The Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow granted the investigation’s request and released 19-year-old Maria Dubovik, accused in the “New Greatness” case, under house arrest, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. Earlier, the investigator leading the case made a motion, asking the court to release Dubovik and another defendant in the “New Greatness” case, 18-year-old Anna Pavlikova.

The sister of Andrei Kovalchuk, extradited from Germany in a cocaine smuggling case, owns the company Irgotrade GmbH, whose employees were twice involved in cases of attempted smuggling from the European Union to Russia, reports , citing sources. Current Time According to the publication, the cargo that Irina Kuzmenko’s (Kovalchuk) company transported registered as diplomatic was seized at least twice - in 2011 in Latvia and in 2012 in the Pskov region - as contraband.

The Investigative Committee in the Moscow Region opened a criminal case against Artem Lyubimov, one of the organizers of the protests demanding the closure of the Yadrovo landfill, reports The Village , citing a copy of the relevant department resolution. Lyubimov was suspected of violating Article 330.2 of the Criminal Code (failure to fulfill the obligation to submit a notification that a citizen of the Russian Federation has citizenship of a foreign state).

The Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow granted the investigation’s request and transferred 18-year-old Anna Pavlikova, accused in the “New Greatness” case, to house arrest, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom.

The Samara District Court of Samara arrested the former head of the local branch of the “Community of Indigenous Russian People” Lyubov Kuzaeva until September 27. Timur Miftakhutdinov, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, who is defending Kuzaeva, reported this to Mediazona.

In St. Petersburg, a native of Tajikistan and two women from Uzbekistan were arrested, accused of kidnapping by a group of people (clause “a” of part 2 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code) of a hospitalized girl, the reports . Investigative Committee According to investigators, on August 7, they made their way to the hospital where the girl was, who was thrown out of a third-floor hotel window on August 4 after being gang raped.

In the Kirov region, a policeman from the village of Strizhi was accused of exceeding his official powers with the use of violence and special means (points “a” and “b” of part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code) against a local resident, reports .

In the Yaroslavl region, a prisoner of the Rybinsk correctional colony No. 2 committed [Roskomnadzor], reports Yarkub with reference to the press service of the FSIN department for the region. According to the department, the body of the convict was found in one of the detachments at about seven in the evening on August 15. “The resuscitation measures carried out did not yield any results. During the preliminary examination, no traces of violence were found,” the FSIN said.

A resident of Irkutsk was detained on suspicion of unlawful deprivation of liberty of two teenagers (Part 2 of Article 127 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee As the detainee said, on the evening of August 13, on the territory of a house under construction in SNT “Fakel” there were several teenagers from 10 to 14 years old. According to the man, the children broke the windows in the building owned by his relative.

Deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Valery Maksimenko said that all employees on duty are provided with video recorders, reports . RIA Novosti “Today, the number of DVRs used by duty shifts is more than 18 thousand units, this makes it possible to provide 100% coverage for employees who go on duty,” Maksimenko said.

The Leninsky District Court of Voronezh sentenced the former chief architect of the city, Anton Shevelev, to three years in prison and a fine of 7.14 million rubles, the reports . court’s press service He was found guilty of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code), but the court reduced the category of the crime from especially serious to grave. Before the verdict, Shevelev was under house arrest; he was taken into custody in the courtroom.

The Moscow City Court extended until September 19 the period of house arrest for the artistic director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov, accused in the case of embezzlement at the Seventh Studio, TASS reports . During the hearing, the director repeated that he did not consider himself guilty, and emphasized that during the year of his isolation, the investigation found no evidence of his guilt.

Denis Nikandrov during a meeting in the Moscow City Court. Photo: Irina Buzhor / Kommersant The Moscow City Court sentenced the former first deputy head of the Main Investigative Department of the IC in Moscow Denis Nikandrov for five years and six months of a maximum security colony.

The Investigative Directorate of the IC in Ingushetia once again extended the preliminary investigation in the case of an attack on journalists and human rights activists on the border of Chechnya in the spring of 2016. The notification, which was received by the Mediazone journalist Yegor Skovoroda, who was recognized by the victims of the case, it was said that the term was extended until October 25, 2018 - by this moment the investigation will last 30 months.

The St. Petersburg Property Relations Committee refused to renew the lease agreement with the local branch of Memorial, RBC reports with reference to Boris Vishnevsky, a deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly from the Yabloko party. As the deputy reported, in July human rights activists received a response from the deputy chairman of the committee, Alexander Yakushev.