The military investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Penza garrison overturned the decision to refuse to initiate a case against FSB investigator Valery Tokarev, who was investigating a criminal case about the “terrorist community “Network””. Dmitry Pchelintsev’s lawyer Oleg Zaitsev told Mediazona about this. “The court was considering our appeal against the decision to refuse to initiate a case.

The presence of Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev at the United Russia party congress does not violate the law, according to the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The press release emphasizes that it was published “in connection with incoming requests from media representatives.” The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was called an “invited guest” at the event.

Lev Ponomarev, serving an administrative arrest for a post on Facebook, appealed to the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow with a request to be released from serving his sentence so that he could say goodbye to who died human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseeva, on December 8. Ponomarev’s statement was published by Human Rights Postcards.

Samara police detained seven activists of the “Perpetual Protest” who went for a walk for freedom of the media. This was reported in the channel “Bessrochka Samara | Samara Region". A video published by activists shows them walking along the road one by one wearing yellow vests with the words “Indefinite” and chanting various slogans.

Due to a water supply accident, about 200 thousand residents of Simferopol were left without water, TASS reports information from the city’s emergency services. In total, about 340 thousand people live in the city - two thirds of the townspeople were left without water. At the same time, the press service of the State Unitary Enterprise “Water of Crimea” claims that less than half of the residents lost water supply, without giving the exact number of victims.

Legal Initiative researcher Saida Sirazhudinova discovered herself under surveillance after she asked a representative of the Mufti of Chechnya a question about “honor killings” at the All-Russian Civil Forum. Representative of the Legal Initiative Ksenia Babich told Mediazona about this. According to Babich, this morning she and Saida walked from the Legal Initiative office to the metro. On the subway, the researcher noticed a young man who was following her from the office.