The Main Police Department of St. Petersburg demanded that the general director of the Dozhd TV channel, Natalya Sindeeva, provide “information about the actual location” of the former editor-in-chief of the TV channel, Roman Badanin, who is now studying at Stanford University in the USA, Open Media writes , citing a source close to the TV channel. . This information was confirmed to The Bell by Dozhd editor-in-chief Alexandra Perepelova.

Governor of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov dismissed Leonid Simunin, recently appointed adviser on construction and housing and communal services. As New Kaliningrad writes , Alikhanov spoke about this during a trip to the Darita ash dump. Simunin held the position of adviser for only three days, the publication notes.

Oleg Deripaska decided to reduce his stake in En+ Group after the introduction of US sanctions against him, the company said in a statement. Deripaska's stake will drop to less than 50%. He will also resign as chairman of the board of directors. also En+ appealed to the US Treasury Department, which included it in the sanctions list, with a request to extend transactions with the company until October 31.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow left the former general director of the Gogol Center, Alexei Malobrodsky, in pretrial detention, Meduza reports . The Investigative Committee filed a petition to transfer Malobrodsky to house arrest. The Investigative Committee emphasized that this was done “taking into account age, health and other circumstances.” The prosecutor's office opposed changing the preventive measure. The prosecutor said that no grounds had emerged for a more lenient measure.

In Tula, a court sent a policeman to a pre-trial detention center accused of receiving a large bribe (clause “c” of Part 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code) for patronizing the work of a brothel, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, in the fall of 2015, an employee of the drug control department offered protection to an acquaintance who ran a brothel with sex workers.

On the morning of April 27, FSB officers conducted searches of two deputy heads of the administration of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Irina Filatova and Marina Atamanyuk, RBC reports , citing the words of the head of the district press service, Alexander Shestun, as well as their own sources in the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Moscow region.

Governor of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov appointed Leonid Simunin as a new adviser on construction and housing and communal services. A person with the same name and surname acted as a witness in the case of the Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists (BORN), writes New Kaliningrad. The regional government could not confirm or deny the assumption that we are talking about the same person.

A traffic police inspector from the Yamal city of Labytnangi was convicted of accepting a bribe with a canister of motor oil, reports the press service of the Investigative Committee for the region. According to investigators, on the afternoon of January 7, 2018, an inspector stopped a local resident’s car for violating the rules. After the inspection, the inspector found out that the detainee did not have a driver’s license or insurance on him.

On Sakhalin, a 50-year-old sick driver was evacuated a week later from a radio navigation station located at Cape Lovtsovo on Kunashir Island, after publication in a local publication, writes Sakh.com . The driver’s wife, Galina Ilyinykh, said that her husband complained of an inflamed lymph node a week ago. By April 27, his health condition became critical: his body temperature rose to 40 degrees, the tumor continued to grow, and the man stopped walking.

The FSB reported on the detention of four alleged members of the “sleeping cell” of the Islamic State terrorist group, who were preparing terrorist attacks in Moscow, TASS reports . The department’s release states that this group came from Novy Urengoy and “planned to carry out a series of high-profile terrorist attacks in the Moscow region.” RIA Novosti notes that, according to the intelligence service, the detainees received instructions from Syria through the Telegram messenger.

The Moscow City Hall has agreed to hold the opposition rally announced by Alexei Navalny on May 5 on Sakharov Avenue, TASS reports the words of the head of the department of regional security and anti-corruption, Vladimir Chernikov. Chernikov proposed holding a procession from Masha Poryvaeva Street to Academician Sakharov Avenue, and then holding a rally on the outside of the avenue.

Residents of the Nadterechny district of Chechnya Islam Lorsanov, Apti Magomadov and Sulim Dzhabayev were fined 1,500 rubles each for publishing Timur Mutsuraev’s songs on VKontakte, writes Caucasian Knot with reference to a representative of the prosecutor’s office. The songs, the publication’s interlocutor said, were discovered during monitoring of the social network.

The Memorial human rights center recognized Dmitry Tretyakov, a supporter of Alexei Navalny from Primorye, as a political prisoner, accused of calls for extremism (part of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) for reposting the text of publicist Arkady Babchenko in a telegram chat, according to the organization’s website.

The Moscow City Court postponed the consideration of the appeal against the verdict of the ex-governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, for whom an ambulance was called before the meeting, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the back of the court. The lawyer of the former governor, Andrei Grokhotov, asked to postpone the meeting. Belykh himself said that the emergency doctors gave him a “loading dose” of medication and recommended not to move for a couple of hours.

In the village of Tominsky, Chelyabinsk Region, Olga Yakovets, an activist of the “Stop GOK” movement, was threatened with arson at her house. Yakovets herself reported this to Mediazona. As the activist said, she decided to hold a rally in the village near the office of the Russian Copper Company (RMK), which is building the Tominsky Mining and Processing Plant (GOK), which local residents are against.