Rosbalt journalist Alexander Shvarev was charged in absentia with extortion and slander of businessman Alisher Usmanov, the journalist’s lawyer Vladimir Zherebenkov told Interfax. According to him, on November 11 the court will consider the Ministry of Internal Affairs' petition to arrest Shvarev in absentia.

The press secretary of the head of Chechnya, Alvi Karimov, reproached the BBC for not knowing the Chechen language for publishing that Ramzan Kadyrov spoke about killing people for insults on the Internet. “I was not at all surprised to read the BBC lampoon. They can't do it any other way.

Participants in the “Flowers to Aurora” action were detained in St. Petersburg, this is stated in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation community on VKontakte. “The police have begun arresting participants in the Flowers to Aurora protest. At the moment, 6 people have been detained, including the first secretary of the St.

Members of the St. Petersburg POC Anastasia Nekozakova and Elena Shakhova Lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov from the human rights group “Agora” were not allowed into the hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service named after Gaaz to see Viktor Filinkov, who was arrested in the “Penza case,” who is on a hunger strike. This was reported in the Rupression telegram channel, and this information was also confirmed by Nekozakova to Mediazona.

In Belgorod, video blogger Nikita Gorchakov was summoned to the Investigative Committee to give an explanation because of a picture in which Jesus is compared to Luntik. Dozhd about this Gorchakov himself told . According to the young man, the reason for the call was a statement about insulting the feelings of believers, which was written against him more than a year ago. In particular, the applicant’s claims were caused by pictures in Gorchakov’s VKontakte public page.

The Department of the Ministry of Justice for Ingushetia submitted an administrative statement to the Supreme Court of the Republic on the liquidation of the "Council of Teypes of the Ingush People". This was reported to the "Mediazone" in the human rights center "Memorial". The agency also demanded to exclude the organization from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. Human rights activists write that the application was submitted on October 8.

A former high-ranking official of the Russian Ministry of Culture was detained in Austria in connection with money laundering, said in a statement. the Spanish police In addition to the ex-official, his ex-wife and son, who live in the Andalusian region of the Costa del Sol, were detained. Another detainee was a Spanish lawyer. All of them are suspected of money laundering during the purchase of luxury real estate in Marbella for 4 million euros.

The Azov City Court of the Rostov Region arrested the police officer Roman Lobanov, who shot down a 22-year-old resident of Novocherkassk Ruslan Popov in a car and hid the body in the forest, the local administration of the Investigative Committee and the press service of the court report. Traces of drawing.

The Kremlin will not check the words of the head of Chechnya, Ramazan Kadyrov, about punishment for insulting honor on the Internet. Meduza published a transcript of the media conference call with press secretary Dmitry Peskov. In particular, a representative of President Vladimir Putin said that he could not consider the translation of Kadyrov’s words from the Chechen language published by the BBC as the primary source. Peskov: Listen, we can’t be guided by BBC reports, right?

The Moscow City Court rejected the defense’s complaint and left in custody the 21-year-old defendant in the “Moscow case” Andrei Barshai, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. Lawyers Svetlana Bayturina and Mansur Gilmanov from the international human rights group Agora, as well as defense lawyer Pavel Satleykin, asked to change the preventive measure to one not related to imprisonment.

In Kaluga, bailiffs used physical force against 73-year-old local resident Yuri Sosnovsky because he refused to leave the courtroom and insulted employees. Mediazona was informed about this by the regional department of the Federal Bailiff Service. According to the department, on October 17, the pensioner “violated the established procedure for the court,” after which the judge demanded that the listener leave the hearing.

Roskomnadzor drew up two protocols each against the Memorial human rights center and its chairman Alexander Cherkasov for violating the law on “foreign agents” (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). This is reported on the organization's website. The reason for drawing up the protocols was the absence of the “foreign agent” label on Memorial’s Twitter and on the organization’s VKontakte page.

Russian rappers, together with Human Rights Postcards, wrote an open letter demanding the release of those involved in the “Moscow case,” reports The Flow . Signatures left by Andrey Zamai, Loqiemean , Glory to the CPSU, Oxxxymiron , Evgeniy Alekhin from Waste Paper, Krovostok, Dima Bamberg, Mozee Montana , GSPD , Ernesto Shut Up, Eldar Dzharakhov, Masha Hima , SMN , Vitya SD, Kirill Ovsyankin, Varab, Emelevskaya, Pyrokinesis and “Find a way out”.

The head of the fire department of the village of Balyksa in Khakassia, Ivan Schneider, was arrested on suspicion of setting fire to five houses, reports . Prospekt Mira Schneider, 26, was appointed to the position in July. At the end of August, a series of arson attacks began in the village. A young man was detained after he set fire to a wooden garage near a school and was caught on camera.

The Investigative Committee combined the cases of Maxim Martintsov, Alexander Mylnikov and Yegor Lesnykh about the attack on security forces during a protest on July 27 and added an aggravating circumstance - the commission of a crime by a group of people, lawyer Eldar Garoz told MBKH Media. “This will influence the sentence in their case. The sentence will be longer than if they separately kicked the National Guard.