The prosecutor's office sent to court a criminal case of extremism against a resident of the city of Velikiye Luki in the Pskov region, the Pskov Information Agency reports , citing the press service of the supervisory agency.

The former wife of Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, Ekaterina Solotsinskaya, decided to resign from the Rossotrudnichestvo representative office in France. about this She wrote on her Instagram. “I ask you to dismiss me from the position of director of the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Paris at my own request, effective February 28, 2018,” reads the statement she published.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has charged 13 Russians with conspiracy against the United States in connection with interference in the US presidential election. The indictment was published on the website of the US Department of Justice. Among the accused are businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Internet Research Agency, known as the “troll factory,” as well as Prigozhin’s company Concord Management and Consulting.

The Tagilstroevsky District Court of Nizhny Tagil granted the petition of former Moscow traffic police inspector Artur Kositsyn, who was sentenced in 2011 to 14 years in prison in a case of rape of 27 women, to replace the remaining sentence with a more lenient sentence, writes Znak.com .

The prosecution asked to sentence thief in law Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy) to 10 years in a maximum security colony in a case of extortion (points “a”, “b” of Part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code), the reports . Moscow agency Kalashov refused to plead guilty. In addition to Shakro Molodoy, there are 13 more defendants in the extortion case, including Kalashov’s henchman Andrei Kochuykov, nicknamed Italian. None of them admit guilt. “Do I admit guilt?

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow granted the investigation's request to arrest for a month the former general director of the Izvestia publishing house, political scientist and economist Erast Galumov, told TASS. court press secretary Ekaterina Krasnova According to her, 59-year-old Galumov was arrested for a month, until March 14. He is suspected of involvement in fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code).

The Moscow department of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case after the death of a three-year-old girl who was forgotten on the street after a walk in a kindergarten in New Moscow. This is stated in a message on the department's website. According to the Investigative Committee, on the morning of February 16, the kindergarten teacher and nanny went for a walk with the younger group of children.

The Krasnosulinsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don rejected the request of the Federal Penitentiary Service to change the suspended sentence to a real one for the representative of the miners who protested in Gukovo, Valery Dyakonov. this . reports The Caucasian Knot On September 26, 2016, the court sentenced the activist to 60 hours of compulsory labor, finding him guilty of threatening to kill the deputy head of the Zverevo administration.

The website of the social network “VKontakte” has stopped opening for a large number of users. tweeting about the problems are Numerous users . By 17:40 the site was restored. “Unfortunately, the server is temporarily unavailable. Try again a little later,” this message appears after some waiting when trying to open the main page of the social network. Problems with accessing the site occur in versions for mobile devices and computers, as well as in the social network’s mobile application.

The head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, Nikolai Nikiforov, in a conversation with Interfax, called the accusations by the US authorities against the Russian military about organizing a cyber attack using the NotPetya virus last summer as groundless. Nikiforov’s quotes from Interfax are provided by Rossiyskaya Gazeta. The minister noted that there is nothing complicated in the NotPetya virus itself , and even a student could write the code.

The Central Bank came up with a proposal to ban banks from displaying data on foreign currency exchange rates on the street, including on information boards. The Vedomosti newspaper writes about this. Amendments are proposed to be made to the Central Bank instruction dated September 16, 2010, which limits the procedure for conducting transactions with cash currency.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow returned to the police the materials of the administrative case against Alexei Navalny due to the action on January 28. Interfax about this . told Lawyer Olga Mikhailova “The protocol contains a cell phone and a SIM card as material evidence. In fact, these physical evidence were not found in the case, where they are is unknown, and therefore the material was returned,” the lawyer said.

On the Kinopoisk website, on the page of the film Sobibor, the name of Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky was removed from the list of screenwriters. The press service of the project told RNS that they update information based on data received from film distributors and producers. “Data about new films released in theaters is usually provided to Kinopoisk by film distributors or producers. We update the information based on the data received from them,” Kinopoisk said.

The investigation asked to extend the period of detention of the former secretary of the St. Petersburg court 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), the human rights association “Team” told Mediazona 29". A message on the organization’s website states that Eyvazov has been in pre-trial detention for six months.

Employees of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Ministry of Emergency Situations are conducting a routine inspection at the Solidarity charity foundation and at the Medina educational center located at it. Dozhd about this The head of the fund, Liliya Mukhamedyarova, told . According to her, the check began around 11:00. Law enforcement officials demand that the organization's employees explain why they teach children the basics of Islam.