In the center of Moscow, on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge, two activists were detained who were on duty at a spontaneous memorial to politician Boris Nemtsov, OVD-Info reports , citing activist Galina Khomrikova. One of the detainees is Grigory Saxonov. According to Khomrikova, when the workers on duty were cleaning the memorial, an unknown man approached them and grabbed a portrait of activist Ivan Skripnichenko installed on the bridge.

The Ministry of Justice has prepared a bill that will allow the suspension of the activities of organizations that violate the law “On measures of influence on persons involved in violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms, the rights and freedoms of citizens of the Russian Federation” (“Dima Yakovlev’s law”). The document is presented for public comment.

International human rights organizations Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Front Line Defenders wrote an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking him to respond to the words of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. He said that after the end of the trial of the head of the Grozny “Memorial” Oyub Titiev, Chechnya will become a “forbidden territory” for human rights activists.

President Vladimir Putin, by his decree , replaced the heads of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Altai Territory. Now the local police will be led by Major General Andrei Podolyan, who was previously deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Volgograd region.

In Kazan, a prisoner of the colony-settlement at IK-19 was found dead, according to the website of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Tatarstan. An unnamed source of Business Online reports that the convicted person committed [Roskomnadzor]. The prisoner did not leave a suicide note, and doctors did not record any signs of violent death. Because of the incident, the Federal Penitentiary Service began an investigation.

The investigation into the Seventh Studio case has been extended for a month, until October 19, told TASS. a source close to the investigation In mid-May, the Investigative Committee reported that investigative actions in the Seventh Studio case had been completed.

The Corruption Foundation found contradictions in the statements of the Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin about his condition after the sale of a business. On the website of Alexei Navalny, the FBK response to Volodin’s statements, which was quoted by Rain, was published .

The European Court of Human Rights has awarded compensation of 20 thousand euros to the family of Dagestan resident Amirkhan Alikhanov, who was kidnapped in December 2004. The decision was published on the ECHR website. According to relatives, on December 23, 2004, Alikhanov drove from Makhachkala to Khasavyurt in his car. On the way back, he called his brother and warned that he was near the traffic police post and would arrive soon.

In St. Petersburg, a group of teenagers beat up vacationers in the Tauride Garden. write about this RIA Novosti and Fontanka . According to the agency, ten people contacted the police with complaints about the teenagers’ actions. RIA Novosti writes that young people attacked a pensioner and a married couple, breaking one man’s nose and the other’s jaw. In addition, the teenagers damaged a parked car and a store window. “We counted about twenty guys. The situation became tense.

Pavel Durov commented on the change in privacy policy, in which Telegram allows the transfer of user data to intelligence agencies. about this . He told Current Time “We have not yet shared information about terrorists with the authorities, but our theoretical ability to do so is another way to prevent terrorists from abusing our platform,” said the creator of the messenger.

Roskomnadzor, by decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, added to the register of prohibited sites four articles published on the website of the Andrei Rylkov Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Social Justice. The president of the foundation, Anna Sarang, told Mediazona about this. One of the banned articles, entitled “‘It’s like a living room’: how I visited the Amsterdam injection room,” was published on the foundation’s website in the fall of 2016.

In Kamchatka, the prosecutor’s office did not find extremism in the video in which a man in a cassock calls for the punishment of the author of the caricature of MP Natalya Poklonskaya and Emperor Nicholas II, Deputy Prosecutor of the Kamchatka Territory Anatoly Shcherbakov told the Kam24 agency. “Based on the results of the inspection, no violations of the current legislation were found,” Shcherbakov said.

messenger The Telegram has changed its policy on the use of personal data, adding a clause on interaction with the authorities. attention to this , but changes were made on August 14. drew The Durov Code “If Telegram receives a court decision that confirms that you are suspected of terrorism, then we can disclose your IP address and phone number to the relevant authorities. So far this has never happened.

The Volga District Military Court sentenced activist Rinat Galiullin, convicted in 2013 in the case of organizing the activities of the Hizb ut-Tahrir movement, recognized as a terrorist organization, to eight years in prison, writes the SOVA information center. Galiullin was found guilty under Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of a terrorist organization). The verdict was announced on August 17.

In the Biryulyovo Zapadnoe district of Moscow, police detained 18 people for a traffic conflict with shooting, TASS reports citing the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The police report that the incident occurred the night before on Bulatnikovskaya Street, building 18. Several participants in the conflict were seriously injured. In particular, one of them was diagnosed with a closed craniocerebral injury, a broken nose and a stab wound to the abdomen.