Fontanka named another Russian mercenary who participated in the brutal execution of a deserter from the army of Bashar al-Assad in the summer of 2017 in Syria. Previously, Novaya Gazeta published an investigation in which it claimed that fighters from the Wagner PMC were involved in the execution of the man. The publication named the name of one of them - a former police officer from the Stavropol Territory. Fontanka claims that it was able to establish the details of another mercenary.

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent 68-year-old pensioner Alexander Kovalenko under house arrest, who was accused of publicly justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of a VKontakte post about the anarchist Mikhail Zhlobitsky, who staged an explosion at the FSB Directorate in the Arkhangelsk Region. According to the press service of the St. Petersburg courts, Kovalenko did not object to such a preventive measure.

The Central District Military Court sentenced disabled group 1 Amir Gilyazov from Chelyabinsk to 11 years in prison in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case and released him from punishment due to illness. about this writes Znak.com . Gilyazov was also banned from administering websites and channels on the Internet for three years.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs called “fake news” a “real threat”, because of which citizens demand the dismissal of police officers. about this They write on the ministry’s official page on VKontakte. The “systematic injection” of such news, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is confident, is aimed at discrediting their work and provokes Russians to insult and violence against police officers.

In Khabarovsk, LGBT activist Yulia Tsvetkova was detained, against whom a criminal case had previously been opened for pornography (clause “b” of part 3 of Article 242 of the Criminal Code), reports the Russian LGBT Network. As told Svetlana Zakharova, the organization’s communications manager, OVD-Info, Tsvetkova was detained for violating her recognizance not to leave. The girl is in police department No. 8, they are going to transfer her to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where she lives.

A journalist from Ingushetia, Isabella Evloeva, reported that security forces had been searching her parents’ house in Sunzha since the morning. about this She wrote on Facebook. “There is no connection with my parents and brother. What they are looking for is also not clear, but it is clear that the search is related to my professional activities,” the woman assured.

The head of Bashkiria, Radiy Khabirov, at a meeting with editors of republican media, said that activists from Alexei Navalny’s Ufa headquarters should not be allowed to attend public hearings, and boasted that he has “extensive experience in suppressing unnecessary things.” His words are reported by Echo of Moscow in Ufa. A high-ranking official noted that “[the opposition] and I are not on the same path,” because, in his opinion, they are trying to overthrow the government.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Tver Region opened a criminal case after the death of 46-year-old pediatrician of city hospital No. 6 Nina Azizova, who was not treated by her colleagues, writes MBKH Media with reference to the lawyer of the doctor’s daughter, Viktor Lurie. Information about this is also published on the department’s website.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Altai Territory has completed a criminal investigation against a 28-year-old resident of Zarinsk, who beat his wife for several hours and struck her 100 times with a stool and a bat. This is reported on the department's website. According to investigators, in June the man was drinking in the company of friends and his wife. He asked his wife not to “abuse” alcohol, the release noted.

In Surgut, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case due to the beating of detained EMERCOM pensioner Alexander Khokhlov by riot police officers (clause “a” of part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code), reports Yugra Pro . The resolution states that police and National Guardsmen detained Khokhlov “on suspicion of committing a crime” on the evening of September 26 in the Rechnik holiday village and took him to the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Desnogorsk City Court of the Smolensk Region fined local resident Roman Kosykh a thousand rubles for the video “Yuri Mukhin. Longing for Stalin." Information about this was published in the court file, and drew the publication “7x7” attention to the decision . The court’s website states that the video on Kosykh’s VKontakte page was found by an employee of the regional department of the FSB during “operational search activities.” The video was declared extremist back in August 2010.

The new director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Alexander Kalashnikov, during breaks at the international penitentiary forum in Ryazan, called torture of prisoners “isolated cases.” about this . writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta “This is not a system, these are individual cases that we are fighting, and I hope that they simply will not happen, we will get rid of them,” he told reporters when asked about the abuse of prisoners by prison staff.

The main military prosecutor's office reported that in 2019, more than 100 soldiers in the Russian army suffered from beatings of commanders, reports . Interfax “Practice shows that maintaining the control of units by fists on the part of this category of commanders has not yet been eliminated, and this year more than 100 subordinates have suffered,” said Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor Sergei Skrabets in the Federation Council.

Illustration: Anna Makarova / Mediazone The government is confident that the scale of domestic violence in Russia is “quite exaggerated” - this became known from the response of the Ministry of Justice to the European Court of Human Rights, which considers complaints of four injured women. Similar answers are a typical rhetoric of representatives of Russia in international organizations.

A psychiatric examination declared Daria Belyaeva, a resident of Yekaterinburg, insane, against whom a criminal case had previously been opened for purchasing antidepressants from Poland. about this with reference to her lawyer Irina Ruchko. writes MBKh Media “Daria could not understand the nature of her actions, that is, she is insane and needs the use of compulsory medical measures with the appointment of outpatient treatment,” the lawyer reported the experts’ conclusions.