A court in Komi arrested three of eight detainees suspected of involvement in the criminal group of the influential thief in law Yuri Pichugin. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee of the Republic. Oktay Efendiev, Sergei Vanuito and Akhmed Isaev were taken into custody.

Ruslan Tagibekov, a 27-year-old native of Dagestan and suspected of illegal ammunition trafficking, was detained after a search in a rented apartment in the Moscow region and was tortured with electric shock, lawyer Sofya Rubasskaya told the Caucasian Knot. On February 13, the court sent 27-year-old Ruslan and 26-year-old Tarlan Tagibekov under arrest until April 9. According to Rubasskaya, on February 18, Ruslan spoke about the use of violence through electric shock in the investigation room.

Several hundred people went to the Promotion Square of Vladivostok per protest against amendments to the technical regulations of the WTO, which regulate the mandatory installation of the ERA-GLONASS system for foreign-production cars, reports VL.ru. The rally was attended by residents of Vladivostok, Artem, Ussuriysk and Volno-Dodezhdinsky. According to VL.ru, about 500 people gathered, according to the organizers , up to a thousand, according to the police - a hundred people.

The organizer of a rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Stavropol, Anastasia Antonets, said that FSB officers came to her parents’ home and warned them about their daughter’s potential liability for violations at the rally. Antonets wrote about this on Facebook.

The eighty-year-old grandmother of far-right politician Dmitry Demushkin, accused in the case of extremist posts on social networks, was summoned to court as a witness, his lawyer Mikhail Tikhonov told RIA Novosti. “On Saturday at 10 o’clock in the evening they came to her and summoned her for questioning as a witness,” the lawyer said.

The failed coup attempt in Montenegro last fall was orchestrated by Russian intelligence officers who could not act without “high-level” approval, British government sources told the Sunday Telegraph.