The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against a resident of Orel due to participation in the local branch of Jehovah's Witnesses, according to the website of the regional department of the agency. He is suspected under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (continuing the activities of an extremist organization banned by the court). According to investigators, the resident of Orel was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses.

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow sent the director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Roman Rubanov, under arrest for 10 days on an administrative case regarding a rally in support of the “voter strike” on January 28. Rubanov was detained late in the evening of February 19 at Sheremetyevo Airport and taken to the police station, where a report was drawn up against him under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (violation of the rules for organizing mass events).

The Chishminsky District Court in Bashkiria found former criminal investigation officer Ilmir Amirkhanov guilty of using violence against a detainee, sentencing him to four years of suspended imprisonment. This was reported by the Committee against Torture. In May last year, Denis Yumagulov, a resident of the village of Chishmy, told human rights activists that two police officers came to his home and offered to go to a drug treatment clinic to test for drug addiction.

Zaira Bopkhoeva (right). Photo provided by Khava Bopkhoeva On February 20, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) awarded 20 thousand euros of the mother of Ingushetia, Zaira Bopkhoeva, who fell into a coma after the abduction, told the Mediazone in the Legal Protective project. The corresponding decision is published on the court website.

In Chelyabinsk, lawyer Andrei Lepekhin and relatives cannot find three activists who disappeared after a police visit on the evening of February 19, the lawyer himself told Mediazona. According to Lepekhin, he contacted the temporary detention center, the duty station of the central police department and the FSB department. Everywhere the lawyer was told that they had no detained activists.

In Moscow, five criminal cases of large-scale fraud have been opened in the State Budgetary Institution “Zhilischnik”, REN TV reports , citing a source familiar with the situation. According to the channel's interlocutor, all of them concern the eastern regions of Moscow. We are talking about fictitious employment of janitors and cleaners. “The scheme is the same in all cases. According to the documents, a person is hired, his salary is calculated month after month.

Novaya Gazeta journalist Ali Feruz (Khudoberdi Nurmatov) received refugee status in Germany, reports , citing Feruz himself. Dozhd “I now live in the city of Göttingham <...> I am now in refugee status in Germany. I submitted the necessary documents and should receive a local passport soon,” Feruz said. The journalist explained that refugee status in Germany gives him the same rights as ordinary German citizens, except the right to vote.

Aeroflot announced a lawsuit against the assistant to the head of Yakutia, Evgeny Shigapov, who was removed from the flight due to obscene language and attempts to get into the cockpit, according to the company’s website. The air carrier intends to recover from Shigapov the costs incurred as a result of the flight delay and additional maintenance of the aircraft at Sheremetyevo Airport.

Relatives of the accused and journalists are not allowed into the garrison military court of Crimea, where a video link was organized from the hearing on the Hizb ut-Tahrir case in the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. Radio Liberty correspondent Anton Naumlyuk told Mediazona about this. According to the journalist, on February 14, he and the relatives of the accused came to the garrison court of Crimea.

The Minister of Health of Chuvashia, Vladimir Viktorov, said that if a woman had seven sexual partners before giving birth to a child, then she is infertile, writes the district newspaper Pravda PFO. “If a woman had seven men before giving birth to a child, that means one hundred percent infertility,” the minister said during an event to sum up the development of Novocheboksarsk for 2017.

Chairman of the public council of Roskomnadzor and producer Igor Matvienko proposed limiting the distribution of hip-hop and rap music in Russia due to the promotion of drugs and sex, . RIA Novosti reports “Now, for example, the majority, 90% of the charts are occupied by songs for young people, which glorify drugs, sex, and the beautiful life associated with it. Of course, this is connected with this genre - hip-hop, rap. It certainly came to us from there.

The prosecutor's office asked the Basmanny court, because of the insult to the investigator, to increase the sentence of Temirlan Eskerkhanov, who was sentenced to 14 years in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, by two months. this . reports RIA Novosti Initially, the prosecutor's office asked Eskerkhanov to be assigned 480 hours of compulsory labor, but taking into account the verdict in the Nemtsov murder case, they were “converted” into two months of imprisonment.

In Makhachkala, police and FSB officers are conducting searches at Gazprom's subsidiary, Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Makhachkala, reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Dagestan. RIA Novosti According to the agency’s interlocutor, investigative actions are being carried out “as part of a criminal case of theft.” He noted that the case was opened three years ago. Company employees also confirmed to Chernovik that security forces had come to the company.

During the debate in the Tverskoy District Court, the prosecutor requested three years in a general regime colony for the defendant in the “March 26 case,” Dmitry Borisov, accused under Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code (use of violence against a government official), a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom.

The Russian Curling Federation created a special commission to investigate the incident with Olympic bronze medalist in Pyeongchang Alexander Krushelnitsky, which asked the Investigative Committee to check whether the athlete could have been drugged with meldonium. This is stated in a message on the federation website.