The head of the port of Ust-Luga, Valery Izrailit, was detained in St. Petersburg, Fontanka reports. It is also alleged that searches were carried out in his apartment on Shpalernaya Street and in the office of the Ust-Luga company, which manages the port of the same name. According to the publication, FSB officers, including from the transport department, and members of the National Guard took part in the investigative actions. It is not specified in what criminal case Izrailit was detained.

The "North Caucasus Province of the Islamic State" published a video recording of those who carried out attacks on police officers in Grozny, reports . SITE The video is available on Twitter. The recording shows how 11 people, three of whom are “covered,” standing near a wall with an IS flag, take the oath of the “Islamic State” and swear allegiance to the organization’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Tyumen blogger Alexey Kungurov claims that FSB officers created a file on his wife’s computer with the publication “Who is Putin’s Falcons Really Bombing” about the “Islamic State” for which he was convicted, he wrote about this on LiveJournal. Kungurov assured that he stores everything he writes on a cloud service and not on his computer’s hard drive.

France extracts to Russia Stepan's milk suspected of organizing the supply of cocaine from Venezuela, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports . The milk has been wanted since 1998, it is claimed that he managed to avoid detention thanks to fictitious documents.

Assistant to the head of Rosprirodnadzor Dmitry Valenza has become a suspect in a criminal case, reports . the Investigative Committee The case was initiated under Part 3 of Article 30, Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (attempted fraud on an especially large scale), another person involved was businessman Rafis Kupkenov.

New York Times journalist Rebecca Ruiz said that she reliably quoted the words of Russian officials in a publication about Russia's recognition of the existence of a doping system. about this She wrote on her Twitter. “Russian officials told me they no longer deny the existence of fraud, only that it was controlled by the state,” she explained.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow sentenced the head of the money-cash group Sergei Magin and his partner Vadim Rybalchenko to eight and a half years in a general regime colony for illegal banking activities, reports . Interfax The court found that they participated in a criminal community whose goal was to withdraw funds abroad. In total, the group included 12 people who cashed and withdrew money through companies controlled by them, primarily Mast Bank.

First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Chechnya Apti Alaudinov is resigning, Novaya Gazeta reports , citing informed sources. According to the first source, Alaudinov was asked to resign after an attack on police officers in Grozny, during which four Interior Ministry officers were killed. “The attack itself came as a complete surprise to the Chechen security forces, which the head of Chechnya perceived as a complete failure of the police’s intelligence work,” the newspaper writes.

The Supreme Court overturned the acquittal of two men following a jury verdict in a murder-for-hire case, RIA Novosti reports , citing the court's press service. According to investigators, Alan Gabaraev wanted to inherit his relative’s property. He offered to kill her to his friend Mendik Kokoev for 2 million rubles. Kokoev purchased a Makarov pistol in Vladikavkaz, came to St. Petersburg and killed a woman in December 2014 in her apartment.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow extended the arrest of Maxim Panfilov, a defendant in the Bolotnaya case, until June 14, 2017. His lawyer Sergei Panchenko told Mediazona about this. During the meeting, Panfilov’s defense petitioned for a closed trial for medical reasons, for the admission of Sergei Sharov as a public defender and for the inclusion of an independent report on examinations conducted at the Serbsky Center. The court granted only the last request.

In Nizhnevartovsk, a criminal investigation has been completed against four local residents accused of participating in the Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir, recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee for the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.

The Supreme Court of Chuvashia upheld the sentence of Nikolai Egorov, a security guard at an asphalt concrete plant, who was convicted of reposting Boris Stomakhin’s open letter on VKontakte. His lawyer Evgeny Gubin reported this to Mediazona. In October, the Tsivilsky District Court of Chuvashia sentenced 62-year-old Egorov to two years of suspended imprisonment.

Danila Bezborodov with colleagues in the Red Eagles camp. Photo: Facebook Fedor Bezborodov In early November, the court sentenced to six months real imprisonment of 32-year-old Evgeny Chudnovets from the Ural Kataysk-she posted VKontakte a video with a naked boy to draw attention to mockery of the child, and as a result was found guilty of the spread of children's porn.

The St. Petersburg City Court sentenced local resident Alexander Kirillov to life imprisonment in a special regime colony for the murder of his wife and two young sons (points “a, c” of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code). This is reported on the court's website. According to the Investigative Committee, the murder occurred on the night of April 28, 2014 in the Kirillovs’ apartment on Bolshaya Porokhovskaya Street.

The Russian anti-doping agency accused The New York Times of distorting the confession about the systemic use of doping in Russia, reports Interfax with reference to a statement by RUSADA. The newspaper quoted acting general director of RUSADA Anna Antseliovich and unnamed officials.