Former mayor of Kirov Vladimir Bykov was arrested for a bribe of 7 million 800 thousand rubles, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. Bykov is accused under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (taking a bribe on an especially large scale).

The Kolpinsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent into custody Andrei Pugachev, inspector of the regime and supervision department of the Kresty-1 pre-trial detention center, for attempting to sell hashish to those arrested. This was reported by the press service of the St. Petersburg courts. According to investigators, Pugachev “conspired with unidentified persons” to sell drugs in the pre-trial detention center.

During a single picket, Sochi police detained the head of the Doctors' Alliance trade union branch in the Krasnodar Territory, Yulia Volkova, and doctor Yulia Frelikh. Volkova herself told Mediazona about this. The woman said that they were being taken to the police department in the Central District. “We are being told that we did not have a single picket, although there was only one person standing with a poster,” Volkova reports.

In Yekaterinburg, the first deputy head of the Investigative Committee for the Sverdlovsk Region, Mikhail Busylko, was detained while receiving a bribe of 1.8 million rubles, reports , citing a source. Kommersant-Ural According to the publication’s interlocutor, the money was transferred to Busylko by a lawyer. The detainee was sent to a temporary detention center. Today at the court hearing the prosecution will ask for his arrest.

During a congress of activists of the “For Human Rights” movement, its head Lev Ponomarev announced the creation of a new organization with the same name. about this with reference to public defender and movement participant Oleg Elanchik. writes Novaya Gazeta According to him, activists will not register a legal entity for the new association. A few hours before the start of the congress, movement participants were denied rental space, allegedly due to problems with electricity.

The Magassky District Court sentenced the former Minister of Finance of Ingushetia, Ruslan Tsechoev, to five years in prison for embezzlement of two billion rubles. this with reference to a source in the court. reports Interfax Tsechoev did not come to the announcement of the verdict. The ex-minister was put on the wanted list; information about this is available in the “Wanted” section on the website of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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