In Grozny, unknown persons attacked Novaya Gazeta columnist Elena Milashina and lawyer Marina Dubrovina, the publication reports . Milashina and Dubrovina came to Grozny for the trial in the case of blogger Islam Nukhanov, who shot the video “How Kadyrov and his associates live. Part 1". After the publication of the video, a case was opened against Nukhanov for illegal possession of weapons (Part 1 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code).

Five employees of the prosecutor's office of Chuvashia wrote letters of resignation due to reluctance to "participate in the political and personnel struggle of [the republic's prosecutor] Vasily Poslovsky with the Prosecutor General's Office," reports " 7x7 " with reference to the employees' complaint to the Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov. In January, ex-Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika severely reprimanded Poslovsky for “tactless and sometimes offensive remarks” to his subordinates.

In the Basmanny Court of Moscow, the jury acquitted Anton Berezhny, accused of murdering gay Roman Edalov at the Kursky railway station. The press secretary of the LGBT group Stimul, Sergei Romanovsky, and lawyer Artem Lapov, who collaborates with the project, told Mediazona about this. According to investigators, Berezhnoy attacked Roman Edalov and Evgeny Efimov with a knife on the night of June 29, 2019, near the Kursky railway station.

The Kaliningrad garrison military court sentenced Baltic Fleet officer Grigory Rogozin to three years probation for putting out a cigarette butt on a private and punching him in the stomach. This was reported by New Kaliningrad and Interfax North-West . In June 2019, the deputy commander of the reconnaissance artillery division of the military unit, Rogozin, instructed the conscript to prepare documents.

In Moscow, police detained the head of an oncology clinic and two doctors on suspicion of theft and sale of medicines worth 100 million rubles (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to investigators, doctors forged documents, stole drugs for the treatment of oncology and sold them through pharmacies and distributors in other regions. The police estimate the damage at 100 million rubles.

The Memorial Human Rights Center, citing residents of the village of Gekhi, Urus-Martan District, reported the abduction of four residents of Chechnya. The information is published on the organization's website. Local residents said that on February 5, at about ten in the evening, unknown persons pushed four young people - Movsar Vakhaev, Abdulla Zairaev, Zelimkhan Kulaev and Akhmed Sataev - into two cars (one of them looked like a taxi) and drove away.

Prosecutor of the Central District of St. Petersburg Pyotr Zaburko canceled the decision to initiate a criminal case against 26-year-old native of Syzran Ivan Naydenov, who reported false explosions and fires 11 times. This was reported by 47news and Interfax, citing an “informed” source. “Due to the incompleteness of the inspection, the prosecutor’s decision to initiate a case against Naydenov was canceled,” the news agency’s interlocutor said. According to him, the investigation continues.

The Krasnodar Garrison Military Court sent the Major of the FSB department in Moscow and the Moscow Region Alexander Mrishchuk on charges of organizing a criminal community and a gang (part 3 of Article 210 and 209 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by "Medusa" with reference to a source familiar with the course of the investigation, and Kommersant . The meeting was held closed. Mrishchuk was arrested again. The first time the FSB officer was sent in jail in the fall of 2019.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow ordered the Ministry of Finance to pay 150 thousand rubles to activist Alexei Minyailo as compensation for illegal criminal prosecution in the “Moscow case,” reports MBKH Media. Minyailo demanded compensation of 1.5 million rubles. According to the oppositionist, he will “seek payment of the rest of the amount.” The activist was accused of participating in mass riots (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code).

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow dismissed the administrative case against the chairman of International Memorial, Yan Rachinsky, under the law on “foreign agents”. Lawyer Tamila Imanova, who represents his interests, spoke about this in a conversation with Mediazona. An administrative violation report was drawn up for the fact that Memorial’s blog on the website of the radio station Ekho Moskvy did not include the “foreign agent” label.

The military department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow has put on the wanted list three defendants in the case of an attack on a businessman in a Moscow bank, which was carried out by FSB officers. reports this TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. Among them is businessman Boris Karamatov, whom the news agency source named as the mastermind of the attack. In addition, two more persons involved in the case are wanted: Nikolai Stefu and Artur Dzutsev.

In Yeisk, employees of Center “E” detained city council deputy Nikita Nesterenko because of a video recording on VKontakte. “Voice of Kuban” writes about this with reference to the deputy of the district council, Alexander Korovayny. The basis for the arrest was a recording published more than four years ago, the publication reports. It is not specified which video we are talking about.

Former police officers Maxim Umetbaev and Denis Konovalov, arrested in the case of journalist Ivan Golunov, beat Natalya Goloborodko, detained in a drug case, in 2018, . MBKh Media reports, citing her lawyer Oksana Yampolskaya According to Meduza , “the beating was carried out by two other employees.” The names of the police officers have not been released. Earlier, Golunov found a video in which another arrested ex-policeman, Igor Lyakhovets, twists the arms of a witness in a criminal case.

Police detained a man who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail into the building of the Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow, told the press service of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city the Moscow agency. The name of the detainee has not been released. The publication Baza , without indicating the source of information, later reported that 40-year-old Ruslan Ibragimov was detained.

Businessman Demyan Kudryavtsev said in an interview with the RTVI channel that he has not owned a stake in the Vedomosti newspaper for more than a year. Now the owner of the publication is the family of his business partner Vladimir Voronov.