A jury in the Cheryomushkinsky District Court found 61-year-old Muscovite Sergei Tsarev guilty of attempted murder of a builder from Tajikistan, Varvara Tretyak, coordinator of the program for assistance to victims of hate attacks of the Civic Assistance committee, told Mediazona. According to her, the jury made this decision unanimously. They deliberated for three and a half hours. The judge is expected to announce the verdict on August 3.

There is a second suspect in the case of high treason at the Central Scientific Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (TsNIIMash), TASS reports , citing a source. “There are two suspects in the criminal case of treason. According to the investigation, the defendants passed on information to one of the Western countries,” he said and clarified that the second defendant in the case was arrested.

The Memorial human rights center has recognized Mikhail Savostin, an activist from Mineralnye Vody, as a political prisoner, who claims that security forces planted drugs on him, according to the organization’s website.

Former police officers from the police department in the Sovetsky district of Crimea, Sergei Onchev and Enver Kelmambetov, were found guilty of receiving a bribe by a group of persons by conspiracy (clause “a”, part 5, article 290 of the Criminal Code), abuse of power with the use of violence (clause “a”, part 3, article 286 Criminal Code) and falsification of evidence (part 2 of Article 303 of the Criminal Code).

The Investigative Committee began an investigation after publications about the beating of Budennovsk resident Roman Stasiuk by police major Vadim Lunev at the traffic police department. This was reported on the website of the department for the Stavropol Territory.

The Metallurgical District Court of Chelyabinsk closed the trial of four operational officers of IK-2, accused of beating and causing the death of a prisoner. Lawyer Andrei Lepekhin, who, at the initiative of the Zona Prava organization, represents the interests of the injured party, told Mediazona about this. The trial was closed to the public at the request of the lawyer of one of the accused.

Security forces came to the Moscow store “Player.ru,” a law enforcement source told TASS. “Currently, investigative actions are taking place in the Player.ru store on Masterkova Street. Law enforcement officers are seizing accompanying documents for goods and electronics,” the agency’s source said. The Player.ru website reports that the store is temporarily closed.

The Supreme Court of Karelia left under arrest the head of the regional branch of the Memorial human rights center, Yuri Dmitriev, accused of sexual assault against a minor (clause “b” of part 4 of article 132). this with reference to lawyer Viktor Anufriev. reports Interfax “They haven’t changed anything. What remains is the arrest,” Anufriev said. On June 27, Yuri Dmitriev was detained while leaving Petrozavodsk.

Judge of the Nikulinsky District Court Aigul Shaikhutdinova, by order of the Moscow government, bought an apartment in a building for people on the waiting list. The deal comes after a judge ruled in favor of a company owned by the city's building department. This was reported by Dozhd with reference to an extract from Rosreestr and a source from the TV channel.

The “Committee against Torture” sent a complaint to the ECHR in the interests of former prisoner Sergei Nikonorov, who was awarded 75 thousand rubles in compensation for forced labor by the Central District Court of Orenburg in favor of the head of Orenburg colony No. 11, Filyus Khusainov. This was reported in a press release on the organization's website. In July 2013, Nikonorov’s common-law wife Irina Balashova told human rights activists that employees of Orenburg colony No.

The head of the Main Directorate of Military Police of the Ministry of Defense, Vladimir Ivanovsky, at a meeting of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security proposed returning to the commanders of military units the right to arrest soldiers, reports .

Former top manager of Inter RAO Karina Turcan, arrested on espionage charges, deliberately reduced the productivity of the Moldavian State District Power Plant in order to sell it piecemeal to Romania. about this “Moskovsky Komsomolets” writes with reference to the recordings of Tsurkan’s negotiations, which were at the disposal of the editors.

Chairman of the Council for the Protection of Altai Forests Valery Gorbunov said that on the night of July 23, unknown persons set fire to his house and car in Novoyegoryevsky. about this The man wrote on Facebook. According to Gorbunov, on the night of July 22 to July 23, at approximately 1:30, unknown persons poured flammable liquid on the door of a house on Sovetskaya Street, 14, and on a car that was three meters from the house.

The North Caucasus District Military Court returned to the prosecutor's office the criminal case of Ukrainian Pavel Grib, who is accused of promoting terrorism, wrote journalist Vladislav Ryazantsev on Facebook. The information was also confirmed to RAPSI by court press secretary Alena Katkalo. “The preliminary investigation authorities erroneously imputed a version of the criminal law that was not in force at the time of the commission of the act charged to the defendant.

The Izmailovsky District Court of Moscow partially satisfied the complaint of Nizhny Novgorod colony No. 2 against Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina and the editors of Sobesednik because of an article about the difficult working conditions of prisoners, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. The court found some information posted in the article to be untrue.