The Moscow Region Investigative Committee is asking to transfer to its investigation a criminal case about a car hitting a six-year-old boy in Zheleznodorozhny, according to the department’s website. “According to information that appeared in the media, in the city of Zheleznodorozhny a car ran over a boy and dragged him for at least 10 meters before stopping.

Shot: Freedom innocently convicted / YouTube Before the next “direct line” of Vladimir Putin, women from the association “Freedom innocently convicted” recorded video features against him - they complain about the factory of criminal cases, violations of the law by the investigation and the bias of the courts. "Mediazona" publishes nine stories about injustice that Putin never heard.

A 17-year-old schoolboy suspected of attacking a policeman during a demonstration on June 12 in St. Petersburg was released on his own recognizance, his lawyer Viktor Vartanov told Rosbalt. “He refused to testify. He was given a preventive measure in the form of a recognizance not to leave. I can’t say anything more, since we signed a non-disclosure agreement,” the lawyer said. A search was carried out in the young man’s apartment, Rosbalt reports, citing a source familiar with the situation.

The Ukrainian Border Service reported on the afternoon of June 15 that two supporters of Alexei Navalny asked for political asylum. As writes , we are talking about an IT consultant for the Anti-Corruption Foundation, director of Newcaster.tv, Vladislav Zdolnikov, and political activist Alexander Brusentsev. the BBC Russian service Zdolnikov and Brusentsev confirmed to the publication that they had left Russia, but did not ask for political asylum in Ukraine.

In Tara, Omsk Region, Alexander Belov, coordinator of the “people’s headquarters” of Alexei Navalny, was detained, writes on Facebook. the head of the politician’s election headquarters, Leonid Volkov, According to him, today “a van came for Belov, one in police uniform, two in civilian clothes,” and now the activist is being taken to Omsk. “That is, apparently, they will arrive by morning. There is no contact with Alexander now,” adds Volkov.

The former head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, called the fur store, which was described by opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation in 2013, a “small closet for fur coats,” the reports . BBC Yakunin said this in an interview with HARDtalk host Stephen Sackur, who asked whether Yakunin’s house really has a separate room for fur coats. “He showed the luxurious estate that you bought in the Moscow region for many, many millions of rubles.

Prisoner IK-3 in Novotroitsk Maxim Markin, who spoke about forcing convicts to commit telephone fraud, his words in a conversation with Orsk.ru. retracted On June 7, Meduza published an article in which prisoner Maxim Markin says that convicts, with the knowledge of the colony administration, are forced to engage in telephone extortion, which brings in 20-30 million rubles a month. Those who refuse to participate in the scam are beaten until they agree.

Activist Mark Galperin was charged with public calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), Interfax reports with reference to the activist’s lawyer Alexei Liptser. As Liptser said, the charge was brought as part of a case brought against Galperin last year. The lawyer was unable to provide details, citing a subscription to non-disclosure of investigative secrets. On June 13, Halperin announced that he had been summoned for questioning in the case of calls for extremism.

The Committee on Culture of St. Petersburg decided to appoint art critic Yuri Mudrov to the post of director of St. Isaac's Cathedral, reports . TASS “Based on the results of the selection of submitted candidates, the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg decided to appoint Yuri Vitalievich Mudrov to the position of director of the state museum-monument “St. Isaac’s Cathedral”, who will begin work on June 15, 2017,” the agency was told.

President Vladimir Putin called “ridiculous” the appearance of riot police during searches at the Gogol Center, which is headed by director Kirill Serebrennikov, reports . Dozhd TV channel He also commented on his phrase “Yes, fools,” which he said when answering a question from actor and artistic director of the Theater of Nations Evgeny Mironov about what was the reason for the searches. “I myself don’t remember what I said when this letter was handed to me. I read the letter.

The State Duma adopted in the second reading amendments to the federal law “On State Protection”, according to which the personal data of persons under such protection can be classified. The document was published on the State Duma website.

The Moscow District Military Court sentenced five alleged members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, banned in Russia, to terms of 15 to 18 years in a maximum security colony, RAPSI reports . Amirkhan Numonchonov, Alisher Khuseynov, Sukhrob Ironov and Naimjon Khojaev, Mirzobakhovvadin Kurbonov were found guilty under Part 1 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of a terrorist organization). In addition, Kurbonov and Ironov were fined 100 thousand and 300 thousand, respectively.

President Vladimir Putin believes that the protests on June 12 were organized “to resolve personal issues for the purposes of self-promotion,” Meduza reports , citing Interfax. to him According , protest actions “are unacceptable as tools for self-promotion and solving personal issues of self-promotion.” “It is one thing to organize protest actions, and another thing to use these actions as a tool of provocation and aggravation of the situation for self-promotion.

The Swedish prosecutor's office found that the suspects in organizing the explosion at the refugee camp in Gothenburg were trained in the nationalist organization "Russian Imperial Movement" (RIM) in St. Petersburg. about this with reference to Swedish publications. wrote Open Russia 23-year-old Viktor Melin, 51-year-old Yimmi Jonasson and 20-year-old Anton Tulin were charged with organizing the explosion.

Rapper David Nuriev, known under the pseudonym Ptakha, announced his intention to file a lawsuit against opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the reports . 360 ​​TV channel The rapper cites accusations from Navalny as the reason for the lawsuit: the politician claimed that Nuriev received money from the Kremlin for the release of the video “Freedom 2.017” (the video was deleted at the time of publication of the news ). In the video, the rapper criticized anti-corruption rallies.