Civil activist Mark Halperin received 10 days of arrest for disobeying the legal demands of police officers, his lawyer Ksenia Kostromina told Interfax. The decision to arrest the activist was made by the Reutovsky Court of the Moscow Region.

In the Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg, the convict escaped after the verdict was pronounced, reports . Fontanka On February 9, 35-year-old Denis Okhlopkov was sentenced to five years of strict regime for possession and transportation of drugs. After the announcement, the bailiffs took him out of the courtroom and took Okhlopkov to the rest room, where they handcuffed him to the radiator. After this, the bailiffs, according to them, went off to drink tea.

Human rights activists from the Committee for the Prevention of Torture appealed to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov with a request to assist in the search for the former head of correctional colony No. 14 Vasily Voloshin. According to them, Voloshin may be hiding in Ukraine. Voloshin led colony No. 14 in the village of Sukhobezvodny, Nizhny Novgorod region, for several years.

Human rights activists from the Committee for the Prevention of Torture appealed to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov with a request to assist in the search for the former head of correctional colony No. 14 Vasily Voloshin. According to them, Voloshin may be hiding in Ukraine. Voloshin led colony No. 14 in the village of Sukhobezvodny, Nizhny Novgorod region, for several years.

In Balashikha, near Moscow, an unknown person attacked the office of one of the management companies and opened fire on the National Guard soldiers who arrived to respond to the call, reports . RIA Novosti The attacker broke into the company's office around 5:45 p.m. Threatening him with a weapon, he demanded to give him money from the cash register. When members of the private security of the National Guard arrived at the scene, the attacker opened fire on the fighters.

One of the leaders of the organization “Christian State - Holy Russia”, Miron Kravchenko, in an interview with the Pskov Province, explained the distribution of warnings to cinemas about the “Russian Maidan” in connection with the release of the film “Matilda” about the relationship between Emperor Nicholas II and the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya. “We know people who will be involved in this anyway.

The investigative authorities of St. Petersburg have opened a case against police officers who allowed the death of a detainee in the police department. This was reported by the press service of the prosecutor's office. On January 27, 2017, at the police department in the Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg, a visitor from Uzbekistan, who was detained for violating immigration laws, was beaten to death by a cellmate.

The Ministry of Culture does not support the idea of ​​celebrating “patriotism day” on August 6, the anniversary of the ban on the supply of products from the United States and the European Union, TASS reports . “Based on the results of studying this issue, the department came to the conclusion that the introduction of this holiday is redundant.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condolences regarding the death of Turkish soldiers in an airstrike, the Kremlin website reports . The incident occurred near the Syrian city of Al-Bab, which was previously surrounded by Turkish troops. As the Turkish Ministry of Defense reported, as a result of the February 9 Russian air strike, three Turkish soldiers were killed and 11 people were injured in total.

The Pskov Regional Court cleared the criminal record of the leader of the Drug-Free Cities branch and the local branch of the Rodina party, Konstantin Vilkov, who was convicted of the death of a gypsy woman, Vilkov told Mediazona. According to him, the criminal case is closed. He clarified to “Pskov Province” that so far only the operative part of the court decision has been published, the reasoning will be published within three days.

Muscovite Igor Myltsev, who introduced himself as a fighter of the DPR “Somalia” unit, told Novaya Gazeta that he and three other fighters organized an attempt on the life of the head of the unit, Mikhail Tolstykh, known as Givi. Myltsev himself contacted the editors of Novaya Gazeta and spoke about the murder of the commander. According to the publication, Myltsev, who uses the call sign “French,” voluntarily fights on the side of the Donetsk separatists.

The organization, whose members used a mobile application to win at slot machines around the world, was created by a former police lieutenant from the line department of the Moscow railway station and FSB lieutenant Alexander Aleshin, reports , without indicating the source of information. Fontanka The Russian publication responded to a publication in Wired, which stated that an organization is based in St. Petersburg, whose members win at slot machines using a mobile application.

Roskomnadzor named a new reason for blocking the Voat community page with symbols lining up in the image of a girl. The clarification was published on the department's Twitter. “We have an update: the experts did not evaluate the girl with the symbols. It's all about the userpic. We will delete the previous answer so as not to mislead,” the department told Meduza journalist Sultan Suleymanov.

In colony-settlement No. 48 in the village of Kurdoyaki, the section where convicted women and their children are kept will be disbanded. This was reported by the Interfax-Siberia agency with reference to the acting deputy head of the GUFSIN for the Krasnoyarsk Territory Andrey Lukhanin.

Rosneft press secretary Mikhail Leontyev announced that the Other Russia activists, who tried to hang a banner on the building of the state-owned company, were paid by the structures of the ex-head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky, reports Rambler News Service. “This is an extremely stupid action paid for by Khodorkovsky. We officially declare that there is operational evidence that this action was paid for by Khodorkovsky’s structures.