The Memorial human rights center recognized as political prisoners the four people who were the first to be arrested in Crimea on charges of participation in the Hizb ut-Tahrir movement, recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia and banned.

Russian officials mentioned in the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report on the tampering of doping samples of Russian athletes will be temporarily suspended from their posts, said in a statement published on the Kremlin website. Russian President Vladimir Putin “The officials named in the Commission’s report as direct perpetrators will be temporarily suspended from their positions until the investigation is fully completed.

The Elbrus District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria sentenced the deputy chief of the district police department, accused of beating a minor detainee, to a suspended sentence. This was reported on the website of the republic's prosecutor's office.

Investigators of the Investigative Committee for the Novosibirsk region are investigating a criminal case of theft of budget funds during the cleaning of city cemeteries, according to the website of the regional department. According to investigators, from April 25, 2008 to November 25, 2011, the Novosibirsk municipal institution “Specialized service for funeral matters “Ritual Services”” entered into a contract for cleaning cemeteries with various organizations.

A man was detained in Moscow for stealing an Adidas tracksuit by threatening store employees with a screwdriver, the reports , citing a source in law enforcement. Moscow agency According to the source, the police received a message that an unknown man entered the Adidas store on Mira Avenue and put a Porsche tracksuit worth about 10 thousand rubles into his bag. Near the frames, as he was leaving, the man was stopped by store employees.

In Komi, the mayor of Syktyvkar, Roman Zenishchev, was sentenced to ten years in a maximum security colony, accused of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (clause “d” of part 4 of article 290 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the regional investigative department of the Investigative Committee.

The criminal case against the former senator from the Belgorod region and general director of Stroyinvestingzhiniring SU-848 LLC, Sergei Popelnyukhov, accused of fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), was sent to the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow for consideration on the merits. This was reported in a press release from the Prosecutor General's Office.

In Moscow, a suspect was detained who shot several times at a policeman with a homemade weapon while checking documents on Leningradsky Prospekt near the Botkin Hospital, according to the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow. “On the evening of July 17, police officers in the Northern District of the capital based on similar signs stopped a young man for check.

FSB officers participated in replacing jars of urine with traces of doping from Russian athletes with “clean” specimens in 2014 during the Olympic Games in Sochi, according to a report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). According to the document, “clean” samples were brought to Sochi from Moscow.

In the Stavropol Territory, a criminal case of fraud was opened against a policeman who promised an acquaintance to resolve an issue with an upcoming criminal case, according to the website of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the region.

Yaroslavl police detained a 52-year-old man who escaped from a city hospital with a connected device for measuring heart biorhythms and blood pressure, and then sold it to an unknown person, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Yaroslavl region. The damage was estimated at 330 thousand rubles. The police opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code (grand theft). The detainee was taken into custody.

In the Moscow region, after the murder of a businessman, a criminal case was opened under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code (murder) and under Article 222 of the Criminal Code (illegal trafficking in weapons). This was reported on the website of the regional investigative department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, on July 18 at about 8 a.m.

In the Novgorod region, the Borovichi district court dropped the criminal case against a 17-year-old supporter of the Islamic State banned in Russia, according to the website of the regional prosecutor's office.

The Vagaisky District Court of the Tyumen Region sentenced three local residents to real terms of imprisonment for the murder of a moose cow and two moose calves; three more poachers were released from punishment due to an amnesty. This was reported on the website of the Tyumen region prosecutor's office.

The prosecutor's office approved an indictment in a criminal case against four former employees of the patrol service of the Department of Internal Affairs in the city of Ukhta, accused of exceeding official powers with the use of violence and special means (points “a”, “b” of part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code). The case was sent to the Ukhta City Court.