In Gelendzhik, the police drew up administrative protocols on the residents of a house sent by the authorities for demolition, reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Krasnodar Territory. Interfax The police charge them with Part 6.1 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (participation in an unauthorized event that resulted in interference with the functioning of transport infrastructure).

Maxim Panfilov, a defendant in the Bolotnaya case, was transferred from the Butyrka pre-trial detention center to a psychiatric hospital, his lawyer Sergei Panchenko told Novaya Gazeta. The defense lawyer noted that it is not yet known which hospital Panfilov was sent to.

Hackers allegedly linked to Russian authorities attacked Ireland's power supply systems, writes the Times , citing security experts. The attack took place last month and targeted engineers from Ireland 's Electricity Supply Board . Hackers linked to the GRU sent out emails containing malware. There is no evidence that the system was compromised, but cybersecurity analysts believe hackers may have stolen passwords to access it.

Residents of a 14-story building in the Krasnodar Territory, which the authorities plan to demolish, blocked the M4 federal highway from the village of Kabardinka to Gelendzhik with coffins, reports .

Tula police detained activists from the local election headquarters of Alexei Navalny, reports . OVD-Info The police stopped the car in which the headquarters coordinator Dmitry Nikolaev and a volunteer were traveling to the agreed picket. They were taken to the Soviet police department and their phones were taken away. In addition, in Novomoskovsk, Tula Region, volunteer Nikita Reutsky was detained at an agreed picket.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, answering a question from a journalist from the American television channel HBO about the persecution of gays in Chechnya, called for “taking away” gays from the republic, if there are any. During an interview on the development of mixed martial arts in Chechnya, “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” host David Scott asked Kadyrov if he wanted to comment on reports of persecution of gays.

The head of one of the services of the central apparatus of the FSB, Andrei Kuternin, and his deputy, Alexei Kostenkov, were arrested on charges of extorting bribes for a contract to provide security for diplomats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Kommersant newspaper writes .