Moscow police detained 12 participants in the rally in support of those involved in the Penza case, the New Greatness case and other prisoners, reports . OVD-Info MBKh Media clarifies that the detainees went for a walk in the center of Moscow after the end of the action. After their arrest, they were put on three police buses, one of them headed to the Meshchansky police station. OVD-Info also provides a list of those detained.

Police detained five activists of the pro-Kremlin SERB movement, Igor Beketov (also known as Gosha Tarasevich), Alexander Petrunko, Alexey Kulakov, Pyotr Rybakov and Igor Brumel, who came to a public gathering near the FSB building in Moscow in support of those involved in the “Penza case,” reports OVD -Info". Petrunko’s detention was also broadcast on the Dozhd TV channel.

The Frunzensky District Court of Yaroslavl sentenced former employees of Yaroslavl pre-trial detention center-1 Spartak Lyubovskiy and Alexander Burtsev to five years, three months and five years, six months in a maximum security colony for beating prisoner Viktor Kharlamov, who then had his spleen removed. This was reported by Public Verdict lawyer Irina Biryukova. The court also awarded a million rubles in compensation to the victim.

Former head of the Ministry of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov was elected to the post of chairman of the board of directors of the United Aircraft Corporation, according to the company’s website. The decision to appoint Serdyukov was made by the board of directors at a meeting on May 8. Prior to this, Serdyukov held the position of industrial director of the Rostec aviation cluster. In his new position, he replaced the Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.

The Ministry of Agriculture has prepared a bill that proposes in some cases to destroy products brought from abroad. The document has been published for public comment. We are talking about products that are imported into Russia in hand luggage, luggage and postal items for personal use. The Ministry of Agriculture proposes to destroy them if they were brought without permission and without a veterinary certificate from a country that is not part of the Eurasian Economic Union.

In Yekaterinburg, protesters tore down a fence around the square near the Drama Theater, on the site of which they are going to build the Church of St. Catherine, reports. E1.ru The protesters entered the park and demanded a meeting with the mayor of Yekaterinburg, Aleksandrov Vysokinsky. “Mayor here, mayor here,” protesters chant. According to Kommersant , about one and a half to two thousand people are participating in the action.

The Investigative Committee brought a final charge against the former deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Nikolai Barinov. He is accused of receiving bribes worth 44 million rubles during the construction of the Kresty-2 detention center in St. Petersburg. This was reported by the regional department of the department. The case was investigated under paragraph “d” of Part 4 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (receiving a bribe on a large scale ).

Human rights activists asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to oblige the Russian authorities to transfer prisoner Alexander Shevelev, who opened his veins due to bullying from other convicts, to another colony. The lawyer of the Public Verdict Foundation, Alexey Laptev, told Mediazona about this. As Laptev clarified, judges are asked to take interim measures in accordance with Rule 39 of the ECHR Rules.

The “Cocktail Molotov” was thrown into the government of the Saratov region, an informed source told the “fourth power”. The press service of the governor of the region confirmed RBC that "such a case was last night." According to the source of the Fourth power, on May 12 at 22:28 an unknown man threw a bottle of beer with a combustible substance into the building. The guards were able to put out the fire on their own, which covered half of the square meter.

The Investigative Committee has charged three residents of the Novosibirsk region who kidnapped a homeless man in order to take out a loan for him. This was reported by the regional departments of the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs . The case is being investigated under points “a”, “h” of Part 2 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code (abduction by a group of persons for mercenary reasons).

In Krasnodar, the magistrate of court district No. 30, Elena Zolotukhina, terminated the administrative case of the poet Maxim Drozdov, reports a Free Media correspondent. A protocol was drawn up against the poet regarding the activities of an undesirable organization (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code) for reposting a video from an Open Russia event. The case was dropped because, as the judge decided, the prosecutor's office violated the deadlines for drawing up the protocol.

The WordPress Blog on the Putinism as he is blocked at the request of the authorities, the publication “Radio Liberty” drew attention to this. At the same time, this site could not be found in the register of Roskomnadzor.

The Nizhny Novgorod District Court sentenced Dmitry Pankratov, who was found guilty of murdering local State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company journalist Denis Suvorov, to 9.5 years in a maximum security colony, a reports from the courtroom. RIA Novosti correspondent As the court found, “due to a sudden personal hostile relationship,” Pankratov hit the journalist on the head three times with a stone, causing him to die. The defendant admitted his guilt.

Human rights activist Lev Ponomarev was given a warning about the inadmissibility of violating the law due to the upcoming gathering in support of those involved in the “Penza case” near the FSB building in Moscow, reports . OVD-Info The police came to the Sakharov Center, where they handed Ponomarev a document. According to Amnesty International researcher Oleg Kozlovsky, a meeting of human rights activists was taking place in the center at that moment.

In Yekaterinburg, 29-year-old Colonel Vladimir Muratov, ex-commander of the air defense forces of the unrecognized Lugansk People's Republic, was detained on suspicion of drug possession (Article 228 of the Criminal Code), reports Znak.com , citing a source. Muratov’s wife Marina Lapteva confirmed his detention to Komsomolskaya Pravda. “He was detained, but for what reason, I don’t know,” she said.