Press conference "Parental network". Photo: Peter Kassin / "Kommersant" On April 17, the Moscow Sakharov Center was held by the press conference of the Parental Network-a committee of relatives of anti-fascists arrested in the Penza case. It was on her relatives Dmitry Pchelintsev, Andrei Chernov, Ilya Shakursky and Arman Sagynbaev. The Mediazone recorded and deciphered their stories.

The bill on new restrictive measures against the United States assumes that it will not be possible to ban the import of only 90 out of 1019 medicines supplied to Russia. As reports , State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced this on Rossiya-24. Meduza He noted that the ban will not include drugs that have no analogues produced in Russia or outside the United States. Volodin called for “trying to calm the public.” The bill was submitted to the State Duma on April 13.

The Prosecutor General's Office identified violations in the work of Roskomnadzor, which did not block websites quickly enough at the request of the department. Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika spoke about this in his report, TASS reports .

detained for an action against the blocking of Telegram member Pussy Riot Maria Alyokhina and former head of the “God’s Will” movement Dmitry Enteo, , are left in police custody for the second day. Enteo wrote about this on his Twitter. The rest of those detained at the rally - Lyudmila Sukova, Alexander Sofeev, Heinrich von Desteo, Stepan Vyboch, Alisa Gordeeva, Yegor Eremeev, Olga Savchenko and Sonya Trofimova - were released from the police department pending trial.

Agora lawyers, who represent the interests of Telegram , appealed the decision on immediate blocking made on April 13 by the Tagansky District Court of Moscow. The document was posted on his channel by the head of Agora, Pavel Chikov. In the complaint, lawyers refer to the position of the Supreme Court, which indicated that the conclusions of a court making a decision with immediate execution must be supported by real evidence.

In Anapa, the prosecutor's office canceled the refusal to initiate cases based on complaints from local residents Artem Beglaryan and Grigory Achkasov, who spoke about electric shock torture and beatings at the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This was reported by the Committee against Torture.

The press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service for St. Petersburg called the publication of Novaya Gazeta unreliable that businessman Valery Pshenichny, who was arrested in the case of theft during the design of the Varshavyanka submarines, was beaten and raped before his death. The release was published on the department's website.

A 33-year-old Muscovite was detained for falsifying court decisions and obtaining data on calls from hundreds of people. on the initiation of a criminal case . reported The Moscow Investigative Committee According to investigators, the suspect, using a printer, a computer and a fake official seal of one of the Moscow courts, produced and forged court decisions to obtain information about subscribers’ connections.

The editor-in-chief of the Echo of Moscow website, Vitaly Ruvinsky, was summoned to court because of Ksenia Sobchak’s blog published on Echo, which contained a hyperlink to a video with obscenities. The editor-in-chief of the radio station, Alexey Venediktov, told Mediazona about this. According to Venediktov, we are talking about Sobchak’s blog entry dated January 30, 2018. It’s called “I’m not offended at all, I understand everything.

The Constitutional Court allowed master's students to receive a third deferment from conscription for military service in the army, according to the Constitutional Court's website. A resident of Mordovia, Pavel Spiridonov, appealed to the court. The young man received a deferment from the army twice: while studying in his senior year of high school and during his undergraduate studies at Mordovian State University.

The investigation seized more than $1 million during a search from the co-owners of the Summa group, brothers Ziyavudin and Magomed Magomedov, suspected of embezzling 2.5 billion rubles, TASS reports citing the press secretary of the Tverskoy Court Anastasia Dzyurko. “A security arrest was imposed at the request of the investigator on the funds seized from them during the search. The amount of money seized is more than $1 million,” Dzyurko said.

A court in the Thai city of Pattaya acquitted Nastya Rybka (Anastasia Vashukevich) and Alex Leslie (Alexander Kirillov) of illegal business and labor activity, reports with reference to lawyer Satthaphon Siyoth. RIA Novosti “The court acquitted my clients in the case of illegal business and labor activities in connection with the recent entry into force of changes in labor legislation,” the lawyer told the agency.

Funding for the prison system for the next eight years has been cut almost in half - from 96.5 to 55 billion rubles, according to the Federal Target Program (FTP) “Development of the penal system for 2018-2026,” published on the legal information portal . The allocated money is planned to be spent on improving conditions for prisoners and detainees in pre-trial detention centers.

In Tomsk, members of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) said that on April 12, riot police officers beat foreigners in the Temporary Detention Center for Foreign Citizens (SUVSIG). This was reported by the local TV channel TV2 with reference to Alexander Paltusov, a member of the Public Monitoring Committee. As Paltusov said, human rights activists were informed that riot police officers burst into the SUVSIG premises and began beating people.

A new, fifth criminal case was opened against the Deputy Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Capital Construction Oleg Korshunov, TASS reports citing a source in law enforcement agencies.