The victim of the shooting at Podol in Kiev turned out to be Adam Osmayev, accused in Russia of an attempt on the life of President Vladimir Putin, RBC-Ukraine reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. According to the source, Osmayev and his wife Amina Okueva agreed on an interview with the allegedly French journalist Alex Werner from Le Monde in Kiev on Kirillovskaya Street.

The Basmanny court extended until September 8 the arrest period for the former deputy head of the anti-corruption department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Dmitry Zakharchenko, reports the Moscow agency. According to the investigator, it is necessary to order and conduct several examinations, as well as to identify everyone with whom Zakharchenko communicated.

Novaya Gazeta journalist Ali Feruz said that Russia refused him temporary asylum and was not allowing the “European country” to take him out. He wrote about this on Facebook. “Today, the consul of a European state met with the Russian migration service. Russia refuses to legalize me here and does not allow this European country to take me out,” he wrote. Feruz added that two weeks ago the migration service denied him temporary asylum.

The owner of the ESN group, Grigory Berezkin, said that he does not intend to merge RBC with his other media assets, including the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper and Metro , reports . Interfax “I don’t plan this. Someone misunderstood me,” Berezkin said. As reported by Rambler News Service, Berezkin plans to create a unified media holding if the RBC deal is successfully completed. UST also owns a controlling stake in Komsomolskaya Pravda and it owns the newspaper Metro .

The St. Petersburg Garrison Military Court extended until August 8 the arrest of 18-year-old cadet of the St. Petersburg Mozhaisky Military Space Academy Vadim Osipov, accused of promoting terrorism, Vitaly Cherkasov, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, told Mediazona.

Vladilen Bugaev. Photo: Valeria Altareva / Mediazone On Wednesday evening, in Irkutsk, six or seven unknown people came to an old log mansion on Timiryazev Street and beat Vladilen Bugaev - the son of the owner of the premises, with whom the supporters of Alexei Navalny agreed to rent an office for a pre -election headquarters. Mediazona talked about what had happened to Bugaev and head of the headquarters Sergei Bespalov.

Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika proposed giving prosecutors the right to investigate criminal cases against investigators, reports . RIA Novosti According to Chaika, this will improve the business climate in the country. “We have been talking for a long time about the fact that the special subject of the investigation should be within the competence of the prosecutor’s office.

President Vladimir Putin said that Russia does not engage in hacking activities and does not support hackers, reports . RBC “We never do this at the state level, that’s what’s most important,” the president said at a meeting with heads of international agencies at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. He added that hackers cannot radically influence the course of an election campaign in another state.

A photograph with an arrested citizen of Uzbekistan Kamron Usmonov, chained to the wall in one of the premises of the Moscow City Court, is “staged in nature” and is not true, the press secretary of the court Ulyana Solopova said on Facebook. According to her, in the Moscow City Court there is no premises depicted in the photo, and the words about the “guns of torture” in the court are “provocative in court”.

The court of the city of Kamenka in the Penza region arrested the head of the branch of the Western Choice party, Ivan Gorodisky, for 10 days for a post with a crossed out swastika on the social network VKontakte, reports the SOVA Center for the Study of Extremism. In December 2016, Gorodisky was already arrested for seven days under Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code (public display of Nazi symbols).

The former head of the district police department and juvenile affairs department of police department No. 4 in Kurgan is accused of exceeding official authority and organizing the storage of narcotic drugs, the prosecutor's office of the Kurgan region reports . According to the department, in July 2013, a police officer told local residents where hemp grew and offered to store it at home. When the police began an investigation into illegal possession of drugs, he paid them 600 rubles.

The Moscow authorities will change the procedure for voting on the inclusion of houses in the “renovation” program, TASS reports citing Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. He said abstention votes would be counted “in proportion” to the votes of other residents. “For example, residents of 30% of apartments took part in the voting: 15% - “for”, 15% - “against”. If the voices of the silent ones are put into one basket, we get a support level of “for” 85%.

The head of the Pskov region, Andrei Turchak, refused to answer a question from Dozhd journalist Margarita Lyutova about his involvement in the attack on journalist Oleg Kashin. Lyutova asked him questions at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. — Why didn’t you go to a confrontation ? - asked Lyutova. - What kind of confrontation, girl? Forget it,” Turchak replied, inviting Lyutova to talk about the economy of the Pskov region. He did not answer any of the journalist’s questions.

A criminal case on extremism was opened against a 46-year-old resident of the Chuvash city of Kanash for a post on Facebook, reports the Department of the Investigative Committee for Chuvashia.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested another person involved in the case of Colonel of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Zakharchenko, reports . RIA Novosti The arrested Viktor Kluzhenkov is accused of complicity in the transfer of a bribe. In court it turned out that he had a secondary education and had never officially worked anywhere. According to the investigator, he had housing and registration in Moscow, but he did not show up at home and lived in hotels before his arrest.