The police came to search the office of the unregistered party “Other Russia” on Tikhvinskaya Street, according to the organization’s Vkontakte page. “Alexey Alekseevich Kolychevsky, a senior detective, just broke into the Party bunker for a meeting with three unknown people and three uniformed police officers,” the message says. All party supporters who were inside were detained and taken to the Tverskoye police station. Updated 00:29 February 21 .

After the concert of the punk band The Exploited, which took place in St. Petersburg on February 18, one of its visitors was killed. According to the music website Sadwave, eyewitnesses say that the young man died “at the hands of neo-Nazis.” “This is not a fake, they ripped open his stomach, when the ambulance arrived, he was still breathing, but he was all pale.

A man who took his family hostage in an apartment on Borovskoe Highway in Moscow and demanded “a corridor to the embassy of Iran, China or the DPRK” jumped out of the window and was detained, Interfax reports , citing a law enforcement source. “The man jumped out of the window, fell on the trampoline and is currently detained,” the agency’s source said. The source claims that, according to preliminary data, the man has delirium tremens.

The Novocheboksarsk city court recovered 20 thousand rubles from the Ministry of Internal Affairs in favor of two men who were beaten by a local police officer in the fall of 2016. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the human rights organization Zona Prava. During the meeting, a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs refused to recognize the plaintiffs’ demands, although the conviction against the policeman entered into legal force.

A resident of Yekaterinburg sued the Ministry of Finance for almost one million rubles for illegal prosecution. The man spent more than 11 months in a pre-trial detention center, according to the website of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court. In 2012, the Ordzhonikidze District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced a man to three years in prison on charges of drug trafficking. Six months later, the regional court overturned the verdict, and the case was sent for a new trial.

Garden partnership "Agidel". Photo: ufa1.ru The Bashkir doctors saved a seriously wounded pensioner who suffered from the attack of a large animal - in the hospital she said that it was a leopard. The Ministry of Internal Affairs assures that the dog was bitten by the elderly woman, but local journalists suggest: the beast could escape from a private zoo equipped with a local businessman on his site.

Employees of the Ministry of Justice began an unscheduled inspection of the human rights organization “Russian Justice Initiative,” the organization’s press secretary, Ksenia Babich, told Mediazona. Previously, the Anti-Maidan movement asked the Ministry of Justice to check NPOs for receiving foreign funding. According to Babich, employees of the Russian Justice Initiative were not warned about the inspection.

The police are negotiating with a man who is holding his family in an apartment on Borovskoe Highway in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports , citing the press service of the capital's main headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The man demands “a corridor to the embassy of Iran, China or the DPRK,” reports . Gazeta.ru According to Gazeta.ru, Muscovite Leonid Ovodov is holding his family hostage.

Sergei Bukaev, a resident of the city of Kumertau, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of five people, was fined 150 thousand rubles for trying to eat several sheets from the materials of the criminal case. This was reported by the Interfax agency with reference to the press service of the Federal Bailiff Service for Bashkortostan.

The Supreme Court rejected the complaint of the former commander of the DPR intelligence group Dmitry Lysakovsky against the ban on keeping musical instruments and laptops in the cells of pre-trial detention centers, reports . RIA Novosti Lysakovsky, known under the call sign Goodwin, is under arrest in the case of attempted fraud on an especially large scale (part 3 of article 30, part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code).

Four Russian military advisers were killed when a car was blown up by a radio-controlled landmine in Syria, cites data from the Ministry of Defense. Interfax “As a result of the explosion, four servicemen were killed and two more were injured,” the report says.

The Magassky District Court of Ingushetia issued a verdict in the case of the abduction of local resident Elizaveta Aliyeva: her sister’s husband Mukharbek Evloev received six years in a maximum security colony with a fine of 80 thousand rubles, his nephew Murad Paragulgov received five years in a maximum security colony with a fine of 50 thousand rubles. The human rights organization “Russian Justice Initiative” reported this to Mediazona.

The Syktyvkar City Court placed thief in law Yuri Pichugin under arrest for two months, accused of creating and participating in an organized criminal community, 7x7 reports . The court considered the issue of choosing a preventive measure behind closed doors at the request of the investigation. Yuri Pichugin, known by the nickname Pichuga, was detained in Moscow on February 18 and taken to Syktyvkar.

Russian Post reported the discovery of a group of scammers who, using fake online stores, sold computer equipment and smartphones to Russians, instead of which they sent bricks, water bottles and cut glasses by mail. The report said that the victims of the alleged criminals were “thousands of Russians” who made orders for “tens of millions of rubles” from fake online stores. “These sites, as a rule, existed for no more than one month,” the message notes.

The author of the statements that blocked the porn sites Pornolab and Brazzers , the MDK community and about 100 other less popular sites and communities was a 38-year-old employee of Togliatti State University and accredited expert of Roskomnadzor Ruslan Okhlopkov. This was reported by the publication Meduza.