region’s investigative department. According to investigators, on March 30, 2016, two young people met a 25-year-old man with a previous conviction.

A court in Kostroma sentenced a local resident to two years in prison for performing in the basement of an apartment building with a song whose lyrics contained “calls for violent action,” according to the website of the regional prosecutor’s office.

Lithuanian citizen Arstidas Tamošaitis, detained in Moscow on charges of espionage, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. According to Interfax, Lithuanian Ambassador to Moscow Remigijus Motuzas confirmed this information to the BNS agency. According to him, the trial took place on March 17. The ambassador noted that Tamosaitis' lawyer intends to appeal the verdict. "The judge only read out the first name, last name, place of residence, and that he was sentenced to 12 years.

The director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature, Natalya Sharina, who is under house arrest, was charged with a new charge, TASS reports , citing her lawyer Ivan Pavlov. “Sharina has been charged under Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,” Pavlov said. She was charged with embezzlement as part of a new criminal case. According to the lawyer, two criminal cases will be combined into one proceeding.

Photo: President Vladimir Putin subordinated the Federal Service for Drug Control and the Federal Migration Service to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to Interfax, he announced this at a meeting with the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev, the head of the Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Ivanov, the commander of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Viktor Zolotov and the deputy head of the FMS Ekaterina Egorova.

Commander-in-Chief of the Internal Troops Viktor Zolotov. Photo: Victor Pogontsev / Interpress / TASS President Vladimir Putin announced the creation of the National Guard on the basis of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Interfax reports .

Police officers conducted a series of searches in martial arts clubs in Moscow, where active fans of football clubs train, the Moscow agency reports , citing the chairman of the Association of Sports Fans, Vsevolod Alekseev. “Today, the department for combating extremism, with the assistance of riot police, conducted searches in a number of Moscow martial arts clubs,” Alekseev said, without specifying which clubs were searched and what was the reason for the investigative actions.

In Krasnodar, a court sentenced LGBT activist Nina Solovyova to ten days of administrative arrest for displaying Nazi symbols. This was reported by OVD-info with reference to a friend of the activist, Yulia Usach.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan found guilty eight members of the Stroymaterialovskie group, who were accused of murder, robbery and illegal weapons trafficking, according to the website of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs, Depending on the role of each, the group members were sentenced to imprisonment in a maximum security colony: Damir Gabdrakhmanov - to 20 years, Ilnar Kadymov and Dmitry Gogol - to 17, Maxim Savosin - to 15, Artem Surkov and Sergei Borovkov - to 13, Rinat Usmanov -

In the Arkhangelsk region, a 24-year-old local resident was detained for killing his friend and hiding her body in a village museum, reports the regional investigative department. According to investigators, on April 4, 2016, in an abandoned museum in the village of Kulikovskaya, Shenkursky district, the body of a 30-year-old local resident was found with stab wounds to the neck. The police detained a 24-year-old acquaintance of the deceased, who wrote a confession.

The Prosecutor General's Office will check media reports about Russian citizens who have companies and accounts in offshore companies, TASS reports , citing the representative of the prosecutor's office, Alexander Kurenny. “The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation will check information published in domestic and foreign media about a number of Russian individuals and legal entities allegedly owning offshore companies and accounts,” Kurennoy said.