On May 21, a Russian was arrested in Rome on suspicion of espionage, reports The Local . He was detained along with a senior official from the Portuguese state security and intelligence service SIS. The name of the arrested Russian has not been released, but according to Euronews he is an intelligence officer, like his alleged Portuguese accomplice. The last name is Frederico Gil Carvalaio. As reports , the Portuguese police have been monitoring him for the past two years.

Unknown people robbed an apartment rented by the wife of activist Ildar Dadin, sentenced to three years for participating in rallies, Anastasia Zotova. The robbers wrote the word “scum” on the mirror in the apartment.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a case was brought to court against a 36-year-old local resident who threw a kitten into the oven and tried to kill his stepson, who rushed to save the animal, according to a press release from the region’s investigative department. According to investigators, in February 2016, a drunk 36-year-old resident of the village of Vanavara, Evenki District, came to his ex-wife’s house, where a conflict arose between them.

Investigators of the Cherdyn Interdistrict Investigation Department in the Perm Territory have completed the investigation of a criminal case against an employee of IK-22, accused of systematically beating his wife. This was reported on the department's website on Tuesday. The investigation established that from mid-December 2015 to February 2, 2016, an employee of IK-22 of the GUFSIN in the Perm Territory, while drunk, systematically beat his wife.

In the Perm region, a 37-year-old woman hanged her 10-year-old daughter, and then committed the crime herself [Roskomnadzor] due to prolonged depression amid lack of money. A week before, the woman asked her relatives to take her child away from her, writes the regional publication VKurse.ru. According to the portal, for the last six months the woman had been in prolonged depression due to her dismissal.

The state prosecutor asked to sentence the two accused of murdering the director of the St. Petersburg Coca-Cola plant Dmitry Soshnev to life imprisonment and a long term, reports with reference to the press service of the St. Petersburg City Court. Interfax “At the debate on Tuesday, the prosecutor asked to sentence Vyacheslav Finogenov to life imprisonment, and Denis Chkhitauri to 21 years in prison.

In the Kemerovo region, a court found the priest of the Association of Christian Eucharistic Communities and an open homosexual, Alexander Khmelev, guilty of extremism and sentenced him to a fine of 1,000 rubles, Khmelev himself told Mediazona. The priest was found guilty under Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code (propaganda or public display of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols) and was fined 1,000 rubles. In addition, the seized laptop was never returned to him.

The North Caucasus District Military Court sentenced student from Stavropol Mavlud Kerimov to six years in prison, who was accused of trying to join the Islamic State banned in Russia, TASS reports . According to the prosecution, Kerimov was actively interested in events in Syria, and on July 4, 2014, he flew to Istanbul and met there with a man whom he had previously met on the Internet when he was looking for an opportunity to join an illegal armed group.

Tatarstan prosecutor Ildus Nafikov, after a complaint from the defense of the writer Aidar Khalim, accused of extremism, returned the case to the regional investigative department, lawyer Raushaniya Kamalova told Mediazona. The criminal case against the Tatar playwright Aidar Halim was returned to the first department for the investigation of especially important cases of the investigative department for Tatarstan.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow extended the arrest of Moscow State University student Alexandra Ivanova (Varvara Karaulova), accused of trying to join the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia, the Moscow agency reports , citing the court’s press service. “The court granted the investigation’s request to extend A. Ivanova’s arrest until July 27,” the court said.

Illustrations: Maria Tolstova On May 13, Rosobrnadzor deprived the Moscow Technological Institute. At the request of MTI, Mediazon tells what violations they found at the university and what violations Rosobrnadzor himself committed. Affiliate material. Read more about him. The Moscow Technological Institute has existed since 1999. The university was founded with the support of UNESCO and until 2010 was called the World Technological University.

Tobolsk investigators opened a criminal case for negligence against unidentified officials of the fire service and the Tobolsk police department for ignoring calls from a local resident who reported the impending [Roskomnadzor]. This is stated in the press release of the investigative department for the Tyumen region.

In Ingushetia, a police officer was part of a group associated with the Islamic State, banned in Russia, whose participants were detained on May 21, TASS reports , citing law enforcement agencies in the region. “The bandit group detained at the end of last week included a 44-year-old active law enforcement officer,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

In Engels, Saratov region, a court sentenced 18-year-old Andrei Nechaev and 20-year-old Alexander Bukrin, who were accused of setting fire to a Halal store and attack motivated by national hatred, the regional department of the Investigative Committee reports . According to investigators, on November 24, 2014, Bukrin stabbed a citizen of Uzbekistan twice in the back on Profsoyuz Street in Engels.

Crimean Tatars in the mosque. Photo: Alexander Zemlyanichenko / TASS / AP A week later, the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don will begin consideration of the case against four Crimean Muslims, which, according to investigators, were in the Islamic Party of the Hizb Ut-Tahrir. The organization legally operated in Ukraine, in Russia it is prohibited as terrorist. In total, in the case of the alleged Crimean cell “Hizb Ut-Tahrir”, 14 people have been arrested by today.