The Russian Foreign Ministry explained that the head of the US Broadcasting Board of Governors, Jeff Shell, was denied entry into Russia because he was on a “stop list” that Russia is expanding in response to sanctions against Russian citizens. A message about this is posted on the department’s website.

Unknown persons wounded a police officer in a shootout near the Botkin Hospital in Moscow, told RIA Novosti. a law enforcement source “A policeman was wounded by unknown assailants in a shootout near the capital’s Botkin Hospital,” the agency’s interlocutor said, without specifying the details of the incident.

Arrested in the case of extorting money from the owner of the Moscow restaurant Elements, Andrei Kochuykov (Italian) was transferred to a prison hospital after cutting his wrists in the Butyrka pre-trial detention center, writes Rosbalt, citing a source in law enforcement agencies. According to the agency's source, in Butyrka Italianets was transferred from one cell to another, after which he cut his wrists. Now Kochuykov is in the prison hospital.

The builders of the Zenit Arena in St. Petersburg, who protested against non-payment of wages, after negotiations with a representative of the prosecutor's office, stopped the rally and went to their trailers, reports a Fontanka correspondent. It is not specified what the workers and the prosecutor talked about. According to Fontanka, the head of the construction committee Sergei Morozov and vice-governor Igor Albin arrived at the construction site.

Workers of subcontractors building a stadium on Krestovsky Island are protesting against delayed wage payments. On Wednesday evening, they blocked the entrances and exits to the construction site, as well as the car of the management of the general contractor Inzhtransstroy-SPb, reports . Fontanka General Director of Inzhtransstroy-SPb Vitaly Lazutkin confirmed the fact of the protests to the publication. According to him, the police have already arrived at the stadium.

The deputy head of logistics at the Vologda Institute of Law and Economics of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) was detained on suspicion of receiving a large bribe (Part 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee for the Vologda Region.

The Novo-Savinovsky District Court of Kazan began considering the claim of disabled person Lidiya Kiseleva, who was excluded from the waiting list for housing subsidy. The woman demands that this decision be declared illegal, Bulat Mukhamedzhanov, head of the human rights group Accent, told Mediazona. Lidiya Kiseleva has been disabled in the third group since birth.

The Central Administrative District Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow has transferred the investigation materials regarding former head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin to the Investigative Committee. This was reported by the Rambler news service agency, citing the response of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to a request from the director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Roman Rubanov.

The Dagestan prosecutor's office approved an indictment in a criminal case against the imam of the Salafi mosque in Khasavyurt Magomednabi Magomedov, accused of publicly justifying terrorism and inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code and Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code). This is reported on the department's website. Magomedov's case will be heard in the North Caucasus District Military Court.

The former chairman of the Donetsk City Court, who was one of the three judges who considered the case of Ukrainian serviceman Nadezhda Savchenko, was transferred to Rostov-on-Don, according to a presidential decree published on the official portal of legal information. “Appoint Ali Salakhudinovich Khaibulaev as chairman of the Kirovsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don,” the document says . Ali Khaibulaev headed the Donetsk City Court of the Rostov Region.

Ayub Tuntuyev, a former security officer of the first president of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov, who was convicted of a terrorist attack, was charged in a new criminal case, the human rights organization Legal Initiative, which provides legal assistance to Tuntuyev, told Mediazona. Charges were brought under Part 2 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code (participation in a gang) and Article 317 of the Criminal Code (attack on the life of a law enforcement officer).

The European Court of Human Rights ordered the Russian authorities to pay the relatives of two people abducted in Makhachkala in 2012 120 thousand euros in compensation and another three thousand euros to cover costs. This was reported by the online publication “Caucasian Knot”. The applicants in the case were the father of Makhachkala resident Sirazhudin Aliyev, Nizamudin Aliyev, and the wife of Makhachkala resident Gazimagomed Abdulaev, Madina Gadzhieva.

Three teenagers from the village of Rostovka defrauded a resident of Tomsk of more than 93 thousand rubles through a friend’s account on a social network. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Omsk region. The police reported that district police officer Alexander Cheremnykh, working with the population of Rostovka, noticed that a 16-year-old teenager was spending large sums of money.

The Security Service of Ukraine opened a criminal case on the creation of a terrorist group against Russian citizen Alexei Sedikov, detained in the Donetsk region. This was reported by the online publication “Ukrainskaya Pravda” with reference to SBU press secretary Elena Gitlyanskaya. According to her, a case has been opened against Sedikov under Part 1 of Article 258.3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (creation of a terrorist group, management of it and assistance in its activities).

The investigation transferred to the Moscow District Military Court a criminal case against illegal migrants from Uzbekistan, who are accused of murdering spouses from Khimki. According to the prosecution, the killers committed the crime in order to prove their loyalty to the leaders of the terrorist organization, TASS reports with reference to Valeria Pavlova, senior assistant to the head of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Tver Region.