The Basmanny District Court of Moscow again granted the investigation's request to limit the time limit for director Kirill Serebrennikov to familiarize himself with the materials of the criminal case on fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), TASS reports . The court set a new deadline for familiarization with the case materials - until September 1.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow arrested the head of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, Alexander Drymanov, until September 12, reports . the Moscow agency Earlier, court press secretary Ekaterina Krasnova reported that Drymanov was suspected of paragraph “c” of Part 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (receiving a bribe on a large scale) and Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (receiving a bribe on an especially large scale).

Crimean Tatar Ismail Ramazanov, accused of calling for extremist activities through the online radio Zello, said that the investigator falsified evidence in his case, a Mediazona correspondent said. Ramazanov filed an application addressed to the head of the main investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Republic.

The Prosecutor General's Office is ready to send a request to the United States for questioning the Americans in the case of Hermitage Capital and the founder of the fund, William Browder. This was reported by TASS with reference to the official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office Alexander Kurenny. According to RIA Novosti, the department expressed its intention to interrogate members of American intelligence services and government officials.

During the debate in the Nalchik Garrison Military Court, the state prosecution asked to sentence the police and the FSB officer to terms of 6 to 16 years in prison in the case of torture in the Ingush Center “E,” lawyer Andrei Sabinin, who represents the interests of the victims on the initiative of the human rights organization, told Mediazona. The zone is right." The prosecutor asked the court to sentence the former head of Center “E” Timur Khamkhoev to 13 years in prison.

The State Duma in the third final reading adopted a bill on mandatory audio recording of court hearings. The corresponding document was published on the website of the lower house of parliament. According to the innovation, mandatory audio recordings will be conducted in criminal as well as civil cases in the courts of first and second instance.

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Krasnodar Territory called the information that was not true that the police returned from Sochi to Krasnodar did not have enough seats in the train. The photographs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs lying on the floor, which are widespread in social networks, considers staged by the police, the department’s website said .

In July 2017, the Frunzensky District Court sentenced Vladivostok resident Sergei Kukushkin, accused of attacking a police officer during the March 26 rally, to three years of probation. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to the case materials, as well as photographs of Kukushkin during the rally and the words of Dmitry Zubarev, an activist of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters in Primorye.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill proposing to add to the Code of Administrative Offenses the article “The abuse of the right to hold a public event”. 330 deputies voted for the document , nine opposed. The broadcast of the meeting is on the Duma website. The bill was introduced on May 17 by unicorn Alena Arshinova, Dmitry Vyatkin and Alexander Gribov, but then 37 more deputies were added to the list of initiators.

In the Suvorovsky district of the Tula region, more than 20 people were detained on suspicion of extremism, Interfax reports , citing an informed source and the Tula News Service . “Operational activities took place at several addresses in the city of Suvorov. During the searches, large sums of money and prohibited literature were seized. As a result, more than 20 people were detained, many of them residents of other regions of Russia.

The St. Petersburg Garrison Military Court rejected the complaint of a witness in the “Penza case”, Ilya Kapustin, against the Investigative Committee’s refusal to open a criminal case for torturing him with a stun gun during interrogation by FSB officers. The human rights organization “Zone of Law” reported this to Mediazona with reference to lawyer Dmitry Gerasimov.

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunya Mijatovic, in an open letter to Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, asked to release the head of the Grozny branch of Memorial, Oyub Titiev, from arrest. The letter was published on the Council's website. “With regard to the continued long-term detention of Mr.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) awarded 15 thousand euros in compensation to Orenburg resident Alexander Voroshilov, who was tortured at the police station in 2009 for the sake of a confession. The corresponding decision was published on the court's website. The Strasbourg court ruled that the Russian authorities violated Article 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which prohibits torture, in relation to Voroshilov.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has awarded 20 thousand euros in compensation to the children, mother and sister of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was killed in 2006 in the entrance of her own house. The corresponding decision was published on the court's website.

A special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigations Kevin Helson called journalist Vladimir Pozner a Soviet propagandist and an employee of the KGB. This is stated in the written testimony of Helson, which are attached to the indictment in the case of the Russian woman Maria Butina, detained on July 15. In the testimony of Helson, it is claimed that Butina in correspondence with an unnamed American called one of the letters “second Posner”.