Three people were detained in connection with the case initiated in connection with an explosion in a residential building in Volgograd, according to the Investigative Committee’s website.

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined “The Other Russia” activist Alexander Kulakov 150 thousand rubles, finding him guilty under Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public event that does not contain signs of a criminal act).

The house near Moscow of the author of the book “Strike of the Russian Gods” Vladimir Ivanov, who publishes under the pseudonym Istarkhov, was searched, NTV reports . The writer himself claimed that he was seriously ill and would remain in bed. According to security officials, he openly opposes Jews and Muslims and preaches the ideas of racism and Nazism.

The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow decided to expel the rabbi of the Maryinoroschinsky Jewish community in Moscow, Yosef Yitzchak Khersonsky, from Russia for illegal work, reports , citing court press secretary Olga Myshelova.

The competition to find extremists on social networks, announced by the Yekaterinburg mayor's office, was won by the Third Millennium Scientific Research Development Foundation, whose president is the leader of the local Patriots movement, Ilya Belous. Member of the Public Chamber of Yekaterinburg Ekaterina Petrova reported this on Facebook.

The prefecture of the Northern Administrative District of Moscow ordered a sociological study and consultation for local authorities from a company, one of the owners of which is the winner of the show “Battle of Psychics” Fatima Khadueva on TNT. Journalist Alexey Kovalev wrote about this on Twitter. The amount of the contract with LLC “Center for Producing Innovations,” of which Khadueva is a co-owner, is 8.7 million rubles.

The Supreme Court of Ingushetia for the second time postponed the consideration of appeals against the verdict of those accused of kidnapping Elizaveta Aliyeva, the Legal Initiative organization told Mediazona. The next meeting is scheduled for May 25. Earlier, the prosecutor's office of Ingushetia submitted an appeal requesting to overturn the verdict in the case of Mukharbek Evloev and Murad Paragulgov, convicted of kidnapping.

RBC journalist Vladislav Pushkarev was taken to police station No. 19 in Nizhny Tagil while filming an interview with former prisoners of correctional colony No. 5 who talked about torture, the agency “Between Lines” reports . “We were walking near the colony with two former prisoners who told me about torture in IK-5. A white Gazelle drove up, and three riot policemen jumped out, although I don’t know who they are, they didn’t introduce themselves.

The European Court of Human Rights upheld the complaint of taxi driver Andrei Pakhtusov, who was denied access to relatives while serving a long administrative arrest in the special detention center of the Syktyvkar Internal Affairs Directorate, and awarded him compensation for moral damage in the amount of a thousand euros, reports the human rights foundation “Public Verdict”.

President Vladimir Putin has given the Federal Security Service the right to seize land plots for state needs. The corresponding decree was published on the official portal of legal information. The draft decree was prepared by the FSB itself back in August last year.

The man committed [Roskomnadzor] at a Sberbank branch on Plekhanovskaya Street in Voronezh after an unsuccessful attempt to rob the bank for a million rubles, reports . RIA Voronezh According to the regional department of the Investigative Committee, the man was found in a bank branch, next to him was a knife “with traces of a brown substance.” Eyewitnesses told what he did [Roskomnadzor].

The opening of Alexei Navalny's presidential campaign headquarters in Moscow had to be postponed due to problems with the landlord, head of headquarters Leonid Volkov said on Twitter. “We will announce the date later; We are targeting May 24,” he wrote. At the beginning of May, the federal headquarters of Alexei Navalny’s presidential campaign, which was located in Moscow, was decided to be evicted from the premises.

In Tatarstan, the IT-Khalyal project is being developed-software that filters the content unwanted for Muslims, Business Online reports . This was announced by the head of the Investment Development Agency Tatarstan Talia Perellina, the daughter of the former deputy head of the Republican Office of the FSB Ilgiz Perellina. “According to Sharia, according to the Qur'an, there are certain standards for people's behavior: moral standards, morality, and so on.

Materials on the administrative case of politician Vyacheslav Maltsev, who was arrested in mid-April for disobeying a police officer at the March 26 rally in Moscow, have disappeared from the Tverskoy court. Lawyer Sergei Badamshin wrote about this on Twitter. In a conversation with Mediazona, the Tverskoy court refused to “comment on this situation” in any way.

The Investigative Committee for the Volgograd Region opened a criminal case after the collapse of the entrance to a residential building in Volgograd, according to the department’s website. The case was initiated under Part 3 of Article 238 of the Criminal Code (performance of work or provision of services that does not meet safety requirements). The circumstances of the incident are established, and the necessary examinations are ordered.