The Investigative Committee is conducting a pre-investigation check under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity) against a feminist from Omsk, Lyubov Kalugina, because of her VKontakte posts. about this . She herself told the SOVA analytical center Kalugina attracted the attention of security forces in the spring of 2017, when a resident of Birobidzhan complained about her posts.

The Central District Court of Simferopol sentenced Ukrainian citizen Alexander Steshenko to two years in a penal colony, finding him guilty of setting fire to the house of the Mufti of Crimea Emirali Ablaev, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the regional department of the FSB. He was found guilty of deliberately setting fire to someone else's property, committed by an organized group (Part 3 of Article 35, Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code).

In Chuvashia, a report was drawn up against Open Russia activist Yuri Sidorov under Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (carrying out the activities of an “undesirable organization”) after he presented a bouquet of yellow tulips to the speaker of the region’s State Council, Valery Filimonov. about this The activist himself wrote on Facebook.

The clergyman during the picket against 148 of the Criminal Code of Russia. Photo: Roman Pimenov / Interpress / TASS All summer in Russia, criminal cases are being discussed for the publication and reposts of memes in social networks, in which employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs find extremism or insulting the feelings of believers. The question of the abolition of these articles of the Criminal Code was raised even on a “direct line” with Vladimir Putin.

The North-Western Transport Investigation Department opened a criminal case under Article 267.1 of the Criminal Code (actions threatening the safe operation of transport) after a helicopter flew under the bridge over the Petrovsky Canal. This is reported on the department's website.

The Ministry of the Interior prepared the draft departmental order “On a driver’s license and a certificate of registration of a vehicle with electronic media of information”, which changes the type of driver’s license. The document is presented for public discussion. The main innovation will be the introduction of rights with the electronic chip, to which the information about the driver will be recorded. But the appearance of rights will also change.

Employees of the FSB and the internal security service of the Federal Penitentiary Service detained the head of one of the correctional colonies in the Samara region. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the region. According to the department, in exchange for a bribe, the head of the colony promised to help some convicts begin the process of parole.

Riots in Perm IK-37 began after one prisoner beat another for collaborating with the administration of the institution, writes , citing the regional prosecutor’s office. Kommersant According to the department, after the beating, the prisoner refused to obey the employees of the colony’s security department, in which several other convicts supported him. When the “organizer of the riots” was detained, he allegedly cut his forearms with a sharpened object.

Russian Konstantin Kilimnik, who became involved in the case of Russian interference in the US presidential election, was promoting Russian interests together with American political strategist Paul Manafort in Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine, and they could receive part of the funding from the company of billionaire Oleg Deripaska. The Project publication writes about this with reference to Kilimnik’s former colleagues from the American NGO International Republican Institute.

There have been no statements from prisoners of prison No. 2 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Vladimir Region (Vladimir Central) about holding a hunger strike, the press service of the regional department of the department told Mediazona.

The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized as a political prisoner 18-year-old student from Rostov-on-Don Yan Sidorov, who is accused of attempting to organize mass riots on November 5, 2017 (Part 3 of Article 30, Part 1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code), as well as attempted mass riots. riots (part 3 of article 30, part 2 of article 212 of the Criminal Code). This is stated on the Memorial website.

A resident of the village of Pokrovskoye, Sverdlovsk Region, Irina Kutsenok contacted the editorial office of the Vesti Ural State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company because there had been no hot water in the village for more than two months. Before the arrival of the film crew, the pensioner posted notices inviting fellow villagers to come to a meeting with journalists, writes the agency “Between the Lines”.

The chairman of the Association of the Illegally Convicted of Tatarstan, Nadezhda Shakirova, said that her brother Sergei Grigoriev and several other people were tortured in the organized crime unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, writes Idel.Realii. According to the publication, in April 2017, Kazan resident Sergei Grigoriev was taken to the unit for combating organized crime. There the man, according to Shakirova, stood for several hours with a hat on his face.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow upheld the claim of the Federal Penitentiary Service against the former head of the department, Alexander Reimer, and other convicts in a criminal case for fraud amounting to over a billion rubles, the reports . Moscow agency The court decided to recover 2.2 billion rubles from Reimer and other convicts.

The defendants in the “Penza case”, Viktor Filinkov and Yulia Boyarshinov, who at the end of July were transported from a pre-trial detention center in the Leningrad region to Penza for investigative actions, were taken to the Penza detention center, the father of the arrested person, Nikolai Boyarshinov, reported to OVD-Info. “Information from Penza, from Parental Network, that they were brought there. They also wanted to donate medicine, but apparently that won’t work. We've just arrived.