Department of Transport employees who were fired after the publication of the database of Alexei Navalny’s supporters told Dozhd that their superiors explained their layoffs by instructions from the head of the department, Maxim Liksutov.

The prosecutor's office demanded that left-wing blogger and politician Nikolai Platoshkin, accused of inciting mass riots (Part 1.1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code) and fake news (Article 207 of the Criminal Code) be sentenced to six years in prison. This was reported on Platoshkin’s telegram channel. against Platoshkin A criminal case was opened in June 2020. He was sent under house arrest. The Human Rights Center recognized Platoshkin as a political prisoner.

Leading specialist of the Moscow City Court media relations department Anastasia Semenova has become the new press secretary of the Moscow City Court. Former press secretary Ulyana Solopova reported this to Mediazona. Semenova, being an employee of the press service, was involved in monitoring social networks. So, in 2019, she took screenshots of comments by Alexei Veresov and Mikhail Kvasov about the judges who sentenced the defendants in the “Moscow case” Pavel Ustinov and Konstantin Kotov.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested 21-year-old Maxim Putov and 20-year-old Suraj Mamedli, who shot down two passers-by on Nevsky Prospekt and beat one of them. This was reported by the press service of the city courts. They are accused of group hooliganism (part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, they were among the group of Petersburgers, who on the night of May 14 rode electric scooters on the pedestrian part of the avenue.

The Moscow City Court commuted lawyer Olga Lukmanova's suspended sentence to three years in a general regime colony in a case of attempted fraud. Interfax was informed about this by the press service of the court. In February, Lukmanova was given a five-year suspended sentence.

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg ordered the Federal News Agency (RIA FAN), associated with businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, to remove statements about the connections of Novaya Gazeta journalist Denis Korotkov with the Islamic State. this The newspaper's editors reported . The court also ordered FAN to keep a refutation of the data on its website for three months after the removal of the statements.

The State Duma in the first reading adopted a bill that would prohibit Russian citizens from participating in the work of “undesirable organizations” abroad. This is stated in the bill card. The amendments themselves do not say what kind of activities abroad we are talking about. Currently, the legislation provides for such organizations only a ban on working in Russia and blocking of Russian accounts.

The Semenovsky District Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region sentenced convict Vladimir Vinogradov to another nine years in prison, who, on behalf of the colony staff, monitored the newcomers and beat one of them, Alexander Kalyakin, to death. This was reported by the Committee against Torture. As the investigation established, the administration of IK-14 sent Vinogradov to detachment No.

The Moscow department of Rospotrebnadzor sealed the Central Children's Store on Lubyanka due to “visitors without masks and gloves” and a lack of disinfectants at the “mass event” (Part 2 of Article 6.3 of the Administrative Code). This is reported on the department's website.

Daria Polyudova. Photo: Personal page Facebook Activist Daria Polyudov was the first in Russia to be convicted of an article on calls for separatism. After two years in the colony, she moved from Novorossiysk to Moscow and created a new left movement. At the beginning of 2020, Polyudova was again in custody - she was accused the second time under the same “separatist” article.

The Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow ordered oppositionists Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Milov to pay 30 thousand rubles each to Yevgeny Prigozhin for a video on “Navalny Live ”, where the businessman was called “scum” and a “freak”. This was reported by Network Freedom with reference to lawyer Valentina Frolova. We are talking about the video “Kamchatka. Irina Slavina. Kyrgyzstan.

The ECHR awarded 4,400 euros in compensation to the former head of the Serpukhov district near Moscow, Alexander Shestun, due to his long stay in a pre-trial detention center. This is stated in the January decision published on the court’s website. Shestun, who held the position since 2003 and spoke about the connections of prosecutors with a casino near Moscow, was arrested in June 2018, before new elections for the head of the Serpukhov region.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov did not see “systematic work” to include independent media in the register of “foreign agents.” this . reports Meduza A journalist for the publication asked Peskov whether they planned to recognize other media as “foreign agents.” The press secretary said that this is not the Kremlin’s responsibility and emphasized that the Justice Ministry acts in accordance with the law. — So you don’t see any systematic work on independent media in this?

State Duma deputies adopted in the first reading a bill that prohibits those citizens who helped extremist and terrorist organizations from participating in elections even before they were banned. The meeting is broadcast on the website of the lower house of parliament. 293 deputies were in favor, 45 were against, and two more abstained. Representatives of the A Just Russia and Communist Party of the Russian Federation factions said during the discussion that they did not support this bill.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Novorossiysk dismissed the case of former Interior Ministry major Alexei Dymovsky, accused of possessing TNT. The Novorossiysk newspaper Our Gazeta reported this; the former policeman himself confirmed the information to Kommersant. He was accused of illegal possession of explosives (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code). Dymovsky was detained in October 2019, when he was carrying a bag with six kilograms of TNT in a taxi.