The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced the former mayor of Vladivostok Igor Pushkarev to 15 years in a maximum security colony in the case of bribery, abuse of power and commercial bribery, reports . RIA Novosti In addition, Pushkarev was sentenced to a fine of 500 million rubles. The prosecution requested 17 years in prison for him.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced activist of the Lenin Communist Youth Union Victoria Severina to seven days of administrative arrest for an action near the United Russia office, according to the telegram channel of the press service of the St. Petersburg courts. Severina was found guilty under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the rules of holding a rally).

In Astrakhan, on April 2, a search was conducted at the home of the bass guitarist of the group Doden Grotte, Mikhail Kargin, according to the group “ Astradrink Metal Alliance (Rock in Astrakhan!)” on VKontakte. At six in the morning on April 2, FSB and Investigative Committee officers came to Kargin’s home. They confiscated a computer, a phone, and weight and size mock-ups of cartridges that are used at performances. In addition, the musician was interrogated.

Employees of the Vladikavkaz pre-trial detention center did not allow lawyer Visit Tsoroev to see the arrested Timur Ortskhanov three times, reports the Memorial human rights center. The lawyer fears that violence may be used against Ortskhanov in order to confess. Ortskhanov and his children were deported from Germany on March 14.

Convicted pro-Ukrainian activist Vladimir Balukh was placed for 15 days in a punishment cell at correctional colony No. 4 in the city of Torzhok, Tver region, the Crimean Human Rights Group writes , citing sister Nadezhda Balukh, who tried to visit her brother in the colony. According to a relative, the colony administration says that Balukh was sent to the punishment cell on April 4, and he will stay there until April 19.

Security forces in Ingushetia detained another participant in the protests against the border agreement with Chechnya, Ibragim Dugiev, on charges of attacking government officials, Memorial press secretary Yulia Orlova told Mediazona. The 25-year-old activist was detained on the morning of April 9 in the village of Kantyshevo, Nazran district. Relatives said that about 40 armed and masked security forces broke into the house.

The accused in the case of a terrorist attack in the metro of St. Petersburg Dilmurod Muidinov spoke about torture in the building of the Investigative Committee. About this on Facebook writes a member of the Public Supervisory Commission Yana Teplitskaya. Teplitskaya clarified the Mediazone that Muidinov told her and another member of the PMC to Roman Shirshov about the torture of Muidin on April 6.

Security forces in Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Territory, tried to disrupt a festive religious service of Baptists, which was held in a private house, said a representative of the believers, Evgeniy Kokora. The service in honor of the Annunciation took place on April 7 in a private house in the Novorossiysk village of Verkhnebakansky, with about 70 believers in the room. Suddenly an FSB officer, a policeman, a representative of the local administration and several Cossacks burst into the house.

The Leninsky District Court of Astrakhan sentenced former regional Duma deputies from United Russia Vitaly Kurskov and Igor Poplevko to 24 and 16 years in a maximum security colony for 78 episodes of sexual abuse of children and filming child pornography, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, 54-year-old Vitaly Kurskov invited children to a rented apartment for two years and had sex with them for money.

In the Irkutsk region, the Department of the Investigative Committee opened a case of beating of Usolye-Sibirsky resident Mikhail Zagvozdin during his arrest. Human rights activist Svyatoslav Khromenkov reported this to Mediazona with reference to a notification from the Investigative Committee. The case was opened under paragraph “a” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers with the use of violence). There are no suspects yet.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for carrying out the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code) against the former coordinator of the Open Russia network movement in Krasnodar, Yana Antonova, Human Rights Postcards told Mediazona. Project coordinator Alexey Pryanishnikov said that security forces searched Antonova’s place, seized her phones and computer, and then took her to the Investigative Committee.

In the Vladimir region, the prosecutor for supervision of compliance with laws in correctional institutions filed a lawsuit against the Vladimir Central for not allowing lawyers to see prisoners, the press service of the Frunzensky District Court of Vladimir told Mediazona. As reported in court, the prosecutor conducted an investigation into complaints from lawyers who were not allowed into prison to see their clients on holidays and weekends.

In Perm, the Department of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case regarding the beating of a 17-year-old teenager by an operative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Lawyer Olga Bederson, who collaborates with the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” told Mediazona about this. The case was opened under paragraph “a” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers with the use of violence).

The bill on the autonomous operation of the Russian segment of the Internet will help in the fight against the Telegram messenger , head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov told TASS. “Since the law on the sovereign Runet involves preventing the spread of prohibited information in the Russian Federation, it is obvious that one of the elements of this warning will be the fight against prohibited resources, including the one you asked about,” Zharov answered the agency’s question about Telegram .

The State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications proposed postponing the entry into force of the bill on the autonomous Internet, reports RNS with reference to the head of the committee Leonid Levin.