The magistrate of the judicial district No. 77 of the Sokol district sentenced the former head of the department of the Moscow Academy of the Investigative Committee, Lyudmila Simanovich, to a fine of 30 thousand rubles for a fake doctor of sciences diploma and associate professor certificate, according to the website of the city prosecutor's office. Simanovich was found guilty under Part 3 of Article 327 of the Criminal Code (use of knowingly forged documents).

Nationalist Alexander Potkin was released from Moscow pre-trial detention center No. 1, and is now under house arrest, his lawyer Igor Popovsky told Mediazona. Potkin spent three and a half years in prison. In October 2014, the Tverskoy District Court arrested a nationalist who was then accused of legalizing the property of the Kazakh BTA Bank, obtained illegally (Part 4 of Article 174 of the Criminal Code).

Valeria Pavlova, a volunteer at the integration center for children of refugees and migrants “Same Children”, said that she received a call from a man who introduced himself as an FSB employee and offered to discuss the activities of the organization in which she works. about this . Pavlova told OVD-Info According to the volunteer, she asked the interlocutor what kind of organization we were talking about, but he avoided answering.

Lawyer Vyacheslav Feoktistov, representing the interests of Yulia Manaenkova, accused in the case of the sale of the child of the chairman of the BKF bank Olga Mirimskaya (Article 127.1 of the Criminal Code), sent petitions to the Investigative Committee and the prosecutor's office of the Moscow region to terminate the criminal prosecution of his trustee, the accused's husband Arkhip Zhulev told Mediazona.

The Chelyabinsk Regional Court sentenced 17 rioters in the correctional colony in Kopeisk (IK-6) in 2012 to terms ranging from three and a half years suspended to five years in prison, Interfax reports . Eleven riot participants were found guilty of organizing mass riots (Part 1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced to terms of four to five years in prison.

The Leningrad Regional Court refused to amend the decision of the Priozersk Court, which sentenced priest Gleb Grozovsky to 14 years in prison for sexual assault against children, writes . Kommersant The publication notes that the prosecutor asked the court to reduce the convicted person’s sentence below the lower limit - from 14 to eight and a half years in prison. The court did not support this approach.

In the Kemerovo region, the Belovsky District Court declared illegal the seizure of four land plots from residents of the village of Mencherep on the basis of state needs, reports with reference to the head of Team 29, lawyer Ivan Pavlov. Interfax The court satisfied the claim of village residents who demanded that the orders of the subsoil use department for the Siberian Federal District (Sibnedra) to confiscate plots be declared illegal.

The Matveevo-Kurgan district court arrested for two months the co-chairman of the unregistered Other Russia party, Alexander Averin, who was detained in the Rostov region on the DPR border with a pistol, press secretary of the Rostov branch of the party Sergei Cherepovsky told Mediazona. According to him, Averin’s arrest was scheduled until June 12. He noted that one of the two witnesses refused to sign the protocol.

Members of Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate have been monitoring Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia for at least the past five years, UK government national security adviser Mark Sedwill said in a letter to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The letter was published by the Guardian. The letter states that Yulia Skripal’s emails have been of interest to GRU “cyber experts” since 2013.

Kursk resident Igor Bocharov, sentenced to two years in prison for beating a traffic police officer, appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), lawyer Igor Sholokhov, who collaborates with the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” told Mediazona. Bocharov insists that the traffic police officers themselves beat him. In October 2016, police stopped a car driven by the applicant.

In the Bryansk region, the court of the city of Klintsy granted a request for parole (parole) of the former governor of the region Nikolai Denin, sentenced to four years in a general regime colony for abuse of office (part 2 of article 285 of the Criminal Code, TASS reports with reference to the court’s press service. According to the agency, previously the Klintsovsky City Court twice denied Denin parole because the former governor did not repay the debt under the claim.

Prosecutor Elena Askerova appealed the decision of the Petrozavodsk City Court, which acquitted the head of the Karelian "Memorial" Yuri Dmitriev on charges of child pornography, reports with reference to the press service of the city prosecutor's office. Interfax “The appeal was filed due to the discrepancy between the court’s conclusions set out in the verdict and the factual materials of the case.

In Ufa, five people died in a sewer well. Four of them were trying to pull out a colleague who had fallen into it from a well. This is reported on the city administration website. The press service suggested that people were poisoned by “an unidentified gas that is unsuitable for breathing.” According to the mayor's office, on April 13, a restaurant employee was doing work and fell into a well, which was part of the establishment's sewer system.

On April 12, the Moscow Meshchansky Court placed nationalist Alexander Potkin (Belov), accused of money laundering (Article 174 of the Criminal Code), under house arrest for two months, Potkin’s lawyer Igor Popovsky told Mediazona. As Popovsky reported, on April 13, Potkin, sentenced to three and a half years in prison in a case of extremism, should be released from the pre-trial detention center, where he was transferred to consider an appeal against the verdict in the Moscow City Court.

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and the leaders of four parliamentary factions introduced a bill on retaliatory measures to American sanctions against Russia. The document proposes to ban or limit the import of alcohol, medicines and agricultural products from the United States, First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Ivan Melnikov told Interfax.