In Arkhangelsk, the head of the medical unit of the colony-settlement, Dmitry Prokhorov, withdrew the lawsuit against the convicted lawyer Andrei Krekov, who called him a “stuffed animal.” The prisoner’s wife, Victoria Krekova, reported this to Mediazona. Prokhorov filed a lawsuit against the convicted person in early April. According to the doctor, on February 16, 2017, Krekov, while in the corridor of the punishment cell of penal colony settlement No.

At a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that “provocative articles” about the murder and detention of gays in the republic were not true. this . reports Interfax “I want to report to you that those provocative articles about the Chechen Republic about the events that are taking place in our country, supposedly there are arrests, gentlemen, “good people” write that we have arrests in the republic. It’s uncomfortable to even talk about it.

In the first reading, the State Duma adopted a bill that would impose criminal liability for administrators of “death groups,” Meduza reports , citing a broadcast on the website of the lower house of parliament. The document , prepared by Vice Speaker Irina Yarova, was supported by 425 deputies, no one opposed.

Akram Azimov, the elder brother of Abror Azimov, suspected of organizing a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg, was detained in New Moscow, TASS reports from the FSB. “The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, within the framework of a criminal case initiated by the Investigative Committee of Russia on the fact of a terrorist act on April 3 in the St.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has seized 63 million rubles, 1 million euros and $350 thousand dollars belonging to Alexander Lopyrev, the son of Federal Security Service General Gennady Lopyrev, who is accused of accepting a bribe. As TASS reports , the amount of the seized funds became known in the Moscow City Court, where the appeal against the Basmanny Court's decision was considered. Lopyrev Jr.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in Khakassia, Alexander Chistotin, sent a complaint to the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs against participants in the construction of housing for fire victims who went on a dry hunger strike. A photo of the document was published by Open Russia. As stated in the complaint, initially, back in January 2016, a foreman named Bakhtiguzin, under whose command Evgeny Saltynyuk worked, complained about non-payment to builders.

The Leningrad Regional Court overturned the decision to fine the presenter of Baltika radio and the head of the PotrebNadzor society, Alexander Vinogradov, who, after being beaten by police, was diagnosed with three broken ribs. This was reported by the international human rights group Agora.

The Leninsky District Court of Cheboksary fined activist Elena Blinova 20 thousand rubles for participating in the distribution of eggs with the inscription “Freedom for Maltsev” on Easter, Blinova reported to Mediazona. She was found guilty under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (organizing or holding a public event without filing a notification about the public event in the prescribed manner).

Roskomnazor representative Vadim Ampelonsky could not confirm the data of the Vedomosti newspaper about the development of a bill to block anonymizers and VPN services. The Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications did not receive the bill for approval. “I don’t know anything about this bill; Roskomnadzor does not have the right of legislative initiative,” Ampelonsky said.

In Petrozavodsk, former vice-speaker of the Parliament of Karelia Alexey Gavrilov was detained on suspicion of vandalism, told TASS.

“My District” correspondent Sergei Kagermazov, whom the speaker of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Vyacheslav Makarov promised to send to the army, was handed a summons to the military registration and enlistment office near the parliament building, the publication reports .

On April 18, in the assembly hall of the main building of Vladimir State University, a film was displayed about Alexei Navalny, in which politics was compared with Adolf Hitler, writes Provladimir. In the video, which was shown to students, the head of the regional legal school for the prevention of extremism among the youth of Alla of Hebas, it was said about the “criminal past” of Navalny and various charges against him were listed.

The Krasnoyarsk regional court sentenced a resident of the Nazarovsky district, accused of murder, robbery and involvement of a minor in a particularly serious crime, to 19 years in a maximum security colony, the regional prosecutor's office reports . The murder, as reported by the Investigative Committee, occurred in the village of Novaya Soksa.

On Wednesday at approximately 11 a.m., the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta received a letter from Grozny without a detailed return address; a white powder of unknown origin was found inside, according to a statement on the publication’s website. The addressee on the envelope was the general director of Novaya Gazeta, Sergei Kozheurov. Currently, the editorial office is staffed by emergency services of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and police officers.

The co-founder of the New Petersburg newspaper, 73-year-old Nikolai Andrushchenko, died in the Mariinsky Hospital after being beaten in mid-March, director of New Petersburg Alevtina Ageeva told Fontanka. “After hospitalization, Nikolai Stepanovich underwent brain surgery, put him into a medically induced coma, and connected him to a ventilator. They turned it off a couple of days ago, he started breathing on his own, but he died this morning,” she said.