Professor of the Russian Language Department of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University Sergei Knyazev wrote on Facebook that he decided to resign due to accusations of harassment among university employees. “I want to say that I had relationships with students. I always thought they were voluntary. I never consciously used my official position for any purpose, in particular, I did not use it to force anyone to do anything. The story about the assessment is not true.

In Voronezh, a 36-year-old local resident confessed in a case justifying terrorism, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. Vesti-Voronezh clarifies that the suspect was activist Nadezhda Belova. According to the investigation, in 2018 Belova wrote a comment “containing signs of justification for the actions of the person who committed a terrorist act in Arkhangelsk.” She was chosen a preventive measure that did not involve imprisonment.

During a riot in Angarsk correctional colony No. 15, employees used “physical force and special means” against 415 convicts. This was reported to Mediazona by the founder of the Gulagu.net project , Vladimir Osechkin, who received a corresponding response from the legal department of the Federal Penitentiary Service. The document, which Mediazona reviewed, states that firearms were not used against the prisoners.

An administrative case was opened against Ekho Moskvy correspondent Evgeny Snegov for traveling on the subway without a pass (Part 4 of Article 3.18.1 of the Moscow Administrative Code). about this The journalist spoke on Facebook. Snegov received a decision to initiate a case signed by Andrei Surkov, deputy head of administrative investigations of the Transportation Organizer institution, owned by the Department of Transport. It says that on April 22, from 6 to 10 a.m.

The Federal Air Transport Agency proposes to lift restrictions on passenger transportation in three stages, reports with reference to the agency’s project. RIA Novosti During the first two stages, passengers will be required to wear masks and gloves; removing them will be prohibited throughout the flight.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, at a meeting with the president on the development of genetics, asked to exempt his company’s investments in this area from taxes, reports . Interfax “Such a decision would be an important incentive to increase support for investment in the development of the Russian genetics industry,” Sechin said.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined activist Alexander Teplyakov, who was detained while recording a video greeting to Konstantin Kotov, convicted under the “Dada” article, 150 thousand rubles. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to lawyer Maxim Pashkov. The activist was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules of public events (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). The court refused to postpone the hearing due to coronavirus and call witnesses.

One of those accused of the crash of flight MH17, Leonid Kharchenko, was arrested in the self-proclaimed DPR back in March, the BBC Russian service reports , citing Kharchenko’s colleague and a source related to the DPR military command in 2014-2015. Kharchenko was sent into custody on March 11; on May 8, the arrest was extended for two months.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Rostov resident David Sarabashyan to life imprisonment in a maximum security colony on charges of five murders and rapes. this . reports TASS Sarabashyan was detained in November 2018, a month after the murder of a 24-year-old resident of the Suvorovsky district of Rostov-on-Don. It turned out that the first time a Rostov resident was detained in a case of rape and murder was back in 2000 during his military service.

Vice-Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Andrei Alekseenko proposed making a paid two-week quarantine in observatories for those arriving in the region. this The official said at a meeting of the operational headquarters; drew attention to his proposal. the publication Yuga.ru “People come with the goal of staying in an observatory for two weeks on state support, and then settling in and continuing their stay at the resort.

First Deputy Head of Yekaterinburg Alexander Kovalchik, following a meeting with the environmental council, promised to contact the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB because of the activists who planted 47 tree seedlings near the Ural State University of Transport (Ural State Transport University), reports Znak.com. According to the publication, the trees were planted on May 11 in a park near the university.

On May 10, the National Guard Directorate for the Chechen Republic held a religious ritual of sacrificing cattle on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow. This was reported by the press service of the department and ChGTRK “Grozny”. The meat of the sacrificial animal was given to the families of the fallen soldiers, according to the National Guard website. At the event, the fighters remembered the first president of the republic, Akhmat Kadyrov, and “deceased comrades,” the department added.

on the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs A column by Russia's permanent representative to the European Union, Vladimir Chizhov, appeared on May 9, where he complains about the “Dulles plan.” Chizhov writes that the beginning of the Cold War is considered to be the speech of the then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Fulton, America. However, according to Chizhov, this was preceded by other events.

A rally against the “Self -Insulation mode” in Vladikavkaz. Photo: Olga Smolskaya / TASS On April 20, in Vladikavkaz, a rally was held against the “Self -isolation regime”, which resulted in mass detentions, clashes of demonstrators with security forces and a wave of administrative arrests. On that day in North Ossetia, 145 patients Covid-19 were identified. Now the number of infected ones has grown to 1,801, and two dozen participants in the rally have become defendants in a criminal case.

The state company Roszarubezhneft bought 80% of the National Oil Consortium (NOC), which owns an oil asset in Venezuela, and registered it with the Ryazan private security company. this . reports Interfax The asset was sold by Rosneft in exchange for a block of its shares owned by the state. According to an extract from the register of legal entities, the owner of the share in NNK was the enterprise RN-Okhrana-Ryazan.