President Vladimir Putin said Russia does not intend to recognize the results of an investigation by an international investigative team that found that the Malaysian Airlines Boeing was shot down by a Russian army Buk surface-to-air missile system. As follows from broadcast , he announced this at a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.

President Vladimir Putin answered a question about the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, convicted in Russia, recalling the detention of the RIA Novosti journalist in Kiev, reports . Dozhd A French journalist asked a question about Sentsov during a meeting between Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron.

The court in Adler closed, under an amnesty, the case against Sochi builder Mardiros Demerchyan, accused of falsely denouncing police officers (Article 306 of the Criminal Code) and stealing a cable (Article 158 of the Criminal Code). this with reference to lawyer Yuri Marikovsky. reports The Caucasian Knot According to him, on May 24, at the meeting, the conclusion of a psychiatric examination was announced , which declared Demerchyan sane.

Pussy Riot participants Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Olga Borisova published an appeal to the President of France Emmanuel Macron in the Le Monde newspaper, urging him when meeting Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg to demand the immediate liberation of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov.

A Moscow resident took a family with children hostage in an apartment in the east of Moscow, and National Guard special forces rushed to the scene, a TASS source in the emergency services reports. According to him, “there may be victims at the scene of the incident.” from the scene of the incident broadcasts Evening Moscow . According to the publication, the man is ready to negotiate through his account on the Odnoklassniki social network; Two Saigas are registered to him.

A government official, whom Interfax , TASS and RIA Novosti call a “source” without mentioning his name, told reporters about the proposal of Oleg Deripaska, who is under US sanctions, to purchase aluminum from Rusal for state reserves. “Oleg Deripaska appealed to the government and Rosrezerv with a proposal to purchase aluminum for reserves, the issue is being studied,” RIA Novosti quotes the official as saying.

The former head of correctional colony No. 7 in the Karelian city of Segezha, Sergei Kossiev, who resigned in February of this year, became a defendant in a criminal case and has already admitted guilt, writes 7x7 in partnership with Meduza. The publication writes that in November 2017, a criminal case for abuse of power was opened against Kossiev’s deputy in IK-7, Anatoly Luist; he confessed and an article about receiving a bribe was added to the case.

The Presidium of the Krasnodar Regional Court overturned the decision of the lower court against Apsheronsk resident Maxim Litasov, by which his case was dismissed, and the defendant himself was posthumously found guilty of attacking the parents of a policeman. This is stated in the resolution transmitted to Mediazona by lawyer Alexey Avanesyan. According to the judge's decision, the Apsheronsky District Court must consider the case against Litasov for the third time.

messenger Blocking the popular Telegram in Russia is “not a case of dense security, but a search for a balance” between conflicting interests, says Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov, who in the new government deals with issues of digital development. This was reported by TASS, and Akimov was quoted by the radio “Moscow Speaks”. “I believe that this particular case is complex and traumatic for all parties,” Akimov said.

The Sudak City Court of Crimea sentenced to fines activists of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of Crimea Dmitry Dzhigalov and Oleg Semenov, accused of inciting hatred towards Bulgarians (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code). The lawyer of the international human rights group Agora, Alexey Ladin, who represents the interests of Dzhigalov, told Mediazona about this. Dzhigalov was sentenced to a fine of 300 thousand rubles.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow rejected the claim of the founder of the Russian Milk holding, Vasily Boyko-Veliky, against Novaya Gazeta, Novaya Gazeta journalist Ekaterina Fomina told Mediazona. Boyko-Veliky demanded that Fomina’s article “This is Bolshevism, robbery and robbery” be refuted. In the Ruza region there are clashes between Vasily Boyko the Great and local farmers,” as well as 5 million rubles in compensation for moral damage. “Everything took a very long time.

The number of Russians using means to bypass blocking has doubled over the past two years, head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov said in an interview with NTV. “There are ways to bypass blocking - VPN services, proxying programs, and so on. And although they are still used by a minority of the population, this number is growing. If two years ago I said: “5–7%,” now I say: “10–15%.” Therefore, blocking is not a panacea, and the most important thing is self-regulation,” he said.

Ukrainian military man Alexander Shumkov, arrested in Russia, went on a hunger strike in solidarity with director Oleg Sentsov. about this on Facebook . wrote Activist Elena Glushko “Having learned the news about Oleg Sentsov, Alexander begins a hunger strike of solidarity. He has long wanted this - to unite all Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia,” she said.

The Election Commission of Karachay-Cherkessia responded to a complaint from Open Russia lawyer Anastasia Burakova, who documented violations in the presidential elections in March. Burakova published part of the document on Facebook. After two months of “thorough investigations,” the Election Commission of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, in response to the complaint...

The Investigative Committee has completed its investigation of the criminal case against 38-year-old Rasambek Bekmurzaev, accused of murdering two military men and an FSB officer. This was reported on the website of the department's administration in Chechnya. According to investigators, on October 8, 2000, Bekmurzaev arrived at the car market in Urus-Martan. There he saw servicemen and an FSB officer, and shot them at point-blank range with their pistol.