The Soviet District Court of Samara in absentia sentenced the local resident Artem Shirobokov to five years in a general regime colony, finding him guilty of mercenaries (part 3 of Article 359 of the Criminal Code), Kommersant writes . According to the prosecution, Belovobov participated in the armed conflict in the east of Ukraine as part of the Azov battalion as a mercenary. The correspondence verdict for mercenaries was the first in Russian practice, the newspaper notes.

The head of the Moscow regional security department, Vladimir Chernikov, called the actions of the organizers of the protest action on June 12 at the final stage of approval provocative, reports . Interfax “In our opinion, there is a provocative game on the part of our opponents. We did not have a critical situation during the discussion of the action. Everything that was stated in the notice from the organizers has been fulfilled,” Chernikov insists.

The Primorsky District Court of the Arkhangelsk Region decided to tighten the regime for lawyer Andrei Krekov, convicted on charges of using violence against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) - now he must be transferred from a penal colony to a general regime. His wife Victoria told Mediazona about this. According to her, Andrei Krekov himself refused to participate in the hearing and was removed from the courtroom.

A Moscow police officer who attacked teenagers with a knife on May 24 was taken into custody, according to the department’s website. that a police officer was involved in the attack on teenagers on June 6 The Moscow police department reported . He was fired from the department, and its leaders were brought to justice. The man was charged with intentionally causing grievous bodily harm (Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code) and hooliganism (Part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

Journalist Pavel Nikulin told Mediazone about the detention in the Neskuchny Garden when he went to sports training. According to Nikulin, he was stopped by the police inspector Andrei Borisov, who tried to watch him. He demanded to turn his pockets to check the presence of drugs or weapons. Nikulin refused to do this without witnesses, after which he was pushed into the car. The journalist was brought to the Yakimanka police department, but he is not made inside.

State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya said that she would send a request to the Prosecutor General's Office to check the Transparency International organization after the publication of an investigation into the presence of an undeclared apartment in Donetsk, RBC reports . “I will ask the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office to conduct an investigation into the crimes committed.

Photo: Maxim Polyakov / Kommersant On the morning of June 7, a message about the “white list” of Roskomnadzor-the register, which number more than two thousand domains, which operators are prohibited from blocking, was dispersed along the telegram channels. Among them, state resources prevail, but there are also search engines, social networks and three Internet publications-“Russian newspaper”, “Parliamentary newspaper” and “Lenta.ru”.

Governor of the Vladimir region Svetlana Orlova again stood up for Vice-Governor Elena Mazanko, who was sent under house arrest on suspicion of bribery, and connected this criminal case with an “attack on herself,” reports .

In Surgut, an elderly man with a knife grabbed a female employee of one of the local organizations and demanded money, reports with reference to the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Interfax According to the head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Olga Abmaikina, at about 13:00 local time (11:30 Moscow time), a man burst into one of the city’s organizations, seized one of the workers and began to demand money.

Lawyers for former Interior Ministry General Denis Sugrobov and his subordinates found discrepancies between the verdict that the Moscow City Court announced in April and the text of the decision that the defense received, RBC reports . Lawyers Eduard Isetsky, Marina Alekseeva and Yuri Vostrikov claim that changes were made to the sentence of Sugrobov and his colleagues. In April, Sugrobov was sentenced to 22 years in prison for organizing a criminal community.

The Nevsky Court of St. Petersburg arrested Anastasia Terentyeva, a follower of the Church of Scientology, until August 5, reports . Fontanka According to the FSB, Terentyeva and four other people are involved in illegally earning 276 million rubles and humiliating the social group “Sources of Trouble.” The investigator did not specify what kind of social group this was.

The Moscow City Hall approved the rally on June 12 on Sakharov Avenue, but at the same time warned about the ban on using screens and speakers for sound, Roman Rubanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, told Mediazona. “They (Moscow authorities - MZ) ask how you want to spend it. I answer - stage, screens, dubbing sound. They say - nothing is needed, sound is not allowed, screens. They say, do you know what happened in Turin? - said Rubanov.

The Investigative Committee opened a case after children were poisoned with drug-laced sweets in Chita, according to the department’s website. According to investigators, on June 5, an unknown person sold a synthetic drug in candy wrappers to a 17-year-old teenager. The teenager used it with three boys, aged 17, 14 and 4, and a 12-year-old girl. A few hours later, the children were hospitalized with poisoning.

The Russian branch of Transparency International published the results of an investigation into State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, who was found to have an undeclared apartment in Donetsk. Transparency .

The director of school No. 43 in Vorkuta, Lyudmila Murina, where students stabbed a peer to death during a fight, was sentenced to a suspended sentence, the Investigative Committee for Komi reports . The court found that on February 3, 2017, a 12-year-old teenager and his 11-year-old friend killed a peer. According to investigators, the cause of the murder was interpersonal conflicts between teenagers and their bad relationships.