In St. Petersburg, the Smolninsky District Court fined ten participants in the anti-corruption action on March 26 ten thousand rubles for violating the procedure for holding public events (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code), human rights activist Dinar Idrisov told Mediazona. Idrisov said that a total of 24 hearings on administrative cases of participants in the anti-corruption action should be held in the Smolninsky District Court.

In Tambov, the court arrested assistant coordinators of the local headquarters of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, Leonid Yarygin and Igor Slivin, for 25 and 20 days, respectively, Navalny’s campaign press secretary Ruslan Shaveddinov told Mediazona. The Oktyabrsky District Court found Slivin guilty under Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (repeated violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding an event) for organizing a rally on August 2.

In Saratov, activist of the Artpodgotovka movement, banned in Russia, Sergei Ryzhov, suspected of preparing a terrorist attack on the city’s Theater Square (Part 1 of Article 30, Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code), was detained in Saratov, lawyer Igor Elifkhanov told Mediazona. The lawyer also conveyed Ryzhov’s words to Svobodnye Novosti that on November 1, the activist was in a friend’s apartment.

Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin rejected accusations from the US Congress and Senate of involvement in the work of a “troll factory” in the English-language segment during the presidential elections, RBC writes , citing the businessman’s representative.

until December 29, arrested Oleg Detkin, an activist of the Artpodgotovka movement banned in Russia, for publishing pictures and recordings of extremist content on the social network VKontakte, writes Idel.Realii In Kazan, the Soviet district court on November 1 , with reference to the court’s press service. Police detained a supporter of Vyacheslav Maltsev on October 30.

The Investigative Committee of the Kostroma Region has charged policeman Eduard Volkov, who hit Alexander Zykov, deputy coordinator of the local headquarters of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, writes the Public Verdict Foundation. Human rights activists report that the case materials will soon be submitted to court. to the publication 7x7 .

Former deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Nikolai Barinov was detained on suspicion of receiving bribes (part 4 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code) during the construction of the Kresty-2 pre-trial detention center, the Investigative Committee reports . According to investigators, in 2007 Barinov told the general director of two St.

In Krasnoyarsk, a businessman was kidnapped from his home, taken to the forest and burned, according to the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The wife of a 42-year-old man involved in the construction business filed a missing person report with the police. The woman said that at nine in the evening her husband drove up to the house in the central area of ​​the city in his car, but never went up to the apartment.

Sergei Nikitenko, a supporter of Vyacheslav Maltsev, was detained in Volgograd, reports OVD-Info. At about half past five in the morning, about ten people in civilian clothes and a local police officer came to search Nikitenko’s apartment; security forces presented a search warrant dated October 31, which states that he is suspected of selling drugs on a large scale (clause “d” of part “4” of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code, from 10 to 20 years in prison).

The US Department of Justice is preparing charges against six or more members of the Russian government related to the hacking of the servers of the US Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential election, writes The Wall Street Journal , citing sources familiar with the investigation. The newspaper's interlocutors said that prosecutors and agents have collected enough evidence against Russian officials and may bring charges against them in 2018.

The Sovetsky District Court of the Astrakhan Region issued a verdict against the former head of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Alexey Kiktev, accused of abuse of power (Part 1 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code) for using prisoners and subordinates to build a house, reports .

The Department of Education of the Vladimir Region will conduct an internal audit after the publication of a letter to the heads of educational authorities with a requirement to collect data on children participating in the actions of the “non-systemic opposition,” the Committee for Public Relations and Media of the Vladimir Region Administration told the Dozhd TV channel. The administration emphasized that the head of the Vladimir region, Svetlana Orlova, did not give such an order.

The Moscow Regional Court dismissed the administrative case against activist Yan Katelevsky under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to a lawful order of a police officer), activist Evgeny Proshin told Mediazona. Katelevsky has already spent 22 days of administrative arrest for resisting the police, who demanded that he stop filming near the police station in April 2016: first he was given 12 days of arrest, then another 10.

Businessman German Sterligov said that he would close the Moscow chain of stores “Bread and Salt” due to pressure from the prosecutor’s office, the entrepreneur wrote on his personal page on the VKontakte social network. According to the businessman, at first the prosecutor’s office demanded that the word “faggots” be removed from the “Faggots not allowed” signs posted at the entrances to stores.

Deputy of the Kaliningrad Regional Duma and editor-in-chief of the newspaper “New Wheels” Igor Rudnikov believes that the head of the regional department of the Investigative Committee, Yuri Ledenev, provoked his receipt of bribery. As reports , Rudnikov’s version was voiced by his assistant Yuri Grozmani. New Kaliningrad “General Ledenev promised yesterday to Igor Petrovich to hand over all the materials of the case related to the mastermind of the crime, the attempt on his life.