CIA Director Mike Pompeo accused the Wikileaks organization of distributing data stolen by the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate related to the US elections, reports Reuters . Pompeo said WikiLeaks is a “hostile non-state intelligence service” aided and abetted by “countries like Russia.” The speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington was Pompeo's first public appearance since his appointment as head of the CIA.

The editors of Novaya Gazeta released a statement saying that the publication fears for the safety of its employees after threats from Chechnya, where journalists were publicly called “enemies of our faith and our homeland.” Immediately after the publication of the statement, the publication’s website stopped loading; a copy of the statement is available on Facebook.

The Hermitage claims that information about the seizure and ban on distributing collections of archival documents about the USSR's sale of art objects abroad in the 1920s and 1930s is not true, reports .

In Udmurtia, a criminal case was opened against Open Russia activist and chairman of the Unity Union of Entrepreneurs Mikhail Nazarov, the reports Strizh publication . During the search, his passport was confiscated. The case was initiated under Part 2 of Article 165 of the Criminal Code (causing property damage by fraud on an especially large scale). According to Nazarov himself, the case is related to his work as director of a municipal unitary enterprise.

On Vasilyevsky Island in St. Petersburg, the hand of a teenager who picked up an explosive device was torn off, reports Fontanka . This data was confirmed to the FlashNord agency by a source in the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg. The incident occurred near the Chernyshevsky Library on Kim Avenue, employees of the institution told the publication. According to eyewitnesses, the teenager “picked up something near the library,” and then an explosion occurred.

A court in Chuvashia fined fired kindergarten teacher Elena Blinova 1 thousand rubles for publishing a photograph of State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Orthodoxy or Death.” Her defender Yuri Sidorov wrote about this on Facebook. He also noticed that the bailiffs did not allow the Dozhd TV channel correspondent into the court; the policeman asked to hold the hearing behind closed doors, but the court refused.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested all four accused of attacks on police officers at the protests on March 26, court spokeswoman Yunona Tsareva told Mediazona. Andrei Kosykh was arrested today until June 12, Stanislav Zimovets - from April 1 until May 30, Alexander Shpakov was arrested by the court on March 28, and Yuri Kuliy - on April 6. Court press secretary Yuno Tsareva previously found it difficult to name the term of arrest of the last two.

The Investigative Committee has charged four detainees for attacking a police officer in Moscow during a rally on March 26, the department reports . The accused are Alexander Shpakov (born in 1977), Stanislav Zimovets (1985), Yuri Kuliy (1989) and Andrey Kosykh (1986).

In the Tula region, the case of three teenagers accused of murdering a man with whom they agreed on sex on behalf of a minor was brought to court, reports the department of the Investigative Committee for the region.

Security forces detained eight Crimean Tatars in the Bakhchisarai region of Crimea on suspicion of demonstrating symbols recognized as extremist and holding an unauthorized mass event.

The Special Prosecutor's Office of Montenegro sent to the High Court in Podgorica an indictment against 16 people, including two Russian citizens, for involvement in the failed coup attempt in the fall, according to a statement on the court's website. The indictment must be confirmed within 15 days. In the list of the accused, only their initials are indicated, but the initials of those listed separately from the rest are Š.E.

Irkutsk activist Igor Martynenko, whom the Oktyabrsky District Court sent under arrest for 10 days for “disobeying the demands of the police” when brought in for questioning as a witness, achieved a partial reversal of this decision on appeal, lawyer Natalya Khromenkova told Mediazona. “The case against Igor Olegovich Martynenko on an administrative offense must be returned for a new trial to the Oktyabrsky District Court,” she quoted the decision of the regional court.

In the Kurgan region, four employees of a rehabilitation center were arrested on suspicion of illegal imprisonment, reports the regional department of the Investigative Committee. They are suspected under paragraph “a” of Part 2 of Article 127 of the Criminal Code (illegal deprivation of liberty by a group of persons).

Collections of archival documents on the USSR's sale of art objects abroad in the 1920s and 1930s were seized from the State Hermitage and banned for distribution as containing “secret” data, wrote senior researcher at the Department of Western European Art Alexey Larionov his story was the first to notice on Facebook. Colta .

The Investigative Committee did not find evidence of the use of slave labor at a sugar factory in the Kursk region, Maxim Rassamakin, a representative of the agency’s regional department, told RIA Novosti. “We conducted an inspection of the enterprise. The Lyubimovsky branch is part of the limited liability company Kursksakharprom. The sugar factory produces products seasonally, the season starts around the beginning of September until the end of the year.