The defense of director Kirill Serebrennikov, accused of fraud (Article 159 of the Criminal Code), plans to seek the subpoena of 400 witnesses, lawyer Dmitry Kharitonov told Interfax. “We have announced 400 witnesses, we will ask all participants of the Platform to come to court so that they tell what they participated (in the project - MZ), what they did there and what kind of money they received,” Kharitonov told reporters after the preliminary hearing .

A case was opened against the head of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Rutulsky district of Dagestan, Artem Magomedov, for abuse of official powers with the use of violence (clause “a” of part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code). This is stated on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

The Syktyvkar City Court found the former mayor of the city, Roman Zenishchev, guilty of accepting bribes (Part 4 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code). Taking into account the previous term, he received 10.5 years in prison and a fine of 1.5 million rubles, reports 7x7. In this case, Zenishchev was sentenced to seven years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 500 thousand rubles.

Maria Motuznaya, against whom a criminal case was opened for extremism and insulting the feelings of believers (Part 1 of Articles 282 and 148 of the Criminal Code), left Russia. As the girl herself writes on Twitter, she is now in Kiev. Motuznaya’s lawyer Alexey Bushmakov from the international human rights group Agora confirmed to Mediazona that the girl left Russia. According to him, Motuznaya will seek political asylum in another country. Which one exactly is still unknown.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow held preliminary hearings in the criminal case of fraud in the Seventh Studio (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), TASS reports . The meeting was held behind closed doors. It discussed procedural issues. The first hearing on the merits of the case was scheduled for October 25. The director's house arrest was extended until April 3, 2019.

The Supreme Court of Russia commuted the sentence of the former deputy head of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, Denis Nikandrov, who was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison in a bribery case, TASS reports . The category of the crime was changed from particularly serious to grave. Nikandrov will serve his sentence in a general regime colony, not a strict one. Otherwise, the verdict was left unchanged and entered into force.

In Moscow, a policeman was suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in the department, the Moscow agency reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. A case under Part 1 of Article 133 of the Criminal Code (coercion to acts of a sexual nature) and Part 1 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official authority) was opened on September 15 against V.

Victor Stepanovsky. Photo: Personal page "VKontakte" Zelenogradsky District Court of Moscow terminated the criminal case of a 20-year-old student Viktor Stepanovsky. He was accused of arousing hatred of the Caucasians because of the old VKontakte posts, which he published at the age of 16 on the page of his fifth-grader. “About six or seven in the morning there was a terrible knock on the door. Opened - there are barns in uniform, a bunch of people.

The State Duma approved in the first reading a bill that softens the rules adopted in July on the screening of films at international film festivals without a distribution certificate, the parliament tweeted . The new project does not oblige film festivals to draw up a competition program and invite a jury to show films without a distribution certificate.

In Khakassia, the Investigative Committee has completed an investigation into the case against three employees of IK-33, accused of torture and sexual violence against a prisoner, the human rights organization “Zone of Law” told Mediazona. According to human rights activists, the prosecutor's office approved the indictment and sent to court the case of the head of the single cell-type premises (ECPT) Evgeniy Chichinin, as well as two of his subordinates Dmitry Zolotukhin and Ilya Vasilyev.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under an article on the murder of two or more persons (part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code) against the Muscovite born in 1996, who killed his parents and grandmother, according to the website of the regional department of the department. The detained man said that he killed relatives during a quarrel. At the crime scene, knives were discovered.

The Investigative Committee opened a case of election fraud (Article 142.1 of the Criminal Code) based on the results of voting in Krasnoyarsk. This was reported on the website of the local government of the UK. According to investigators, on September 9, during elections to the city Council of Deputies, a resident of the Sverdlovsk district of the city, arriving at polling station No. 348, discovered that, according to documents, she had already voted early.

In the Yaroslavl region, the Investigative Committee began checking reports of the beating of a prisoner in pre-trial detention center-2 of Rybinsk, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the investigative department for the region. As Eldar Luzin, a lawyer for the Public Verdict Foundation, reported the day before , convict Farkhadbek Yuldashev spoke about being beaten in the Rybinsk pre-trial detention center in 2016-2017.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of negligence (part 1 of article 293 of the Criminal Code) after publishing a video of bullying the patient in the Magnitogorsk Psychoneurological Hospital No. 5. This was reported on the SK website. There is no information about suspects in the case. Earlier, the Minister of Health of the Chelyabinsk Region Sergey Prikolotin fired the head physician of the hospital Alexander Belikov.

Eight citizens of Russia and Vietnam were arrested in the Czech Republic on charges of hacking the foreigners' registration system, according to the website of the Prague prosecutor's office. In particular, the defendants hacked the registration systems of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, intended for obtaining a residence permit in the republic. In addition, four detainees are also accused of laundering proceeds from crime.