The Basmanny District Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of Mikhail Ustyantsev, whom investigators consider the organizer of a “terrorist community” - an association of followers of the religious sect “Aum Shinrikyo” in Moscow and St. Petersburg. this to Interfax . reported The press secretary of the court, Yuno Tsareva, Ustyantsev was placed under arrest until June 12.

The Butyrsky District Court of Moscow overturned a decision made in absentia to recover 1.2 million rubles from God’s Will activist Lyudmila Esipenko for the restoration of damaged linocuts by Vadim Sidur. This is stated in the court ruling, which is at the disposal of Mediazona, and Esipenko also confirmed this.

The mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir Panov, recommended that residents of the Avtozavodsky and Leninsky districts not yet pay bills for housing and communal services, which increased after recalculation, reports the Nizhny Novgorod publication Vremya. At a briefing that Panov convened after about 200 people blocked Ilyich Avenue, the mayor spoke about the possible reason for the appearance of charges in housing and communal services bills.

The Volokolamsk City Court rejected the claim of eight local residents demanding the closure of the Yadrovo landfill, TASS reports citing the court’s press service. Previously, local residents filed lawsuits demanding that they stop accepting waste into the landfill and remove the landfill operator from managing the reclamation process. TASS reports that the court will consider another class action lawsuit from opponents of the landfill against the operator Yadrovo on May 7.

The owner of the power engineering company Power Machines, Alexey Mordashov, appealed to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with a request for benefits in connection with problems caused by sanctions, The Bell reports, citing two federal officials. The company came under sanctions in January; in February, management stated in a report that the effect of restrictive measures would not be significant, Vedomosti wrote .

In the Orenburg region, a court arrested a policeman accused of beating three local residents to confess to stealing livestock, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

In Nizhny Novgorod, about two hundred activists blocked Ilyich Avenue with a truck due to recalculation of the cost of housing and communal services, reports Nn.ru. “Police officers arrived at the scene very quickly. Law enforcement officers talked to the protesters and reminded that such actions go against the law,” notes Progorod-NN.

Suleiman Kadyrov The Supreme Court of Crimea upheld the verdict of the Crimean Tatar activist Suleiman Kadyrov, sentenced to two years in prison and prohibition of public activities on charges of calling for separatism (part 280.1 of the Criminal Code) for repost on Facebook , the correspondent of the mediazone reports. The verdict was issued on March 1 by the Feodosia City Court.

The St. Petersburg City Court left anti-fascist Igor Shishkin, a defendant in the “Penza case,” in a pre-trial detention center. Shishkin’s lawyer Igor Mengilev reported this to Mediazona. The defense asked to change the defendant's preventive measure to house arrest or to release him on bail of one million rubles, based on the pre-trial cooperation agreement that Shishkin concluded with the investigation.

A criminal case of illegal storage of weapons (Article 222 of the Criminal Code) was opened on a 35-year-old resident of Moscow, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports . “The garage belonged to the attacker was seized and sent for examination objects that are structurally similar to the Nagan system revolver, PM brand pistols, adaptation for silent shooting, Mosin Karabin, Kalashnikov’s automatic, sniper sight, as well as 244 units of cartridges of various calibers.

In Arkhangelsk, police detained a local resident suspected of murdering his friend because of comments about his criminal record, according to the website of the Investigative Committee for the Arkhangelsk Region and Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The day before, the victim's mother found the body of her 35-year-old son in the house with multiple stab wounds. The Investigative Committee opened a case under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code (murder).

In the 27th police department of the Frunzensky district of St. Petersburg, a detainee was found hanged, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports . The 36-year-old man was detained on May 2 for an administrative offense, as notes , a report was drawn up against him for petty hooliganism (20.1 of the Administrative Code). Fontanka After drawing up a report, the man was taken to the detention room, and later he was found hanged.

In Orel, a former police officer Natalya Bashkatova will appear before the court, who promised to “describe the corpse” of a local resident Yana Savchuk, who spoke about the threats of a partner and died from his hands five minutes after the police departed. This was reported to the Mediazone by lawyer Sergey Loktev, who collaborates with the human rights organization "Zone of Law" and representing the interests of Father Savchuk.

In 2017, the fiscal year (from October 2016 to the end of September 2017) 2664 Russian submitted a statement of asylum in the United States, Radio Liberty reports with reference to the statistics of US citizenship and immigration management ( USCIS ). This is a record number of applications submitted since 1994 - then 2127 Russians asked for asylum in the United States. The increase compared to 2016 fiscal year was 39%.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on two police officers in the city of Neftekumsk, Stavropol Territory. This was reported by the analytical organization SITE Intelligence Group news agency close to the group with reference to the Amaq . A source for the local publication Pobeda26 in the anti-terrorism commission reported that the attacker could have been 21-year-old former student Ramil Shabakaev, previously convicted of trying to join the Islamic State.