Several people detained in the case of the murder of two policemen in Astrakhan were taken into custody, TASS reports citing the lawyer of one of the detainees, Murad Velikhanov. According to him, everyone is charged with “complicity in an attack on the life of law enforcement officers.” “They were arrested not on the basis of proven involvement, but simply as persons who had religious contacts with those who attacked the police. They met recently while visiting a mosque,” ​​Velikhanov said.

A first-year student at one of the St. Petersburg universities, injured in the explosion of an improvised explosive device, made it himself, the Investigative Committee reports . As the department notes, the 17-year-old victim was interested in chemistry. Investigators opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code (illegal trafficking in explosives or explosive devices).

Yury Kuliy, accused of using violence against a government official at a rally on March 26 in Moscow, tried to separate a riot policeman from an elderly man, his lawyer Alexei Liptser told Meduza. “When arrests began at the rally, and riot police began to pull people out of the crowd, Yuri found himself between the person they were trying to detain and one of the riot police, and it was he who subsequently pointed to Yuri as the person who allegedly caused him some harm.

Entrepreneur Leonid Mikhelson confirmed that the Levit company, of which he is the main co-owner, established the Dar Foundation, which appears in the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, to implement “socially significant projects.” about this . A representative of the billionaire told Interfax As the agency’s interlocutor explained, “Mr.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested until June 12 the former head of the Republic of Mari El, Leonid Markelov, accused of taking a bribe, court spokeswoman Yuno Tsareva told Mediazona. Markelov's defense noted that he was cooperating with the investigation and giving evidence. The former official does not admit his guilt.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced oppositionist Vyacheslav Maltsev to 15 days of arrest for disobedience to a police officer during a protest on March 26, a reports from the courtroom. Mediazona correspondent Maltsev's lawyer Sergei Badamshin said that the decision on administrative arrest will be appealed.

The Presidential Human Rights Council called on the Investigative Committee to open criminal cases into threats that were made in Chechnya against Novaya Gazeta journalists, told RBC. Anita Soboleva, chairman of the council's standing commission on social rights, Soboleva noted that calls for retribution should be qualified as a threat against journalists.

When preparing an article in Vedomosti about businessman Mikhail Fridman, which served as the reason for filing a lawsuit against the newspaper, a “human error” was made, told RNS . Vedomosti editor-in-chief Dmitry Simakov “Mikhail Fridman, unfortunately, is right - we came to the wrong address for comments on the article. This glaring error occurred due to the fault of several editorial staff. There is no talk of any outside influence.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev presented information on income and property for 2016, indicating that he earned 8.6 million rubles during the year. The document was published on the government website. Medvedev’s declaration states that he owns an apartment with an area of ​​367.8 square meters and GAZ-20 and GAZ21 (“Pobeda” and “Volga”) cars. The prime minister also rents a plot of land with an area of ​​47 acres. Medvedev's wife Svetlana earned 0 rubles in a year.

A member of the Human Rights Council of Chechnya, Kheda Saratova, in an interview with RBC , said that the people Novaya Gazeta writes about mass arrests and detention in “secret prisons” are in fact not gays, but terrorists. According to her, the meeting regarding Novaya Gazeta's publications was a reaction to allegations that there are gays in Chechnya and they are being oppressed.

The Borovsky District Court of the Kaluga Region acquitted 27-year-old Rakhim Zainutdinov, who applied for alternative civil service and was accused of evading it. The press secretary of the Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg, Alexander Peredruk, told Mediazona about this. The case against Zainutdinov was initiated under Part 1 of Article 328 of the Criminal Code (evasion from military and alternative civil service).

The presenter of the Dozhd TV channel, Pavel Lobkov, was detained in the center of Moscow wearing a penis costume, reports . the BBC Before his arrest, Lobkov was filming against the backdrop of a city installation symbolizing an Easter egg. It was installed by the improvement committee. “Installation from Pyotr Palych Biryukov and the landscaping department. The police did not appreciate it - Pasha was detained,” the BBC quotes Lobkov’s colleague Sergei Erzhenkov.

In Moscow, the former director of the Department of Investment, Restoration and Construction of the Ministry of Culture, the son of the Deputy Director of the Hermitage Mikhail Novikov, Artem, who was suspected of drug possession, was detained, reports . Fontanka According to the publication, today a preventive measure will be chosen for him in a case initiated under Article 228 of the Criminal Code.

In Irkutsk, the case of “insulting the feelings of believers” was the reason for a real special operation with searches and raids on activists. In the early morning on Saturday, the fighters of the Sobr armed with machine guns broke into the local journalist Valeria Altareva. Almost all equipment was seized from the girl. “You are familiar with the accused, you have technical means. So, he could commit a crime using your technical means, ”she retold the investigator's explanations.

from the organization's experts appeared on the website of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights An appeal calling for an immediate end to the persecution of gays in Chechnya. “We call on the authorities to put an end to the persecution in the Chechen Republic of people who are perceived as gay or bisexual and who live in an atmosphere of fear fueled by homophobic speeches from local authorities,” the UN experts write.