The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined the leader of the Association of Carriers of Russia (OPR) Andrei Bazhutin for organizing a motor rally in April last year, reports . Zaks.ru A truck rally along Moskovsky Avenue in St. Petersburg took place on April 15 last year. Together with other protesters, Bazhutin was detained, but the police soon released him without drawing up a report.

Chairman of the Moscow City Election Commission Valentin Gorbunov said that a referendum on the unification of the Maryino and Lyublino districts could take place on the day of the presidential elections on March 18, reports . Interfax “The municipal assembly recognized the initiative group’s issue as complying with the law.

President Vladimir Putin commented on the Central Election Commission's refusal to register Alexei Navalny for participation in the 2018 presidential elections at a meeting with editors-in-chief of print media, the Vedomosti newspaper writes . The president was asked the question by Kommersant editor-in-chief Sergei Yakovlev.

Nizhny Novgorod resident Maxim Duryagin, accused of murdering his young son, committed [Roskomnadzor] in a pretrial detention cell. This was reported by the press service of the regional Investigative Committee. “According to preliminary data, the man was kept in a cell in which there were 11 other citizens besides him. On January 8, during the daytime, he went into the toilet room, and a short time later he was found dead with signs of suicide,” the department reports.

The Ministry of Defense has classified the search for the “captive Russian soldier” Grigory Turcanu, a video of whom was distributed by the Islamic State, Dozhd reports , citing his mother Valentina Turcanu, who gave the TV channel a copy of the department’s response. The department sent Tsurkan’s mother a response to her request, signed by the head of the Department of the Ministry of Defense, Yu. Shulgin. The man’s mother asked what actions the Ministry of Defense was taking to find her son.

In Khanty-Mansiysk, investigators are investigating a criminal case into the murder of Cossack Alexander Lavrov, whose dismembered body was found in a snowdrift on December 24, reports . Interfax On December 17, 2017, an event was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, where several people took the oath and joined the Cossacks. After this, the participants decided to celebrate the meeting and stayed in the building, where they drank alcohol until the evening.

In the Chechen Republic, the Shali City Court arrested for two months the head of the local branch of the Memorial human rights center, Oyub Titiev, accused of possession of drugs on a large scale (part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code), Oleg Orlov, head of the organization’s “Hot Spots” program, told Mediazona.

The head of the “Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus” Andrei Rudomakha, as well as the leaders of the organization, received threats, according to the website of the “Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus”. The human rights organization claims that emails were sent to the organization's leaders from the address smertrudomaxe@gmail.com .

In Ingushetia, oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, accused of illegal trafficking in firearms (Article 222 of the Criminal Code) and insulting a government official (Part 1 of Article 319 of the Criminal Code), was detained and sent to a pre-trial detention center, according to the website of the republican department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Khazbiev has been on the international wanted list since 2015. The agency claims that security forces detained the oppositionist on January 11.

In November, investigators conducted searches in cottages near Moscow and in the Moscow apartment of businessman Gavriil Yushvaev, who is one of the hundred richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes , told a source in the Investigative Committee RBC. According to the publication's sources, the searches were related to a shootout in the Moscow City complex.

In Ufa, the Investigative Committee began a pre-investigation check of information that unknown persons demolished the house of a local resident while he was on a business trip, according to the website of the Investigative Committee’s department for the Republic of Bashkortostan.

The operative of the police department in the city of the Pavlovsky Posad of the Moscow Region was suspected of receiving a bribe from a businessman with two printers and a stationery “a set of leader”. The document on the detention of a policeman appeared today in the public Ombudsman of the Police; Information about the bribe of Mediazone was confirmed by the duty officer of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Moscow Region.

Alexey Mironov, a volunteer at the Cheboksary headquarters of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, was sent to a punishment cell (punishment cell) for ten days for oversleeping the wake-up time, writes with reference to the convict’s girlfriend. Idel Realii According to a friend, Mironov ended up in a punishment cell on January 9. Previously, Navalny’s volunteer had already served five days in a punishment cell for leaving woolen socks in the nightstand.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered the Russian government to pay 4 thousand euros to Tatarstan resident Alexander Stryukov, who was in a pre-trial detention center for three years, lawyer Irina Khrunova, who collaborates with the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” told Mediazona.

A new criminal case has been opened against the former head of Mari El, Leonid Markelov, who is in a pre-trial detention center in connection with charges of taking a bribe - for illegal storage of ammunition, RIA Novosti quotes the words of an investigator from a meeting in the Basmanny Court of Moscow.