Retired GRU officer Oleg Pulatov, accused in the case of the crash of flight MH17 in Donbass, explained to the Hague court the mention of the Buk anti-aircraft missile system over the phone as a desire to mislead the enemy. This was reported by the Russian BBC service. At the court hearing in the Netherlands, a video recording of Pulatov being questioned by his lawyers was shown. As the publication notes, this is his first public appearance.

Maria Pevchikh, an employee of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), said that her grandmothers have been harassed for the second month and asked about the departure of politician Alexei Navalny. about this She wrote on the “Investigation Department” Twitter account. According to Pevchikh, on November 3, unknown people came to her grandmothers’ home. One of the people introduced themselves as police officers, the other as Interpol employees.

A court in the Moscow region arrested Vladislav Marugov, a suspect in the murder of the owner of the Meat Empire company, RIA Novosti reports , citing Olga Vradiy, a representative of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region. The 49-year-old suspect was detained on November 2, the day after the murder. The man was found because he bought the crossbow from which Marugov was shot, the Investigative Committee noted. According to Baza , the suspect's name is Alexander Mavridi.

A resident of the Stavropol city of Mikhailovsk, Sergei Moiseev , told the local publication Newstracker that police officers mocked him in the department after arresting him for not wearing a mask in a store. Moiseev was detained in a city supermarket on November 1 after an argument with a security guard over a requirement to wear a mask, Newstracker reported . Footage of the arrest shows three unmasked police officers pinning a citizen to the floor.

The Ministry of Health of the Altai Territory began an inspection after the death of the acting Head of the intensive care unit of Barnaul City Hospital No. 10 Yuri Kochetov. This is reported on the ministry's website. Kochetov’s wife Elena told Podem that the doctor became infected with the coronavirus and felt unwell, but continued to work until the end. “He said that he had already completed almost all the treatment, he gave himself antibiotics.

The Krasnogorsk City Court of the Moscow Region sentenced policeman Spartak Sevumyan to four years in prison for abuse of power for beating detainee Boris Martynov. This was reported by the Committee against Torture. Martynov said that he and three friends were detained in the fall of 2018, when they were using heroin in the forest near Krasnogorsk, and severely beaten. The police wanted to know who bought the heroin.

The Kukmorsky District Court of Tatarstan arrested two people in the case of 16-year-old Vitaly Antipov, who threw Molotov cocktails into the parking lot of a local police department and wounded a policeman with a knife. This was reported by Business Online with reference to the press service of the court. They are suspected of attempted terrorist attack (part 3 of article 30, part 1 of article 205 of the Criminal Code).

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced Anton Davkov, who replaced his escaped friend Alexander Pogrebnyakov in Rostov pre-trial detention center-5, to two years in prison. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the press service of the court. Davkov was found guilty of forgery of documents (Part 4 of Article 327 of the Criminal Code) and complicity in escaping from prison (Part 5 of Article 33, Part 1 of Article 313 of the Criminal Code).

A 45-year-old man will be tried in Kurgan for drowning his 42-year-old wife in a basin after an argument. This was reported by the local department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, on the evening of August 31, the accused quarreled with his wife, grabbed her head and dunked her several times in a basin of water in the yard. The woman choked and died. The man was accused of murder (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code) and sent to a pre-trial detention center.

The 1st Eastern District Military Court fined Omsk military officer Vladimir Permenev 400 thousand rubles under the article on justifying terrorism due to a comment about the shooting of Muslims in mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch. this with reference to the Omsk department of the FSB.

Employees of the Federal Security Service and the Foreign Intelligence Service will be able to obtain second citizenship and residence permits in other countries with the permission of their leaders. This is stated in the bill adopted by the State Duma on October 28 , the provisions of which drew the attention of Vedomosti.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Crimean residents Rustem Emiruseinov, Arsen Abkhairov and Eskender Abdulganiev to terms of 17, 13 and 12 years in prison, with the first two years served in a Hizb ut-Tahrir prison. This was reported by the press service of the court. The investigation believes that Emiruseinov organized the activities of a cell of the recognized terrorist Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir in Crimea in 2017-2019. In 2017, Abhairov and Abdulganiev joined this cell.

The Moscow Department of the Investigative Committee opened a case against a 29-year-old soldier of the second operational regiment of the capital's Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and a pensioner. This was reported by the Moscow agency, citing a source in law enforcement agencies. According to investigators, in June a police officer quarreled with a woman in an apartment on Leninsky Prospekt, pushed her against the back of the sofa and handcuffed her to a gas pipe.

Georgy Borovikov at a rally of nationalists on Bolotnaya Square, 2011. Photo: Alexey Kudenko / RIA Novosti In the fall, work on the prevention of extremism in schools and universities has sharply activated in Russia. Mediazona recognized in one of the lecturers in George Borovikov, the odious leader of the group of Russian nationalists, who had served the deadline for holding his associate in slavery.

Human rights organizations sent a letter to Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev asking him to develop and implement risk assessment and management protocols to prevent recurrences of domestic violence. This was reported to Mediazona in the Law Zone.