The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Sverdlovsk Region explained the need to place blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, who caught Pokemon in the Church on the Blood in Yekaterinburg, with “extremist” videos, living in a rented apartment and signs of drug use, TASS reports .

The Ministry of Justice has decided to include the non-profit sociological organization “Yuri Levada Analytical Center” in the register of NPOs performing the functions of a foreign agent. “The fact that the organization complies with the characteristics of a non-profit organization performing the functions of a foreign agent was established during an unscheduled documentary check carried out by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Justice of Russia in Moscow,” the report notes.

In St. Petersburg, the magistrate of court district No. 181 fined Sergei Zhuravlev, Archbishop of the Reformed Orthodox Church of Christ the Savior (Archoscopy of Kiev), five thousand rubles for missionary activity under an article from the “Yarovaya package,” Fontanka reports .

In the Rostov region, local resident Roman Columbus was sentenced to 13.5 years in a maximum security colony for trying to blow up an official in his office. This was reported on the website of the regional prosecutor's office. Columbus was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 223 of the Criminal Code (illegal manufacture of explosive devices) and Part 3 of Article 30, paragraph “e” of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code (attempted murder committed in a generally dangerous manner).

In Chechnya, journalist Zhalaudi Geriev, who collaborated with the publication Caucasian Knot, was sentenced to three years in prison. The correspondent was found guilty of illegal possession of drugs, the Caucasian Knot writes , citing his lawyer. According to the defense lawyer, Zhalaudi Geriev was detained on April 16, 2016, and later a criminal case was opened against him under Part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code (large-scale drug trafficking).

Investigators of the Vladimir region opened a criminal case regarding the use of torture against the convicted Ayub Tuntuev by employees of IK-6. The human rights organization “Legal Initiative” reported this to Mediazona. The organization notes that a criminal case was not initiated for a long time, and the examination of bodily injuries was carried out six months later; the second was held a year later.

The Moscow City Court commuted the sentence of Kirill Filatov, an activist of the neo-Nazi organization Restrukt, sentenced to six years in prison, by one year, the Moscow agency reports , citing his lawyer Alexei Mikhalchik. “The court reduced Filatov’s sentence, thereby partially satisfying our appeal. This is where the so-called “excess of the performer” takes place. Accomplices are liable for a common crime within the limits of what they personally committed or intended.

A resident of Sevastopol will be tried for a crime that took place 17 years ago, when, according to investigators, he blew up the car of a Smolensk businessman with a grenade, the Investigative Committee said in a statement . According to Smolensk investigators, in February 1999, in the city of Yartsevo, a man caused a scene with an imaginary car breakdown and stopped a car in which a local businessman and his wife were traveling.

Oleg Shishov and Alexander Dutov, participants in the conflict in a Roma village, were released by investigators on their own recognizance, Znak.com writes , citing a source. According to the publication, Oleg Shishov will be released home after a polygraph test, and his friend Alexander Dutov, accompanied by police, will go to the village of Gorny Shchit, where a shirt with traces of blood will be confiscated from him.

The Supreme Court of Great Britain sentenced in absentia Interior Ministry investigator Pavel Karpov from the “Magnitsky list” to three months in prison for refusing to testify in court in a case of debt for libel, Interfax reports with reference to the Justice for Sergei Magnitsky Program. The court made a decision against the 39-year-old investigator because of his refusal to appear at the hearing to provide information on the case. Previously, Karpov had to pay costs in the defamation case.

In Dagestan, the deputy head of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the republic, Gimbat Lakhiyalov, was detained, reports , citing an informed source. Chernovik As the publication writes, citing its interlocutor, the detention of Lakhiyalov and the searches and detention of the head of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Khasavyurt, Rasul Saduev, may be connected.

In Dagestan, the head of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Khasavyurt was detained, TASS reports, citing a source. The police building is being searched and the area is cordoned off. Saduev was detained by FSB officers as part of a criminal investigation. It is not yet known what specific case he was detained on.

In Saratov, a 24-year-old local resident is accused of beating to death his grandfather, who did not leave him dinner. This was reported on the website of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Saratov region. According to investigators, on August 31, 2016, a drunk 24-year-old young man came home where he lived with his 77-year-old grandfather.

Renova of Viktor Vekselberg confirms the fact of searches at its Moscow headquarters, Andrei Shtorkh, a representative of the group of companies, told Interfax. He noted that “investigative actions” are being carried out both at the offices of Renova and at its member energy company T Plus. The searches are related to the latter’s work in Komi.

Investigators came with searches to the Moscow office of Viktor Vekselberg’s Renova group of companies on Malaya Ordynka, reports . Interfax As an informed source in law enforcement agencies told the agency, “special forces” will take part in the “operational and investigative actions.” There has been no official confirmation of this data yet.