The Prosecutor General's Office ordered the investigation to classify the criminal case of the Khachaturian sisters not as murder, but as actions “committed within the limits of necessary defense, which entails the termination of criminal prosecution,” TASS reports , citing lawyer Alexei Parshin.

In the Kaliningrad region, the police drew up a report on the public demonstration of Nazi symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences) against Vladislav Shenets because of a fragment of the Tom and Jerry cartoon with a swastika. This was reported by the head of Agora, Pavel Chikov.

Police broke a window and detained Bashkir activist Ramilya Saitova, who refused to get out of the car. Saitova broadcast the arrest online on YouTube. The activist said that at about five o'clock in the evening local time on Tsyurupa Street in Ufa, traffic police officers in a company car began to pursue her. Saitova stopped on the side of the road, and a police officer approached and asked to see her documents to check if she had any unpaid fines.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested for two months five police officers who, according to investigators, planted drugs on Meduza journalist Ivan Golunov. this from the court. reported Mediazona correspondents Denis Konovalov, Igor Lyakhovets, Roman Feofanov, Maxim Umetbaev and Akbar Sergaliev were arrested until March 29, 2020. Their former boss Andrei Shchirov was not among them.

The Supreme Court of Kalmykia sentenced three former police officers to suspended sentences who did not stop the shooting in a cafe, which resulted in the death of two local residents. This was reported by the press service of the court. As stated in the release, in February 2018, three police officers - Mandzhiev, Khodzhgorov and Gidzhiev were in a local cafe. At some point, a drunk local resident of Kanshaev came there and started shooting at three men with whom he was in a quarrel.

The Zyuzinsky District Court of Moscow decided to expel Uzbek citizen Rustam from Russia to his homeland, where he faces torture for homosexuality, Daria Manina, an employee of the Civic Assistance Committee, told Mediazona. The man’s last name is known to Mediazona, but is not published for security reasons. According to Manina, the police detained Rustam when they came to his home.

The prosecutor's office of the Frunzensky district of St. Petersburg sent a statement to the leader of the opposition movement "Spring" Bogdan Litvin. Representatives of Vesna reported this to Mediazona. The document (available to Mediazona) states that the prosecutor’s office examined the movement’s accounts on social networks and counted more than 10 thousand subscribers.

A former employee of IK-9 in the Novgorod region stole money from a colleague’s phone through a mobile bank, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, in October 2019, a FSIN employee was at the checkpoint post. In one of the cells of the box where the passes were kept, he noticed a phone belonging to his colleague.

Putin instructed the head of the Supreme Court, Vyacheslav Lebedev, to consider expanding the category of cases that can be considered by jury trials and the need to introduce the “institute of an investigative judge,” according to the Kremlin website. In 2018, jury trials appeared in district courts and garrison military courts. Currently, juries can consider cases involving life sentences and other serious charges.

A resident of Komsomolsk-on-Amur who abandoned his two minor sons at Sheremetyevo airport systematically beat his wife and children, according to the website of the Investigative Committee. According to the Investigative Committee, the man “caused physical and mental suffering to his wife and children through systematic beatings.” Another criminal case was opened against him - a case of torture (subparagraphs “a” and “d” of part 2 of article 117 of the Criminal Code).

The Office of the Investigative Committee for Komi opened a criminal case for participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) against two residents of Pechora. Information about this is published on the department’s website. The men involved in the case are 60 and 43 years old and “other unidentified persons.” The Investigative Committee filed petitions in court for the arrest of the accused.

President Vladimir Putin allowed the presidential administration to use two more cars with special signals. A new decree on this was published on the official portal of legal information. The document states that Kremlin officials will have 25 vehicles with flashing lights.

President Vladimir Putin instructed head of government Mikhail Mishustin and head of the presidential administration Anton Vaino to “strengthen responsibility for insult,” according to the Kremlin website. As stated in the press release, Putin ordered by July to “consider the issue of strengthening liability for insult and improving mechanisms for refuting false information.” He proposed this idea following a meeting with members of the Human Rights Council (HRC), the message clarifies.

Court of Belgorod imposed 20 hours of compulsory labor for the picket on activist Andrei Ruban, who appealed the acquittal of the court of first instance, reports 7x7 . The Oktyabrsky District In August 2019, oppositionists Ruban and Yuri Polyakov took turns holding pickets with a poster: “There is real hell in Moscow!! People are being beaten with batons! Dragged into paddy wagons! People chant: We are for love! Allow it! Night searches, arrests of parliamentary candidates.

In Kazan, an employee of the criminal investigation department of the police department in the Laishevsky district, Alexander Kozenko, was detained, who fired a traumatic weapon towards a group of young people who were drinking with him in the same area of ​​a private house. This was reported by Idel. Realities” with reference to sources “close to the investigation” and unnamed sources Business online.