The coordinator of the “Environmental Watch in the North Caucasus” Andrei Rudomakha, who was beaten in Krasnodar more than two weeks ago, was granted state protection, RBC reports. “The investigator granted our request,” said the ecologist’s lawyer Alexey Avanesyan. Rudomakha himself said that after the beating he constantly had a headache. He is now continuing treatment.

On the day of the presidential elections on March 18, many regions will also vote on projects for the improvement of urban areas, Vedomosti writes , citing its sources. As the newspaper's sources explained, the authorities are trying to increase turnout for the presidential elections. Voting on improvement projects will take place in the same buildings where the polling stations are located, or near them.

Police officers came to Alexei Navalny’s headquarters in Veliky Novgorod to inspect the premises and confiscated leaflets and equipment, assistant coordinator of the headquarters Yaroslav Putrov told Mediazona. He said that the police were taking away leaflets prepared for the action on January 28, as well as laptops, computers and printers under the pretext that the same leaflets could be printed from them.

Several students of the Kazan National Research Technical University named after Tupolev - KAI (Kazan Aviation Institute) claim that university students are forced to go to a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, which will be held in the city at the Tatneft Arena on January 25, according to the public page “Team Navalny | Kazan".

Alexey Omaev, who was killed in the Dagestan Kaspiysk, could not attack the police because he was partially paralyzed, his relatives told the Caucasian Knot. Omaev’s brother said that the 45-year-old man was disabled of the second group and had difficulty moving. “He was stabbed 10 years ago. Because of this, the left side of his body was paralyzed. He could barely move, couldn’t walk normally, and one arm didn’t work. There can be no question that he could hold a weapon in his hands.

Russia needs to return to the Julian calendar, which was used before the revolution, says Alexander Shchipkov, First Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department for Relations of the Church with Society and the Media of the Moscow Patriarchate. Shchipkov noted that every year in January “talks flare up that the celebration of the Nativity of Christ should be moved to December 25” in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.

The Ministry of Health of Yakutia began a check on the fact of beating a patient by a doctor in a district hospital in the Neryungrinsky district, the department’s website reported . The doctor himself has already been fired. “We characterize this case as a flagrant,” the Ministry of Health emphasized. Yakutsk.ru notes that the incident occurred on January 1, the video with him was published by the deputy of the Neryungri Council of Deputies Alexander Silin.

The Department of Organization of Inquiry of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region opened a criminal case for libel in November 2017 (part 5 of Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code) after the release on the Dozhd TV channel in August of the first episode of the documentary film “Piterskaya”, which talked about businessman Ilya Traber, reports The Bell , citing three sources familiar with the investigation.

Until April 19, the Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the term of home arrest to the artistic director of Gogol-Center Kirill Serebrennikov, accused of embezzlement of 133 million rubles, the Moscow Agency reports . The court also extended the deadline for house arrest to Yuri Itin and the term of detention to the ex-director of Gogol-Center Alexei Malobrodsky.

Opposition politician Alexei Navalny sent a complaint to the Constitutional Court about the inconsistency of the law “On Presidential Elections” with the Constitution, lawyer Ivan Zhdanov, who represents Navalny’s interests, told Interfax. According to him, Navalny is asking the court to declare the election law unconstitutional in the part that establishes additional restrictions on passive voting rights.

In Orsk, at a meeting in the case of the head of pre-trial detention center-2, Evgeniy Shnaider and the head of the operational department, Vitaly Simonenko, accused in the case of the death of convicted Vladimir Tkachuk after a beating, two secret former employees of the pre-trial detention center were interrogated, reports . the Committee Against Torture The witnesses agreed to tell the details of Tkachuk’s beating in secret because they feared for their lives.

The police detained the chairman of the Open Russia movement, Alexander Solovyov, and the human rights manager, Polina Nemirovskaya, at the Rostov-on-Don airport. Nemirovskaya herself told Mediazona about this. Soloviev and Nemirovskaya flew to Rostov-on-Don to hold a human rights seminar at the local headquarters of presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak. According to Nemirovskaya, the police’s complaints were caused by brochures that talk about how to behave at mass protests.

The former chief accountant of the Seventh Studio, Nina Maslyaeva, admitted that she cashed out 130 million rubles allocated by the state for the implementation of the Platform project, TASS reports with reference to the lawyer of the person involved in the case and the artistic director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov, Dmitry Kharitonov. According to the lawyer, Maslyaeva cashed out the money, but returned it to the studio’s cash desk.

On the territory of Chechnya, “attempts at drug sabotage from the outside” are organized, drugs are brought into the republic and distributed free of charge, told RBC. Alvi Karimov, press secretary of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, “We have had similar cases recorded many times, and this is of great concern. We are resolving this issue internally,” he said.

Ishimbay resident Dmitry Rudov, who made an attempt [Roskomnadzor] at the local administration on January 15, died in intensive care, reports Gorobzor.ru. The city hospital "RBC-Ufa" said that he received 85% of burns on his body. Komsomolskaya Pravda writes that in addition to burns, Rudov was diagnosed with a penetrating incised wound to the abdominal wall. According to the publication, he died on the evening of January 15.