During the examination, the DNA of several people was found on packages of drugs found on journalist Ivan Golunov, Interfax reports , citing the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow. Lawyer Sergei Badamshin told Mediazona that he has not yet seen the results of this examination.

Ivan Golunov. Photo: Julia Vert Studying the materials of the case of Ivan Golunov, the Mediazon found that from the very beginning she made a mistake, naming the substance that the police seized from the journalist’s backpack, Mephedron. In fact, the documents mention not Mephedron, but Alfa- PVP is one of the cheapest synthetic drugs available in Russia. The more strange the accusations were looked than the Ugro -Solunov, the underground chemist explained to the Mediazone.

The Prosecutor General's Office requested for verification the case of Meduza special correspondent Ivan Golunov, who is under house arrest on charges of attempted drug trafficking. TASS about this .

An employee of the Nevskie Novosti publication, Oleg Dilimbetov, told Mediazona that the editors terminated their contract with him after he spoke in support of Meduza special correspondent Ivan Golunov. Nevskie Novosti is associated with businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin. As Dilimbetov reported, the reason for his dismissal was a comment he anonymously gave to Open Media. In the publication , an unnamed Nevskie Novosti employee called Golunov’s detention suspicious.

The Moscow City Court overturned the decision to seize 4.5 million rubles that are in the accounts of former open government minister Mikhail Abyzov, the press service of the court told the Moscow agency. “The decision of the Basmanny District Court of April 16 was canceled, the case was transferred for a new trial to the same court with a different composition,” the court said. Mikhail Abyzov has been in pre-trial detention since March 27.

Colonel Andrei Shchirov, head of the Department for Control of the Drug Control of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow, said “Real Affairs” that “there are no inconsistencies” in the special correspondent of Medusa Ivan Golunov. “You know, I explained all the inconsistencies for myself. They understand them.

The former head of the Investigative Committee for the Volgograd Region was detained in connection with the attempt on the life of the regional governor. This was reported on the website of the main department of the Investigative Committee. The name of the detainee was not specified in the press release. The department’s website says that the Volgograd Investigative Committee is now headed by Vasily Semenov.

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, Alexander Khinshtein, wrote on Twitter that after his appeal, the prosecutor’s office transferred the case of Meduza special correspondent Ivan Golunov from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Investigative Committee. At the same time, Golunov’s lawyer Sergei Badamshin from Human Rights Postcard told Meduza that there is no information yet about the transfer of the case to the Investigative Committee.

The Kremlin wants to stop the criminal prosecution of Meduza journalist Ivan Golunov by June 20 - a direct line with President Vladimir Putin is planned for this date, told The Project. two Kremlin officials and an interlocutor close to the presidential administration “It seems that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has no evidence of his guilt at all,” added the interlocutor in the security forces.

The judge of the Shalinsky City Court of Chechnya, the IS-Salav Kulchiev, satisfied the petition of the head of the Grozny branch of the Memorial Oyub Titiev about the parole, according to the telegram channel of the Human Rights Center “Memorial”. Human rights activists clarify that the decision will enter into force ten days later. Now Titiev is in a colony-settlement in the city of Argun. The human rights activist asked for parole on May 15.

General producer of “Navalny LIVE” and candidate for the Moscow City Duma Lyubov Sobol contacted the police about surveillance of her husband, sociologist Sergei Mokhov. Sobol wrote about this on Facebook. “Yesterday my husband was followed by people of Caucasian nationality in a dark gray Renault with license plate E907MN 199 . We ran through these numbers and saw that they were not for Renault,” the oppositionist wrote.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow sentenced Interior Ministry Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko to 13 years in prison, finding him guilty of obstruction of justice, reports . RIA Novosti Zakharchenko was deprived of the special rank of “police colonel,” state awards and medals, as well as the right to work in the civil service.

The internal security service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the prosecutor's office have begun an investigation into the case of Meduza special correspondent Ivan Golunov, deputy head of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) Eva Merkacheva said on Echo of Moscow. “We were told that the check had begun.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested Leonid Volkov, a supporter of politician Alexei Navalny, for 15 days, reports from the courtroom. a Mediazona correspondent The oppositionist was found guilty under Part 3 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (holding a public event that interfered with traffic) for an action against raising the retirement age, which took place on September 9, 2018 in St. Petersburg. This is Volkov’s second arrest for protesting against pension reform.

Photo: Alexander Miridonov/Kommersant After the detention of journalist Ivan Golunov, Mediazona decided to collect as many evidence of how the police in Moscow are thrown by drugs - we are especially interested in employees of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow CJSC, who detained Ivan. Therefore, we turn to readers: if this happened to you or you know about such cases, tell us.