The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow arrested politician Alexei Navalny for 20 days. He was found guilty under Part 4 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (action or inaction during a rally that resulted in harm to human health or property), a Mediazona correspondent reports. The politician asked to postpone the hearing because his lawyers were unable to come to court. Judge Elena Armyashina rejected this request.

The VKontakte administration handed over to investigators all correspondence on the social network of Eduard Nikitin, accused of extremism. Novaya Gazeta writes about this with reference to relevant documents. This information was later confirmed to TJournal by the VKontakte press service. According to the newspaper, on February 7, during a pre-investigation check, investigator Denis Pomogaibo asked the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg to provide access to Nikitin’s correspondence.

Open Russia lawyer Sergei Badamshin sent complaints to the Chairman of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev regarding the cases of Anton Nosik and Evgeniy Kort on extremism (Article 282 of the Criminal Code). This was reported in the telegram channel of the human rights movement “Open Russia”.

A 51-year-old Russian detained in Norway on suspicion of espionage works as an information technology expert for the apparatus of the Federation Council, reports the Norwegian publication TV2. The publication Aftenposten also writes that the detainee is an employee of the Federation Council. The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) detained a Russian on the evening of September 21 at Oslo Airport.

In Surgut, the Investigative Committee began an investigation because of a publication about a teenager whom Pyaterochka employees suspected of theft and locked in a refrigerator until the police arrived. This is stated on the website of the department of the Investigative Committee for the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. Earlier, Surgutinformtv, citing the teenager and his parents , reported that Pyaterochka employees found the young man’s behavior strange.

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk sentenced three police officers who were accused of fabricating a case for the sake of improving statistics, NGS writes with reference to assistant district prosecutor Ksenia Koroed. Employees of the drug control department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the region were found guilty of exceeding official powers (Article 286 of the Criminal Code) and falsifying the results of operational investigative activities (Article 303 of the Criminal Code).

Evgenia Efimova, the ex-wife of the editor-in-chief of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper Pavel Gusev, was detained in Moscow. RBC about this told Timur Marshani, the detainee’s lawyer, . A woman has been sharing property with her ex-husband for several months. “She has now been taken to a temporary detention center, we do not yet know which one. Most likely, on Petrovka,” the lawyer said.

The FSB office for the Krasnodar Territory reported the detention of a Ukrainian citizen, reports Yuga.ru . According to the intelligence service, the man is an agent of the Security Service of Ukraine. Interfax, citing the FSB press service, clarifies that the detainee’s name is Sergei Stefanenko. He, the publication writes, came to the Krasnodar region to earn money.

The department of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra began an investigation after publications about bribes in the Surgut correctional colony No. 11, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the department of Azamat Aznagulov. The press service clarified that the verification began even before publication. “The employee reported by the media resigned of his own free will in February of this year,” Aznagulov said.

Lawyer Dmitry Dinze submitted an application to the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow to investigate the possible poisoning of Pyotr Verzilov. The application was submitted on September 24, a copy of which is at the disposal of Mediazona.

In the city of Mtsensk, Oryol region, two people accused of drug trafficking due to the sale of confectionery poppy seeds, Mikhail and Natalya Korolev, left the court during the announcement of the verdict, writes .

In Krasnodar, lawyer Mikhail Benyash, against whom a case was opened for using violence against a police officer, was also suspected of obstruction of justice (Part 1 of Article 294 of the Criminal Code). The release was published on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. It does not name the suspect, but Alexander Popkov, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, told Mediazona that the person in question is Benyash.

“Memorial” recognized ten accused in the “New Greatness” case as political prisoners, according to the website of the human rights center. “The so-called “New Greatness” case is a symbol of the cruelty and injustice of the fight against “extremism” in modern Russia,” said Sergei Davidis, head of Memorial’s program for supporting political prisoners.

The investigation changed the preventive measure for the leader of the organization “Christian State - Holy Russia” Alexander Kalinin from detention to a written undertaking not to leave the place, TASS and Interfax report , citing an informed source. “The maximum period of detention under arrest based on the gravity of the crime charged to Kalinin is one year.

In Novosibirsk, the police opened a robbery case (Article 161 of the Criminal Code) after an attack on the journalist of “Taigi.info” and “My friend, you are a transformer” Pyotr Manyakhin, according to the website “Taigi.info”. The 20-year-old correspondent said that he was attacked on the night of September 24 in the courtyard of house 51, on Sibirskaya Street, when he was returning home from a business trip to Abakan.