The Ostankino District Court of Moscow arrested Igor Nazarov and Alexey Alekseev, detectives of the drug control department for the South-Eastern District, who were extorting money under the threat of opening a drug case. this TASS reports with reference to the press service of the court. The security forces were arrested until February 8, 2021. It is not said under what article the preventive measure was chosen for them.

Deputies of the council of the village of Novoomsky in the Omsk region elected school watchman Nadezhda Chekmareva as head of the village. This was reported by New Omsk. Chekmareva opposed the current head of Novoomsky, Artur Len, who held his post and was elected for a fourth term. As Alexander Dozhdikov, a deputy of the settlement council, told the publication, six people voted for the watchman, and four voted for Len.

In the Kaliningrad Regional Court, the jury acquitted the acting chief physician of maternity hospital No. 4 Elena Belaya and neonatologist Elina Sushkevich of murder of a minor and forgery of documents. This was reported by New Kaliningrad. As a Mediazona correspondent notes, five members of the board acquitted the doctors, three found them guilty. According to investigators , in November 2018, in maternity hospital No.

In the Leningrad region, a criminal case was opened against the deputy of the Lebyazhensky settlement from United Russia, Evgeny Budaev, and his friend Shamil for the theft of rails for a sawmill. This was reported by the press service of the North-West Department of the Investigative Committee for Transport. A case of attempted theft was opened against the friends (part 3 of article 30, paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 158 of the Criminal Code).

The Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service has accused two Russian diplomats of espionage. This is stated on the department's website.

In Russia, 22,571 patients with coronavirus died in October. The corresponding report is available on the Rosstat website. According to published data, the virus as the main cause of death was recorded in 11,630 deaths. For another 2,266 Russians, coronavirus is suspected to be the main cause of death, but additional research needs to be done to confirm.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Treasury, as part of the Magnitsky list, imposed sanctions against the Akhmat football club and the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation. This is stated on the ministry's website. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was included in the “Magnitsky list” in 2017.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin misspoke when he linked the case of former Kommersant correspondent Ivan Safronov with his work at Roscosmos. His words are quoted by TASS.

Participants in the rally with Azerbaijani flags, which took place on Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, were banned from entering Russia, reports without specifying sources of information. Fontanka The court banned nine Azerbaijanis from entering Russia for three years, and one for five years. Foreigners also had their residence permits and temporary residence permits revoked due to violations of immigration laws.

The court in Tula arrested until February 8 an 18-year-old resident of the city, whom the FSB suspects of preparing an attack on an unnamed educational institution. This was reported to TASS in the regional prosecutor's office. The department reported on the detention of a teenager yesterday. He was seized with a cut of a hunting rifle and a technique in which there was information about the Columbine, the FSB stated.

Elena Belaya in the Kaliningrad Regional Court. Photo: Mikhail Golenkov / RIA Novosti In the Kaliningrad Regional Court, the jury issued an acquittal in the case of doctors Elena Bely and Elin Sushkevich, who were accused of killing a deeply premature baby. Hearing with the participation of the jury lasted from August, neither Sushkevich nor white plead guilty. "Mediazona" talks about the key moments of the process that caused a huge resonance in the medical community.

In Moscow, activists of the “Other Russia of E.V. Limonov” Timofey Filin and Maria Mozhova were detained near the Kazakh embassy, ​​reports “Apology of Protest”.

President Vladimir Putin said that former Yukos oil chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky "indirectly" admitted guilt in a letter before being pardoned in 2013. His speech at the Human Rights Council meeting was broadcast by RIA Novosti. “In my opinion, it is in the law that a person must admit his guilt, otherwise, if he does not admit his guilt...,” Putin said, discussing the amnesty. "No, Vladimir Vladimirovich, Khodorkovsky did not admit guilt, you pardoned him.

President Vladimir Putin said that the criminal prosecution of former Kommersant correspondent Ivan Safronov concerns not his journalistic work, but his work as an adviser to the head of Roscosmos. His speech at the HRC meeting is broadcast by RIA Novosti. “I remembered what it was about.

President Vladimir Putin instructed his administration to study in more detail the bills on “foreign agents.” He gave the corresponding instructions during a meeting with the Human Rights Council; the meeting was broadcast by RIA Novosti. This request was made by the executive secretary of the Human Rights Council of St. Petersburg, Natalya Evdokimova.