Dozens of relatives of participants in the attack on police officers in Grozny have been detained in Chechnya, reports the Caucasian Knot . “Caucasus” is also about this. Realities,” said Akhmed Gisaev, head of the Norway-based Human Rights Analysis Center. The "Caucasian Knot" writes that the detentions began on December 17, the day of the attack, and two days later a small part of the relatives were released, and on December 20 new detentions began.

The Pskov City Court sentenced the rector of the Church of the Holy Myrrh-Bearers Sergei Ivanov to three years of suspended imprisonment for possession of weapons and drugs, reports . Moskovsky Komsomolets The verdict was handed down on December 14, but it was not previously reported.

The convicted former head of the Center for the Execution of Administrative Legislation of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Cherepovets Anna Smelykova tried to set fire to the pre -trial detention center, Cherinfo was told in the FSIN Office in the Vologda Oblast. “Since Anna Smelykova is a former police officer, she was kept in the cell alone. Everything is strictly regulated with us: she was allowed to hold matches and paper.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs will partially pay off the debt to the appointed lawyers by paying them 294 million rubles. The agency clarifies that as a result of the internal redistribution of budget funds, “an opportunity has been found to increase expenses” for the work of these lawyers.

Former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov denies reports that he suffered clinical death, reports . RIA Novosti “All this talk about clinical death is complete nonsense and untrue,” he said. Luzhkov added that “he was given a full examination, the diagnosis and treatment are clear.” “In a day or two, I hope to leave the hospital and attend the concert of my friend Mikhail Turetsky,” he emphasized.

The management of GITIS called the police because of the action of students opposing the merger of the theater studies and production faculties, Nikolai Berman, a graduate of the institute, said on Facebook. “The latest news from GITIS: after students of theater studies and directing staged a protest in the courtyard against the merger of theater experts with producers, the police were called against them. A rector who calls the police on his students is an incompetent rector,” he wrote.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow placed seven alleged members of the Tabligh Jamaat under arrest until February 16, reports . RIA Novosti The arrest of the suspects was announced on December 22. RIA Novosti noted that among the detainees were six citizens of Kyrgyzstan and one Russian. A criminal case was initiated under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization), which carries a sentence of up to two years in prison.

Kazan resident Ruslan Nurtdinov, who organized a race through the airport's A1 terminal, explained that he did it in a fight for love, Kazan Reporter reports . “I fought for my love!” he said in court. KR notes that on that day a woman flew to Kazan, whom Nutrdinov decided to meet in this way. Nurtdinov also said that he was absolutely sober on the evening of December 22, when he made a drive through the terminal. He is not on any medical register.

The editor of the Khakass online magazine “New Focus”, Mikhail Afanasyev, after threats against himself, filed a statement with the regional department of the Investigative Committee demanding that a criminal case be opened under the article of obstruction of the professional activities of a journalist, he told RIA Novosti.

A cancer patient, a disabled person and a photographer were detained near the World Trade Center building, where Vladimir Putin’s press conference was held, reports . OVD-Info during a single picket Cancer patient Gayane Amrakhova was detained along with photographer Alexander Bokhonov. Amrakhova stood with a poster dedicated to her housing problems.

Former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov was urgently hospitalized, doctors are fighting for his life, an informed source told Interfax. “Yuri Mikhailovich was indeed hospitalized on Friday in one Moscow clinic. He was placed in intensive care,” the agency’s source said.

Bard of Alexander Novikov was sent under house arrest for two months in the embezzlement case on a particularly large scale from the shareholders of the cottage village "Queens Bay" in Yekaterinburg, 66.ru reports from the Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg. “Novikov is forbidden to communicate with everyone except a lawyer,” E1 notes .

The administration of pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Yekaterinburg, where blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, who was arrested for “catching Pokemon” in the Church on the Blood, is being held, has put him on preventive registration as prone to suicide and extremism, his lawyer Alexey Bushmakov told Mediazona. Bushmakov himself received this information from Olga Vekovshninina and Sergei Zykov, members of the PMC of the Sverdlovsk region.

President Vladimir Putin, in response to a question from journalist Ekaterina Vinokurova about the trials of Alexander Sokolov from RBC and Evgenia Chudnovets, promised to again study the circumstances of the criminal cases. “As for specific individuals, I haven’t even heard their names, I’ll look,” Putin said. After this, the question about Sokolov was again asked by an RBC journalist, who noted that a year ago the president promised to look into this case.

The Federation Council approved a bill providing for a deferment of sentences for drug addicts convicted under three articles of the Criminal Code and who wished to undergo medical rehabilitation, reports .