The Kiev District Court of Simferopol arrested for two months two alleged supporters of the terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, recognized in Russia, who were detained the day before. As reports with reference to the press service of the Crimean prosecutor's office, Arsen Dzhepparov and Refat Alimov are charged with Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of a terrorist organization).

Investigators sent a criminal case to court against Andrey Artemyev, detective of the 26th police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who shot a man in his office. “From the materials of the criminal case it follows that on November 11, 2015, Artemyev, while intoxicated, in his office, on the basis of personal hostility, shot a PM pistol in the head of a 37-year-old local resident, who died at the scene,” - says the message from the Investigative Committee.

A working group under the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) is discussing the possibility of regulating encrypted Internet traffic in Russia. This was reported by the Vedomosti newspaper with reference to the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, who heads this group. Zharov called the issue of regulating encrypted traffic urgent, since the share of such traffic is growing every year.

Journalist of the online publication “Krym.Realii” (regional branch of the Ukrainian service “Radio Liberty”) Nikolai Semena, against whom a criminal case was opened for calls for separatism (Part 2 of Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code), was given a written undertaking not to leave. This was reported by the Kryminform agency with reference to the press service of the Crimean prosecutor's office.

The bass guitarist of the Lyube group, Pavel Usanov, who was hospitalized after being beaten with a traumatic brain injury, died in the hospital, a representative of the press service of the production center of Igor Matvienko told RIA Novosti. Usanov was beaten by unknown assailants in a restaurant in Dmitrov near Moscow on April 2. After this, he was hospitalized with an open head injury. At the Sklifosovsky Institute, the musician underwent surgery to remove the hematoma.

In Volgograd, investigators opened a criminal case into the murder of a citizen of Tajikistan on his 22nd birthday, who was allegedly buried alive by his friends. As reported on the Investigative Committee website, a local resident contacted the Volgograd law enforcement agencies and said that on April 12, 2016, he witnessed a murder. According to the man, that day he and his friends celebrated the birthday of a 22-year-old citizen of Tajikistan at the home of one of them.

Investigators have completed the investigation of the case against Ordzhonikidzevsky police officer in the city of Magnitogorsk Pavel Krutskikh, who did not respond to a call about a domestic dispute, during which a local resident was killed. According to investigators , on the morning of June 24 last year, the duty station of the Magnitogorsk Ministry of Internal Affairs received a call from residents of one of the houses on Truda Street, who asked to help her neighbor.

The Investigative Committee for the Voronezh Region began an investigation after an eight-year-old boy was admitted to the hospital with a gunshot wound to his back. The boy was shot by his father, according to the department's website. According to investigators, on April 18, in the Bobrovsky district of the Voronezh region, a drunk 38-year-old man quarreled with his 39-year-old wife. Then, trying to scare his wife, he took a traumatic pistol from the safe.

Investigators have completed the investigation of the case against a 32-year-old prisoner who escaped from a colony and killed a casual acquaintance who drank with him in an Izhevsk bar. According to investigators , the man, who was repeatedly convicted, served his sentence in a penal colony. Having escaped from prison, he came to Izhevsk and met a 27-year-old man. Together they went to a local bar for a drink.

A security guard at the Pyaterochka grocery store in the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg hit an elderly woman, suspecting her of stealing food. The pensioner was taken to the hospital, the security guard was taken to the police department, TASS reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. An agency source at X5 Retail, which owns Pyaterochka, said that the security guard does not work at this store, but is an employee of a security agency.

Investigators have charged the general director of the Arkhzhilkomservice company, which services apartment buildings in Arkhangelsk, with the death of a man who froze to death due to lack of heating.

Ukrainian serviceman Nadezhda Savchenko, sentenced in Russia to 22 years, agreed to end her dry hunger strike at the request of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. This was reported on Poroshenko’s Twitter. “Together with Nadezhda Savchenko’s mother Maria Ivanovna and sister Vera, I asked Nadya to stop the hunger strike. Thank you for agreeing,” the President of Ukraine tweeted. In a conversation with Savchenko, Poroshenko gave her words of support.

In St. Petersburg, an unknown person tried to steal a Lada Priora car, which is registered with the E Center, writes Fontanka.ru. The incident occurred at about five o'clock in the morning on April 18 on Belysheva Street, where the car was parked. The publication clarifies that the car was left at his house by one of the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Surveillance cameras filmed a white BMW X5 driving up to the Lada.

The European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaint of nationalist Alexander Potkin (Belov) about long-term detention, lawyer Irina Khrunova told Mediazona. She noted that the complaint will be considered sooner than in other cases. This is explained by the fact that the ECHR has developed a practice over several years regarding similar complaints from Russia.

At the St. Petersburg Pulkovo airport, the vocalist of the Austrian death metal band Belphegor, Helmut Leiner, kicked the leader of the People's Cathedral movement, Anatoly Artyukh, and assistant to the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Vitaly Milonov, in the thigh. This was reported by the online publication Fontanka.