The Memorial Human Rights Center has recognized as political prisoners three defendants in the case of the Baltic Avant-Garde of Russian Resistance (BARS) in Kaliningrad, according to the center’s website.

The FSB has begun warning industrial enterprises about the need to curtail production during the FIFA World Cup in Russia this summer, writes . the Kommersant newspaper The publication refers to a letter dated January 16, which was received by the head of one of the large chemical enterprises in the Nizhny Novgorod region from the FSB department. It states that the plant's operations must be stopped during the 2018 World Cup due to special safety regulations.

The Investigative Committee refused to initiate a criminal case against MR7.ru correspondent Sergei Kagermazov in connection with evasion of military service. Last week he was not allowed into the building of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, after which investigators took him to the Investigative Committee for questioning. Now, within 30 days, a resolution must be prepared and sent for approval to the prosecutor, who can cancel it.

The account of the Fifth Several Foundation of the Presidential campaign of Alexei Navalny was blocked a few hours after the decision of the Meshchansky court of Moscow, which satisfied the lawyer’s claim for the liquidation of the Fund. About this on Twitter was written by the head of the staff of the politician Leonid Volkov. “We will receive a decision to eliminate PVG only tomorrow. We have 30 days to appeal, - writes Volkov.

Senator Suleiman Kerimov, who was released to Russia for several days from under investigation for money laundering and tax evasion, intends to prove his innocence, TASS quotes Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko as saying after the meeting. “Suleiman Kerimov considers himself innocent and is confident that he will be able to prove the inconsistency of the charges against him.

A resident of St. Petersburg, Natalya Zvereva, whose son Dmitry Demidov was shot by an operative at the police department in 2015, filed a claim with the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow for compensation for moral damage, lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov, who collaborates with the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” told Mediazona.

The deputy head of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod region, Pavel Oleinik, notified the lawyers of the “Committee against Torture” about the resumption of the investigation into the criminal cases of the deaths of two convicts in correctional colony No. 14 in the village of Sukhobezvodnoye. This is stated in a message on the organization’s website.

After 2011, significant changes took place at Kaspersky Lab, thanks to which people from Russian security forces gained access to the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) cloud system and the ability to download any files from the computers on which it is installed, writes Meduza with reference to a former employee of the company who wished to remain anonymous. A Meduza source said that until 2011, the company had three management clans.

The City Court of Yoshkar-Ola fined a local resident Tatyana Kolesnikov for 20 thousand rubles for biting her shoulder and threw sneakers at a policeman who tried to take off her shoes (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), reports 7x7 Earlier, the state prosecution asked the court to sentenced the woman to two years in prison.

Reserve Colonel Dmitry Funtov, who was put on the international wanted list through Interpol and is accused of involvement in large-scale fraud at the Center for Analysis of Electromagnetic Compatibility of Radio-Electronic Equipment of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Voentelecom, committed [Roskomnadzor] in the Croatian city of Makarska. about this wrote on January 19 The publication Slobodna Dalmacija .

The holding of so-called school referendums in Moscow on March 18 is not being done in order to increase turnout in the presidential elections, says Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. His words from an address to members of the Moscow Public Chamber were quoted by RIA Novosti.

Two grocery stores from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk at once began to print calls to take part in the 2018 presidential election on checks. Photos sent by readers of checks are cited by Sakh.com .

Judge of the Kirov District Court of Astrakhan Olga Ivanova decided to transfer Maxim Panfilov, a defendant in the Bolotnaya case, to outpatient treatment not related to detention in a psychiatric hospital, his lawyer Maria Kurakina told Mediazona. The court hearing was held behind closed doors.

In Nizhny Tagil, directors of special and higher educational institutions must “mandatorily” send several students “capable of leading youth groups” to a meeting with the head of the administration’s apparatus, Andrei Lenda. A photograph of the document was published in a local telegram channel, and its authenticity was confirmed to the agency “Between Lines” by the author of the letter, the director of the Nizhny Tagil Vocational College. N. A. Demidova Svetlana Morozova.

In Moscow, six other Russia activists were detained near the building of the Central Election Commission, who arranged an action against the presidential election. About this on Twitter writes one of the leaders of the organization Alexander Averin. “Fires were lit, leaflets were scattered. Elections - no! The abolition of the results of privatization - yes! ”, Averin writes.