The Lipetsk Regional Court sentenced 24-year-old resident of Engels, Saratov region, Alexander Adrianov, and 18-year-old resident of the Lipetsk region, whose name was not specified. Both of them held ultra-right views and were accused of attacks and murder motivated by national hatred and arson of the font of the Holy Dormition Lipetsk Diocesan Monastery, the SOVA center writes , citing the regional prosecutor’s office and the court.

The European Court of Human Rights communicated 48 complaints from 61 Russian non-governmental organizations that challenged the unlawful application of the law on “foreign agents,” reports the Public Verdict Foundation. Now the Russian authorities must express their position on the complaint, after which the ECHR judges will make their decision.

A court in St. Petersburg found guilty three fans of Viktor Tsoi who beat a man who reprimanded them for the loud songs of the Kino group, reports , citing the press service of the Kalininsky District Court. Fontanka The defendant named Kuznetsov was sentenced to 11 years in prison, Shiryaev was sentenced to 10 years, Smirnov to eight.

A Novosibirsk court sentenced 23-year-old local resident Timofey Vil to a year and eight months in a penal colony for attacking an anti-fascist, according to the court’s website. The verdict was handed down on March 20. “Komsomolskaya Pravda” writes that “the victim considers himself a member of the antifa movement,” and Vil has “directly opposite views.” A conflict between the men began in April last year at one of the stops in Novosibirsk; an anti-fascist tried to escape from them.

A Ukrainian court has authorized the “bringing in” of the alleged accomplice of the killer of former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov, Yaroslav Levents, says the department’s website . He is currently being sought. Law enforcement agencies believe that Levenets brought the killer to the murder scene. “We know that his accomplice drove away in a Daewoo car when he saw that Parshov had been shot. We haven't caught him yet, but we hope we will.

The Investigative Committee in Crimea is conducting a pre-investigation check against lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, reports QirimInfo . “Today and yesterday an investigator from the Russian Investigative Committee in Crimea called me and said that a pre-investigation check was being carried out against me about my alleged disclosure of some data from the pre-trial investigation,” he said.

The St. Petersburg City Election Commission approved the decision to hold a referendum on the status of St. Isaac's Cathedral, which the city authorities were going to promptly transfer to the Russian Orthodox Church, reports . RIA Novosti The Election Commission unanimously approved the application to register the initiative group for the referendum. The final decision on the fate of the referendum will be made by the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law that prohibits foreign non-governmental NGOs from creating legal entities in Russia. The corresponding document is published on the legal information website. this law to the State Duma The government introduced in October 2016.

President Vladimir Putin signed a bill approved by the State Duma and the Federation Council, which gives courts the right to limit the ability of the media to broadcast from court hearings. The document was published on the Official Internet Portal of Legal Information. The bill , adopted by the State Duma in three readings, makes changes to the Criminal Procedure Code that make broadcasting an open court hearing on the Internet possible only with the permission of the court.

The Krasnodar Regional Court refused to cancel the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to cancel the visa of the rabbi of the city Jewish community of Sochi Arie Edelkopf, reports .

Investigators believe that one of the most likely versions of the circumstances surrounding the death of the head of the repair and construction department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the west of Moscow was a contract killing due to official activities, senior assistant to the head of the main investigative department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, Yulia Ivanova, told RIA Novosti. “One of the priority versions is a contract killing related to his professional activities.

A plot of land with an area of ​​over 4.1 thousand hectares in the Ivanovo region, on which the “estate of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev” is supposedly located, is rented for 39 rubles and 32 kopecks per year, writes Sobesednik. This amount, according to the publication, is contained in the response to a deputy request from the regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation to the administration of the Ivanovo region.

The St. Petersburg City Election Commission has prepared a draft decision on approving a referendum on the status of St. Isaac's Cathedral, writes Fontanka . The approval must be voted on today. The document, which is in the possession of Fontanka, states that the request for a referendum complies with federal law. In January it became known that St. Isaac's Cathedral would be transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church for free use, while it should retain its museum and educational function.

The European Court of Human Rights awarded Nizhny Novgorod resident Anton Shestopalov 48 thousand euros for torture in a police department 13 years ago. This was reported on the website of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture. In May 2004, Shestopalov, who was then a minor, was detained on suspicion of raping a former classmate and taken to the police department. After torture and beatings, the young man had to confess.

Representatives of the law firm Pepelyaev Group before the protest on Tverskaya Street in Moscow, on behalf of Nike , demanded that the activists of the Navalny team delete the post that used the image of a person in sneakers with the signature of Just do it . A copy of the email is at the disposal of "Mediazons". On the morning of March 26, the senior partner of Pepelyaev Group, Vladimir Sokov sent a letter to the address of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny with the heading “Claim”.