Novaya Gazeta published testimonies of several homosexuals who, over the past two months, have been persecuted by security forces in Chechnya and ended up in a “secret prison” in Argun. According to the publication, three people were killed, and there is also unconfirmed information about a fourth victim. The first wave of persecution of gays in Chechnya began around February 20 of this year, when security forces detained a man in a state of drug intoxication.

The Basmanny District Court arrested the former head of Udmurtia, Alexander Solovyov, accused under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (receipt of a bribe by an official holding a public position on an especially large scale), reports . Dozhd The investigation asked for such a preventive measure; Solovyov himself did not admit his guilt and, according to the investigator, refused to testify.

In the Belorechensky City Court of the Krasnodar Territory, the prosecutor asked for 4 to 13 years in prison for employees of the Belorechensky educational colony accused of beating teenagers. Lawyer Andrei Sabinin, who collaborates with the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” told Medizaon about this.

Member of the Federation Council Vadim Tyulpanov died in St. Petersburg, reports Fontanka . As the publication writes, the death is “presumably of a domestic nature.” According to Fontanka, an ambulance for Vadim Tyulpanov was called on the evening of April 4 to “a public institution in the Kirovsky district.” According to preliminary information, he slipped unsuccessfully and hit his head. Later the publication clarified that the accident occurred in the bathhouse.

The Ministry of Justice included in the list of extremist materials depicting “a person similar to Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, whose face is made up - eyelashes and lips.” In the register, the entry is numbered 4071.

In the Krasnodar Territory, 32-year-old Sergei Mukhin died in February 2017, who was beaten in early 2016 during a sparring session when joining the local OMON unit. this Mukhin's relatives reported to Region Online . According to them, at the beginning of 2016, Mukhin passed the standards for joining the riot police and took part in three battles with active members of the unit. He knocked out one of his sparring partners and broke the leg of another.

The Suoyarvi District Court of Karelia sentenced paramedic Irina Shcherbakova to three years in a penal colony, who mistook a child’s call about a boat wreck on Syamozero as a joke, . Petrozavodsk Speaks reports At the same time, the serving of the sentence was postponed until her daughter reaches the age of 14, which will happen in 2020. She was found guilty under Part 3 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code (negligence resulting in the death of two or more people).

The Investigative Committee brought charges against the former head of Udmurtia, Alexander Solovyov, under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (receipt of a bribe by an official holding a public position on an especially large scale).

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree to reduce the cost of living, according to the official legal information portal. According to the document, in the fourth quarter of 2016, the cost of living in Russia as a whole was set at 9,691 rubles per capita. Now the cost of living for the working population is 10,466 rubles, for pensioners - 8 thousand rubles, for children - 9,434 rubles.

Police detained two suspects in the murder of traffic police officers in Astrakhan, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports . Interfax earlier, citing a source, reported that the police detained four suspects, but this data was denied by the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, on the night of March 4, several people attacked the car of traffic police officers, the police were shot, and their service weapons were taken away. After that, the suspects left in a white Gazelle.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev responded to accusations of corruption brought forward by Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, TASS reports . “Who benefits from this? This is beneficial for those who order this kind of (compromising) stories and materials. These are, as a rule, people who have very specific political goals,” he said.

The Laishevsky District Court in Tatarstan convicted three local residents who kidnapped and tortured a neighbor who was required to sell his room because he did not pay utilities.

The Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation approved a bill proposing the postponement of the presidential elections in 2018 from March 11 to March 18, when Russia celebrates the annexation of Crimea, reports . RIA Novosti “Currently, presidential elections are held on the second Sunday of March.

In the new user agreement of the LiveJournal blogging platform, clause 9.2.7 has appeared, prohibiting users from “placing advertising and/or political campaigning, unless otherwise specifically established by a separate agreement between the user and the administration.” The editors of LiveJournal announced a new agreement, assuring that there have been no fundamental changes in the service’s policy “in terms of blogging, as well as the privacy and security of user data.” “Live Journal”, in

In Cheboksary, teacher Elena Blinova was fired from kindergarten No. 203 after the police fined her for the slogan “Orthodoxy or Death” recognized as extremist and questioned her about her participation in an anti-corruption rally on March 26, Blinova said on her Facebook page. According to Blinova, on the morning of April 3, a local police officer came to her work and said that he had to take her to the police department.