A criminal case was opened against two citizens of Armenia, detained at a spontaneous rally near the Armenian temple complex in Moscow, for the use of violence against government officials, the Caucasian Knot reports , citing lawyer Ruben Kirakosyan. Kirakosyan did not provide any details about the case. The "Caucasian Knot" also cites the words of an eyewitness to the rally; he said that several people “purposefully escalated the situation”, were aggressive and provoked a fight.

The Council of the Moscow Bar Association has stripped Mark Feygin of his status as a lawyer, he announced on Twitter. So, I've been disbarred. — Mark Feygin (@FeyginMark) April 24, 2018 Stalin's lawyer Gurevich, in a conversation with RIA Novosti, clarified that the council considered Feigin's behavior unethical, as he used obscene language in social networks in relation to his fellow lawyers and their clients.

The Moscow petty bourgeois court imposed administrative fines and compulsory labor on the participants of the spontaneous action near the Armenian temple complex that took place on April 22, TASS reports . Protocols were drawn up for 24 detainees under Part 6.1 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (participation in an unauthorized rally). Three of them were given compulsory work of 40 hours each, the rest were fined 20 thousand rubles.

The Moscow Meshchansky Court sent the case of nationalist Alexander Potkin (Belov) about an attempt to launder funds to the Domodedovo City Court of the Moscow Region for consideration on the merits, Potkin’s lawyer Igor Popovsky told Mediazona. “This is the third preliminary meeting. At the last meeting, we filed a petition to transfer the case to the prosecutor's office due to the inconsistency of the indictment.

The Moscow City Hall refused to allow Alexei Navalny to hold a rally on Tverskaya Street on the eve of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration, the politician himself wrote about this on Twitter. “In their opinion, there is no place for us in the city center. The center belongs to Putin and United Russia. Well, we cannot agree with this,” Navalny said and called on his supporters to go to Tverskaya.

The Moscow City Court upheld the legal sentence of the former director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature, Natalya Sharina, who received a suspended four-year prison sentence, reports . the Moscow agency She was found guilty under two articles: 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity) and 160 of the Criminal Code (embezzlement). Sharina herself said during the appeal that she did not consider herself guilty.

In Ufa, the court arrested a 31-year-old local resident who headed the local branch of the Jehovah's Witnesses organization, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. He was charged with organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

During the debate in the Cherkessk City Court, the state prosecution requested 13 years in a maximum security colony for the former head of the Cherkessk criminal investigation department, Ruslan Rakhaev, accused of beating a detainee to death, according to the telegram channel of the Public Verdict Foundation.

In the Central District Court of Simferopol, the prosecutor asked to assign suspended sentences to five defendants in the case of clashes between supporters and opponents of the annexation of Crimea to Russia on February 26, 2014, reports . Krym.Realii The prosecution asks Ali Asanov and Mustafa Degermendzhi to be sentenced to five years of suspended imprisonment, Eskender Kantemirov, Arsen Yunusov and Eskender Emirvaliev - to 3.5 years of probation.

In Irkutsk, the second international book festival, which is held with the support of Oleg Deripaska’s “Volnoye Delo” foundation, has been cancelled, one of the organizers Boris Kupriyanov wrote on Facebook. “According to the Volnoe Delo Foundation (Oleg Deripaska’s private foundation), it is not worth carrying out now. There is a completely rational explanation for this; the companies of the Basic Element group suffered significant losses,” Kupriyanov said.

The organizer of the international documentary film festival “Artdocfest”, Vitaly Mansky, was interviewed at the Moscow office of the Investigative Committee. This was reported to Mediazona by Open Russia human rights lawyer Sergei Badamshin, who represented Mansky’s interests during the inspection.

Frame: Khimki Batman Reaper / YouTube Interested in the plot of a person in Batman's costume, who performs justice in the near Moscow Region, Nikita Sologub follows the trail of the superhero and discovers a love triangle with the participation of the operative and the suspect, learns about the treatment of leukemia “horse protein” and faces the mysterious anniversary committee of the FSB. Solnechnogorsk.

In Crimea, the magistrate of court district No. 27 of the city of Bakhchisarai sentenced Crimean Tatar activist Shevket Razzakov, accused of publicly insulting a National Guard employee (Article 319 of the Criminal Code), to a 20 thousand ruble fine. This was reported on the Facebook page of the public organization “Crimean Solidarity”. Activists write that earlier the prosecution asked that Razzakov be sentenced to 300 hours of compulsory labor.

In Nizhny Novgorod, a sixth-year student at the Volga Research Medical University, Kudzai Nyamarebva, who came to study from Zimbabwe, was decided to be expelled from Russia reports nn.ru. , The girl’s friend claims that the reason was a post with an invitation to a concert of African music.

The investigation found no grounds to initiate a criminal case over the death of Maxim Borodin, a journalist with the Ural news agency “New Day”. The circumstances of his death are not criminal in nature, told New Day. the press service of the Investigative Committee for the Sverdlovsk Region On April 12, the journalist fell from the fifth floor balcony. He was taken to the hospital, where he died three days later without regaining consciousness.