28 Gypsies accused in the case of a mass brawl in Chemodanovka went on a hunger strike at a hearing in the Penza Regional Court, Takiye Dela writes with reference to the president of the regional public organization “Sails of Hope”, the Gypsy baron Andrei Arshinovich Ogly. This happened during a meeting to extend the arrest - the court left the defendants in pre-trial detention until October 6.

The Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court found Igor Novikov, known under the name Novik, guilty of occupying the highest position in the criminal hierarchy (Article 210 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced him to 10 years in a maximum security colony. This was reported by the joint press service of the regional courts. Evidence of his guilt included tattoos, recordings of telephone conversations, correspondence and objects with “thieves’” symbols.

The prosecutor's office of the Central District of St. Petersburg has withdrawn its claim to block three articles about bullying of LGBT teenagers on the website due to lack of evidence. The organization told Mediazona about this. “The subject of the prosecutor’s office’s initial complaint against the site was precisely these three articles, since they saw in them the promotion of non-traditional relationships (among minors).

The Federal Bailiff Service opened cases against Yulia Shestun and her father Nikolai Alekseev under the article on illegal actions in relation to property subject to inventory or seizure or subject to confiscation (Part 1 of Article 312 of the Criminal Code). Shestun herself told Mediazona about this. According to Yulia Shestun, we are talking about cars whose owners were listed as her and her father.

In Yekaterinburg, traffic police officers drew up two reports against a 20-year-old girl about riding an electric scooter without a license and riding on the sidewalk (Part 1 of Article 12.7, Part 2 of Article 12.15 of the Administrative Code). This is stated on the website of the city department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Perovsky District Court of Moscow imposed a fine of 150 thousand on the head of the Nasiliyu.net center, Anna Rivina, under the law on “foreign agents” (Part 1 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). This was reported with reference to the international human rights group Agora. Rivina is appealing this decision. The Violence.net center, which helps survivors of domestic violence, was recognized as a “foreign agent” in December 2020.

The Moscow City Court reduced the sentence of ex-cameraman Pavel Zelensky, convicted in the case of calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), by one month. This was reported by the wife of the convicted person, Natalia Zelenskaya, on Twitter.

In Moscow, Anton Berezhnoy, a defendant in the case of the murder of gay Roman Edalov at the Kursky railway station, escaped from the Basmanny District Court during a break. This was reported by the LGBT group “Stimul” with reference to lawyer Artem Lapov; The information was confirmed by the press service of the court.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill that will oblige large Internet companies to open representative offices in Russia. This was reported on the website of the lower house of parliament. A company with a daily audience of 500 thousand people is considered large. Roskomnadzor will maintain a register of such resources.

Security forces detained three residents of the Moscow region in connection with the murder of pensioners for the sake of apartments. This was reported by the local department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, since 2016, the suspects have been finding lonely pensioners in Elektrostal, getting them drunk and transferring their apartments to themselves. Former property owners were taken to the forest and abandoned there.

The Supreme Court of Crimea sentenced the Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Refat Chubarov, in absentia to 6 years in a general regime colony on charges of organizing riots (Part 1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code). this . reported The press service of the court According to the Investigative Committee, Chubarov organized a rally in Simferopol on February 25, 2014 near the building of the Crimean Parliament, the Supreme Council.

The VEB.rf state corporation will allocate 97 billion rubles to the regions for the installation of a safe city video recording system that collects information about incidents using various programs. It is reported by Kommersant. Web.rf, together with Rostelecom and Rostec, developed a scheme for financing the Safe City project in the regions.

The St. Petersburg City Court overturned a fine of 10 thousand rubles to TJournal editor Artem Mazanov, who was detained at the rally on January 31. about this . TJournal told Varvara Mikhailova, lawyer for “Apology of Protest,” “In general, we were waiting for such a decision; there are many errors in my case that the court of first instance ignored,” Mazanov noted.

President Vladimir Putin introduced a bill that would transfer to the Prosecutor General's Office the powers of the Ministry of Justice to represent Russia in the ECHR. The amendments were published on the website of the Lower House. “The Office of the Prosecutor General provides representation and protection of [Russia’s] interests in the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Economic Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States,” the draft says.