Two professors listed as official opponents in the abstract of Vladimir Medinsky’s dissertation “Problems of objectivity in covering Russian history of the second half of the 15th-17th centuries” told Novaya Gazeta that in fact they were not opponents and did not participate in the defense.

The Investigative Committee began an investigation after publications in the press that the director of one of the boarding schools for children with special needs forced the pupils to drink their own urine as punishment, according to the website of the Investigative Committee’s department for the Yaroslavl region.

Maxim Lapunov. Frame: novayagazeta / youtube On Monday, New Gazeta published the story of Maxim Lapunov, who moved to Grozny from the Perm Territory ( Meduza calls him a resident of Omsk at the place of birth) and who got there in a secret prison for gays. He described in detail 12 days spent in this place, the requirements of his abductors, presumably - police officers, torture, which other detainees were subjected to, and the conditions under which he was released.

FSB investigators twice accused the head of the main department of interdepartmental cooperation and internal security of the Investigative Committee, Mikhail Maksimenko, of the same episode of bribery from thief in law Zakhary Kalashov, nicknamed Shakro Molodoy, for the release of his people, his lawyer Andrei Grivtsov told RBC. Grivtsov said that during the 15 months of the investigation, four criminal cases were opened against the colonel of the Investigative Committee.

Photo: Oleg Harsseev / Kommersant The Khabarovsk headquarters Alexei Navalny published an audio recording of the conversation of the director of the multidisciplinary lyceum named after The 202nd airborne brigade of Olga Kodina with the parents of the student Timur Valiullin, who became the volunteer of the headquarters. Kodin is a deputy of the City Duma from United Russia.

The Investigative Committee opened a case under Part 2 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code (causing death by negligence due to improper performance of one’s professional duties) after doctors in the city of Lobnya refused to provide assistance to actor Dmitry Maryanov, who subsequently died, according to the Investigative Committee’s website.

The Prosecutor General's Office conducted an inspection initiated by State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya and found no violations in the production and release of Alexei Uchitel's film "Matilda", according to the department's website. “No violations of the law were identified when the Cinema Fund allocated subsidies to finance the film, as well as when the Ministry of Culture of Russia issued a distribution certificate,” reports the Prosecutor General’s Office.

The former head of the main department of interdepartmental cooperation and internal security of the Investigative Committee, Mikhail Maksimenko, accused of taking bribes, said that FSB investigators threatened him with a long prison sentence if he refused to testify, reports . Interfax “The FSB officers only need one thing - for me to plead guilty to crimes that I did not commit.

The Investigative Committee has put businessman Dmitry Smychkovsky on the international wanted list, who is suspected of giving a bribe to the head of the main department of interdepartmental cooperation and personal security of the Investigative Committee, Mikhail Maksimenko, reports . Interfax “Six criminal cases have been combined into one case.

Police detained in Ryazan an alleged member of the Yellow Chrysanthemums gang, which committed nine murders in Moscow in 2009–2012, according to the website of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, 38-year-old resident of the Moscow region Denis Sarychev was part of a gang that in 2009 attacked an apartment in Moscow, brutally killed three people and stole almost 3 million rubles. The department noted that Sarychev has already been charged and he has been arrested.

Novaya Gazeta published the testimony of Maxim Lapunov, who spoke about detention and torture in a “secret prison” for gays in Chechnya. with the participation of Lapunov began in the press center of Novaya Gazeta At the time of publication, a press conference . Balloon seller and photographer Maxim Lapunov became the first who decided to give his name in connection with the persecution in Chechnya.

The Moscow Arbitration Court satisfied the claim to protect the business reputation of the low-cost airline Pobeda against Novaya Gazeta, according to the operative part of the court decision. untrue and discrediting business reputation The court found five excerpts from the article “Quest “Victory”” with the subtitles “A game for people with a strong nervous system, an adventure for a group of up to 186 people” to be .

messenger The founder of the Telegram Pavel Durov intends to appeal the court decision, which fined Telegram developers 800 thousand rubles for refusing to hand over the keys to the FSB to decrypt user messages. about this Durov wrote on his VKontakte page.

In Buryatia, a local resident has been arrested, whom investigators suspect of involvement in the murder of 20-year-old freestyle wrestler Yuri Vlasko, according to the website of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Buryatia.

In 2018, income from attracting convicts to paid work should amount to about 33.4 billion rubles (24 billion from the sale of finished products, 9.4 billion from the provision of services and work). This forecast is contained in the explanatory note to the draft federal budget for 2018-2020, writes RNS. As expected, in 2019, income from the sale of finished products will amount to the same 24 billion, and in 2020 it will increase to 27 billion rubles.