In Penza, after searches on July 15, the court arrested a follower of Jehovah's Witnesses Vladimir Alushkin, according to the organization's website. Alushkin was arrested until September 14. Three more people - Vladimir Kulyasov, Andrey Magliv and Denis Timoshin - were placed under house arrest. The press release states that on July 15, four groups of security forces conducted searches at the Penza Jehovah's Witnesses.

As a result of an attack on a traffic police squad in Dagestan, two policemen were killed and one was wounded, reports citing a source from Interfax and RIA Novosti . The attack took place in the village of Stalsky, Kizilyurt district. The regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed this information to TASS. The agency notes that the Intercept plan has been introduced in the area.

Igor Shishkin, accused in the “Penza case,” was transferred from pre-trial detention center No. 3 in St. Petersburg, member of the Public Monitoring Commission Yana Teplitskaya told Mediazona. The head of the pre-trial detention center told Teplitskaya that Shishkin was transferred by order of the investigator. He did not specify where exactly. Earlier on July 20, it became known that Yuli Boyarshinov was also taken from pre-trial detention center No. 6 in the Leningrad region .

The Ministry of Justice proposes to increase the base rate per day for assigned lawyers by three times. The document was published on the website of draft regulatory legal acts. Now the base rate is 550-1200 rubles per vessel day. The department proposes to gradually increase this amount: from 2019 - to 900-1550 rubles, from 2020 - to 1250-1900 rubles, from 2021 - to 1500-2150 rubles. In addition, there is an increase in the rate when working at night, on weekends and holidays.

Yuli Boyarshinov, accused in the “Penza case,” was taken from pre-trial detention center No. 6 “Gorelovo” in the Leningrad region, the father of the young man, Nikolai Boyarshinov, told OVD-Info. According to him, mother Yulia Boyarshinova came to the pre-trial detention center today to give her son a parcel.

The Investigative Committee refused to initiate a case after the death of Tuapse journalist Sergei Rozhkov in the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on April 6. Human rights activists from the Committee Against Torture have launched a public investigation, according to the organization’s website. Rozhkov was taken to the department as part of a case of rape of his dacha neighbor.

Former Deputy Commander of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vyacheslav Varchuk, sentenced to six years in prison for accepting a bribe, will be tried on another episode of corruption, informed sources told Interfax. “A criminal case is being investigated against Varchuk on another episode of corruption, and upon completion, the materials will be sent to the court for a new sentence,” said one of the agency’s interlocutors.

Dozhd journalists Anastasia Mikhailova and Kogershyn Sagiyeva received subpoenas from the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for questioning in the case of cocaine smuggling from Argentina, the TV channel reports . As Dozhd notes, the reason for this was the release of the program “Wiretap” on June 28, where Sagiyeva and Mikhailova discussed letters from the defendants in the case, Ali Abyanov and Andrei Kovalchuk. The first interrogation is scheduled for July 23.

In the Moscow City Court, municipal deputies said that they asked to recognize their signatures in support of mayoral candidate Mikhail Balakin as unreliable due to family circumstances. Vedomosti writes about this. All three deputies who withdrew their signatures represent United Russia. MP Elena Kotomina said that her “views have changed”, so she asked that her signature not be taken into account. “My parents are builders.

Witnesses in the case against the Tomsk Left Bloc activist Maxim Shulgin, who is accused of initiating hatred for law enforcement officers, recorded a video that refuses the testimony received under the threat of the use of violence. The video publishes TV2. On April 29, employees of the Tomsk Center “E” detained ten activists of the “Left Bloc”, and Shulgina threw the car on the floor of the car stove; He received his hands burns.

The general director of the Russia 2018 organizing committee, Alexei Sorokin, in an interview with Sport Express, promised that disciplinary measures would be taken against the stewards who allowed Pussy Riot participants onto the field at the World Cup final. “Let's put it to shame. Of course, it's wrong that they didn't stop them. This is a violation and disciplinary action will be taken against the stewards. But on the other hand, this is a unique case.

More than 70 convicts turned to human rights activists with complaints about systematic beatings in IK-2 of Kerch, reports . the Gulag-Info project Prisoners say that they are beaten in rooms where there are no video cameras - in the duty room, in the inspection room at the punishment cell and in office offices. According to human rights activists, two convicts are constantly involved in the beatings - the senior duty officer of detachment No.

The Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow rejected the request of the defenders of lawyer Pavel Ivlev, accused in the “YUKOS case,” to allow politician and lawyer Alexei Navalny to participate in the trial as a public defender, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. The prosecutor objected to the motion, insisting that the defendant's lawyer, Sergei Kupreichenko, did not substantiate this request.

Employees of the FSB department for the Tomsk region detained a 22-year-old citizen of Kazakhstan, who is suspected of justifying terrorist attacks and terrorist actions, TASS reports the department's press service.

The head of Sitting Russia, Olga Romanova , wrote on Facebook that the windows of the Novosibirsk office of the human rights organization came under fire. According to Romanova, the incident occurred yesterday, no one was injured. “I hope it’s just hooliganism, although, of course... The employees have been sent on vacation for two weeks. No, we will not close,” she added.