A witness in the New Greatness case, Ruslan D., who testified against the accused, in a conversation with Dozhd, denied his involvement in working for the special services. The television channel does not indicate how exactly it confirmed the identity of the witness.

The Petrozavodsk City Court extended the arrest of the head of the Karelian branch of Memorial, Yuri Dmitriev, for two months, a reports from the courtroom. 7x7 correspondent The historian will remain in custody until October 26. According to lawyer Viktor Anufriev, the preliminary investigation into Dmitriev’s second case of sexual assault against a minor (clause “b” of Part 4 of Article 132 of the Criminal Code) has already been completed.

Russian VKontakte users will be able to contact the support service and find out what data about them is stored on the social network’s servers. Fontanka was told about this by the press service of the social network. As the press service noted, now only users from the European Union can request information about themselves.

The Qualification Board of Judges of the Stavropol Regional Court terminated the powers of the chairman of the Oktyabrsky District Court, Yuri Makarov, who asked to be dismissed at his own request. This is stated on the board's website. The judge resigned after a video appeared in which a man similar to him appeared at a gas station in the company of a naked girl.

A case was opened against American Gaylen Grandstaff, who teaches English in Moscow, for large-scale smuggling of psychotropic drugs (Part 3 of Article 229.1 of the Criminal Code) due to ordering a cleaning product from an online store. This was reported by the BBC Russian Service. In the summer of 2017, Gaylen Grandstaff and his wife Anna ordered peptides for cell regeneration and a metal cleaner from a Chinese store.

The US Treasury has imposed sanctions against two Russians, three companies and six ships due to connections with cybercrimes and cooperation with North Korea, according to the Treasury website. In particular, two Russians and one company were included in the CYBER2 list. Its defendants, according to American authorities, are involved in cyber attacks on the United States. The list was published in 2016.

The Investigative Committee initiated the case of abuse of authority (Article 286 of the Criminal Code) after the detention of a man in Domodedovo, which fell on the video, the department reported . The Mash telegram channel with reference to unnamed sources reports that foreman Vladimir Elizarov and senior sergeant Nikolai Grigoryev were the suspect in the case. The Moscow Komsomolets wrote that the detainee is called Andrei Kovalenko and he works as a Moscow metro driver.

A resident of Chechnya, who the day before tried to blow himself up near a police post in the village of Mesker-Yurt, Shalinsky district, died in hospital. TASS about this . told A law enforcement source "He died. Severe injuries were incompatible with life. Including a cranial injury,” the agency’s interlocutor said. On August 20, it became known that several attacks on police officers had occurred in different regions of Chechnya .

In Anapa, the Investigative Committee closed the criminal case into the death of Ivan Geliev in a UAZ police car, according to the website of the Committee Against Torture. Human rights activists write that in June last year, Anapa resident Zalina Gelieva contacted them. She said that her brother Ivan died in the detention compartment of a police car on the morning of March 18.

The Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Shukhrat Satymbaev to a fine of 50 thousand rubles, who was in a WhatsApp chat where supporters of the Islamic State were recruited, according to the telegram channel of the joint press service of the city courts. Satymbaev was found guilty under Article 205.6 of the Criminal Code (failure to report the intention to commit a terrorist attack).

The wife of one of the prisoners at IK-37 in the Chusovsky district of the Perm Territory, Zhanna Tsvirka , told 59.ru that the convicts staged a riot due to a conflict with the authorities of the colony. The Federal Penitentiary Service did not confirm this information to the publication and called it “manipulation of public opinion.” According to Tsvirka, on August 17, the entire detachment of 100 people was lined up on the parade ground.

Finnish police and Portuguese authorities have launched a joint investigation into reports of harassment by Russian athletes at the European University Games, according to the Finnish government website. In addition, Finnish Minister of European Affairs, Sports and Culture Sampo Terho sent a letter to Portuguese Education Minister Thiago Brandao Rodrigues, in which he asked to “take seriously” cooperation between the countries on this issue.

In the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, the judge returned the case of those accused of participating in the Yalta cell of the banned organization Hizb ut-Tahrir to the prosecutor's office in order to draw up a new indictment. The lawyer of the international human rights group Agora, Alexey Ladin, who represents the interests of the accused Crimean Tatar activist Emir-Usein Kuku, told Mediazona about this.

The Tambov Region Prosecutor's Office submitted a complaint to the head of the investigative department of the regional Investigative Committee because he did not send information to Rosfinmonitoring about four local residents suspected and accused of extremism (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code), according to the department’s website.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow returned to the prosecutor's office the case of two officials of the Moscow mayor's office regarding the death of 14 teenagers on Syamozero in Karelia, told court press secretary Yuno Tsareva TASS. We are talking about the case of the head of the department for organizing work with families and children of the Labor Department of the Moscow City Hall, Elena Semkina, as well as the former deputy head of the social protection department, Tatyana Barsukova.