American counterintelligence has found out that an employee of the Russian special services worked undercover at the US Embassy in Moscow for more than ten years, the Guardian writes . According to the publication, we are talking about a Russian woman who was hired by the US Secret Service.

Captain 2nd rank of the reserve of the Black Sea Fleet Leonid Parkhomenko, arrested in November 2016 in the case of espionage for Ukraine, told members of the Public Monitoring Commission Evgeny Enikeev and Eva Merkacheva that he went on a hunger strike 18 days ago. A member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Enikeev, wrote about this in his blog. 59-year-old Parkhomenko, who is accused of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), has been in the Moscow Lefortovo detention center for 20 months.

The Ostankino court in Moscow arrested until September 28 three sisters accused of murdering their father Mikhail Khachaturyan, court spokeswoman Anna Selivanova told Mediazona. The meeting was held behind closed doors. On the evening of July 27, the body of 57-year-old Mikhail Khachaturyan was found in the entrance of a residential building on Altufevskoye Highway. The Investigative Committee opened a case against his three daughters.

Former convict Bulat Farrakhov, who served time in maximum security correctional colony No. 9 in Ufa, was detained the day after an interview about torture in custody. about this ProUfu writes The publication , which published Farrakhov’s interview. According to the publication, today Farrakhov, together with journalist Daria Kucherenko, was at a reception with the Chairman of the Public Monitoring Commission of Bashkiria Oleg Galin.

UN police have conducted a ballistic examination into the murder of Russian journalists, but cannot autopsy their bodies, a source in Bangui familiar with the investigation told Mediazona. According to the interlocutor, the autopsy cannot be carried out due to the fact that the UN does not have the necessary specialists.

The Sverdlovsk District Court of Kostroma awarded 35 thousand rubles to the coordinator of Navalny’s local headquarters, Alexander Zykov, because he was hit by police major Eduard Volkov during a public rally. This was reported by the Public Verdict Foundation, whose lawyers Dmitry Yegoshin and Svetlana Toreeva represent Zykov’s interests. Zykov and his representatives demanded compensation of 200 thousand rubles.

The Investigative Committee referred to the court the case of an employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Correctional Colony No. 10 in the Ulyanovsk Region, who is accused of fraud using his official position (Part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) because of a promise to transfer a prisoner to a penal colony for an iPhone 6. This is reported on the website of the regional SK.

The magistrate of precinct 242 of the Nagatinsky backwater district of Moscow refused to collect 43 thousand rubles from the defendants in the “Bolotnaya case” due to rubber batons and walkie-talkies lost during the rally, Sergei Udaltsov writes on his Twitter. The claim was dismissed due to missing the statute of limitations. The Ministry of Internal Affairs demanded compensation for the cost of five rubber sticks and two Volna radio stations “lost” by the police.

The Investigative Committee opened a case against a district police officer in the city of Cherkessk, suspected of beating a detainee for the sake of confession, according to the website of the republican department of the Investigative Committee. The case was opened under paragraph “a” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers with the use of violence or the threat of its use).

In the Jewish Autonomous Region, a criminal case was opened for abuse of official power with the use of violence and special means (points “a”, “b” of part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code) after a detainee complained about electric shock torture at the police department. This is reported on the website of the regional IC.

The Sevastopol City Court has begun to consider the criminal case of “Crimean saboteurs” Alexei Bessarabov and Vladimir Dudka, writes . Novaya Gazeta Bessarabov and Dudka are accused of preparing sabotage on the territory of Crimea and illegal possession of explosives. The process takes place behind closed doors. “Mediazona” wrote in detail about the case of the “Crimean saboteurs.” Dudka, Bessarabov and another defendant in the Shtyblikov case were detained in Crimea on November 9, 2016.

In the city of Berezovsky, Sverdlovsk region, the police closed the case of the death of Alfit Sharafislamov, to whom an ambulance did not arrive “due to failure to identify the person subject to criminal liability,” writes , Ura.ru citing the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region.

The Ingodinsky District Court of Chita recovered 70 thousand rubles in compensation from the Federal Penitentiary Service in favor of prisoner Gennady Kurbanov, who was not provided with proper medical care after surgery. The head of the Trans-Baikal Human Rights Center, Anastasia Kopteeva, who collaborates with the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” reported this to Mediazona.

In Bryansk, a criminal case was opened against a telephone company employee for violating the secrecy of telephone conversations (Part 2 of Article 138 of the Criminal Code). The woman was looking through the call history of her boyfriend, reports . the regional department of the Investigative Committee According to investigators, the claims department employee had access to the subscriber database and in February 2018 began monitoring her friend’s calls out of jealousy.

The Moscow City Court has recognized the legal extension of the probationary period for opposition leader Alexei Navalny, his press secretary Kira Yarmysh tweets. Navalny's defense appealed the decision made by the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow. At the end of June this year, at the request of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Navalny’s probation was extended for a year.