A resident of Korenovsk, Krasnodar Territory, Olga Kotenko filed a statement that she was beaten by local United Russia deputy Sergei Aksenov, but a case was opened against her husband. about this . writes Free Media Kotenko told the publication that the deputy beat her when she came to pick up his wife, who asked the girl about it after a quarrel with her drunken husband. Aksenov tried to catch up with the women, and then attacked Kotenko and began beating her with his hands and feet.

In Dagestan, security forces killed three suspected militants in a shootout, reports , citing the information center of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee. RIA Novosti According to NAC, today at about 18:00 on the section of the Caucasus federal highway between Kizilyurt and Makhachkala, unknown persons in a VAZ-2107 car attacked traffic police officers.

In St. Petersburg, during a picket, Nikolai Boyarshinov, the father of Yulia Boyarshinov, a defendant in the case of the “terrorist community “Network””, was detained, Mediazona was told by the Detainee Assistance Group. Boyarshinov Sr. is taken to the 78th police department. It is not yet known whether he is charged with any offense; he was detained near Malaya Sadovaya Street. Nikolai Boyarshinov regularly pickets in the city center.

21-year-old Moscow resident Islombek Kamalov, who had been under administrative arrest since December 12, was taken to the FSB department for Moscow and the Moscow region. He is suspected of participation in a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code). The young man’s lawyer, Timur Idalov, told Mediazona about this. Kamalov was detained at Vnukovo airport on December 12, he was returning from Turkey, where, according to Idalov, he was on vacation.

The company "Granat" of Arkady Rotenberg won a tender for 46 million rubles from the Public Chamber for the development of "civil society institutions, public control and anti-corruption." The Malyuta Skuratov telegram channel drew attention to this; the data is confirmed by information on the government procurement website: judging by the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the founder of the company that won the competition is Arkady Romanovich Rotenberg.

In Chelyabinsk, the prosecutor's office opened a case against Open Russia activist Denis Ibragimov under Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (participation in an undesirable organization) for a video conference with the coordinator of Human Rights Postcard Polina Nemirovskaya.

The Meshchansky District Court sentenced each to six years in a general regime colony to the commander of the intelligence group of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Dmitry Lysakovsky, and businessman Pyotr Chikhun, who was previously mentioned as a representative of the DPR in the UN International Criminal Court. As reports the Moscow agency , the state prosecution requested five and a half years in prison for the defendants, but judge Irina Akkuratova set a longer term.

The appeal panel of the Moscow City Court upheld the decision not to recognize the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport to deprive Russian bobsledder Aleksandar Zubkov of an Olympic medal due to doping, RAPSI writes , citing a correspondent in the courtroom.

New cases of persecution of gays have occurred in Chechnya, Novaya Gazeta reports , citing its own sources. According to the publication, these data are also confirmed by information from the Russian LGBT Network. “The renewed persecution of gays became known after public administrators began spreading warnings to leave the republic on social networks,” writes Novaya Gazeta.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs closed three cases of attacks on Greenpeace activists in September 2016 due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution, Alexander Popkov, a representative of the victims and a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, told RBC. “I requested [the Ministry of Internal Affairs] data around November, no one sent us anything, correspondence with them was very difficult.

The day before, in Moscow, unknown persons kidnapped Ukrainian crime boss Yuri Vasilenko, who was called the organizer of the murder of former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov and Oplot leader Evgeny Zhilin, Rosbalt writes , citing a source in law enforcement. The agency's interlocutor said that Vasilenko lived in Moscow illegally with a passport under the name of a certain Antonenko.

The suspects in the case of an action with an effigy of President Vladimir Putin in Perm were Danil Vasiliev, an activist from the local headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny, and libertarian Alexander Kotov, lawyers Olga Bederson and Anastasia Shardakova told Mediazona. Before this, only one suspect was known - Alexander Shabarchin. The Apology of Protest, which protects activists, clarified that all suspects are now under recognizance not to leave.

The Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika sent a letter to the rule with a request to increase salaries to the prosecutors and equate them to the salaries of judges, Izvestia reports . A source close to the government confirmed the publication that the head of the Cabinet of Ministers Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Ministry of Finance to prepare proposals for financing.

The prosecutor's office appealed the verdict of St. Petersburg businessman and head of the Forum group of companies Dmitry Mikhalchenko, accused of alcohol smuggling, told RAPSI.

The driver Benvenu Douvokama, who accompanied journalists Orhan Dzhemal, Alexander Rastorguev and Kirill Radchenko in the Central African Republic, has no relation to the country’s gendarmerie, the Investigative Committee claims .