UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called on the Russian authorities to review the law “On Combating Extremist Activities” in connection with the verdict of Dane Dennis Christensen, who was sentenced to six years in prison for the oldest Oryol branch of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

On February 6, in the city of Saki, the assistant to the representative of the head of Chechnya in Crimea, Murad Saidov, was detained. At first, the radio station “Moscow Speaks” reported this with reference to sources; later, the head of the North Caucasus republic Ramzan Kadyrov commented on the information in a telegram. “On February 6, the police received an anonymous call about a fight in a restaurant.

Three volunteers from the headquarters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny were detained in Kaliningrad for organizing an action against torture, according to the page of Navalny’s supporters on VKontakte. Ivan Luzin and two minor girls were detained; they went to Victory Square opposite the city administration with posters dedicated to the defendant in the “Network” case, Viktor Filinkov, and the leader of BARS, Alexander Orshulevich, who reported torture during their arrest.

An “open survey” about Russia’s affiliation will be held among the residents of the Kuril Islands, Channel One reports a message from the acting head of the Sakhalin region Valery Limarenko. “The Kuril Islands are Russian soil, there is no doubt about that. I know the opinion of Kuril residents on this issue. I want to say that today there is a discussion of this issue, politicians abroad are raising these questions, and therefore we must finally deal with this issue and put an end to it.

The Investigative Committee has completed the investigation of the criminal case of the former senator from the Karachay-Cherkess Republic Vyacheslav Derev, accused of fraud (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the department’s main department. According to investigators, from December 2006 to October 2010, Derev and six of his accomplices stole more than 110 million rubles, illegally reimbursing VAT.

25-year-old Russian contract soldier Maxim Pletnev died in Syria, reports Tikhoretskiye Vesti . Information about the death of a military man was confirmed by the administration of the Tikhoretsky district of the Krasnodar Territory. According to the publication, Pletnev died on January 31, and his funeral was held on February 4.

In Pskov, the magistrate of court district No. 31, Natalya Simonova, imposed a fine of 200 thousand rubles on the publication “Pskovskaya Lenta Novostei” because of a statement by journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva about an explosion in the reception room of the FSB directorate in the Arkhangelsk region. Maxim Kostikov, general director of Civil Press LLC, which includes Pskov News Tape, reported this to Mediazona.

The Accounts Chamber prepared a review in which it opposed the bill on the autonomous operation of the Russian segment of the Internet, reports Interfax, which obtained the document.

In Naberezhnye Chelny, the commission for minors fined a 17-year-old participant in the “perpetual protest” 20 thousand rubles for distributing balloons with protest symbols. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to the activist himself. Earlier, on January 1, the city court of Naberezhnye Chelny imposed a fine of 20 thousand rubles each on two activists of the “perpetual protest” Vasil Tarasov and Airat Panteleev for the same action.

In the Stavropol Territory, a resident of the village of Aleksandrovskoye chased a policeman in a car and beat him out of revenge for his brother, according to the website of the Investigative Committee for the region. The agency reports that on the night of December 30, 2018, a 32-year-old local resident gave a car chase to an operative of the Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Aleksandrovsky District.

In Pyatigorsk, a policeman accidentally wounded his partner in the leg while detaining a violator, TASS reports citing the Investigative Committee. According to the agency, traffic police inspectors tried to stop a Mercedes that was driving in the oncoming lane. But the driver refused to stop, ran over one of the policemen and tried to escape. “When the policeman fired at the tires, the bullet ricocheted into the leg of another officer,” TASS reports.

A 19-year-old resident of the Dagestan city of Khasavyurt, Abdula Magomedov, disappeared after searches at his home, the press service of the Memorial human rights center, which was contacted by the young man’s relatives, told Mediazona. They claim that security forces planted a grenade at their home. Relatives say that on February 4, an armored personnel carrier drove up to their house.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, the Investigative Committee opened a case of cruel treatment (Article 245 of the Criminal Code) with killer whales and beluga whales kept in a bay near Nakhodka, according to the department’s website. “Investigators will promptly take comprehensive measures to return all marine mammals to their natural habitat,” the Investigative Committee promised.

Senator and author of the bill on the autonomous operation of the Russian segment of the Internet, Andrei Klishas, ​​said that 20 billion rubles will be spent on the implementation of the project, the radio station “Moscow Speaks” reports . “The passport of the Information Security project, which was approved by the government, provides for funding for these activities (more than 20 billion),” Klishas said.

Moscow State University graduate student Azat Miftakhov, suspected of making an explosive device, was detained again, his uncle Gadel Miftakhov told Mediazona. According to the uncle, the graduate student is being taken to the police department at 23 Admiral Makarov Street, building 1 - there is the building of the investigation department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Northern Administrative District of Moscow. He does not know any other details of his nephew’s detention.