The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers) after pupils of the Pazhgin boarding school who were harvesting hogweed received burns, according to the department’s website. Investigators have ordered forensic examinations and are studying documents containing information about the training provided by boarding school staff before the teenagers were sent to cut down the poisonous plant.

Former Minister of Press and head of the Gazprom-Media holding Mikhail Lesin was beaten to death on the eve of testifying to the US Department of Justice, reports BuzzFeed , citing its own sources - two FBI agents and an American intelligence officer. None of them participated in the investigation into Lesin’s death; they learned about its circumstances from colleagues, the publication notes.

The Naberezhnye Chelny city court arrested 20-year-old Anton Ushachev, who drew a swastika and wrote “Allah Akbar” on the wall of the Holy Ascension Cathedral, Andrei Sheptytsky, assistant to the head of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for Tatarstan, told Interfax.

Judge of the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg Vladimir Vasyukov found the deputy of the city legislative assembly of Makim Reznik guilty of disobedience to the police and violation of the rules of the mass action on June 12 and sentenced him to 10 days of arrest and a fine of 11 thousand rubles, Pavel Smolyak said in Twitter. The correspondent of the Mediazones was taken out of the courtroom during the announcement of the sentence.

At the trial of Sergei Vilkov, a journalist for the Saratov publication Public Opinion, accused of slandering regional parliament member Sergei Kurikhin, a witness testified to the authenticity of the operational documents. According to Public Opinion, journalist Alexei Murzov, who worked from 1998 to 2001 as an employee of the information and analytical department of the RUBOP, was interrogated as a witness.

The Investigative Committee will check information about the Pazhginsky boarding school in Komi, where children were allegedly sent to chop poisonous hogweed without adequate protection. Initially , it was reported that the investigation would be carried out by investigators from the regional branch of the Investigative Committee, later the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed the central office of the department to study the inspection materials.

Technopromexport has not received official offers from German partners from the Siemens concern to buy back gas turbines, and the concern refused the previous offer back in 2016, TASS cites data from a representative of the Russian company. “Technopromexport has not received any official proposals from Siemens to buy back the turbines. Due to the bankruptcy of the company, a court decision was made to sell the equipment.

In the Altai Republic, a criminal case has been opened against police officers for beating motorcyclists, reports the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, on July 22, two residents of the village of Inegen, Ongudai district, were riding a motorcycle along the Chuisky tract and ran out of gas near the village of Chui-Oozy. When a police officer's car drove towards them, the motorcyclists stopped the police.

33 employees of the Vilyuisky psychoneurological boarding school named after Katie Marsden received disciplinary action because patients were often malnourished and there was not enough clothing for everyone, the Yakutia prosecutor’s office said in a statement .

Ufa activist and journalist Anver Yumagulov was beaten and suffered broken ribs, nose and jaw; he is hospitalized, reports ProUfu . According to Yumagulov, he stopped at a tire shop near the house, drove the car and went outside. “There a man, fair-haired, strongly built, about 35–40 years old, approached me and asked me to help push his car. On the way to the car, he suddenly attacked me and I lost consciousness.

The energy bridge to Crimea stopped operating due to “abnormally high air temperatures in the southwestern energy region of the Krasnodar region,” the Ministry of Energy reports . Judging by the Yandex. News”, as of 15:30 in Sochi +32 degrees, in Gelendzhik - +30, in Taman also +30. “The reason is not in Crimea and not in the energy bridge.

The Investigative Committee has put two former operatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs department in the Mostovsky district of the Krasnodar Territory on the federal wanted list, suspected of drug trafficking, weapons and fraud, the Investigative Committee reports . According to investigators, from August 2016 to January 2017, they bought marijuana and ammunition for firearms, and a 26-year-old local resident was forced to sell them.

Unidentified people broke the windows with stones in the house of the editor-in-chief of the RostovGazeta news agency Sergei Rudkovsky in the city of Aksai, Rostov region, and also damaged a car, according to a message on the publication’s website. The incident occurred on the night of July 27. “The stone broke through the window in one of the bedrooms on the first floor of the house, and also damaged the window in the next room.

In the largest cities of Crimea, electricity was cut off, reports , citing local residents. Kryminform We are talking about Sevastopol, Simferopol, Yalta, Feodosia, Sudak, Kerch, Bakhchisarai region and other settlements. Authorities later announced that electricity had been cut off throughout Crimea. The Krymenego company told the agency that the causes of the accident are still being clarified.

The FSB has distributed a video clip from a special operation to detain suspects in preparing a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg. It was published by the Zvezda TV channel. Judging by the recording, the special operation was carried out in a car repair shop.