The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined local activists up to 20 thousand rubles for single pickets against the adoption of amendments to the Constitution. Defender Varya Mikhailova reported this to Mediazona. The activists were accused of violating the rules of holding a picket (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). Maria Ken and Olga Smirnova were fined 10 thousand rubles, Dmitry Negodin - 20 thousand rubles. The press service of the St.

In Moscow, Alexandra Popova, a participant in a single picket against amendments to the Constitution, was detained. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to a picketer. According to the publication, Popova was detained near the monument to Griboedov. The activist stood with a sign saying “Go to zero.” Alla Frolova, coordinator of legal assistance at OVD-Info, clarifies that the detainee was taken to the police. Later, the girl was released from the department without a protocol.

VKontakte removed a meme recognized as extremist from the personal correspondence of Dozhd TV channel journalist Artem Mindrin. this Mindrin reported on Facebook.

In Omsk, the police opened a criminal case for libel (Part 2 of Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code) after a local resident published an advertisement for the provision of sex services on behalf of his neighbor. This was reported by the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A 39-year-old resident contacted the police because people started calling her based on advertisements published on dating sites and social networks.

The Memorial human rights center recognized Russian nationalist Vladimir Domnin, who participated in the conflict in Donbass on the side of Ukraine, as a political prisoner. This was reported on the website of the human rights organization.

The criminal cases of the murder of Ekaterina Levchenko and Artem Dorofeev—acquaintances of those convicted in the “Penza case”—were transferred to the central office of the Investigative Committee and merged. This was reported by 7x7 with reference to Levchenko’s mother Tatyana. Previously, it was reported that only the case of Dorofeev’s murder was transferred to the central office. Before this, the case was handled by the department of the Investigative Committee for the Ryazan region.

St. Petersburg police detained activist Dmitry Vasilyev from a single picket near the Nevsky Prospekt metro station, reports . OVD-Info According to the oppositionist, he stood with a poster: “Reset the sentences of political prisoners, and give Putin a life sentence. Amnesty for an honest man, but for a tyrant only prison." The police approached him and detained him. As reported by the St. Petersburg branch of the “Spring” movement, activist Pavel Chuprunov was later detained.

In St. Petersburg, the 39-year-old FSB Lieutenant Colonel Maxim Viktorov was accused of beating and insulting an OFSB officer Vladimir Terekhov, Fontanka reports . The St. Petersburg garrison military court is now considering the arrest of the lieutenant colonel until May 12, he is charged with Article 318 (the application of violence against a representative of the authorities) and Article 319 of the Criminal Code (insulting a representative of the authorities).

The Moscow City Hall again refused to approve a rally against changing the Constitution due to the coronavirus, according to the action’s Facebook page. The application to hold the rally was submitted by participants of the public campaign “No!” They planned to gather 4,900 people at Novopushkinsky Square.

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg refused to reinstate the former head of the police department at the Finlyandsky Station Oleg Ritman, who was accused of selling heroin. This was reported by the press service of the St. Petersburg courts. The ex-policeman asked the court to declare the dismissal order illegal, reinstate him in the service and recover monetary allowance from the St.

In the Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg, the prosecutor's office asked to sentence Mikhail Nikolaev, an operative of the 36th police department, who is accused of torture and fraud, to five years in prison, writes . Fontanka In September 2018, a traffic police inspector stopped a Volkswagen driven by an employee of the Property Control Committee (PCC), Alexey Kulikov. Next to him sat Lenenergo mechanic Dmitry Starodubtsev. There was a bag of powder under the handbrake.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for Tatarstan opened a criminal case for negligence (Part 1 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code) due to the fact that the prisoner was released a month later from colony No. 18 in Kazan. This was reported to Mediazona by the Law Zone, which represents the interests of the former convict. In August 2019, the court, at the request of a 34-year-old prisoner, reduced his sentence of imprisonment by eight months.

Sergei Pavlov, a district police officer from the city of Saraktash in the Orenburg region, accused of torturing detainees with electric shock, had his house arrest extended until May 16, the Committee Against Torture reports . According to the terms of the preventive measure, the policeman can walk for eight hours a day, added the organization’s lawyer Albina Mudarisova.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters that after changing the Constitution, the phrase that the president cannot be elected for three consecutive terms will not be removed from the Kremlin website for children, reports . Meduza Now on the project’s website for children, in the “Questions about the President” section , it is said that he should not “allow anyone to cheat and violate the rules of the Constitution.

The Department of the Investigative Committee for Kabardino-Balkaria began an investigation because of a video in which a traffic police officer in the city of Maisky “uses violence” against a driver, according to the department’s website. In addition, the Investigative Committee noted that the policeman confiscates the man’s phone and tries to delete the video recording.