Judge Tatyana Suvorova of the Ramensky City Court arrested until October 17 the video blogger Yan Katelevsky, who covers violations of the security forces, in a case of extortion (Article 163 of the Criminal Code). this . report Katelevsky's associates At the end of July, Katelevsky was detained and sent into custody on charges of intentional destruction or damage to property (Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code).

The administration of Moscow pre-trial detention center-2 “Lefortovo” twice refused to allow his lawyer Svetlana Baiturina to visit blogger Andrei Pyzh. this in his Telegram channel . announced The head of Agora, Pavel Chikov, Baiturina tried to get to her client on August 12 and 18, but FSIN officers demanded permission from the investigator to do so. The investigator in charge of the case from the FSB Moscow department was unavailable by all means of communication, Chikov noted.

The Krasnoglinsky District Court of Samara declared the first volume of the three-volume Russian-language interpretation of the Koran by theologian Abd al-Rahman al-Saadi extremist. This was reported by Idel.Realii with reference to book publisher Aslambek Ezhaev, whose publishing house Umma published the book. The Samara prosecutor demanded a ban on the first and third volumes of the publication, as well as several other Islamic religious books in June 2018.

In Khabarovsk, the former acting officer was detained. Minister of Transport of the region Mikhail Prokhorov, who resigned after accusations of “sabotage” from the acting. Governor Mikhail Degtyarev. This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee. Prokhorov is suspected of receiving 1.5 million rubles and 50 thousand dollars for his appointment as a manager in an enterprise under his jurisdiction (Part 6, Article 290 of the Criminal Code).

President Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov announced that Belarus currently has no need for Russian military assistance. Meduza reports this.

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to expel a Russian embassy employee for “actions that do not correspond to the status of a diplomat.” A statement by the press secretary of the Ministry of Labor, Mosaide, is quoted by newspaper the Aftenposten . On Saturday, August 15, the country's police security service detained an employee of a Norwegian company involved in Nord Stream 2 in Oslo.

The Supreme Court of Crimea sentenced ex-policeman Alexander Lesnov and former special forces soldiers Sergei Staroseltsev and Nikolai Pukhov, whom the jury again found guilty of attacking investigator from Alushta Konstantin Giryakov, to three years in a general regime colony. this . reported The press service of the court In August 2019, the court already sentenced them to three years in prison, but the prosecutor’s office appealed the decision, and the case was sent for a new trial.

The Kalininsky District Court of Tyumen sentenced the head of correctional colony No. 1, Igor Chursin, to 8 years in a maximum security colony in the case of prisoners. This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee. The head of a maximum security men's colony was detained by FSB officers in June last year. He was accused of receiving 100 thousand rubles from two prisoners for accommodation in a separate “apartment” located in the IK-1 workshop.

A criminal case about state secrets of blogger Andrei Pyzh was opened because of data about the Moscow metro. this TASS reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. “He is charged with transporting data into the territory of Ukraine related to metro lines in Moscow, as well as underground transport structures for mobilization purposes,” the agency’s source explained.