The Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) did not allow Russian athletes to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, according to the committee’s website. As noted in the message, individual Russian athletes will be invited to participate only under a neutral flag. In addition, the IOC obliged Russia to contribute $15 million to the creation of an anti-doping body, which it intends to create a committee.

The St. Petersburg City Court overturned the decision of the Smolninsky District Court, recognizing the refusal to approve the rally against corruption on October 7 as illegal, the secretary of the local branch of the Progress Party, Arkady Chaplygin, said on Twitter. On October 7, on Vladimir Putin’s 65th birthday, supporters of politician Alexei Navalny held pickets and rallies throughout the country demanding that the oppositionist be allowed to participate in the presidential elections.

The Memorial Society has released an updated database of “Victims of Political Terror” in the USSR, containing 3.1 million thousand records. for the new database The authors of the project have created a special website , while the old one remains available at the same address .

A fire broke out on the territory of correctional colony No. 2 “White Swan” in Solikamsk, TASS reports , citing a source in the emergency services. “On the territory of the colony, an administrative building covering an area of ​​1.8 thousand square meters is on fire. m. The fire was assigned the third complexity number,” he said. According to preliminary data, the fire started on the roof of the building. In IK-2 of the Perm Territory, life-sentenced prisoners are serving their sentences.

The Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk ordered to demolish the extension to the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny, where the passage and toilet are located, according to the group “Navalny team | Irkutsk. " The headquarters is located in the 1830 mansion on 38 Timiryazev Street, Rosbalt Coordinator Sergei Bespalov said that the initiator of appeal to the court was the commission for the protection of cultural heritage objects of the Irkutsk region.

The Volga District Military Court pronounced a verdict against a Samara resident and two Ufa residents accused of attempting to carry out a terrorist attack on a Ufa bus. this with reference to the press service of the FSB of Bashkortostan. reports Interfax The intelligence service said that the defendants in the case were given sentences of 10, 13 and 16 years in prison. The department did not disclose other details of the case.

Police of the Krasnodar Territory detained a suspect in the murder of the acting head of the private security department of the National Guard in Armavir, according to the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the region. to Interfax The police press service clarified that the detainee’s name is Mukhtar Malsyugenov. The Investigative Committee's report notes that the arrest took place in the Razdolny farmstead.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code (abuse of official powers) for charging patients of the Moscow Blokhin Cancer Center 3.75 million rubles for the provision of medical care, which should have been provided free of charge, reported .

A 23-year-old man suspected of recruiting migrants from Central Asia into terrorist organizations was detained in Moscow, according to the website of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, since February 2016, he “carried out activities to involve natives of Central Asian countries in committing crimes related to participation in international terrorist organizations and illegal armed groups” operating in Syria.

President Vladimir Putin signed a bill obliging operators to block telephone numbers from which false reports of explosive devices are received, at the request of law enforcement agencies or Roskomnadzor, according to the website of the head of state.

In St. Petersburg, graffiti painted by activists of the “Yav” movement in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro was painted over. As the publication “My District” notes , the graffiti was painted on the wall of a transformer booth on Serpukhovskaya Street.

The deputy head of the FSB Information Security Center, Colonel Sergei Mikhailov, who was arrested in the case of high treason, and other defendants in the case could have been involved in transferring data to the American authorities about hackers who hacked the servers of the US Democratic Party before the 2016 presidential elections. about this .

helicopter crashed in the Stavropol Territory A light Robinson , TASS reports citing emergency services. Earlier, the agency's source reported three deaths. The press service of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations claims that two people died in the accident. According to the source, it was possible to find the wreckage thanks to the built-in beacon. The helicopter belonged to Barkol Airlines. “He disappeared from contact, we set out to search.

The Kirovsky District Court of Kazan fined Azat Gabdulvaleev, the organizer of the anti-corruption action on June 12, 20 thousand rubles, finding him guilty under Part 1 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (violation by the organizer of the established procedure for holding the action), the activist himself told Idel.Realii.

The Moscow regional court sentenced former Kazan police chief Ruslan Khalimdarov to 10.5 years in a maximum security colony. this reported Business Online from the courtroom. Khalimdarov and his subordinates Valery Kovylin, Rashid Shaidullin, Anatoly Khodko and Vladimir Egorov were found guilty of kidnapping (Article 126 of the Criminal Code), drug smuggling (Article 188 of the Criminal Code) and knowingly false testimony (Article 307 of the Criminal Code).