Employees of Center “E” and the FSB detained a suspect in the arson of a chapel under construction in Chelyabinsk on Salavat Yulaev Street, reports. Ura.Ru According to the publication, the arson occurred at the end of November 2015. After the arson, the 36-year-old man left drawings “characteristic of Russian nationalists” and “anti-Semitic inscriptions” on the fence near the chapel. Now he is under recognizance not to leave the place.

The Moscow Magistrate's Court returned to the prosecutor's office the case of the founder of the Smotra.ru community, Erik Kituashvili (Davidych), accused of slandering police officers, his lawyer Sergei Zhorin told Mediazona. According to Zhorin, the court decided to return the case materials on charges of slander to the investigation “on its own initiative.” A criminal case against Kituashvili for libel was opened on April 20.

Volgograd police are checking a local resident’s report that street cleaners were putting garbage into a bag made from the Russian tricolor, RIA Novosti reported , citing the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The incident occurred in the Traktorozavodsky district of the city, and an investigative team arrived at its location.

The former deputy governor of the Vladimir region for construction, Dmitry Khvostov, was suspected of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow fined the Yuri Levada Analytical Center 300 thousand rubles for violating the law on “foreign agents,” RAPSI reports . The court found Levada Center guilty of violating Part 1 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (carrying out activities by a non-profit organization performing the functions of a foreign agent, not included in the register of non-profit organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent).

The Moscow City Court overturned the decision of the Basmanny Court on the claim of Igor Sechin’s wife Olga against Novaya Gazeta, reports . Interfax The decision to return the claim to the district court was made on October 6. The Moscow City Court indicated that the Basmanny Court should accept the claim for proceedings. Earlier, on September 2, the Basmanny Court refused to accept the claim for the protection of honor and dignity against Novaya Gazeta.

In March 2017, Tatyana Lysova will leave the post of editor-in-chief of the Vedomosti newspaper, which she has held since March 2010. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta, citing the owner of Vedomosti, Demyan Kudryavtsev. Later, a report that Lysova would be leaving her post appeared on the Vedomosti website. It says that Lysova informed the board of directors of her intention to leave the post of editor-in-chief of the newspaper in March 2017, citing personal circumstances.

The Bank of Russia may receive the right, by court decision, to tap the phones of those suspected of insider trading. The Ministry of Finance is preparing a corresponding bill, TASS reports with reference to Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev. “Rather draconian measures are being prepared, similar to those taken in the USA and Great Britain. This is the first insider trading bill that will simply punish insider trading with a hot iron.

In the Kurgan region, a criminal case has been initiated against a former investigator of the investigation department of the Yurgamyshsky Ministry of Internal Affairs, who was suspected of falsifying evidence in a criminal case (Part 2 of Article 303 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

The Ministry of Culture of Chechnya will create special working groups that will monitor the observance of national traditions at weddings, TASS reports . According to a ministry representative, members of the working group will attend weddings. “If they notice any form of clothing that does not correspond to our mentality or inappropriate movements in dance, they will stop it,” the Ministry of Culture noted.

As of October 24, a million Russians are deprived of the right to leave the country for refusing to pay debts. This was reported by the Interfax agency with reference to the head of the Federal Bailiff Service Artur Parfenchikov.

The Supreme Court upheld the sentence of Ukrainians convicted in the case of the banned in Russia and recognized extremist organization UNA-UNSO Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, who allegedly fought on the side of the militants during the First and Second Chechen Wars, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. The Supreme Court also decided to cancel the private ruling against lawyers Dubrovina and Itslaev.

In Tobolsk, Roskomnadzor issued an order to shut down Channel One and Rossiya 1, reports the local publication Tobolsk.info. According to the publication, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Ural-Siberian Regional Center RTRS” is responsible for the broadcast of digital television, which received an order to turn off the TV channels.

The Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region opened a criminal case against the IKEA company for tax evasion in the amount of more than 32 billion rubles, reports .

The Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia claimed responsibility for the armed attack in Nizhny Novgorod on October 23. This was reported on Twitter by SITE Intel Group. The incident occurred on October 23. Then eyewitnesses reported that law enforcement officers cordoned off the Tsvety residential neighborhood in Nizhny Novgorod. Law enforcement sources told agencies that two terrorism suspects were killed during the operation.