The Supreme Court softened the decision of the Volga Military District Court in relation to two of the nine defendants in the Chistopol Jamaat case, who were sentenced in March to long terms of imprisonment in the case of arson of Orthodox churches and launching missiles into the territory of Nizhnekamskneftekhim. This was reported Idel.Realities by .

The police opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism committed by a group of persons) following an attack on the studio of director Alexei Uchitel, Elmar Shakhirzaev, deputy head of the information and public relations department of the St. Petersburg Ministry of Internal Affairs, told RBC. The suspects have not yet been found.

A court in Krasnodar arrested for two months three suspects in an attack on a traffic police post, Natalya Smyakaya, head of the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee, told Interfax. According to her, Nikita Medvedev and Dmitry Karachkin were arrested on Thursday, Vladislav Gmyrya on Wednesday.

The Central District Court of Volgograd placed under house arrest the coordinator of the local headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny, Alexei Volkov, accused of rehabilitating Nazism due to the publication of a picture with the Motherland monument in greenery, Volkov himself reported on Twitter. At the end of July, Volkov was charged under Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism).

The Ministry of Internal Affairs did not issue billionaire Umar Dzhabrailov, who was detained for shooting in a Moscow hotel, an award pistol, told TASS.

Journalist Ekaterina Vinokurova told Mediazona about the threats she received because of the premiere of Alexei Uchitel’s film “Matilda.” An unknown person wrote to Vinokurova on Facebook under the nickname Curtis Davis. The journalist’s interlocutor promised that if “Matilda” was released, she would be attacked with a screwdriver at night. Vinokurova clarified that in August she published several materials criticizing deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, who opposes the film Teacher.

The United States demanded that Russia close the consulate general in San Francisco, reports . AFP The United States also demanded that Russia close one diplomatic facility each in Washington and New York by September 2. The closure of the Consulate General in San Francisco and other measures were a response to the “unjustified and harmful” reduction of the diplomatic mission, which was fully carried out by the United States, the State Department writes .

The police reported on plans to transfer to psychiatrists an elderly activist, dressed as a prisoner in a striped robe, who was a poster “Russia Prison, I live in prison, because of this I dress, like in prison,” 72.ru reports . “They did not commit any administrative offenses.

The investigation has opened a new criminal case against the former deputy of the Federal Penitentiary Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Sergei Moiseenko, accused of inciting the murder of his subordinate, according to the website of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg. Moiseenko is suspected under Part 6 of Article 290, Part 5 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code (taking a bribe, giving a bribe on an especially large scale).

The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic sentenced Khusen Khusenov, Rustam Baskhanov, Makhmud Khadzhiev and Alkhazur Omarov, accused of murdering police officers in 2007 and 2008 and robbing a gas station, according to the website of the General Prosecutor's Office.

An investigator detained at the Volgograd airport the coordinator of Navalny’s local headquarters, Alexei Volkov, accused of rehabilitating Nazism due to the publication of a picture of “Motherland” in brilliant green, Volkov himself wrote on his Twitter. Now the activist is going to the Central District Court, where the investigation is petitioning to change his punishment.

The magistrate of court precinct No. 1 of the Frunzensky district of Saratov acquitted local journalist Sergei Vilkov, accused of slandering regional Duma deputy Sergei Kurikhin, reports FreeNews-Volga . As the agency notes, according to the text of the verdict, the prosecution failed to provide irrefutable evidence confirming the journalist’s guilt.

The police detained singer Alexander Ermak, suspected of murdering his lawyer friend on the night of August 23-24 in an apartment on Khoroshevskoye Highway, Interfax reports , citing an informed source. The representative of the Moscow department of the Investigative Committee, Yulia Ivanova, without naming the singer’s name, confirmed to the agency that a man suspected of murdering his friend had been detained.

Roskomnadzor will automatically transmit to search engines a list of resources that are subject to removal from search results, according to the agency’s website. The report states that Roskomnadzor held a meeting with representatives of major Russian search engines - Yandex, Mail.ru Search and Sputnik. The procedure for implementing laws that will come into force in the fall was discussed at the meeting.

The Federal Security Service (FSB) has distributed a video recording of the interrogation of one of the two alleged terrorists who were preparing the September 1 terrorist attacks in Moscow. The video includes a fragment in which one of the alleged terrorists swears allegiance to the Islamic State.