The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow placed under arrest former State Duma deputy, businessman Leonid Mayevsky, who is accused of extorting $37.5 million as compensation for refusing to publish some defamatory information. this . reports Interfax Mayevsky was placed under arrest until January 14, 2019. The case file states that Mayevsky is accused of extortion for the sake of obtaining property on an especially large scale (clause “b” of Part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code).

In the Arkhangelsk region, a case was opened against oppositionist Sergei Mokhnatkin under Part 1 of Article 321 of the Criminal Code (disorganization of the activities of an institution that ensures isolation from society), Mokhnatkin’s defender Andrei Krekov told Mediazona, and was also confirmed to 29.ru by the regional department of the Investigative Committee. Krekov said that he visited Mokhnatkin on November 10.

The Moscow City Court ordered measures to be taken to block scientific sites Sci-Hub and Library Genesis (LibGen) in Russia , according to a statement from the British publishing house Springer Nature . This is stated in the telegram channel of the Sci-Hub project, a link to the decision in the file cabinet of Moscow courts is published by N+1 .

In Kaliningrad, a court arrested the chief doctor of a maternity hospital on suspicion of refusing to give an infant an expensive medicine, as a result of which he died, according to the website of the regional Investigative Committee. The doctor is suspected under paragraph “c” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers causing grave consequences) and Part 1 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers).

In the Republic of Karelia, the Investigative Committee on November 13 opened a case of negligence leading to the death of two or more persons (Part 3 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code) after the murder of two residents of Petrozavodsk, Vesti Karelia writes with reference to the regional prosecutor's office.

The Moscow City Court released from custody expert of the Volgograd branch of the movement “For Human Rights” Igor Nagavkin, who had been in pre-trial detention since October 2016 on charges of stealing jewelry (clause “b” of part 4 of article 158 of the Criminal Code), according to the movement’s website.

The Novgorod District Court of the Novgorod Region sentenced local resident Yegor Yubkin to compulsory labor for obstruction of justice and the conduct of a preliminary investigation (Part 2 of Article 294 of the Criminal Code), writes Legal.Report. Combined with the previous sentence, he received a year and a half in a maximum security colony.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Barnaul arrested the head of the economic security and anti-corruption department of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Altai Territory on charges of taking a bribe, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, in July-September the accused, through the mediation of his former colleague, received 5 million rubles from a businessman.

Judge Nikolai Trukhan of the Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi removed from the trial two lawyers Mikhail Benyash and Alexander Popkov, who represented the interests of the editor-in-chief of the BlogSochi publication Alexander Valov, Popkov himself told Mediazona. According to the lawyer, Valov’s interests were represented in court by him, lawyers Sergei Kostyuk and Mikhail Benyash, as well as Evgeniy Vitishko, who acted as a defense attorney along with the lawyer.

A case has been opened against Sergei Filatov, a resident of the Crimean city of Dzhankoy, for organizing the activities of a religious association recognized by the court as extremist (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), the suspect’s lawyer Alexey Ladin from the international human rights group Agora told Mediazona.

The Constitutional Court of Russia allowed the World Congress of the Ingush People to participate in the case of a border dispute with Chechnya, the chairman of the international human rights group “Agora” Pavel Chikov wrote in his telegram channel with reference to a letter from the deputy chairman of the Constitutional Court Sergei Marvin.

The government intends to allocate two billion rubles from the reserve fund to the National Guard to purchase cars from factories owned by businessman Oleg Deripaska. The corresponding document was published on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts. Subsidies for the purchase of at least 600 cars, “taking into account the short deadlines,” will be concluded only with the URAL automobile plant and the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant.

A former employee of the British visa center TLScontact, Vadim Mitrofanov, whose name has been changed, told Bellingcat and Insider that an FSB officer named Andrey forced him to cooperate. He said that the intelligence service wanted to send “a couple of people” to the UK. A few months after this, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, suspects in the Skripal poisoning, came to the UK for the first time. However, Bellingcat and Insider do not claim that Andrei was talking about them.

Aeroflot airline employees were prohibited from using smartphones in the office during working hours, as well as other devices that can record photos, audio and video. A copy of the relevant order appeared on social networks, and the press service of the radio station “Moscow Speaking” confirmed its authenticity. As stated in the document, some employees will be allowed to use smartphones in the office for work purposes. Others will be subject to disciplinary action for violating the order.

In the Tomsk region, a court sentenced a resident of the Zyryansky district to a year of probation for trying to whip a policeman with his pants, according to the website of the Investigative Committee. The defendant was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code (use of violence not dangerous to life and health against a government official in connection with the performance of his official duties). The court also imposed a three-year probationary period on the defendant.