Moscow police have begun a pre-investigation check in connection with the attack on politician Alexei Navalny, according to the website of the city department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. “Service 02 received a message that on the street. Leninskaya Sloboda Alexei Navalny was doused with brilliant green.

Police have identified four people who allegedly attacked blogger Ilya Varlamov in Stavropol, according to the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Stavropol Territory. “Currently, police officers have identified four citizens possibly involved in the attack. Measures have been taken to establish their location,” the department said in a statement. Previously, the regional prosecutor's office took special control over the investigation of the attack on the blogger.

A pharmacy was attacked on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow, a law enforcement source told the Moscow agency. “After committing a robbery at a pharmacy at the address: Leninsky Prospekt, building 60/2, the body of a pharmacist was found on the spot, this is a 55-year-old woman,” said the agency’s interlocutor. This house houses Herbaveda. Ren-TV reports that the Moscow State Department of Internal Affairs confirmed the discovery of the body.

The Ren-TV television channel published a video of an attack on Yabloko member Natalya Fedorova. The recording shows how a man approaches Fedorova from behind, sprays in her face, turns around and leaves. The attack took place in Cheryomushki, the activist was hospitalized and was diagnosed with chemical burns to her face and eyes. Doctors hope that his vision will be restored.

The Ministry of Justice has appealed the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to pay oppositionist Alexei Navalny 63 thousand euros as compensation for detentions at protests in 2012-2014, citing reports Meduza an Interfax report. “On April 26, a petition from the authorities of the Russian Federation was sent to the European Court of Human Rights to transfer the case Navalny v. Russia to the Grand Chamber,” the press service of the ministry told the agency.

In St. Petersburg, on Nevsky Prospekt, members of Open Russia are being detained en masse for distributing propaganda materials before the “I’m fed up” protest action, said on Twitter. opposition activist Sergei Kuzin According to him, activists are detained without explanation. “They’re taking us to the 27th, 28th (?) police departments,” added Kuzin. As Andrei Pivovarov, coordinator of Open Russia, told Novaya Gazeta, 12 activists of the movement were detained .

The Moscow District Military Court sentenced the 65-year-old imam of the Yardam mosque in Otradny, Makhmud Velitov, to three years in a general regime colony on charges of justifying terrorism, the Investigative Committee reports .

Operatives of the Center for Countering Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs again came to the office of the Open Russia movement, lawyer Sergei Badamshin said on Twitter.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow registered a complaint from Novaya Gazeta against the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, due to inaction due to reports of persecution of gays in Chechnya. Gazeta.ru was informed about this by the press service of the court. A lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, Andrei Sabinin, filed a complaint on April 14. He told Mediazona that the application was not collected from the post office until April 19.

In the Irkutsk region, due to fires, a state of emergency will be introduced, said the deputy governor of the region, Alexander Bitarov. “The high temperature, which is not typical for this period of time, and the lack of precipitation have caused the fire hazard class IV in the territory of 14 districts today, and the fire hazard class in nine regions is V – extreme – fire hazard class in forests.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny demanded that the Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, Igor Albin, contact law enforcement agencies because of his words about theft during the construction of the Krestovsky stadium, known as the Zenit Arena. “What is the name of the secret oligarch “who cut the stadium budget for two five-year plans”? I'm very interested, name it.

The name of the former owner of the Cherkizovsky market, businessman Telman Ismailov, is not mentioned in the case of his brother Rafik, who was detained last year on suspicion of murdering businessmen in Moscow, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti. The message has not yet appeared on the agency’s website; it is quoted by RBC. According to a RIA Novosti source, only Rafik Ismailov is suspected of involvement in the murders; A certain Mehman Kerimov is also involved in the case.

The Moscow City Hall agreed with the leaders of initiative groups to hold a single protest in mid-May against the “renovation” program, which provides for the massive demolition of houses and the relocation of their residents, quotes the head of the Moscow regional security department, Vladimir Chernikov.

A resident of the Kirovsky district of Kemerovo received 13 years in a maximum security colony on charges of murder and causing grievous bodily harm, reports the department of the Investigative Committee for Kuzbass. According to investigators, in December 2016, a 43-year-old man and his girlfriend were drinking, and when the alcohol ran out, he sent the woman for more.

Concern Titan-2 filed a lawsuit against RBC demanding that it refute data that a former deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Vadim Ryabov, owns a stake in the company. The reason for the lawsuit was the ranking of the 50 fastest growing companies published by RBC magazine at the end of 2016, , explained to Rambler News Service.