The court arrested Viktor Kudryavtsev, a scientist from TsNIIMash, TASS reports with reference to the head of the Roscosmos press service, Vladimir Ustimenko. “TsNIIMash employee Viktor Kudryavtsev has indeed been arrested. Investigative actions are now being carried out with him,” Ustimenko said. He did not provide any other details.

About 14 thousand prisoners in Russian colonies will be released immediately after the terms of detention under the new law are recalculated, deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Valery Maksimenko told Moskovsky Komsomolets. Maksimenko noted that in total the law will affect about 100 thousand prisoners - every fifth of those currently serving their sentences (487.7 thousand).

Russian woman Maria Butina, arrested in the United States, met with Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve System Stanley Fisher and Deputy Treasury Secretary Nathan Sheets, reports Reuters . The meetings took place in April 2015, and were attended by Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Russia Alexander Torshin. At the meetings, US-Russian economic relations were discussed.

Khamzat Bakhaev, sentenced to 11 years in prison in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, was interrogated using a polygraph, Rosbalt reports , citing a source familiar with the situation. According to the agency, initially Bakhaev refused to be interrogated, but changed his mind after being sent to a punishment cell “a couple of times.” In June, lawyer Roza Magomedova said that new investigative actions were being carried out with those convicted of Nemtsov’s murder.