Moskovsky Komsomolets published possible correspondence between Russian diplomats, including the Russian Ambassador to the Central African Republic Sergei Lobanov, about the murder of journalists in the Central African Republic. In one of the letters to a high-ranking employee of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Perepechaev, Charge d'Affaires of Russia in the CAR, Viktor Tokmakov, reports the death on September 14 of the director general of the National Gendarmerie of the CAR.

The prosecutor's office asked the court to sentence Dmitry Ivanov, the head of the branch of "Hospital No. 1" of MSCh-78 of the Federal Penitentiary Service, accused of negligence (part 1 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code), to a fine of 70 thousand rubles.

Ten people died as a result of a fire on ships in the Kerch Strait region, reports RIA Novosti citing the press service of Rosmorrechflot. Another 14 people were rescued. According to an informed Interfax source, two ships, including a gas tanker, caught fire in the Kerch Strait area. “There was a report of a fire on a gas tanker south of Cape Opuk, the ship was transferring cargo to a neighboring one, an explosion occurred, and the fire spread to the neighboring ship,” the source said.

The Presnensky District Court fined the co-chairman of the Trade Union of Journalists Igor Yasin 20 thousand rubles for unfurling a rainbow flag at a march in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova in Moscow. This was reported by OVD-Info. Yasin was charged with violating the rules of its conduct by a participant in a public rally (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

Police officers tried to break into the office of the Moscow Helsinki Group, writes MBH Media with reference to the coordinator of public campaigns of the MHG Nikolai Kretov Kretov said that a squad arrived at the office to “pick up those detained” at the procession in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova. Earlier, four activists, including Kretov, left the Presnensky court building because their detention period exceeded 48 hours.

The Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences suspended the awarding of the title “Honorary Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences” to Patriarch Kirill and Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, RBC writes with reference to the vice-president of the academy, Yuri Balega.

In the Yaroslavl region, the court terminated the administrative case against the former prisoner of the local correctional colony No. 1, the current head of the Yaroslavl branch of Rus Sitting Ruslan Vakhapov on violation of the rules of administrative supervision, the Public Verdict Foundation reports . Representatives of Vakhapov asked for the termination of the proceedings of the justice of the First Judicial section of the Nekrasovsky district due to the lack of an event of an offense.

Kaliningrad police detained a man suspected of hacking and stealing a game account, writes RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. A resident of Omsk contacted the district department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kaliningrad. He reported that his gaming account, which he bought on the Internet along with his email and games registered to it, was stolen.

Open Russia activist Dmitry Semenovsky was detained in Pskov, Pskov Province reports in its telegram channel. “Now he is being taken to Inzhenernaya, this is a criminal investigation, according to him,” the message says. Later, the newspaper clarified that Semenovsky was being taken to the building at 48 Oktyabrsky Prospekt, where the departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB for the Pskov region are located.

The State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications supported bills introducing liability for fake information and disrespectful publications about the authorities, reports . Interfax One of the authors of the bill, Dmitry Vyatkin, assured that liability for disrespect for authority will not occur in cases where we are talking about criticism of a specific person.

The Council of the European Union imposed sanctions against the head of the Main Directorate of the Russian General Staff, the council said in a press release. “Today the Council imposed sanctions against nine individuals and one entity under the new restrictive measures mechanism established on 15 October 2018 for the use and build-up of chemical weapons,” the EU said in a release. The EU later published a list of people against whom sanctions were imposed.

Roskomnadzor considered that the leak of personal data of several thousand subscribers of the Moscow Internet provider Akado Telecom did not lead to a violation of their rights, reports RNS , citing the department’s press service. The press service reported that the provider responded to a request from Roskomnadzor about this incident.

In Chuvashia, a senior investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs department for the Yadrinsky district shot down two pensioners, 79 and 67 years old, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, on January 19, a police officer was driving his Kia Rio drunk. He hit two women who were walking along the edge of the road in the same direction in which his car was traveling.

In the Dzerzhinsky district of the Kaluga region, police detained a local resident who came to the office of a microcredit organization and doused an employee with acid from a can. This was reported on the website of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. The suspect, according to investigators, entered the office, took a can from a plastic bag and threw its contents at an employee of the organization, after which she disappeared in an unknown direction.

In Orel, the prosecutor’s office for the second time transferred to the court the criminal case of the former district Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Natalia Bashkatova, accused of negligence (part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code), which resulted in the death of Yana Savchuk, who asked for protection from a former lover, lawyer Sergei Loktev told the Mediazone, representing the victim at the initiative of the human rights organization “Zone of Law”.