The chairman of the board of directors of the construction company Mosstroymekhanizatsiya-5 (MSM-5), Obid Yasinov, was detained in Moscow and placed under arrest, writes RBC. According to the publication’s source, Yasinov was detained on May 15 on suspicion of “failure to fulfill obligations under an investment contract for the construction of an apartment for the national guard troops.” He noted that we are talking about fraud in the amount of 167 million rubles.

The criminal case against Moscow mathematician Dmitry Bogatov for calling for terrorism and attempting to organize mass riots has been dropped, an informed source told Interfax. This information was confirmed to Mediazona by Bogatov’s wife Tatyana Fedorova. At the same time, Bogatov’s lawyer Sarkis Darbinyan, in an interview with Mediazona, said that the defense has not yet received notice from the investigator about the termination or making other decisions in the case.

Russian security forces have the ability to monitor correspondence in the ICQ messenger, which is developed by Mail.ru Group. Novaya Gazeta made this conclusion after analyzing the texts of court verdicts, which mention “removal of information from technical communication channels.” Journalists analyzed all the sentences, the texts of which mention the abbreviation SITKS, which means reading correspondence.

Objects that the human rights activist had during his arrest disappeared from the material evidence in the case of the head of the Grozny branch of Memorial, Oyub Titiev. This is reported on the organization's website. As human rights activists write, the day before Titiev, together with his lawyers, got acquainted with the materials of the case and the material evidence attached to it.

Rosaviation banned Saratov Airlines from selling air tickets from May 30. This is reported on the airline's website. In mid-May, the company's management received a letter from the head of the transportation regulation department of the Federal Air Transport Agency Andrei Kruglov about a ban on ticket sales. The airline considered this to be a limitation of the air operator certificate.

Lithuania refused to provide political asylum to nationalist Yuri Gorsky, who escaped from house arrest in Russia. about this Gorsky himself wrote on his Facebook page. Gorsky said that if he does not appeal the decision, he will be deported to Russia by the end of May. The nationalist added that the Lithuanian authorities have banned him from entering the country for five years and also want to revoke his Schengen visa.

The FSB announced the detention in the Vyborg district of the Leningrad region of the alleged member of the Islamic State, put on the international wanted list, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the FSB border department for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced a nanny who killed a child because of a conflict with his mother to 11 years in a general regime colony, reported . the press service of the regional Investigative Committee According to investigators, 35-year-old Ulyana Tikhomirova strangled the nine-month-old child of her employer, a Nigerian citizen, in February 2017 due to personal hostility. The woman put the boy's body in a bag and buried it in the basement pit of the garage of her house.

The Kherson City Court arrested the editor-in-chief of RIA Novosti Ukraine, Kirill Vyshinsky, for two months in the case of treason (Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), TASS reports . “The petition is granted. The period of detention is set until July 13,” said Judge Yaroslav Musulevsky. Earlier it became known that employees of the Security Service of Ukraine came to the Kiev office of RIA Novosti Ukraine and to the editorial office of Russia Today .

In Ingushetia, a court sentenced a former police officer accused of attacks on postal employees and a collector and robbery to eight years in prison and six months in a strict regime regime, according to the website of the republican department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, in December 2014, the convict, who was then working in the police, together with his accomplices attacked workers at the post office of the Sunzhensky municipal district of Ingushetia.

Judge Irina Ermakova of the Volodarsky District Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region dismissed the criminal case against former police officer Vitaly Starikov, who was accused of torture, reports . the Committee Against Torture The case was dismissed at the request of the accused due to the expiration of the period for criminal prosecution. After the petition was granted, Starikov immediately left the court. The same petition was filed by the lawyer of the second accused Oleg Kashtanov.

The Qualification Board of the Krasnodar Territory issued a warning against violating the Code of Judicial Ethics to Kurganinsky District Court Judge Konstantin Raspopov, who proposed sterilizing a mother of many children, TASS reports . As noted, an audit was carried out, as a result of which the judge’s words were recognized as a violation of professional ethics.

The Talitsky District Court of the Sverdlovsk Region sentenced local resident Sergei Krokhalev, who cut the hand of a policeman while trying to open his veins in the department, to four years in a maximum security colony, the press service of the regional prosecutor's office reports . According to investigators, in October 2017, a drunken Krokhalev “defiantly” tried to open his wrists in front of three police officers in the office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Viber messenger works with interruptions in Russia. This is evidenced by the data of the Downdetector service. Photo: screenshot from the Downdetector website According to the service, the messenger users in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara, Saratov, Yaroslavl and Nizhny Novgorod are most important. Most of them (62%) cannot connect to the server, another 25% cannot be logged in. The administration has not yet commented on interruptions in the work of the messenger.

In the village of Nakhabino near Moscow, a local resident died trying to escape from the police who came to him to conduct an interview as part of an investigation into fraudulent activities, reports the Department of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region. According to preliminary data, the police came to the man’s apartment on the 12th floor in the morning.