In the Yaroslavl correctional colony No. 1, Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, convicted in the “Bolotnaya case”, who spoke about being beaten by the institution’s employees, was released from the punishment cell, lawyer of the Public Verdict Foundation Irina Biryukova reports on her Facebook page.

The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg rejected the investigator's request for the arrest in absentia of Mikhail Yurevich, governor of the Chelyabinsk region in 2010-2014, accused of taking a bribe and inciting libel, reports . Interfax The judge considered that the investigator did not provide objective evidence of Yurevich’s refusal to return to Russia upon completion of treatment.

In Moscow, on Red Square, police detained activists who were reading the Constitution, reports the OVD-Info project. In total, the police detained nine activists, among them Ildar Dadin. As noted in OVD-Info, Dadin and Ozhich were taken to the Kitay-Gorod police station in a paddy wagon, and the rest of the activists were taken on foot.

The internal computer system of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs was hit by a ransomware virus, reports , citing several sources familiar with the situation. Varlamov.ru Mediazona's source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed the fact that departmental computers were infected with a ransomware virus . According to him, we are talking about departments in several regions.

The Petrozavodsk City Court extended the arrest for six months of the head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial human rights center, Yuri Dmitriev, who is accused of producing pornography with the participation of his adopted daughter, as well as pedophilia and illegal possession of weapons, TASS reports . Judge Marina Nosova extended Dmitriev's arrest until October 28, 2017 inclusive. A preliminary hearing in the case, which will take place behind closed doors, is scheduled for May 17.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin gave instructions to collect the materials necessary to arrest the driver of a BMW X5, who is suspected under Article 116 (beatings) for beating a woman with children at a pedestrian crossing. This is reported on the UK website. “The investigation believes that while the suspect is at large, he can obstruct the investigation by putting pressure on witnesses and the victim, or hide from the investigation.

The mayor of Gorno-Altaisk, Viktor Ologin, who went on a hunger strike in protest against the unfair, in his opinion, criminal prosecution for abuse of power and fraud, was hospitalized, reports “Taiga.info” with reference to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Listok” Sergei Mikhailov. Ologin has been under house arrest since mid-June. According to Mikhailov, the mayor was taken to the republican hospital due to a sharp deterioration in his health.

The Engelsky District Court banned the owner of the lioness Maya Yegish Yeroyan, who attacked the teenager in April, from walking her in public places, citing reports FreeNews-Volga the court's press service. The administration of the Engels district filed a lawsuit against Yeroyan. Judge Svetlana Shestakova satisfied the officials' demands. In April, a lion bit a 15-year-old teenager from Engels.

Three lawyers were detained in Moscow pre-trial detention center-4 for trying to enter the facility with mobile phones, SIM cards and adapters, according to the website of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Moscow. According to the department, all three lawyers tried to smuggle prohibited items on May 10. In the briefcase of one of them, under documents, a cell phone with a SIM card was found.

The investigative department of the Moscow Investigative Committee refused to initiate a criminal case of sexual assault against the action artist Pyotr Pavlensky, TASS reports citing his lawyer Olga Dinze. “The Simonovsky interdistrict investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia issued another decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case against my client Pyotr Pavlensky based on the materials of the inspection at the request of Anastasia Slonina,” she said.

A man born in 1984, accused of murdering a French citizen, has been detained in Moscow, the Moscow office of the Investigative Committee reports . According to investigators, on May 10, 2017, a French citizen met with a Moscow resident about the sale of his apartment located on Stroiteley Street. After this, the Frenchman stopped communicating with relatives and friends.

Russian hackers attacked the campaign headquarters of former US President Barack Obama in 2008, reports Newsweek , citing a report from the American company Area 1 Security , which identifies cyber threats. According to the publication, since 2007, hackers have also attacked campaign managers, presidential aides and officials holding senior positions in the Departments of State, Defense and Energy, and did not stop attacks even after they left office.

The Tver District Court of Moscow postponed the consideration of the case of actor Yuri Kulia, who is accused of applying violence to a police officer during the action on March 26 (part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). The transfer is due to the fact that the employees of the pre -trial detention center have not yet presented the decision on the appointment of today's meeting, the mediazone correspondent reports.

After prosecutorial inspections in 2016 and 2017 in the Novosibirsk region, 42 employees of the criminal correctional system were brought to disciplinary liability for violating the labor rights of convicts, according to the website of the prosecutor's office of the Novosibirsk region. The prosecutor's office demanded that the administration of 40 correctional institutions eliminate violations.

Security forces found a homemade explosive device from a fire extinguisher on a native of Kyrgyzstan, Mukhamadyusup Ermatov, who was detained on suspicion of involvement in a terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro. According to RIA Novosti, an investigator reported this in the Basmanny District Court of Moscow at a meeting to select a preventive measure. “During the search, an explosive device, also made from a fire extinguisher, was found on Ermatov.