The outgoing director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, Mike Pompeo, told the Senate that “a couple hundred” Russians were killed as a result of a US military strike in Syria, the reports Washington Post . Pompeo did not provide any other details, WP notes . Perhaps we are talking about the death of Russians in the battle on February 7 on the banks of the Euphrates River near the Syrian settlement of Hisham.

The Investigative Committee in Tatarstan stopped the criminal prosecution of Elena Bolonkina, a resident of the village of Monastyrskoye with many children, who spent six months in a pre-trial detention center on charges of murdering her husband Viktor. Vechernaya Kazan about this . told Her lawyer Ruslan Ingatyev “The notification from the investigative committee, which Bolonkina received last Friday, states that the prosecution is being stopped due to her non-involvement in the crime.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested for 2 months, until June 10, the general director of National Telematic Systems, former vice-president of Rostelecom and one of the creators of the Platon system, Alexei Nashchekin, court press secretary Yuno Tsareva told Mediazona. Nashchekin is accused of complicity in abuse of power resulting in grave consequences (Part 5 of Article 33, Part 3 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code).

The Moscow City Court excluded the ban on holding public office from the verdict against former Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev, a reports Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. The rest of the sentence was left unchanged. On December 15, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court found the ex-minister guilty under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (taking a bribe) and sentenced him to eight years in a maximum security colony.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has sent a request to Germany to extradite Andrei Kovalchuk, a defendant in the case of attempting to smuggle more than 300 kilograms of cocaine from Argentina, TASS reports . Kovalchuk has been under arrest in Germany since the beginning of March, and in Russia he was arrested in absentia.

In Estonia, a court sentenced Pskov martial arts coach Mikhail Petrov, who asked for political asylum in the country in the summer of 2017, to five years in prison, reports err.ee . The Russian was convicted under Article 233 of the Estonian Penal Code, which provides punishment for non-violent actions against the country committed by a foreigner.

The mother of anti-fascist Ilya Shakursky, a defendant in the “Penza case,” Elena Bogatova, said that on April 10, the investigator called her for a conversation and offered to give an interview to the NTV channel, promising that her son would “be credited for this in court.” This is stated in the message of the “Parental Network” - an organization that united the parents of those involved in the “Penza case”.

Politician Alexei Navalny announced protests on May 5. They will pass before the inauguration of Vladimir Putin, which is planned on May 7, the opposition blog reported . Navalny proposes to take to the streets "with a completely constructive demand for the fight against poverty and inequality." “We want the fight against poverty and inequality. This is a very constructive proposal, what can be the development of a country where more than 20% of the population are poor? ” - said Navalny.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk fined Tatyana Protsykova, the organizer of the uncoordinated environmental rally “For a Clear Sky,” 10 thousand rubles, the activist herself told Siberia.Realities. The court website says that the protocol against Protsykova was drawn up under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (organizing or holding a public event without filing a notification). “I don’t regret my decision to stage a protest one bit.

In Nizhny Tagil, the parents of Interior Ministry operative Yegor Yalunin, who was transferred from house arrest to a pre-trial detention center, went on a hunger strike, reports the All News agency. It is alleged that Sergei and Yulia Yalunin sent a message to the head of the Investigative Committee for the Dzerzhinsky district of the Sverdlovsk region Denis Kelbikhanov and investigator Evgeniy Komarov that they were refusing to eat.

The deputy head of the economic security service of the FSB department for the Samara region and the head of department “M” were detained on suspicion of taking a bribe (part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to the investigation, from March 2016 to March 2018, the suspects received monthly bank transfers from the head of the legal service of one of the local companies.

The Investigative Committee in Krasnodar opened a criminal case for abuse of power with the use of violence (clause “a” of part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code) regarding the kidnapping of businessman Aram Gambaryan, who was kidnapped and tortured on March 21, 2017, and the next day was arrested for 10 days for petty crime hooliganism. This was reported by the Committee Against Torture, whose lawyers represent Gambaryan’s interests.

messenger The founder of the Telegram Pavel Durov banned lawyers from participating in the court hearing at which Roskomnadzor will seek to block the messenger. about this in his Telegram channel wrote Pavel Chikov, head of the international human rights group Agora, . He noted that the decision was made so as not to “legitimize an outright farce with our presence.” “We were not properly notified, we were not provided with documents, and we were not allowed to prepare.

The co-chairman of the unregistered “Other Russia” party, Alexander Averin, was detained in the Rostov region, according to the party’s telegram channel. According to The Other Russia, when Averin crossed the border from the self-proclaimed DPR into Russia, a Makarov pistol was planted on him at the border checkpoint in the village of Avilo-Uspenka. Then he was taken to the police department in the village of Matveevo-Kurgan, where he has been staying for three days.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has confirmed the British version regarding the substance that poisoned former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. This is stated in the published open part of the OPCW report. The OPCW report noted that it confirmed "the UK's findings relating to the identification of the chemical toxin that was used in Salisbury." It is noted that the substance used was of high quality.