In Volgograd, on May 16, FSB and police officers detained at least seven Jehovah's Witnesses, according to the Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia website. According to followers of the faith, security forces detained Sergei Melnik, Valery Rogozin, Igor Egozaryan, Vyacheslav Osipov, Ivan Valkovsky, Denis Peresunko and Vladimir Tarasov. All of them are aged from 36 to 81 years. Believers note that Osipov was detained right at his workplace.

Russia and the Netherlands have settled a dispute over the detention of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise in the Barents Sea in 2013. The corresponding document was published on the websites of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and Russia . Foreign ministry reports said the countries had reached a “full and final settlement,” the details of which remained confidential.

In St. Petersburg, police detained the participants in the action in support of the International Day of Combating Homophobia, the mediazone correspondent reports. According to him, the action took place in the Hyde Park on Lenin Square. According to the correspondent, the police detained seven people. Activists talk about eight detainees.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow left in custody for two months 75-year-old employee of the Central Scientific Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (TsNIIMash) Viktor Kudryavtsev, accused of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), reports Interfax . The meeting was held behind closed doors. Earlier it became known that Kudryavtsev was transferred from the pre-trial detention center to city clinical hospital No. 20.

In Chita, the justice of the peace of the court section No. 14 terminated the criminal case against the nurse of the Transbaikal Regional Perinatal Center Lyudmila Cherkasova, who left the napkins in the body of the newborn, lawyer Anastasia Kopteeva told Mediazone, collaborating with the human rights organization “Zone of Law”. The judge made such a decision at the request of the defendant in connection with the expiration of the statute of limitations of prosecution.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested until July 15 the head of the Dokuzparinsky district of Dagestan, Abduragim Aliskerov, accused of giving a bribe of 23 million rubles for appointment to a position, reports . RIA Novosti As the investigator reported in court, the case against the official under Part 5 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code (giving a bribe on an especially large scale) was opened on May 16. He was detained on the same day.

In Moscow, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case after a woman left a little girl alone in a clinic, according to the website of the department’s regional department. The case was opened under Article 125 of the Criminal Code (leaving in danger) and Article 156 of the Criminal Code (failure to fulfill obligations to raise a child).

The judge of court district No. 370 of the Tverskoy district, Ekaterina Kazakova, fined Open Russia activists Tatyana Usmanova and Alexander Solovyov five thousand rubles each for organizing a direct line with businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, according to the movement’s telegram channel. The activists were found guilty of carrying out the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code).

24-year-old Kaliningrad anarchist Vyacheslav Lukichev, convicted of publicly justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights, reports the Memorial human rights center, which represents his interests. According to human rights activists, the Russian authorities violated Lukichev’s right to freedom and security of person (Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights).

The Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 plane , which burned down at Sheremetyevo, was landing with a maximum weight of 1.6 tons, reports with reference to a document from the Federal Air Transport Agency, which was at the disposal of the editors. RIA Novosti “By the time of entering the glide path, the aircraft’s weight was about 42,600 kilograms, which was 1,600 kilograms higher than the maximum permissible landing weight,” the document says.

The chief architect of Chelyabinsk, Nikolai Yushchenko, held a meeting with the coordinator of the “Time” movement, Denis Ibragimov, who opposes the construction of the student square with the Chapel of St. Tatiana. about this on his Facebook The activist himself wrote . “They responded very quickly, the issue is under the control of the city administration, and, apparently, the region.

Investigators from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, as part of a libel case (Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code), initiated at the request of businessman Alisher Usmanov, received the contents of the email navalnyshop@bk.ru , RBC reports with reference to the case materials. Alexei Navalny's press secretary, Kira Yarmysh, said that this mailing address is in no way connected with the politician or his headquarters store.

The Moscow District Military Court released Matveev, colonel of the “T” department of the economic security service of the FSB, from the pre-trial detention center. Rosbalt reports this with reference to a source in the special services. As Rosbalt reports, the court considered that Matveeva was “unreasonably” chosen as a preventive measure in the form of detention.

In Ulyanovsk on May 15, local resident Mikhail Filippov held a one-man picket against the construction of an Orthodox church on the site of a public garden. Filippov himself told Mediazona about this. “I am not against the construction of the temple, but against the destruction of the park. I am for the temple, what are you saying, but in a different place. I saw a sketch of this temple and liked it. I am for it to be built, but not here.

The Supreme Court of Bashkortostan softened the preventive measure for 51-year-old policeman Eduard Matveev, accused of raping a 23-year-old interrogator, and transferred him to house arrest, assistant judge Vadim Khabirov told Bashinform. “The decision of the court of first instance was rejected and a preventive measure was chosen in the form of house arrest for a period until May 31, 2019,” he said.