In St. Petersburg, the police drew up three administrative reports against Mediazona correspondent David Frenkel. Information about the cases is contained in the card of the Dzerzhinsky District Court. In particular, a protocol was drawn up against Frenkel for disobedience to a police officer’s order (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code), interference in the work of the election commission (Article 5.69 of the St.

The senior investigator for especially important cases of the Investigative Committee, Ruslan Miniakhmetov, resigned, RBC reports , citing a source in the Investigative Committee and an interlocutor close to the department. At the beginning of July , it became known that Miniakhmetov was detained in the case of taking a bribe (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code).

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested for 10 days Pavel Chuprunov, an activist and voting member of Precinct Election Commission No. 1802, reports “Apology of Protest” with reference to lawyer Varvara Mikhailova. Chuprunov was found guilty of disobedience to police officers (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code) on July 1 during the vote on amendments to the Constitution. He was brought to court in handcuffs.

The Instagram account “Emergency Chechnya” published a video in which more than ten men apologize to the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov and the “people” for the behavior of blogger Mamikhan Umarov, name their relatives and admit to his murder. This was reported by the “Caucasian Knot” and “Kavkaz.Realii” . Umarov was shot dead on July 4 in Austria. He lived in Europe and criticized the Chechen authorities.

The former chairman of the Shcherbinovsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory was sentenced to 5.5 years in a maximum security colony in the case of accepting a bribe from police officers in exchange for a guilty verdict. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee. Pravo.ru claims that we are talking about Alexander Turitsyn. A judge was considering a case against a man accused of drug trafficking.

The Moscow department of the Investigative Committee has charged politician Alexei Navalny with defamation of veteran Ignat Artemenko (Part 2 of Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code) due to a tweet in which he is not mentioned. Navalny published the resolution on his website. The case was opened due to a post criticizing the participants in the Russia Today video who supported amendments to the Constitution, among them was a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. “Oh, here they are, my dears.

The Yaroslavl Regional Court released from pre-trial detention center two ex-employees of IK-8 Sardor Ziyabov and Dmitry Nikitenko, accused of abuse of power with the use of violence (Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Public Verdict. They are charged with beating convicts in colony No. 1 in November 2016. Novaya Gazeta published a video in which prisoners were forced to run along a corridor along which more than 10 FSIN officers were lined up.

The Petrozavodsk City Court sentenced the head of the Karelian branch of Memorial, Yuri Dmitriev, to three and a half years in a maximum security colony. This was reported by the press service of the court and a Mediazona correspondent with reference to lawyer Viktor Anufriev. According to Dmitriev’s daughter Ekaterina Klodt, the historian is due to be released on November 12. Anufriev gave the same assessment.

The Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg sentenced 18-year-old resident of Bashkiria Bogdan Kolodyazhnov to five and a half years in prison on charges of participating in the Islamic State and recruiting classmates. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the lawyer of the convicted person, Igor Uporov. The court found that the student joined ISIS by subscribing to a group on VKontakte and recruited classmates by sending them screenshots of correspondence.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Orenburg Region opened a criminal case regarding the beating of Novotroitsk resident Igor Tarasov by a police officer. This was reported by the Committee against Torture. According to Tarasov, at night at the end of March 2018, there was a knock on his apartment. He approached the door, but since the stranger did not introduce himself, he did not open it.

journalist The Bell Katya Arenina said on Twitter that an expert on the television club “What? Where? When?" Mikhail Skipsky molested her when she was 15 years old. “When I was 15 years old, my then geography teacher and still the star of the ChGK, Misha Skipsky, pestered me, tried to kiss me, touched me, and called me to his home,” the journalist wrote.

The head of North Ossetia, Vyacheslav Bitarov, filed a claim for 1 million rubles against the local publication Svobodny Vzglyad because of critical articles by editor-in-chief Madina Sageeva. This was reported by the Osnova publication. The case file was published on the website of the Leninsky Court of Vladikavkaz. Bitarov demands to “stop publishing negative information” about him in the future and delete articles with criticism.

An ambulance medic from Tver, Oleg Grek, said that security forces forcibly took him for questioning to the Kuban village of Kanevskaya because of a repost on the VKontakte public page, the reports . Caucasian Knot On July 15, Grek returned home after his shift in the ambulance and was about to go to bed, but then three security officers came to him with a search warrant.

Alexey Navalny during searches in the office of the FBK, 2019. Photo: Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / TASS “Unidentified persons” through ATMs put money on the account of the Fund for Combating Corruption. The investigation considered this to the legalization of criminal proceeds. During the year of investigation, the security forces conducted about 150 searches throughout the country and blocked at least 192 accounts.

An alleged accomplice in the murder of Moscow region investigator Evgenia Shishkina, 23-year-old Ivan Kochetkov, was arrested in Georgia. This was reported by the BBC Russian Service. According to investigators, Kochetkov spied Shishkina several times near her house in the village of Arkhangelskoye and reported information to hacker Yaroslav Sumbaev. The investigation calls him the mastermind of the murder.