Participants of the Internet Development Institute (IDI) proposed regulating media resources that are not registered as mass media. This was reported by the Rambler news service agency with reference to Matvey Alekseev, director of external communications at Rambler&Co.

On the afternoon of May 10, a burial of numerous human remains was discovered near the cemetery in the village of Ozerny, Vysokogorsk region of Tatarstan. A pre-investigation check has been launched into this fact, according to the website of the Investigative Committee for Tatarstan. According to the Investigative Committee, the forester noticed an area twenty meters from the cemetery fence that had been dug up by animals. There a man discovered a human bone.

The St. Petersburg City Court sentenced former policeman Sergei Shigarev to 14 years in a maximum security colony, finding him guilty of murder, banditry and robbery (Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code, Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code, paragraphs “a, b” of Part 3 of Article 162 of the Criminal Code ). This was reported on the website of the Leningrad Region Prosecutor's Office.

In St. Petersburg, a criminal case has been opened for illegal entrepreneurship against the Nordenergo company, which is associated with the Concord holding company of restaurateur Evgeny Prigozhin (Part 1 of Article 171 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the online publication Fontanka with reference to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

The Kyiv prosecutor's office opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 171 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (obstruction of the legitimate professional activities of journalists) after the publication of personal data of journalists who received accreditation from representatives of the self-proclaimed DPR in eastern Ukraine. As reported on the website of the city prosecutor's office, the pre-trial investigation will be handled by the main department of the national police in Kiev.

RBC General Director Nikolai Molibog commented on reports of the initiation of a criminal case for fraud on an especially large scale in the holding company (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). Molibog on his Facebook page described transactions with the company CJSC Byte-Telecom, 75% of the shares of which belonged to the RBC holding. According to the company's former shareholder Alexander Panov, he and another shareholder Yaroslav Karetsky were deprived of their shares.

The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized Ukrainian citizen Sergei Litvinov, who was convicted in Russia in April of this year, as a political prisoner. “Litvinov, in our opinion, became a hostage of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and was used for propaganda purposes.

The Sortavala City Court arrested a resident of Valaam Island, Dmitry Sinitsa, accused of setting fire to the Winter Hotel, one of two apartment buildings on the island (Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code). Journalist Ilya Vasyunin reported this to Mediazona. The fire in the Winter Hotel occurred on the morning of May 1, 2016, after a feast in Sinitsa’s apartment. He and his friend Denis Nazin, who works as a welder, were detained by the police. Nazin was later released.

Meduza correspondent Ilya Azar, who was detained in Grozny, was released from the police, Radio Liberty journalist Anton Naumlyuk told Mediazona. Azar was detained at about 2 p.m. on the outskirts of Grozny, when he went to photograph the houses of relatives of the militants who carried out a terrorist attack at a checkpoint on May 9 that had burned down the night before.

A forensic psychological and psychiatric examination declared a 44-year-old resident of Novosibirsk, who shot at an Interior Ministry investigator in October last year, insane. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee for the Novosibirsk Region.

Meduza special correspondent Ilya Azar was detained in Grozny. As reports , the journalist was detained on the outskirts of the Chechen capital in the village of Kirova today around 13:30-14:00. Meduza Radio Liberty correspondent Anton Naumlyuk managed to contact a Meduza journalist by phone. He said that security forces had arrived in the village, but did not specify which department they belonged to. The reason for the arrest was given as identification.

In Makhachkala, on Pervaya Spring Street, unknown persons kidnapped Magomed Magomedov, the person responsible for public relations and media of the Tangim mosque, writes . Chernovik According to eyewitnesses, Magomedov, who was driving home in his car, was stopped by traffic police officers. The man got out of the car, after which unknown men ran up to him from a blue minibus and a Niva car without license plates.

The Moscow Regional Court has convicted two truck drivers—Russian and Polish citizens—in the case of smuggling poppy straw into Russia, reports . the Moscow agency Pole Pawel Cywiński was sentenced to 16 years in a maximum security colony; Russian Konstantin Belov - to seven years in prison. According to investigators, the men were members of an organized crime group involved in smuggling poppy straw from Poland to Russia.

The Prosecutor General's Office sent requests to state-owned companies Aeroflot and Rosneft to provide information about “any illegal actions committed by Alexei Navalny,” RBC reports , citing the department’s appeal. The request is dated April 28, 2016 and signed by Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman.

The Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale) at the request of former Byte-Telecom shareholder Alexander Panov, RNS reports with reference to a copy of the resolution to initiate a criminal case and a notice in the case. Byte-Telecom operated the data center; this company was under the control of the RBC holding.