The European Court of Human Rights communicated 19 complaints from 23 Russian citizens who were detained over the years for participating in peaceful protests. The complaints of 23 Russians were combined into the case “Kapustin and others against Russia,” OVD-Info reports , citing lawyers of the international human rights group “Agora” Alexander Popkov and Marina Dubrovina.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced the former head of the disbanded Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Northwestern Federal District, Vitaly Bykov, to 7 years in prison in a case of theft during the liquidation of the department, reports . Interfax “Found Bykov guilty and impose a cumulative punishment of 7 years in prison in a general regime colony and a fine of 400 thousand rubles,” the agency quotes judge Anzhelika Morozova.

The Council of Judges of the Krasnodar Territory will check the data on the wedding of the daughter of the judge of the Krasnodar Regional Court Elena Khakhaleva, Sofia, for two million dollars. this with reference to the head of the council, Vladimir Kislyak. reports RIA Novosti Kislyak noted that journalists would be informed “immediately” about the results of checking the accuracy of this information.

The magistrate court ordered five days of arrest for a 32-year-old man who, while intoxicated, tore off the head of a monument to Vladimir Lenin on the square in front of the house of culture in the village of Dinas near Pervouralsk. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region, Valery Gorelykh.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Russia recognized as legal the recognition and ban of the Jehovah's Witnesses Administrative Center as an extremist organization, reports . the Moscow agency “The court’s decision is left unchanged, and the appeal of representatives of the organization “Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses” is left unsatisfied,” the judge said.

The 57-year-old director of the municipal unitary enterprise “Heat Support” by Loma Albiev claims that he was tortured at the City Hall of Grozny, extorting money and demanding to stipulate himself in the embezzlement of budget funds, the Memorial human rights center reports . Elbiev, who fled from Russia in March 2017, turned to the Memorial on June 5.

Investigators of the Novo-Urenga Linear Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in transport transferred the case of a 40-year-old man who is accused of illegal storage and transportation of a large batch of drugs (part 2 of article 228 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the District Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs by transport. The incident occurred in early June 2017.

In Troitsk, three teenagers aged 13-15 are suspected of brutally killing five hedgehogs. The police opened a criminal case for cruelty to animals (Part 1 of Article 245 of the Criminal Code), reports with reference to the prosecutor's office of the Chelyabinsk region. Interfax The dead animals were found on the morning of July 14.

The Kirovo-Chepetsky District Court of Kirov sentenced former prisoner of correctional colony No. 20, 37-year-old Alexey Galkin, to two years in prison, finding him guilty of false denunciation (Part 1 of Article 306 of the Criminal Code). this on her Twitter . reported Human rights activist Anastasia Zotova Galkin was convicted several times and spent 17 years in prison.

On Sunday, July 16, blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, who left Chechnya in 2015 after a conflict with a high-ranking relative of the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov, was detained in Tbilisi. about this . The blogger told the Kavkaz.Realii publication Abdurakhmanov sent an audio message to the editors of the publication, in which he said that “he is in custody and does not have the ability to promptly answer questions.” According to him, the question of its transfer to Russia is not yet raised.

The Moscow City Court approved the verdict of nationalist Dmitry Demushkin, who was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for reposting a photo from the “Russian March” on a social network, reports . RIA Novosti Demushkin's defense, appealing the verdict of the Nagatinsky District Court handed down in April, demanded that the criminal case be dropped. The prosecutor's office requested 2.5 years of imprisonment. After the decision of the Moscow City Court, the verdict came into force.

The European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaint of the Dozhd TV channel against a fine of 200 thousand rubles based on the claim of St. Petersburg pensioners, filed after the TV channel’s survey about the blockade of Leningrad. This was reported on the ECHR website In accordance with Article 10 of the Human Rights Convention, Dozhd complained to the ECHR about an unjustified restriction of the right to freedom of expression.

State Duma deputy Anton Gentta filed applications with the Prosecutor General's Office and the Higher Qualification Board of Judges with a demand to check the judge of the Krasnodar Regional Court Elena Khakhaleva, who attracted attention with her daughter's expensive wedding. “I reacted to the public indignation that arose in connection with publications and stories related to the wedding, where a judge of the Krasnodar Territory appears.

The Tolyatti Magistrate's Court fined an elder of Jehovah's Witnesses one thousand rubles for organizing meetings and services of adherents of this faith. this with reference to the prosecutor's office of the Komsomolsky district of Tolyatti. reports Interfax According to the district prosecutor's office, adherents of Jehovah's Witnesses gathered in house No. 8 on Makarova Street. From 30 to 60 people came to the meetings, including children.

On July 14, the Central District Court of Sochi recognized Rabbi Marcus Lehman’s book “Forcibly Baptized” and Zoya Kopelman’s article “The Sanctity of the Land of Israel,” published in the magazine “Fathers and Sons,” as extremist. An indication of this appeared in the federal list of extremist materials, numbers 4176 and 4177, respectively.