St. Petersburg police operative Andrei Artemyev was released after serving less than three months in a colony for the murder of local resident Dmitry Demidov, reports . Fontanka The case against Artemyev was initiated under Articles 105 of the Criminal Code (murder) and 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers with the use of violence), however, during the consideration of the case in the Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St.

website The Russiangate became unavailable a few hours after the publication of an investigation into the undeclared luxury real estate of FSB head Alexander Bortnikov and his deputy Sergei Smirnov. The site does not open, in particular, through the Internet provider MGTS and the mobile operator MTS, but opens when using a VPN.

Businessman Dmitry Mikhalchenko, accused of alcohol smuggling (part 3 of Article 200.2 of the Criminal Code), will have his charges reduced in exchange for the transfer of assets, told a source The Bell . in the Investigative Committee As the publication found out, Mikhalchenko has already parted with most of his assets, including the most valuable one - the port of Bronka.

A teacher at the Faculty of Geography at Moscow State University, Vyacheslav Baburin, refused to take an exam from student Lev Boroda, who came to the university wearing a kippah. Beard himself wrote about this on his Facebook. “I was not allowed to take the exam because I had a yarmulke (cap) on my head - they publicly told me that I couldn’t walk around like that here.

Vladimir Putin proposed introducing a new disciplinary measure for judges in the form of a reduction in qualification class. He spoke about this at the celebration of the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Supreme Court, TASS reports .

The Khasavyurt city court sentenced Naida Shaikh-Akhmedova, a resident of Dagestan, to 12 years in a general regime colony for helping the Islamic State, RIA Novosti reports , citing a source in the republic’s law enforcement agencies. The BBC was told in court that the woman received four years and four months in prison. According to the agency's interlocutor, the woman was found guilty under Article 208 of the Criminal Code (organization of an illegal armed group or participation in it).

The missing resident of Chechnya Amina Avturkhanov, who tried to achieve the investigation of the disappearance of her husband, on the air of the Grozny ChGTRK said that no one detained her, and asked not to write “nonsense” about her. Attention to the plot was drawn by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Moscow, a court arrested for ten days “The Other Russia” activist Gleb Buvanenko, who participated in a protest against the presidential elections at the Central Election Commission (CEC), “The Other Russia” representative Alexander Averin said on his Twitter. The day before, a protocol was drawn up against the arrested person under Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (repeated violation of the rules of the rally).

The Ministry of Culture decided to withdraw a rental certificate from the Franco-British film “Death of Stalin”, TASS reports with reference to the executive director of the Kinematography Department Olga Lyubimova. Earlier today it became known that the Public Council at the Ministry of Culture demanded that the premiere of the comedy “Death of Stalin” so that it would not coincide with the celebration of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Battle of Stalingrad on February 2.

The Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications proposed introducing the anti-terrorist “Yarovaya package” in terms of storing subscriber traffic simultaneously throughout the country, and increasing the volume of traffic and its storage time step by step. this . reports Interfax “[We are not talking about a phased introduction in the regions], no. Evenly throughout the country,” department head Nikolai Nikiforov told the agency at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

In St. Petersburg, the investigation ordered an inpatient psychological and psychiatric forensic examination of the former court secretary and member of United Russia, Alexander Eyvazov, accused of obstruction of justice (Part 3 of Article 294 of the Criminal Code) and defamation of a judge (Article 298 of the Criminal Code), reports Interfax with reference to lawyer and leader of Team 29 Ivan Pavlov.

The Supreme Court of Mordovia overturned the decision of the court of first instance and recognized as legal the decision of the Council of the Chamber of Lawyers to deprive Sergei Naumov of the status of lawyer, who came to the court hearing in shorts and a bandana. Ramil Akhmetgaliev, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, told Mediazona about this. Thus, the Supreme Court upheld the appeal of the President of the Chamber of Lawyers of the Republic, Alexander Amelin.

First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture Elena Drapeko believes that the comedy “The Death of Stalin” contains signs of extremism and needs additional legal examination, reports . RBC “I have never seen such disgusting things. This is an absolute libel, a provocation, an attempt to convince us that our country is terrible, our people are idiots, and our rulers are fools. Everything is perverted - from the anthem to (historical - MZ) characters,” Drapeko said.

The Volga District Military Court sentenced 30-year-old engineer from Kazan Ramil Gataullin to seven years in a general regime colony in the case of participation in the religious organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, reports . Kommersant The verdict was announced on January 19 at a visiting session in the Kazan Garrison Military Court. Gataullin was found guilty under Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of a terrorist organization).

Governor of the Orenburg region Yuri Berg fired the Minister of Forestry and Hunting Viktor Tonkikh and his three deputies, who appear in a video with a male striptease and jokes about a card game for a “budget” in a bag. this . reports RIA Novosti “Regional Governor Yuri Berg fired the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Viktor Petrovich Tonkikh, as well as his three deputies who were in the video,” the agency’s interlocutor said.