In Moscow, two employees of pre-trial detention center No. 1 “Matrosskaya Tishina” were arrested in cases of bribes from those arrested and extortion. This was reported on the website of the Moscow department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, from January to June 2019, pre-trial detention center employees gave prisoners “various items prohibited on the territory of the detention center” for money.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to pay 10 thousand rubles in compensation to Oleg Borovikov, the brother of the coordinator of the local headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny, Andrei Borovikov. This was reported by 29.ru and on the headquarters page on VKontakte. The court declared the search in Oleg Borovikov's apartment illegal.

In Moscow, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs department for combating drugs on the Internet, Sergei Dmitriev, was detained, RIA Novosti reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. According to the news agency's interlocutor, he is suspected of fraud in the amount of about 1.5 million rubles.

A court in the city of Naryan-Mar, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, sentenced to two and a half years in a general regime colony a security guard at the Skazka kindergarten who admitted a man who stabbed a six-year-old child to death during a quiet hour. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. In addition, the defendant was ordered to pay 600 thousand rubles to each victim.

The 2nd Western District Military Court fined Muscovite Marat Nigmatulin 30 thousand rubles in the case of justifying terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). His father Vladislav Nigmatulin reported this to Mediazona. against the young man A case was opened in the fall of 2018, when he was still in school. According to Nigmatulin, he wanted to help his friend who was depressed and came up with an “adventure” for her.

The prosecutor's office of Ingushetia approved the indictment in the criminal case of the policeman who published the operational video of the arrest of Isa Altemirov, accused of extortion. This is reported on the department's website. Altemirov, together with his brother, seduced local women and then extorted money from them. In February, security forces came to the apartment where the accused, another man and two women, including Elizaveta Evloeva, were staying.

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin claims that it is impossible to hide real data on the number of deaths infected with coronavirus. “Do you believe that you can hide something in Moscow? We have a small town, we all live within a radius of 15 kilometers. Everyone knows each other, they can call a friend of the doctor, ask friends who is sick, ”said Sobyanin in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda.

In Moscow, near the FSB building on Lubyanka, police detained at least 17 participants in single pickets in support of those accused in the “New Greatness” case. The promotion is broadcast by SotaVision .

Czech citizen Martin Larisch, whom journalist and adviser to the head of Roscosmos Ivan Safronov met, works in the Czech intelligence services, a TASS source in the intelligence community claims.

Police detained journalist Anna Narinskaya near the FSB building on Lubyanka, who went out on a solo picket in support of those accused in the “New Greatness” case. The arrest is being broadcast by SotaVision . Initially, Narinskaya was giving a comment to journalists, at that moment the police approached her. They warned Narinskaya that they would detain her if she violated the Administrative Code. After the journalist stood up at a single picket with a poster, she was detained.

In the Tver region, the Investigative Committee refused to initiate a criminal case after the story of Yegor Lesnykh, convicted in the “Moscow case,” that he was hit with a stun gun in a pre-trial detention center. This was reported by the Public Verdict with reference to lawyer Eldar Garoz. According to Garoz, a Tver investigator contacted him and said that he had learned about Lesnykh’s story from the media.

Rosneft announced that it was withdrawing its claim against RBC for 43 billion rubles. this . reports RIA Novosti Earlier today, July 16, RBC said that the parties had been negotiating for two months.

believes that hackers, who “almost certainly” work for Russian intelligence services, are trying to obtain data about the coronavirus vaccine. This is stated in the center's message. We are talking about hackers from the APT29 group, also known as Cozy Bear and The Dukes . The UK believes that the targets of the hackers are research organizations in Britain, the US and Canada that are developing a vaccine.

Photo: Natalia Fedosenko / TASS The spontaneous action for the admission of independent candidates for the election of the President of Belarus for the first time in many years resulted in clashes of protesters with police officers. According to the estimates of the Viesna human rights center, only on July 14, riot police and people in civilian clothes detained 291 people in Minsk.

Political strategist Pyotr Bychkov, who worked for businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, a year ago gained access to the personal correspondence of Olga Guseva, the former deputy coordinator of the St. Petersburg headquarters of Alexei Navalny. This was reported by Rotunda with reference to two sources “in the circle of the St. Petersburg political elite.” In June, correspondence from Guseva, who now works as a project manager for Navalny’s Team, was published on the Internet.