A criminal case was opened in Izhevsk regarding an attempt to set fire to the United Russia office. This was reported by the head of the international human rights group Agora, Pavel Chikov, with reference to a copy of the search warrant. As stated in the document, the case under paragraph “a” of Part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism with the use of a weapon or an object used as a weapon) was initiated on April 18.

A rally against self -isolation in Vladikavkaz. Photo: Olga Smolskaya / TASS In Vladikavkaz, a rally was held against the “Self -Soloculation Regimen”. Residents of North Ossetia, where 145 cases of infection with coronavirus were recorded , protested due to the loss of work and the lack of objective information about the epidemiological situation in the republic.

More than a hundred scientists, writers and human rights activists sent an open letter to the Investigative Committee demanding that a criminal case be opened against the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, due to threats to Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina, the publication writes . In addition, the signatories demanded that the journalist herself be provided with state protection.

The Supreme Court will hold its hearing online for the first time on April 21, TASS reports citing the court’s press service. The court said that since 2019 it has been exploring the possibility of holding hearings via “web video conferencing”, which would allow parties to participate in hearings from the office or home.

The Moscow Region Chamber of Lawyers appealed to the leadership of the regional department of the Investigative Committee with a request to prohibit investigators from “squeezing” assigned lawyers out of the case. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to a letter from the president of the chamber Alexei Galoganov. As stated in the appeal, investigators receive an “unsubstantiated” statement from the detainee about refusing a specific defense lawyer even before meeting with the lawyer.

Yandex is deleting comments from participants in virtual rallies against government measures during the coronavirus epidemic, reports with reference to a Yandex.Navigator representative. Vedomosti As the company explained, messages that do not relate to the situation on the road or contain obscenities are always moderated or deleted.

The Moscow City Court commuted the sentence of activist Konstantin Kotov, accused under the “Dada article,” to one and a half years in prison. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to lawyer Maria Eismont. The prosecutor asked to reduce the sentence to one year and six months in prison. Previously, the Prosecutor General's Office demanded that the sentence be reduced to a year in prison.

Seamstresses of the TUP-Kaliningrad enterprise came out to a rally calling on the landlord to let them work. This was reported by New Kaliningrad. About 70 people are participating in the event. According to the publication, employees are not allowed into the production premises because the company was unable to pay the rent in full. A representative of TUP-Kaliningrad explained that only half of the amount was transferred to the landlord due to government measures to combat coronavirus.

During a hearing in the Moscow City Court, the prosecutor asked to commute Konstantin Kotov’s sentence to one and a half years in prison, OVD-Info reports , citing lawyer Maria Eismont. The previous hearing in Kotov’s case was postponed. It turned out that a flash drive with a recording of the activist’s arrest was missing from the case materials. In addition, the defense asked to call witnesses for questioning.

The convicted person in the “Moscow case” Nikita Chirtsov was released from the pre-trial detention center in Kursk, reports “OVD-info” with reference to the lawyer Alexander Borkov. On April 13, the Moscow City Court softened the sentence to the young man from the year of the colony to 11 months and decided to release him.

The Kirovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg dismissed the criminal case of local resident Evgeny Startsev due to comments under posts about protests in the park where they were going to build a temple. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to lawyer Fyodor Akchermyshev. The court imposed a fine of 150 thousand rubles on the man. Startsev was accused of calling for mass riots (Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code) because of two comments on VKontakte.

The Moscow City Court upheld the sentence of the defendant in the “Moscow case” Sergei Surovtsev. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. In December last year, Surovtsev was sentenced to 2.5 years in a general regime colony for using violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

The Leninsky District Court of Ufa canceled the fine to local resident Ruslan Sharifullin for violating the “self-isolation regime.” This was reported by Kommersant with reference to lawyer Ramil Gizatullin. The police filed a report against the man because he went out at night to repark a friend’s car. As the employees indicated, Sharifullin was drunk. The magistrate of court district No.

The government has allocated 1.2 billion rubles to the National Guard for the purchase of artificial lung ventilation devices (ventilators) and other medical goods to combat coronavirus. The resolution was published on the legal information website. Money from the government's reserve fund will be used to purchase disposable masks and gloves, tomographs, “air disinfectants,” disinfectants and X-ray machines. National Guard soldiers patrol Moscow and check residents' documents.

The Mogochinsky District Court of the Trans-Baikal Territory sentenced the driver of an all-terrain vehicle to two years probation for the death of a passenger while transporting a coffin and 10 other participants in the funeral procession. Information about this is published on the court's website. As the court found, in July 2017, a local resident was transporting a coffin with the body of a woman and 11 passengers on an all-terrain vehicle. One of them was riding on the roof of the cab.