In St. Petersburg, FSB officers conducted a search in the North-Western Directorate for Construction, Reconstruction and Restoration of the Ministry of Culture as part of the case on the design of a new stage for the Maly Drama Theater (Theater of Europe), Fontanka reports . According to the publication, the search is related to a contract concluded by the Ministry of Culture in 2013 to design a new stage for the Theater of Europe. The cost of the work was 250 million rubles.

Police from Krasnodar were punished for inaction during the attack by elderly activists from “Putin’s Units” on the headquarters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This is stated in the response of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the head of the headquarters Leonid Volkov, which he published on Twitter. Allegedly, based on the results of an internal audit, it was decided to bring disciplinary action against police officers from a separate battalion of patrol service No.

The Thirteenth Arbitration Court of Appeal of St. Petersburg upheld the decision of the lower court on the unilateral withdrawal of the city property relations committee from the lease agreement for the Kushelev-Bezborodsko Palace by the European University, according to the website of the educational institution.

The Investigative Committee has completed its investigation into the case of a married couple from the Volgograd region accused of stealing a child in order to conceal the death of their adopted son, the department reports . The indictment has been submitted to the court for consideration. According to investigators, in September 2016, four-year-old Yegor, the adopted son of a 48-year-old man and his 47-year-old wife, overturned a pan of boiling water on himself.

The Corruption Foundation announced a cartel conspiracy for 4.8 billion rubles at the trading of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and called it a participant in Alexander Kolesov, the son of the former governor of the Amur Region and the current head of the Radio Electronic Technology concern, Nikolai Kolesov.

Ivan Melnikov, an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs department for the Purovsky district of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, denies that he bet 300 thousand rubles that he could drive around the city drunk with impunity. his version of events He told to a journalist from the Ura.ru publication. “I told the author of the video that if I stop him for any violation, he will be punished. And he continued to insist that I would at least be reprimanded or fired if I stopped him.

Prisoners from penal colony No. 4 in the Bryansk region went on a hunger strike; several people had their veins cut after being beaten by colony officers and special forces, reports the public movement “For Human Rights.” As prisoners told human rights activists, on July 8, special forces officers were sent to the colony for a week to conduct searches. All this time they beat prisoners in a punishment cell and under strict conditions of detention.

A court in the Khabarovsk Territory sentenced 22-year-old Oleg Petrov and Alexander Serzhantov to life imprisonment for the murder of five people in the village of Berezovy in the Solnechny region of the region. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee. On the morning of July 13, 2016, in the dormitory of Petrov and Sergeants, two acquaintances were stabbed to death, one of whom was a minor.

In St. Petersburg, a policeman from a separate company of the patrol service was detained, suspected of selling drugs, reports the department of the Investigative Committee for the city. According to investigators, on the evening of August 8, the man sold “a mixture containing a narcotic drug with a total weight of 1.79 grams” as part of a test purchase.

The Investigative Committee for the Trans-Baikal Territory opened a criminal case on the illegal acquisition and storage of explosive devices (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code) and on violation of labor safety rules that resulted in the death of two people (Part 3 of Article 143 of the Criminal Code) after an explosion at a metal receiving base in Chita. This is reported on the department's website.

In Moscow, three minors and two 18-year-old young people were accused of assault, robbery and robbery, the capital's department of the Investigative Committee reports . According to investigators, on July 29, young people attacked a man born in 1983 on Ketcherskaya Street in the east of the city, beat him and took his bank card, from which they later withdrew 16 thousand rubles. On August 2, they attacked a man born in 1995 “near the railway tracks.” The victim was hospitalized and died.

Alexey Abanin / RTVI The Tver District Court sentenced the journalist of RBC Alexander Sokolov to three and a half years of the colony in the case of participation in the organization of the Army of the will of the people, recognized as an extremist and prohibited court (Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the correspondent of "Mediazone" from the courtroom. Signature Photo: Alexey Abanin / RTVI Publicist Yuri Mukhin was sentenced to four years conditionally.

The Sovetsky District Court of Chelyabinsk arrested for two months the deputy head of pre-trial detention center No. 3, Roman Veltishchev, accused of bribery, reports 74.ru with reference to representatives of the court and the regional department of the Investigative Committee. The decision was made on August 9. According to the publication, Veltishchev is charged with receiving a bribe from the wife of an entrepreneur who will be held in a pre-trial detention center.

In Barnaul on the afternoon of August 9, an unknown man damaged part of a propaganda cube at a picket of the Yabloko party, coordinated with the city administration. This was reported on the party's website. The Yabloko picket took place at the intersection of Georgiy Isakov Street and Severo-Zapadnaya Street as part of the election campaign for the Barnaul City Duma. The party reported that the unknown man also damaged the agitator’s mobile phone.

The Ministry of Culture issued the film “Matilda” with a distribution certificate for the entire territory of Russia, reports with reference to the director of the cinematography department Vyacheslav Telnov. Interfax Telnov said that the Ministry of Culture follows the Constitution, which prohibits censorship in Russia. According to him, the department watched the film and decided that there was nothing illegal in the film by Alexei Uchitel.