Investigators detained a policeman who hit a pensioner in the village of Polivanovo near Moscow and then fled the scene, reports the press service of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region. According to the investigation, on the afternoon of July 2, 2017, a 33-year-old police officer in a personal car was moving from Tsentralnaya Street towards Bogorodskaya Street in the village of Polivanovo. There he hit a 79-year-old woman and drove off.

Russian journalist Yevgeny Titov, who left Russia in 2016 due to threats, was denied political asylum in Lithuania, reports Radio Liberty , citing Titov himself. According to the publication, the decision to refuse was made by the Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lithuania, and it was confirmed by the Vilnius District Court. The journalist filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Lithuania. If he refuses, he will be deported to Russia.

The head of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, Mikhail Fedotov, asked the rector of the Moscow State Law Academy (MSAL) to dismantle the memorial plaque in honor of Joseph Stalin. The corresponding appeal was published on the Council’s website. Fedotov admitted that he was “very bewildered” about the installation of a memorial plaque in the academy building.

The authorities of St. Petersburg did not find anything illegal in the actions of the employees of the 15th police department, where the police stripped naked the activist of the “Spring” movement Timofey Gorodilov, trying to find his phone. Activist Varya Mikhailova reported this on her Twitter. Gorodilov was detained for participating in a protest on June 12 on the Field of Mars in St. Petersburg.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has denied information that a group of evangelical Christians was brought to administrative responsibility for collectively reading the Bible in a cafe in Sochi. “The information published today in the media about the content of the position of the authorities of the Russian Federation on the complaint “Koliasnikov v.

The Kuzminsky District Court of Moscow arrested in absentia Serpukhov resident Nikita Sadkov, who was charged with desecration of the Russian flag and inciting hatred in a video published in the YaPlakal community. Lawyer Dmitry Dinze confirmed that his client left Russia in search of political asylum.

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which has come into force, recognizing the “Dima Yakovlev law” as discriminatory, does not mean the need to revise it, the told TASS.

The Leninsky District Court of Tambov arrested Andrei Polyakov, a volunteer of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters, for a day. According to the police, Polyakov swore publicly near the police department building, reports . OVD-Info On June 28, Polyakov was detained during a single picket near the administration building of the Tambov region. After drawing up a report, he was released from the police department building.

In the Altai Territory, a court ordered the conductor, who forced two passengers to jump out of the car while the train was moving, to pay 15 thousand rubles as a fine. This was reported by the press service of the West Siberian Investigation Department for Transport. In September 2016, two passengers on the Biysk-Novosibirsk-Biysk train did not have time to get out of the car at the Altayskaya station, because the conductor did not warn them about their arrival in time.

A court in Moscow arrested a man accused of murder and attempting to burn dismembered remains, reports . the Investigative Committee We are talking about a 31-year-old man accused under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code (murder). According to investigators, on June 2 he was drinking with an acquaintance in an apartment in Zelenograd, during an argument he killed him with a hammer, dismembered his body and took the remains to the Moscow region, where he planned to burn him.

The St. Petersburg City Court will consider the case of the kidnapping of the managing director of the Zaslon plant, Alexander Gorbunov, behind closed doors, the reports on its Telegram channel. court’s press service At the preliminary hearing, Gorbunov's representative asked the court to consider the case behind closed doors; other participants in the process did not object.

After several hours of waiting in Yaroslavl IK-1, lawyer Irina Biryukova managed to talk to prisoner Evgeny Makarov, who reported another beating. “The lawyer was able to interview Makarov about the details of the beating by the colony officers only in the room for short-term visits. Biryukova was not allowed to talk in the meeting room between lawyers and clients.

Judge of the Kiev District Court of Simferopol Alexey Tikhopoy extended the arrest of three Sevastopol residents accused of preparing sabotage in Crimea for two months, until September 8, the Crimean Human Rights Group reports . The arrest has been extended for Vladimir Dudka, Alexey Bessarabov and Dmitry Shtyblikov. The latter, presumably, entered into a pre-trial agreement; his case will be considered in a special manner.

The Investigative Committee has classified the criminal case of fraud during the construction of the residence of the President of Russia in Novo-Ogarevo as “Top Secret”, told RBC. a source close to the leadership of the FSB “The case contains information that represents a state secret, since we are talking about work at presidential residences,” said the agency’s interlocutor.

The Volodarsky District Court of Bryansk sentenced Yulia Myasoedova and Elera Khorzeeva, accused of fraud in the sale of heating pads to a pensioner, to five years in prison and a 50 thousand ruble fine. The court website notes that the execution of the sentence is deferred until the children of the convicts reach their 14th birthday. The verdict under the article on fraud on an especially large scale committed by an organized group has not yet entered into force.