Workers from North Korea took part in the construction of the Zenit Arena in St. Petersburg, admitted FIFA head Gianni Infantino, who noted the “horrific working conditions” of North Korean workers. According to The Guardian, the letter with this confession from Infantino was in the possession of the editors.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow placed the former director of the Seventh Studio, Yuri Itin, under house arrest, reports from the courtroom. a Dozhd correspondent The investigation asked to place Itin in a pre-trial detention center for two months. Itin himself asked to be placed under house arrest. His lawyer asked to postpone the court hearing for 72 hours in order to provide additional evidence. Itin does not admit his guilt in embezzlement of funds.

St. Petersburg police are checking the film company of director Alexei Uchitel for tax crimes in connection with a request from ex-prosecutor of Crimea and State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, TASS reports citing lawyer Konstantin Dobrynin. “Today a police officer came to Alexei Uchitel’s film studio in St. Petersburg and brought a request for documents.

The hacker group Fancy Bear (APT28) fabricated evidence of connections between independent Russian publications and opposition leader Alexei Navalny with the US authorities, according to a report from the Citizen Lab organization. In October 2016, using a phishing email message, hackers hacked David Satter, an American journalist working for Radio Liberty, who was expelled from Russia in 2013.

Timofey Martynenko, a student at the Southern Federal University in Rostov-on-Don, was taken away from class for questioning in connection with the March 26 rally, Rosbalt reports , citing Elena Kulikova, coordinator of the local headquarters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Kulikova said that on May 25, police came to the SFU Academy of Psychology and took Martynenko away from class.

Oleg Navalny, convicted in the Yves Rocher case, was released from solitary confinement after a year and a half. A message about this appeared on his Facebook page on May 23. On February 27, the Uritsky District Court of the Oryol Region denied Oleg Navalny parole. At the end of June 2016, Navalny was already denied parole. Then the judge justified his decision by the fact that the prisoner had penalties and was repeatedly placed in a punishment cell.

The European Court of Human Rights has demanded that the Russian authorities urgently provide medical assistance to 55-year-old Alexey Mazageishchikov, who is in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Moscow “Matrosskaya Tishina,” the human rights organization “Zone of Law” told Mediazona, citing lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina. Mazageyshchikov, a defendant in the fraud case, has been in jail since September 2015.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow extended the detention of former Seventh Studio accountant Nina Maslyaeva, a suspect in the case of the theft of 200 million rubles, to 72 hours, reports . Dozhd TV channel The investigator asked for an extension, citing the need to “provide more evidence.” In the ruling, the judge noted that Maslyaeva “tried to hide the evidence.” In a conversation with TASS, Maslyaeva’s lawyer Pavel Tepukhin noted that charges have not yet been brought.

The new head of the apparatus of the Altai Legislative Assembly, Inna Kazantseva, demanded that journalists not photograph deputies in an “unfavorable manner,” reports . the Bankfax agency According to the agency, Kazantseva specially organized a meeting with journalists after the publication of an article following the results of the April session.

Human rights activist Andrei Babushkin appealed the refusal of the Moscow Shchukino district police to initiate a criminal case due to threatening inscriptions at the entrance of Yaroslav Nikitenko, an environmental activist and member of the initiative group “In Defense of Zhivopisnaya”. As the activist told Mediazona, the police refused to initiate a case under Articles 119 of the Criminal Code (threats to kill) and 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism).

At the entrance to Engels, Saratov region, the rear right wheels of an ambulance came off, which flew to the side of the road and hit a 16-year-old girl. This was reported by “Public Opinion” with reference to the press service of the traffic police. The incident occurred early in the morning on the Engels-Ozinki highway. The girl received numerous injuries and was hospitalized.

Since 2015, the Moscow Cadet Music Corps (school No. 1770) has been running the “Young Programmers of the FSB of Russia” group, which trains “IT specialists for law enforcement agencies.” about this . writes Meduza The project was organized by computer science teacher Sergei Epifantsev.

The court found St. Petersburg resident Yuri Savin guilty of murdering two neighbors, whose remains were found in a sewer pipe, reports . the Investigative Committee According to investigators, in the summer of 2016, Savin made a homemade six-shooter revolver and a silencer from a signal revolver. He tested the combat effectiveness of homemade weapons on books. On July 19, 2016, Savin shot and killed his neighbors.

In Izhevsk, a house in which Jehovah's Witnesses held religious services was destroyed, according to the website of the religious organization. According to the organization, on the night of May 20, 2017, a local resident entered the building on Krasnoselskaya Street through a broken window and destroyed furniture, a suspended ceiling, and audio and video equipment with a metal object. He also tore out metal electrical panels and set off fire extinguishers.

Russian Presidential Envoy to the Volga Federal District Mikhail Babich linked Ivan Karnilin’s resignation from the post of head of Nizhny Novgorod with an anti-corruption check of officials, TASS reports . According to Babich, the result of anti-corruption work in the district for 2015-2016 showed that during this time about 323 officials were dismissed due to violations of anti-corruption legislation, and another 286 deputies resigned early.