The Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested until May 24 a participant in the protest rally in the courtyard of the Cathedral of the Armenian Church on Trifonovskaya Street, Marzpet Manukyan. As reports , Manukyan is suspected of hooliganism (Part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

The Shali City Court of Chechnya extended the arrest of human rights activist Oyub Titiev until June 9, reports in its Telegram channel. the Memorial Center about the scheduled meeting Titiev’s lawyers were not notified ; moreover, it was appointed precisely on the day the defense lawyers spoke at a press conference in Moscow. Memorial noted that this is “somewhat unethical behavior” of the investigation and the court.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Saratov ruled to pay journalist Sergei Vilkov 150 thousand rubles in compensation for illegal criminal prosecution in the case of slander of local deputy Sergei Kurikhin. Vilkov himself told Mediazona about this. According to the journalist, he asked for compensation in the amount of 2 million rubles.

In 2017, courts found 1,077 fewer people innocent than a year earlier: 1,563 people versus 2,640 people in 2016, according to statistics from the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court. The decrease in the number of acquitted persons by 41% coincided with a decrease in the total number of those convicted (697 thousand versus 741 thousand), but here the reduction turned out to be much less sharp (5.8%). For comparison, in 2011 there were 7,411 people acquitted, and in 2013 - 4,524 people.

In Yekaterinburg, children participating in the contest “Building and Songs” of the project “Sons and Daughters of the Fatherland” project marched in the snow in summer clothes. This was written by Znak.com with reference to the representative of the project Olga Rogulina. Earlier in the public “Typical Yekaterinburg”, a photograph was published in which easily dressed girls in ballet shoes and skirts march on the area covered with snow.

In Tomsk, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case after beatings of foreigners in the Temporary Detention Center for Foreign Citizens (SUVSIG) by riot police officers. this . reports The press service of the department According to investigators, on April 12, police and National Guard officers beat four foreigners without reason during an inspection of premises in SUVSIG. Member of the Public Monitoring Commission Alexander Paltusov said that a total of 13 people were injured.

The Investigative Committee did not initiate a criminal case regarding the torture of anti-fascist Igor Shishkin, who was arrested in the “Penza case,” as follows from the response of the prosecutor’s office to the complaint of a member of the POC of St. Petersburg, Ekaterina Kosarevskaya. “Based on the results of the inspection regarding the detection of bodily injuries to Shishkin I.D.

In Taganrog, the Investigative Committee did not initiate a criminal case of thallium poisoning of Maxim Tereshchenko, an employee of the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex named after Beriev (TANTK). The lawyer of the international human rights group Agora, Alexander Popkov, who represents the interests of five victims of poisoning, reported this to Mediazona.

The Maikop City Court recovered 1 million rubles in compensation for moral damage from the Russian Ministry of Finance in favor of environmentalist Valery Brinikh, whom the court acquitted of charges of extremism, Andrei Sabinin, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, told Mediazona.

A resident of Bashkortostan, Anvar Masalimov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment but was recently released from prison due to a court review of his case, is serving as a witness in the case of the murder of a man in Ufa. about this with reference to a representative of the Bashkir department of the Investigative Committee. writes RIA Novosti The day before, Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ufa reported that Masalimov became a suspect in a murder case during a drunken brawl.

Former deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service for capital construction, Oleg Korshunov, believes that he will act “unpatriotic” if he appeals to the European Court of Human Rights. this with reference to his lawyer Alexander Linnikov. reports RIA Novosti “Korshunov is a state adviser to the Russian Federation - the rank of lieutenant general. “An appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, from his point of view, is unacceptable, wrong, if you like, unpatriotic,” Linnikov said.

On April 20, the Tverskaya District Court of Moscow arrested a local resident Sergey Pribalov, who threw Molotov cocktails next to the Federation Council. This was reported to the "Mediazone" by the press service of the court. In relation to Pribalov, the case was opened under part 3 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism using explosives or explosive devices).

Representative of the Latvian Foreign Ministry Gints Egermanis said on the LNT TV channel that representatives of the BBC approached the country's authorities, who are considering the possibility of “evacuating” Russian service journalists from Moscow. about this Baltnews.lv writes . “We were asked to provide support if such a need arises. We discussed this issue and a decision was made in the National Security Council.

Having analyzed the data published by journalists from the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers, Rosfinmonitoring discovered illegal financial transactions worth billions of rubles, in which thousands of Russians, including high-ranking officials, were involved. Director of Rosfinmonitoring Yuri Chikhanchin spoke about this at the Eurasian Anti-Corruption Forum, reports .

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case regarding the beating of prisoners by employees of IK-43 in the village of Oktyabrsky (clause “a” of part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code). The case was initiated after a video of beatings was published on YouTube, reports .