In Kiev, during passport control at the Kiev-Pasazhyrsky railway station, a Russian woman asked for asylum in Ukraine, according to the website of the State Border Service of Ukraine. The woman arrived in the capital by train and told service employees that she wanted to seek asylum in Ukraine. “During the conversation, the Russian woman said that she is an opposition activist and is being persecuted in Russia for her political views,” the department writes.

In St. Petersburg, unknown persons kidnapped a 41-year-old citizen of Tajikistan, posing as police officers, reports , citing sources. Fontanka According to the publication, a 43-year-old native of Tajikistan contacted the police. The man said that the day before in the Frunzensky district of the city at about 11 am, unknown people put his younger brother in a car and took him away. During the abduction, the men introduced themselves as police officers and showed their official identification.

In Volgograd, Vyacheslav Maltsev’s supporter Anatoly Boltykhov was detained and sent to a psychiatric hospital, writes with reference to the activist’s wife Ekaterina. the Caucasian Knot Boltykhov’s wife said that on November 16, she received a call from her husband’s mobile phone from a man who introduced himself as a police officer. He asked the woman if she knew Boltykhov and who he was related to.

In Perm, the police detained an employee of the headquarters of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, Yuri Bobrov, a volunteer at the headquarters, Pavel Novichenko, told Mediazona. According to the activist, after his arrest, Bobrov managed to call his lawyer and report that he was being taken to the district police department in the Leninsky district. One of the headquarters volunteers came to the department to find out if the detainee was there.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained two Russians who were put on the international wanted list, according to the agency’s website. The SBU does not name the detainee. It is alleged that one of the Russians is a native of Chechnya who participated in contract killings, in particular, of the editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of Forbes, a US citizen, Paul Klebnikov, as well as the deputy chairman of the government of the Chechen Republic in 2001-2003.

In Saratov, police officers and the Ministry of Emergency Situations forced participants in the founding conference of the local branch of the Open Russia movement to leave the office, writes Open Russia with reference to the movement coordinator Dmitry Semenov. Semyonov said that the building where the conference was to take place was surrounded by police and fire trucks in the morning.

In Irkutsk, the Sverdlovsk District Court arrested businessman Dmitry Tolmachev for five days, who provided a platform for a meeting with opposition politician Alexei Navalny, reports . Interfax Tolmachev was found guilty under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (organizing or holding a public event without filing a notification about the public event in the prescribed manner), because the businessman allowed a private meeting to be held in the Moscow shopping center.

In Izhevsk, a criminal case has been opened for cutting down a tree on the private property of a house where a meeting with opposition politician Alexei Navalny took place, Sergei Urban, coordinator of Navalny’s local headquarters, told Mediazona. The activist said that he was summoned for questioning to the Pervomaisky police department, where he was interrogated as a witness in a criminal case about illegal tree felling.

In Perm, police conducted a search at the headquarters of opposition politician Alexei Navalny and seized all campaign materials and some equipment, headquarters volunteer Pavel Novichenko told Mediazona. As the activist said, eight people came to the headquarters in the morning. Half of them were dressed in police uniforms, half were in civilian clothes. Novichenko suggested that among those who came were employees of Center “E”.

In Moscow, law enforcement officers detained four suspects for participating in a shootout in the Moscow City parking lot, the Moscow agency reports , citing Yulia Ivanova, senior assistant to the head of the main investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the capital. “During the operational search activities, four men were detained on suspicion of committing this crime, one of whom was hospitalized.

In Vladivostok, the prosecutor's office began checking the work of the city mayor's office after more than 300 accidents occurred in the city per day due to the recent snowfall, . RIA Novosti reports, citing the regional supervisory agency “As part of the inspection, the activities of the authorized bodies responsible for eliminating the consequences of the snowfall on November 17, 2017 will be assessed.

In Moscow, police detained one of the cars put on the wanted list after the shootout in Moscow City, TASS reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. “After a shootout with six victims, a Toyota Land Cruiser was detained . To detain this and search for five more cars in the city, the “Interception” plan was introduced,” the agency’s interlocutor said. He clarified that Maybach, Land Cruiser, Lexus cars , two Toyota Land Cruiser and Lada Priora were put on the wanted list .

In Noyabrsk, Pavel Kryukov, general director of the Gazpromneft-Noyabrskneftegaz company and deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, was detained on suspicion of bribery, reports Ura.ru , citing sources.

The Investigative Committee opened a case of attempted murder of two or more persons (Part 3 of Article 30 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code) after the shootout in Moscow City, according to the Investigative Committee’s website. According to preliminary data, on the evening of November 17, a conflict occurred between unknown persons and private security company employees, as a result of which six people were injured.