The Moscow authorities have selected about 150 plots of land on which it is “theoretically” possible to build houses for residents of houses subject to demolition, writes Kommersant. The newspaper's source said that most of these sites are located in the east and southeast of the city. Approximately 100 of the selected sites are “clearly suitable” for housing. “Most of the industrial zone land belongs to the city, which has leased the plots.

The Zavolzhsky District Court of Yaroslavl returned for revision the petition of the Bolotnaya case defendant Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, press secretary of the Yaroslavl Regional Court Natalia Sarbunova told Interfax. “The judge identified technical inaccuracies in the design; therefore, the petition will be sent to lawyers for revision,” she said.

An Islamist organization linked to al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack in St. Petersburg, reports . SITE As the editor of the Long War Journal noted , the statement of responsibility was published by the “Imam Shamil Battalion.” The released statement said the attack was carried out on the orders of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri as revenge for Russian actions in Syria, Chechnya and Libya.

The Kurgan City Court acquitted former imam Ali Yakupov, accused of inciting hatred against the social group “communists,” Kommersant reports , citing court data. Yakupov was charged under Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity). According to investigators, in 2016 he left a comment on VKontakte on a post about the ban on wearing the hijab in China, in which, addressing higher powers, he predicted “heavenly punishment” for the Chinese communists.

The Sovetsky District Court of Volgograd arrested in absentia former State Duma deputy from A Just Russia Oleg Mikheev, accused of attempting to steal 2 billion rubles, reports . Interfax “Mikheev does not appear at repeatedly scheduled hearings, and there are no requests from him to postpone court hearings. Mikheev fled from trial. His location is unknown,” said judge Natalya Barkova, instructing the prosecutor to search for the ex-deputy.

The cook of a Japanese restaurant shot at a visitor to the establishment on Mira Avenue for remarking about unsanitary conditions, a law enforcement source told the Moscow agency. “There was a conflict between the chef of the establishment, a 28-year-old native of Karakalpakstan, and a 26-year-old visitor due to violation of sanitary standards.

In the Kemerovo region, a 43-year-old resident of Mariinsk is accused of killing his younger acquaintance during a dispute over drugs, the reports . regional Investigative Committee According to investigators, on July 11, 2016, the man was drinking at home with his 34-year-old acquaintance, whom he began reproaching for drug use. “The education process escalated into a conflict, as a result of which the accused stabbed the victim in the chest. The man died on the spot.

The head of the Federal Property Management Agency, Dmitry Pristanskov, proposed allowing the department to transfer free of charge animals seized from poachers that are not included in the Red Book, which can now only be sold or killed, reports . RIA Novosti “Today, these captured mammals are subject exclusively to sale or destruction if no one comes to the auction, either by force or within the powers of the Federal Property Management Agency,” he said.

The plane carrying the leadership of United Russia and Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky was unable to fly from Omsk to Moscow due to an emergency signal, . Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent Elena Krivyakina tweeted “As the flight attendant said, the pilots’ “door not closed” light went off during takeoff. They braked urgently.

The investigation considers Abu Salah al-Uzbeki, whose real name is Sirojiddin Mukhtarov, to be the mastermind of the terrorist attack in St. Petersburg, reports , citing data from the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) of Kyrgyzstan. Gazeta.ru Mukhtarov's dossier on the Interpol website states that he is accused of terrorist attacks, financing terrorism, participation in criminal organizations, forgery of documents and illegal border crossing.

Employees of IK-1 of the Yaroslavl region refused to allow the public defender of Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, Sergei Sharov-Delone, into the territory of the colony. He wrote about this on his Facebook. According to Sharov-Delone, the employees of IK-1 did not explain the refusal of a pass, saying that they would notify them by letter within a month. Earlier it became known that Nepomnyashchi, convicted in the Bolotnaya case, was beaten along with other prisoners of IK-1.

The Ministry of Justice published reports from non-profit organizations that Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation linked to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Navalny wrote about this on his blog. The oppositionist noted that previously the Gradislava, Sotsgosproekt, Dar and Winter Olympic Sports Support Funds had never made their reports public. According to FBK estimates, in 2016 the expenses of these funds amounted to more than 3.681 billion rubles.

The Moscow prosecutor's office approved the indictment and sent the case of the murder of 14 homeless people in 2014–2015 to the Moscow City Court, the department reports .

The Indoginsky District Court of Chita released prisoner Andrei Kondratenko from the colony due to a serious illness. The human rights organization “Zone of Law” reported this to Mediazona. 40-year-old Kondratenko was in medical correctional institution No. 4 of the Trans-Baikal Territory. He was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cirrhotic tuberculosis of the right lung.

In Khabarovsk, all courts were evacuated after a bomb was reported, told TASS. the FSB department for the Khabarovsk Territory “We received an anonymous phone call that an explosive device had been planted in the courthouse. The caller did not give the specific address of the court, so personnel were evacuated from all court premises in the city,” said a representative of the department.