The Investigative Committee has completed the investigation of the criminal case under Part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code (illegal possession of drugs on a large scale) against the head of the Grozny branch of Memorial Oyub Titiev. This was reported on Memorial’s telegram channel, where was also published .

The Gagarinsky District Court of Sevastopol sentenced pro-Ukrainian activist Igor Movenko to two years in a general regime colony on charges of incitement to extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) for comments in the Krim-Ukrain community, a Mediazona correspondent reports. Lawyer Oksana Zheleznyak said that the defense intends to appeal the verdict.

The head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, spoke about new searches in the area, Interfax reports . “[Searches] at the Ok-Design agency, the private security company Zadry, the Sports Palace of Nadezhda and the counterparty of the Sports Palace“ Nadezhda ”<...> they brought to the justification of the search a criminal case on a small land in the village of Prigluki, 10 years ago, which was already checked a hundred times,” says Shestun.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) corrected the words of its head, Ahmet Üzümcü, who in an interview with the New York Times estimated the mass of the Novichok substance used to poison GRU Colonel Skripal and his daughter at 50-100 grams. The organization's release is published on their website. The OPCW writes that it cannot determine or estimate the exact amount of the toxic substance.

The judge of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow, Elena Nikolaeva, granted the investigation's request and extended the house arrest of Roskomnadzor press secretary Vadim Ampelonsky and two other defendants in the case of embezzlement in the department, the reports .

The FSB reported the detention in Yaroslavl of five alleged members of the Islamic State, who were planning terrorist attacks in several regions, TASS reports . “The coordination of preparations for terrorist attacks was carried out through closed communities of the Telegram messenger , including from abroad. During the searches, an arsenal of improvised explosive devices, explosives, firearms and ammunition was seized from the detainees,” the intelligence service reports.

In the city of Serpukhov, Moscow Region, police detained five Left Bloc activists who were holding single pickets for the closure of the Lesnaya solid waste landfill, the organization’s press service told Mediazona. Among the detainees are activists Kirill Slepets, Maxim Savelyev and Stanislav Kiryushkin, the names of the other two are still being established.

The Ministry of Culture has asked the Prosecutor General's Office to check several film companies that received money from the budget to shoot films but failed to fulfill their obligations to the state. This was reported by Vedomosti, citing Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. Earlier, the Ministry, together with the Cinema Fund, conducted an inspection, which revealed 22 film companies that had failed to fulfill their obligations to the state.

A resident of North Ossetia, Uruzmag Gagkaev, convicted of bringing his wife to [Roskomnadzor], was transferred to a penal colony; he previously served his sentence at home. This was reported by Kavkaz.Realii. Gagkaev was sentenced to two years in a penal colony in June 2017. At the same time, as Kavkaz.Realii writes, he was allowed to stay at home - due to the fact that he has a young daughter.

In Moscow, in the cell of pre-trial detention center No. 5 "Vodnik", an accused of murdering a woman was found dead, the Moscow agency reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. The agency's interlocutor said that the body of Yevgeny Dyl, born in 1985, was found in a pre-trial detention center cell on April 30. According to the source, the accused committed [Roskomnadzor].

Judge of the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow Julia Mordvina appointed 10 thousand rubles a fine of eight participants in the action against blocking the Telegram messenger, who launched paper aircraft near the FSB building on Lubyanka. About this Mediazone was told by Pussy Riot, Maria Alekhina.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow sent one of the founders of the group “Semantic Hallucinations,” Vladimir Burdin, to forced treatment after a fight in a store. about this. writes The Yekaterinburg publication E1.ru On April 11, Burdin’s brother Timofey published a post in a group of fans of the musician, in which he told the details of the conflict that arose between a store visitor and Burdin. "He lives in Moscow. In the evening he and his wife went to the supermarket.

Photo: Gleb Shchelkunov / Kommersant The court in Nizhny Novgorod sentenced Pavel Bersenev, who was accused of beating the grumpy detainee, to the four years of the conditional term. Bersenev is the father of two daughters and a widower who, after the death of his wife, was forced to leave the department, and after the initiation of the case they fired with a negative characteristic.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya rejected the complaint about the extension of the arrest of the head of the Grozny branch of the Memorial Oyub Titiev, the human rights center reports in its telegram channel. The meeting was supposed to take place the day before, but it was postponed at the defense of the defense so that Ilya Novikov’s third lawyer Titiyev could participate in it. During the court, lawyer Marina Dubrovina petitioned the election of personal guarantee as a preventive measure.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg canceled fines to the Mediazones correspondents to Sasha Bogino and David Frenkel for "obscene abuse." The interests of journalists in court were represented by lawyer Pavel Yasman, who collaborates with the human rights direction of Open Russia. At the meeting, Lisina’s guard, who performed the witness, said that Bodino and Frenkel were not scolded in court.