Ukrainian nationalist Stanislav Klykh, who is now on trial in Grozny on charges of insulting a prosecutor (Article 297 of the Criminal Code), during the hearing refused the services of lawyer Marina Dubrovina, reports the Caucasian Knot . The defense lawyer believes that Klykh made such a statement because of his mental disorder.

The police detained a 17-year-old resident of the Khabarovsk Territory, who flew to Moscow for free and lived in a hotel for several days, pretending to be a journalist. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A representative of the agency involved in purchasing air tickets contacted the duty station of the Yasenevo district.

Editor-in-Chief of Agentura.Ru Andrey Soldatov reported problems with the publication of the book “Battle for Runet” on his Facebook. The book by journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, “The Battle for the Runet: How the Government Manipulates Information and Monitors Each of Us,” was supposed to be published in October. Last year it was published in English. The authors talk about how Russian intelligence services control information on the Internet and collect data on citizens.

The former head of the economic service of the FSB, Yuri Yakovlev, was appointed deputy general director of Rosatom for state policy in the field of safety in the use of atomic energy for defense purposes, according to the company’s website. Kommersant reported in early August that Yakovlev, who was dismissed from his position in the FSB in June, will first be appointed an adviser to the general director of the state company, and then a deputy .

The Ministry of Finance plans to repay ahead of schedule almost 800 billion rubles out of 1 trillion rubles in loans taken by defense enterprises to fulfill the state order for the rearmament of the Russian army, RBC reports , citing the head of the ministry Anton Siluanov. At a meeting of the State Duma Budget Committee, the minister said that because of this, the volume of closed expenditure items has increased: these funds are intended for the needs of the Ministry of Defense.

The Moscow District Arbitration Court rejected the complaint of oppositionist Alexei Navalny and Anti-Corruption Foundation lawyer Ivan Zhdanov against system operators Platon and Rosavtodor, Zhdanov reports on his Facebook page. Thus, the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court, which in April refused to satisfy the complaint and recognize the concession agreement for Plato as void, stood.

An authoritative businessman, Karen Mkhitaryan, who was accompanied by riot police, tried to break into the editorial office of the Rosbalt agency, Rosbalt itself reports . The man came to the editorial office together with two soldiers from one of the special forces; they had riot police stripes on their uniforms.

In the Vologda region, 12 employees of the regional department of the Federal Drug Control Service were convicted, including the former deputy head of the department, head of the Cherepovets interdistrict department Alexey Sovetov, reports . the Investigative Committee The court sentenced Sovetov to 20 years in a maximum security colony and a fine of four million rubles. He was found guilty of 91 counts in the case.

In Omsk, the production of the play “Jesus Christ Superstar” by the St. Petersburg Rock Opera Theater was canceled after Orthodox activists appealed to local authorities. this . reports Radio Baltika The decision to cancel the production was made by the director of the Omsk State Musical Theater. “As soon as he found out that this event was planned, he immediately came out categorically against it,” the publication quotes the theater as saying.

The European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaints of 12 Russian citizens to the country's authorities regarding the detentions on February 24, 2014 after the announcement of the verdict in the case of the riots on Bolotnaya Square in May 2012, according to the court's website. The ECHR asked the Russian government questions about this case.

The Gagarinsky Court of Moscow sentenced a Gelandewagen race participant, the son of Lukoil vice-president Ruslan Shamsuarov, to forced labor, reports . Interfax Shamsuarov and Viktor Uskov were found guilty of insulting a government official (Article 319 of the Criminal Code); of the charge of threatening to use violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) They were acquitted . The court sentenced Shamsuarov and Uskov to 300 hours of compulsory labor.

The Investigative Committee sent to court the case of the head of the security department and a former prisoner of pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Ulyanovsk, where four detainees died in a fire. This is reported on the website of the IC management for the region. According to investigators, on August 29 last year, the 38-year-old head of the economic support department of the pre-trial detention center instructed two arrested men to repair the cell.

In the city of Troitsk, Chelyabinsk region, after extinguishing a fire, the body of a one-year-old boy was found in one of the houses, reports . the Investigative Committee According to preliminary data, the child's father quarreled with his wife, wounded her with a knife and kicked her out of the house. After that, he set fire to the house in which his son was, and he committed suicide in the courtyard of a neighboring plot.

The Memorial human rights center recognized convicted Chechen journalist Zhalaudi Geriev, who collaborated with the Caucasian Knot publication, as a political prisoner, according to the organization’s website. In September, the Shali City Court of Chechnya sentenced Geriev to three years in prison for illegal possession of drugs on a large scale (Part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code). The prosecution alleged that the journalist collected and stored wild hemp.

Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, convicted in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, was required to testify against businessman Boris Berezovsky, Khadzhikurabanov’s lawyer Andrei Vikanov told Mediazona. According to his client, some “employees” about a month ago, in a conversation with the convict, demanded that Berezovsky be named the mastermind of Politkovskaya’s murder. The unknown persons did not introduce themselves or show any identification.