On January 26, a court in Vologda sentenced Nikolai Kulikov, who shot oppositionist Yevgeny Domozhirov with a traumatic pistol, to two years in prison in a penal colony and payment of 100 thousand rubles in compensation. This is reported by the website Activatica.org. Kulikov was also accused of shooting the deputy editor-in-chief of the Minute of Truth newspaper Oleg Kunitsyn.

Freelance Kommersant photographer David Frenkel, who complained about the police and doctors strangling him at the police station, received a refusal from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to initiate a criminal case. The journalist himself told Mediazona about this. The incident at the 78th police department on Chekhov Street in St. Petersburg occurred on December 11.

At the Mikhail Likhodei Center for Restorative Therapy for Internationalist Soldiers near Moscow, investigative actions are taking place in a case of embezzlement initiated in 2015. This was reported by the Interfax agency with reference to the general director of the center Valeya Saifullin. The general director of the center noted that the center is being searched in connection with an old criminal case that concerns the old management.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court left video blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, accused of extremism and insulting the feelings of believers, under arrest. This was reported by Znak.com with reference to the press service of the court. The regional court considered the appeal of Sokolovsky’s defense against the verdict of the Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg, which extended the blogger’s arrest until February 22 inclusive. The court dismissed the complaint.

Photo: Alexander Kryazhev / RIA Novosti On Friday, the State Duma in the third reading adopted a bill on decriminalization of beatings in the family. The Mediazone explains what exactly has changed and what are the arguments of supporters and opponents of the new norm. On Friday, the State Duma in the third reading adopted a bill on decriminalization of beatings in the family. The initiative was supported by 380 deputies, the three voted against.

On the morning of January 26, a patrol boat was discovered in the Volga delta with the burnt bodies of two employees of the Astrakhan linear transport department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Southern Investigation Department of Transport of the Investigative Committee said in a statement . According to investigators, a burnt fire guard and a Mars-700 hovercraft patrol boat were found in the rolling part of the river delta in the area of ​​the Astrakhan State Nature Reserve.

Major Dmitry Dokuchaev of the FSB Information Security Center, arrested in the case of high treason, was “the direct perpetrator of hacks and leaks” in the Shaltai-Boltai hacker group, claims . Novaya Gazeta In September 2016, the FBI accused the owner of King Servers , Russian Vladimir Fomenko, of a cyberattack on election systems in the states of Arizona and Illinois: the agency claimed that the attack was carried out from eight servers, six of which belonged to King Servers .

The Main Directorate for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Committee has completed an investigation against the former head of Komi Vyacheslav Gaizer and the rest of the defendants in his case; the damage is estimated at 3.5 billion rubles, according to a message on the Investigative Committee’s website.

Tatler magazine apologized to Financial University student Daria Zolotova and National Guard Director Viktor Zolotov for an article with a “bride rating” in which the girl was called “Zolotov’s youngest daughter.” A refutation was added to the same article published on the magazine's website. “Daria is not in any kindred or other relationship with Viktor Zolotov.

In the Kukmorsky district of Tatarstan, a magistrate acquitted local school teacher Kh., the mother of a raped 14-year-old girl, accused of libel. Lawyer Rushana Kamalova, who advised the teacher on the initiative of the human rights organization “Zona Prava” and the human rights group “Accent,” reported this to Mediazona.

The government is preparing to cut funding for scientific research by 19 billion rubles. Mediazona knows several ways to effectively spend the amount saved in this way: for example, 19 billion rubles can be distributed to prosecutors who are in dire need of improved living conditions - or simply buried in the ground.

Judge Alexey Vtyurin of the Leninsky District Court of Kirov rejected the prosecution's request to forcibly bring Alexei Navalny to a court hearing to review the Kirovles case, a court representative told Mediazona. Navalny and his defense attorneys were not present at today’s hearing, and only “the state prosecution and representatives of the victim” were in the room. The prosecutor filed a motion to force Navalny to be brought in, but the court rejected it.

A court sentenced two police officers from the Stavropol Georgievsk to imprisonment in a penal colony after they took out a drunken detainee in the cold last winter and left him on the street, who died of hypothermia, the said in a statement .

At the home of a 62-year-old resident of the Chekhovsky district of the Moscow region, who was detained the day before on suspicion of illegal possession of a large consignment of weapons and ammunition, they found a Nazi uniform and flags of the Right Sector organization banned in Russia. This was reported on the National Guard website.

The Federal Security Service helped large banks cope with a massive hacker attack in November last year, cites a statement from the department’s deputy head, Dmitry Shalkov. Interfax “Between November 8 and November 14, 2016, a massive attack was carried out on the Russian financial sector. The targets of the attackers were Sberbank, Rosbank, Alfa Bank, Bank of Moscow, Moscow Exchange and others, Shalkov said.