On June 16, the Klintsovsky City Court of the Bryansk Region replaced Evgeniy Kovalenko, convicted in the “Moscow case,” with correctional labor for the unserved part of his sentence, and he was released. This is reported by the Arresters 212 project. “Evgeniy has already returned home and met with his mother,” the message says. In September 2019, Kovalenko was sentenced to three and a half years in prison in the case of a clash with police at a protest on July 27, 2019 in Moscow.

In Moscow, on Pokrovka Street, a policeman attacked Mediazona correspondent Nikita Sologub, who filmed how a security officer pressed the head of a handcuffed detainee between the legs. The journalist said that when he took a photo and approached the police, an officer with badge No. 011241 grabbed his thumb and demanded that he delete the photos, while threatening to break the correspondent’s hand.

Roskomnadzor warned of the upcoming blocking of the services Hola!VPN, ExpressVPN, KeepSolid VPN Unlimited, Nord VPN, Speedify VPN and IPVanish VPN . This is reported on the department's website. Nord VPN and ExpressVPN regularly top the list of best VPN services. Russian companies that use these VPNs can notify the supervisory authority about this in order to continue working with the services.

Former director of “Navalny LIVE ” Alexei Yakovlev was detained on a plane at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport and taken for questioning to the Investigative Committee in a fraud case. about this . Yakovlev himself told Open Media Yakovlev was detained when his flight landed at Sheremetyevo. The director is in the status of a witness. Yakovlev clarified that the investigator tried to call him for questioning by phone, but he demanded to send a subpoena.

The Prosecutor General's Office recognized four organizations from Great Britain and France, including the Khodorkovsky Foundation and the Oxford Russian Foundation. This is stated on the website of the supervisory agency. We are also talking about the British Future of Russia Foundation and the French European Choice . “Their activities pose a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order and security of Russia,” the prosecutor’s office believes.

YouTube has limited access in Russia to an interview with musician Andrei Makarevich on Ksenia Sobchak’s channel; the video page states that the content is "blocked at the request of government authorities." The press service of Roskomnadzor reported that this was done following a complaint from the Ministry of Internal Affairs about “propaganda of narcotic drugs” in the video. The department did not say what words caused their complaints.

The Moscow Arbitration Court ordered Dozhd to remove from its website and refute a fragment from its broadcast in which the expert discussed the words of the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin. this The channel's editors reported . The court also ordered the channel to reimburse the state company 22 thousand rubles in state duty, and the host of the evening broadcast, Denis Kataev, 4 thousand rubles.

The Sixth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction in Samara overturned the verdict of police officers from Nizhnekamsk in the case of Ilnaz Pirkin, who committed suicide after being tortured at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This was reported to Mediazona in the Law Zone. The court decided to return the case for a new trial. Also, a private ruling was issued against the judge who passed the sentence in cassation, human rights activists specified.

The Moscow City Court reduced the term of arrest of municipal deputy and Pussy Riot member Lucy Stein by 45 minutes. Lawyer Maria Eismont reported this to Mediazona. “This is a formality. They recalculated the time of detention: the court indicated one thing, but in fact the detention [happened] earlier. In fact, they even miscounted because the report was at 13 something about delivery, and the report about detention was at 14:15.

The Central District Court of Krasnoyarsk imposed a 1.5-year suspended sentence on 23-year-old Vitaly Berdnikov, accused of using violence against a police officer at a rally on January 23 (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). Open Media was told about this in court.

In Saratov, the investigation into the case of a 46-year-old man who killed an acquaintance for domestic violence was completed. This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to the department, on April 16, he left the colony, and on April 18, while drinking in the company of “casual acquaintances,” he asked one of the women about the bruises on her body and learned that her 44-year-old partner was beating her.

A former policeman will be tried in Surgut in the case of torture of four detainees. This was reported by the regional department of the UK. As stated in the release, the 32-year-old operational duty officer of one of the Surgut police departments beat them several times “out of personal hostility” towards the detainees. A case was opened against the security officer for abuse of office (Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code).

The Moscow City Court extended the detention of former Kommersant correspondent Ivan Safronov, accused of treason, until October 7 (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the journalist's support group. Safronov has been in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center since his arrest on July 7, 2020.

The Kuntsevo District Court of Moscow fined Denis Shenderovich, a municipal deputy of the Kuntsevo district, 25 thousand rubles for a video from the January 23 rally on Instagram. spoke about this The deputy himself and Apology of Protest . The court found him guilty of organizing a rally without approval (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) due to the fact that the deputy posted a video clip of demonstrators a few hours after the start of the rally.

The Engelssky District Court of the Saratov Region ordered a ban on certain actions by policeman Denis Arzhanov, accused of injuring a person with a boat motor. This was reported by the Moscow Interregional Transport Directorate of the Investigative Committee. The investigation demanded that Arzhanov be sent to a pre-trial detention center, but the prosecutor and the judge did not support this request, the department clarified.