Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin appointed Lyudmila Bokova as deputy head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, according to the government website. Lyudmila Bokova and Senator Andrei Klishas are the authors of the law on “fake news” (Part 9 of Article 13.15 of the Administrative Code).

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for North Ossetia will check the persecution of a girl because of a video of dancing on Student’s Day at the North Ossetian State University (NOSU), TASS reports citing the department’s press service. “The dance of young people at the festival, filmed and received a negative response on social networks, has a moral aspect and is the responsibility of the organizers of the event,” the press service reported.

In Makhachkala, a 26-year-old local resident died on the street after swallowing a bag of drugs at the sight of police, according to the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan. As stated in the release, at the sight of police officers patrolling the street, a Makhachkala resident swallowed a package wrapped in a plastic bag. After this, the young man felt ill.

The Constitutional Court of Russia decided to revise the case of the convict under the "Dadin" article by Konstantin Kotov, according to the court website. “The court decisions in the case of Kotov Konstantin Aleksandrovich, adopted on the basis of Article 2121 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in the interpretation diverging with its constitutional and legal meaning identified in the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation of February 10, 2017 No.

​In Novorossiysk, former Interior Ministry major Alexei Dymovsky was charged with calls for extremism due to statements about President Vladimir Putin, lawyer Valery Melnikov told MBKH Media. According to him, the charge is related to a video entitled “Alexey Dymovsky: I was thinking of killing Putin...”. In the recording, Dymovsky talks about how at the end of 2016 he found old evidence that was thrown away by the police. Among other things, there were cartridges, weapons and TNT.

The Commission of the Moscow Region on the Assignment considered a petition for the pardon of the Israeli Naama Issahar and recommended to free her, TASS reports . Naam Issahar received 7.5 years in a colony in the case of smuggling (paragraph “B” of part 2 of Article 229.1) and drug storage (part 1 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code). The girl flew from Delhi to Tel Aviv with a transfer in Moscow.

In the Sverdlovsk region, United Russia deputy Lyudmila Boronina suggested that residents of the village of Krasnaya Gorka send their children to a boarding school, since the village has neither its own school nor a bus to take children to the nearest town of Polevskoy. The words of the deputy are quoted by Vecherniye Vedomosti.

Roskomnadzor demanded that the Vikitee be removed from the “Vikitee” called “A note on ritual murders (Dahl)”. The notification from the regulator was published on Twitter by the Executive Director of Vikimedia RU Stanislav Kozlovsky. The website of Roskomnadzor says that this page is included in the register of prohibited sites by decision of the Orenburg Regional Court of 2014.

A resident of the village of Novoseletsk in the Omsk region, Semyon Panfilov, said that the police beat him, demanding that he confess to stealing seedlings from a fruit nursery, writes . Sibir.Realii Panfilov, since the summer of 2018, he has been accused of theft committed by a group of persons (Part 2 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code).

A Japanese citizen was detained in Vladivostok for trying to obtain “secret materials about Russian military potential,” TASS reports , citing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As clarifies RIA Novosti with reference to departments, the detainee came to Russia on a journalist’s visa. The Japanese citizen was issued a warning and given 72 hours to leave the country. According to the agency, the man has already left for Japan.

The Karpinsky City Court of the Sverdlovsk Region sentenced three “Jehovah's Witnesses” to the conditional terms accused of participation in the activities of an extremist organization (part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the website "Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia" and Znak.com with reference to the press service of the court.

Chechnya's Minister of National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information Dzhambulat Umarov published a video on Instagram where, at the request of a TASS correspondent, he comments on information from Kavkaz.Realii about 25 people detained because of a photo collage with the head of the republic, Ramzanov Kadyrov, dressed as an Orthodox priest.

A prisoner in Mordovian correctional colony No. 10 said that FSIN officers beat him during a search in his cell, report Ural Human Rights Defenders . The Investigative Committee refused to initiate a criminal case. As human rights activists write, a search of the cell was carried out on October 18, 2019. Colonial officers threw prisoners' belongings onto the floor and trampled them underfoot.

The public organization "Russian Authors' Society" (RAO) demanded 320 thousand rubles from the organizers of the Viola is my life festival for the performance of works by a non-existent author, as well as the French composer Maren Mare, who died in the 18th century. This was reported on the festival's Facebook page. In particular, RAO considered that the festival organizers performed four works by a certain composer Rust Fazinsky without permission, and demanded 160 thousand rubles for them.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow refused to accept the complaint of Daria Sosnovskaya about the inaction of the Investigative Committee, which did not verify her application for the police to beat on the action on August 10. This was reported to the "Mediazone" in the human rights organization "Zone Law" with reference to lawyer Tatyana Molokanova.