The Russian Orthodox Church considers the construction of two hundred new churches insufficient, Patriarch Kirill said at a meeting with diplomats from Latin American countries. “Only now are we beginning to realize that 200 will not be enough. We are just opening the temple, but there is no room there,” Interfax quotes him as saying. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church also noted that 40 churches have already been opened as part of this program.

The Presidium of the Human Rights Council published an expert opinion on the bills on “renovation” and on the housing “renovation” fund and suggested that the State Duma reject them or consider them in six months.

Former FBI Director James Comey reported attempts by Russian hackers to hack hundreds of American organizations. A broadcast of his speech to Congress is available on YouTube , with the Guardian providing a text broadcast. According to him, in attempts to interfere with the election process, Russian hackers attacked “hundreds, maybe even more than a thousand” organizations. US President Donald Trump, according to him, was not interested in the rest of the FBI investigations.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Volgograd Region published a press release on the progress of the investigation into the criminal case regarding the publication of a picture by supporters of Alexei Navalny, in which the Motherland monument is depicted in greenery. “The blasphemous act immediately received a public outcry among citizens. He did not go unnoticed by law enforcement officers either,” writes the Investigative Committee.

The Central District Court of Kaliningrad sentenced former policeman Alexei Kashirin from St. Petersburg to one and a half years in a penal colony, finding him guilty of attacking regional Duma deputy and journalist Igor Rudnikov. This was reported by New Kaliningrad.

On June 7, the Moscow City Court ruled on the preliminary blocking of the blog section on the website Sportbox.ru , associated with Match TV, as interim measures in Sports.ru’s claim of copyright infringement. about this writes Vedomosti with reference to Sports.ru CEO Dmitry Navosha. Currently, when clicking on the link blogs.sportbox.ru, an error appears.

The Internet Ombudsman under the President, Dmitry Marinichev, called the bill introduced to the State Duma banning the use of anonymizers and VPNs in Russia “madness,” reports . RBC Marinichev noted that it is impossible to separate a VPN that is used for commercial purposes from a VPN that is used to bypass blocks.

The Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg, until August 5, arrested the executive director Galina Shurina and the head of the Church of Scientology Ivan Matsitsky, who is accused of participating in an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). this RAPSI reports with reference to its correspondent in the courtroom. They are also accused of illegal business (Article 171 of the Criminal Code) and inciting hatred and enmity (Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

The European Court of Human Rights awarded 5 thousand euros to far-right activist Vyacheslav Datsik for the conditions of detention in IK-31 in the Krasnoyarsk region, where he was held from November 2013 to October 2014. Fontanka reports this with reference to lawyer Andrei Fedorkov, and Rosbalt also refers to copies of the relevant documents.

Law enforcement agencies in Ingushetia are looking for unknown persons who fired at the car of deputy of the People's Assembly of the Republic Set-Salim Akhilgov in the Nazran district, reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. Interfax “The incident occurred today on a highway in the Nazran district of Ingushetia. The car of deputy Seth-Salim Akhilgov was shot at from small arms,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

In the Tomsk Regional Court, a panel of jurors returned a not guilty verdict in the case of local resident Daria Maltseva, who was accused of murdering her seven-year-old son. This is reported on the court's website.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined three left-wing activists and vegans detained on May Day 15 thousand rubles each. This was reported by the OVD-Info project. According to the project, Kirill Plotnikov, Kirill Belousov and Vladimir Chuvilov were charged with Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (violation of the procession procedure by a participant in the action).

A criminal case was transferred to the Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg against 44-year-old native of Kislovodsk Vladimir Timoshenko, who is accused of inciting hatred against civil servants. Vitaly Cherkasov, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, told Mediazona about this.

The Investigative Committee began a pre-investigation of the incident on Taganskaya Street of Yekaterinburg, where the police detained a 22-year-old woman with a child for the trade in herbs and fruits. This was reported on the website of the department. According to SK, the incident occurred on June 1.

Activist of the “14%” movement Dmitry Borisov was detained on suspicion of using violence against a government official, his mother Irina Andrievskaya told Mediazona. She said that Borisov was taken away by investigators after a search that began in the early morning of June 8. One of the investigators showed her a document in which it was mentioned that the activist was suspected under three articles, including 318 of the Criminal Code.