The Moscow District Military Court, at an off-site hearing in St. Petersburg, decided to apply compulsory medical measures to Anton Kobts, accused of complicity in preparing a terrorist attack in the Kazan Cathedral, reports the joint press service of the city courts. “Since November 2017, Kobets has assisted the convicted Evgeny Efimov in reconnaissance of the area to select the location of the explosion and gave advice on carrying out a terrorist attack.

Photographer Maxim Lapunov, who said that in Chechnya he was placed in a “secret prison” for gays for 12 days, where he was tortured, has left Russia. this on November 26 in the Stavropol Regional Court said Committee Against Torture lawyer Vladimir Smirnov, who represents Lapunov’s interests, .

The Trusovsky District Court of the Astrakhan Region sentenced a 45-year-old police officer-driver of a line department in the ports to 9 years and 10 months in a maximum security colony for the murder (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code) of the deputy head of the department, reports the Southern Transport Prosecutor's Office. The verdict was based on a unanimous guilty verdict by the jury. It is noted that the defendant did not admit guilt.

Sverdlovsk IK-13 filed a lawsuit in the Tagansky District Court of Moscow against the human rights organization Sitting Rus' over a publication about corruption in the colony. This was reported by Interfax-Ural with reference to the head of the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Sverdlovsk Region, Alexander Levchenko.

The Magassky District Court of Ingushetia sentenced oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev to two years and 11 months in a penal colony and a fine of 50 thousand rubles, his defender, lawyer for the international human rights group Agora Andrei Sabinin, told Mediazona.

The Karymsky District Court of the Trans-Baikal Territory sentenced Alexander Tuezov, who detained those whom he himself supplied with drugs, to 13 years in a maximum security colony, reports the press service of the regional prosecutor's office. In the press release, Tuezov is called an employee of the State Drug Control Service, but in 2014 the agency was already called the Federal Service for Drug Control.

A court in Dortmund, Germany, sentenced Russian and German citizen Sergei Wenergold to 14 years in prison in the case of bombing the bus of the local football club Borussia, reports Agence France-Presse. The defendant’s lawyer, the agency notes , asked for a sentence of less than 10 years, arguing that his client only wanted to create panic with explosions, but not harm people.

In Perm, security forces disrupted the concert of the group IC3PEAK three times, after which they asked the band members to “leave the city.” As the group’s manager Oleg Mitrofanov told Mediazona, after the event was postponed for the second time, the organizers tried to hold the concert at the third venue, but the security forces came there too.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has declared illegal the Russian authorities' bans on gay pride parades. This is stated in the official message on the court’s website. The Strasbourg court considered 51 applications from seven plaintiffs who, from 2009 to 2014, submitted applications to local authorities to hold LGBT events and each time received refusals, and the courts recognized them as legal.

Journalist Oleg Kashin published a full video of the interrogation of the alleged perpetrator of the attack on him in 2010, Danila Veselov, which Kashin himself wrote about in his Telegram channel. The interrogation was recorded in June 2015. On the recording, which lasts more than half an hour, a male voice is heard behind the scenes, who introduces himself as Smirnov, an investigator for particularly important cases of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg, and Veselov is captured.

On behalf of the chairman of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, a case of abuse of power (Article 286 of the Criminal Code) regarding the death of a baby in Kaliningrad maternity hospital No. 4 was transferred to the central office of the Investigative Committee, according to the Investigative Committee’s website. “The investigation has ordered a forensic medical examination of the cause of death of the newborn, which has not yet been completed.

A club in Vologda, Party club XO, refused to hold a concert by rapper Husky due to threats of closure from security forces, the club’s art director Daniil Plotnikov told Mediazona. “Yes, we will not hold a concert. Because the director was summoned to the prosecutor’s office, the Internal Affairs Directorate and the Economic Crimes Department (department for combating economic crimes), she went up and down the authorities.

In the Moscow region, Anastasia Balandina, the wife of the head of the Podolsk police, Artur Ozerov, became a defendant in a criminal case for violating traffic rules, which resulted in the death of five people (Part 5 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code), the radio station “Moscow Speaks” reports , citing the press service of the Moscow Region Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Zavodskoy District Court of Kemerovo arrested Stanislav Kalinichenko, a blogger and coordinator of the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny, for three days, finding him guilty under Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code (public demonstration of Nazi symbols), former head of the headquarters Ksenia Pakhomova wrote on Twitter. Olga Guseva, an employee of Navalny’s federal headquarters, told Mediazona that Kalinichenko was not in the courtroom when he was arrested.

A resident of the Kuban village of Indyuk, Evgeniy Bunin, said that he admitted to stealing a phone after being beaten in the Tuapse department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Committee Against Torture reports . According to him, the incident occurred on November 12, when he was invited to the department for a conversation. In the office, he was handcuffed, and the operative demanded that he confess to stealing the phone. “I said I had nothing to do with this.