In St. Petersburg, during the investigative activities of the FSB with Marcel Magdeev, who was arrested a year ago on suspicion of organizing illegal banking activities, the accused managed to escape through an emergency exit, reports . Fontanka In February 2016, Magdeev was placed under house arrest as the alleged organizer of an underground cash-out business. “Another thing is that Magdeev was then chosen as a preventive measure - house arrest. But still somewhat unusual.

Astrakhan investigators opened a criminal case on an attempt to drive a minor girl to suicide (part 3 of article 30 and article 110 of the Criminal Code). The teenager was encouraged to commit suicide by a man under the pseudonym “Philip Lis,” reports .

The Investigative Committee in Crimea summoned lawyer Nikolai Polozov to give explanations as part of an investigation into his refusal to testify in the case of Ulmi Umerov, Polozov wrote on his Facebook.

The Frunzensky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced a resident of Kupchino to compulsory labor, who explained the debt of 645 thousand rubles in alimony for the maintenance of his 12-year-old daughter by his reluctance to pay “heretics.” “A 40-year-old resident of Kupchino is a long-time “client” of the bailiffs of the Kupchinsky department of the Frunzensky district, and not the most flexible one.

The Kostroma Regional Court sentenced the former mayor of Sergiev Posad near Moscow to eight years in a maximum security colony, the regional prosecutor's office reports . In December 2016, the Sverdlovsk District Court of Kostroma sentenced him to a fine of 4 million rubles; the prosecutor’s office then immediately announced that it would appeal the verdict due to the leniency of the punishment.

A Russian man was detained with homemade explosives at Borg el-Arab airport in Alexandria, told Egypt Independent. a law enforcement source It is alleged that the incident occurred on March 2, the Russian was boarding a Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul. The security service found the Russian's luggage suspicious, which he checked using a scanner. Arriving sappers determined that there was an improvised explosive device in the luggage. After a plane flying from Sharm el-Sheikh to St.

In Orel, 18-year-old Alexander Fomenkov, a member of PARNAS and a supporter of blogger Vyacheslav Maltsev, was sent to a pre-trial detention center on a case of extremism involving a minor in a crime. Oryol activist Mikhail Rosin told Mediazona about this. He explained that on February 8, Fomenkov was searched, after which he was detained, then the court chose arrest as a preventive measure. “Flash drives, a computer, and some symbols were seized.

The administration of the social network Instagram has removed 321 links with information about “death groups,” Roskomnadzor reports . It is alleged that representatives of Facebook, which owns Instagram, “confirmed their readiness to promptly counter the spread of illegal information.” “Reports of abuse related to suicide and self-harm are a priority for our Instagram and Facebook teams. We review these reports as a matter of extreme urgency and promptly remove any offending content.

Schoolchildren from Yekaterinburg went to the Church on the Blood in Yekaterinburg, changed into priestly clothes, replaced the cross on the altar and took photographs together, told TASS. Valery Gorelykh, head of the press service of the Sverdlovsk police, According to preliminary data, tenth grade students at one of the gymnasiums in Yekaterinburg stole clothes from the priests' locker room and a cross from the altar, replacing it with a wrench.

The Investigative Committee refused to institute criminal proceedings against police officers from the 78th branch in St. Petersburg, where doctors strangled the photographer David Frenkel. The decision on the refusal to initiate the case is at the disposal of "Mediazons". Lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov noted that the decision of the SK is planned to appeal. Frenkel himself noted that not all circumstances of the case are mentioned in this decision.

The Prosecutor General's Office has received an appeal from the Chernogo authorities to provide legal assistance in the investigation of the attempted coup in October 2016, and it is now being considered, the department's press service told RIA Novosti.

The former head of the “T” department of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Dmitry Zakharchenko, is suspected of receiving two more bribes. “Another criminal case has been opened against Zakharchenko. He is suspected of two counts of receiving a bribe,” quotes an investigator from a meeting in the Basmanny District Court of Moscow. RIA Novosti The representative of the Investigative Committee did not provide details.

The dissertation council of Moscow State University based in the history department, which reviewed the materials of the dissertation of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, is closed, Rector Viktor Sadovnichy told RIA Novosti. “This dissident council no longer exists. It’s closed,” Sadovnichy said.

The Moscow City Court transferred Dmitry Buchenkov, a defendant in the Bolotnaya case, to house arrest, lawyer Ilya Novikov told Mediazona. Buchenkov will be under house arrest in Aprelevka near Moscow. Novikov noted that the investigation “reacted without enthusiasm” to the idea of ​​Buchenkov’s house arrest. The house arrest period is set until May 6.

The Foundation for the Corruption of Alexei Navalny has published a big investigation on the elite real estate Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The FBK, in particular, claims that the Dar, Graudislav, Sotsgosproekt funds act in the interests of Medvedev and legally own property, which actually owned by the Prime Minister. According to the FBK, Vladimir Dyachenko is led by Medvedev’s “secret assets”.