Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court Vladimir Davydov demanded that judges of lower courts increase the requirements for the quality of the preliminary investigation and prosecution, Interfax reports.

The tax inspectorate summoned the assistant coordinator of the “Protest Kuzbass” movement from Novokuznetsk, Fyodor Reguzov, because of his collection of donations on social networks. This is reported by “Apology of Protest”.

The Investigative Committee began a pre-investigation investigation based on reports that the UTair airline forced a resident of the Khabarovsk Territory to pay for tickets for 11 seats for her two children with disabilities, according to the department’s website.

The Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow fined three janitors who participated in a meeting near the district government for 10 thousand rubles due to lack of payments for overtime. Aleksey Pryanishnikov, coordinator of Human Rights Postcard, told Mediazona about this. The court found Abdiakhat Dushaev, Bobur Mamatov and Shokhrukh Orolov guilty of violating the procedure for holding a mass rally (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

A resident of the village of Avnyuga in the Arkhangelsk region, Georgy Minyaev, reported that a case was opened against him for justifying terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to the publication of an appeal by Colonel Kvachkov with a comment that he must be acquitted. Minyaev told Mediazona about this. According to Minyaev, on the morning of February 12, riot police officers came to his home along with an investigator from the Investigative Committee.

Municipal deputy of the Basmanny district of Moscow Viktor Kotov said that the Investigative Committee is checking his article in the district newspaper about the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov for justification of terrorism, reports on its Telegram channel.

The Movement for Human Rights of human rights activist Lev Ponomarev was included in the register of “foreign agents,” according to the website of the Ministry of Justice. Ponomarev himself told MBKh Media that the decision of the Ministry of Justice may be due to the fact that another organization under his control, Hotline, received funding from the UN Committee against Torture.

The UN is investigating an alleged case of torture by Russian soldiers or mercenaries of a resident of the city of Bambari in the Central African Republic. about this writes AFP . The agency, citing a UN report that came into its possession, writes that the Bambari resident was tortured for five days. The report is dated January 15th and includes photographs of a torture victim with scars on his back and injuries to his arm. The UN has officially confirmed that it is investigating this case.

The security forces came with a search at the Pskov branch of the Yabloko party, the Pskov News Tape reported with reference to the chairman of the regional branch of Lev Schlosberg. The TASS source in law enforcement clarifies clarifies that investigative actions are related to the case of improving the elections (part 1 of Article 141 of the Criminal Code).

Residents of Nizhny Novgorod wrote on a snowdrift the name of the opposition Alexei Navalny, after which the snow was removed. This is written by the Nizhny Novgorod edition Koza.press . Eyewitnesses told the publication that before the inscription appeared, a bunch of snow was lying for several days and interfered with car travel. The result of snow cleaning on Marx Street.

The administration of the Tambov region told Dozhd that the regional governor, Alexander Nikitin, actually asked the board of prosecutors to bring to court a case of slander against him, brought against a local journalist. The governor addressed an “indefinite circle” of people who were present at the board of the Tambov prosecutor’s office, the administration emphasizes.

The magistrate of court precinct No. 1 of the Leninsky district of Cheboksary fined Open Russia activist Yuri Sidorov two fines of 14 thousand rubles, finding him guilty of collaborating with an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). 7x7 about this Sidorov himself told .

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is checking reports of the killing of a canine dog in the Moscow region, TASS reports a message from the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Moscow Region. on The incident was reported by the Police Ombudsman on VKontakte.

The Ministry of Culture is preparing amendments to the legislation in the field of public procurement for theaters, reports the Moscow agency . The presidential administration will work with the Ministry of Culture on the amendments.

The European Court of Human Rights awarded compensation to Victoria Muchnik, a journalist of the Tomsk TV channel TV-2, for illegal prosecution after a single picket. The decision was published on the ECHR website. Muchnik went to the picket in January 2015 after TV-2 was switched off the air. She was detained and a report was drawn up under the article on participation in an unauthorized rally; the court changed the article, recognized her as the organizer and fined her 20 thousand rubles.