During the US Congress elections in November 2018, the US military blocked Internet access to employees of the St. Petersburg company Internet Research Agency, told sources the Washington Post. According to the newspaper's interlocutors, this attack was the first offensive operation of this kind against Russia - American specialists managed to remotely block agency employees' access to the Internet.

In the case in which Senator Rauf Arashukov is involved, two more suspects were detained, TASS reports citing Investigative Committee representative Svetlana Petrenko. According to Petrenko, the detainees are the former general director of the Essentuki Heating Network company Zamir Borisov and acting. O. Director of the Gazprommezhregiongaz Stavropol branch in the Mineralovodsky district Irina Valeshnaya. According to investigators, they received cash from industrial gas consumers.

In the coming months, a new system will be launched at the Russian-Belarusian border, thanks to which people with a ban on leaving one country will not be able to leave through another, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports , citing the deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for migration issues, Dmitry Demidenko. As Demidenko said, documents to strengthen control over non-travelers had already been signed by both parties.

Vladimir Kalmykov, accused in the case of cocaine supplies from Argentina, went on a hunger strike, told RTVI. his lawyer Andrei Shalaev “He has been in custody for more than a year, although he is innocent of the crime of which he is accused. “As he believes, there are no other means left, no opportunities to influence the situation, he stopped trusting the investigation,” the lawyer said.

The FSIN denied members of the Human Rights Council who came to the Irkutsk region access to correctional colonies No. 3 and No. 6, Pavel Glushchenko, a member of the local public monitoring commission, told Mediazona. Human rights activists were informed about the refusal of admission to the colony by a representative of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, who accompanies them on the trip - Glushchenko, his name is unknown.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the acting Kizilyurt interdistrict prosecutor Abdulla Shakhbanov, who extorted money from his subordinate and threatened to ruin his reputation, according to the website of the Dagestan department of the Investigative Committee. The case was initiated under articles of extortion on an especially large scale (clause “b” of Part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code) and abuse of power (Part 1 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code).

The 27-year-old heroine of the article “My friend, you are a transformer” about heroin addiction, Anna Glazova, who was arrested on charges of drug possession (Part 1 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code), tried to commit suicide in pre-trial detention center No. 6 after her arrest, Glazova’s lawyer told MBH Media Nikita Taranishchenko.

The Investigative Committee opened another criminal case against St. Petersburg resident Pavel Zlomnov, who spoke about torture by FSB officers. Pavel’s brother Mikhail Zlomnov reported this to Mediazona. The case was initiated under the article of insulting a government official (Article 319 of the Criminal Code). According to the notice of initiation of the case, Zlomnov insulted FSIN operative Ivan Prozorovsky in the investigative office in pre-trial detention center No. 6.

The Moscow District Military Court sentenced former colonel of the FSB Information Security Center Sergei Mikhailov to 22 years in a maximum security colony in a treason case, TASS reports . His accomplice, ex-head of the computer incident investigation department at Kaspersky Lab, former Interior Ministry major Ruslan Stoyanov, received 14 years in prison. Both defendants were found guilty of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code).

The Investigative Committee has charged a 28-year-old policeman with murder for shooting a resident of the Trans-Baikal village of Kokuy who attacked him (part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the regional department of the department. TASS about the attack The local Ministry of Internal Affairs told .

In the city of Sim, Chelyabinsk region, a serviceman started shooting from the balcony of a house, reports Ura.ru with reference to the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region. The department added that it sent all materials to the military investigation department of the Investigative Committee. A RIA Novosti source says that the man fired from the third floor from a weapon that was cold, that is, unsuitable for combat shots.

Investigators conducted searches in the case of Senator Rauf Arashukov and his father Raul Arashukov at the leadership of the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Karachay-Cherkessia, Stavropol and Dagestan, according to the Investigative Committee website.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put the former director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Roman Rubanov, on the wanted list, according to the department’s website.

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow arrested for seven days a 25-year-old activist of the “People's Resistance Association” Anastasia Zinovkin for an action against the law on the autonomous Internet (part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), ANS activist Dmitry Karasev told Mediazone.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan upheld the appeal of the residents of the village of Vremenny, which the military destroyed during a counter-terrorism operation in the fall of 2014, and overturned the decision of the lower court, reports the Memorial human rights center.