Alena Druzhinina, a doctor at a network of Moscow clinics, became a suspect in a criminal case regarding surrogacy. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta with reference to Kaloy Akhilgov, a lawyer for the surrogacy holding company Sweetchild . He said that on the morning of July 19, the doctor’s office was searched. She was taken to the Investigative Committee, where she was interrogated as a witness, and then as a suspect.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court overturned the sentence of the 25-year-old son of National Guard Colonel Vladimir Vasiliev, who received nine years and three months in prison, and sent the case of an accident with two deaths for a new trial. This is by E1.ru. reported The accident occurred early in the morning on August 4, 2019. According to investigators, art student Vasiliev took the keys to a friend’s car at a party and got behind the wheel drunk.

Illustration: Maria Tolstova / Mediazone Studying the certificates issued by the “public services”, “Mediazon”, “Cold” and “Medusa” found that in the register of the Ministry of Health created to track the number of coronavirus, more than 29 million records are five times more than the operational headquarters officially reports.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, fired the head of the Stavropol Regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, General Sergei Shchetkin, after the detention of the head of the regional traffic police department, Alexei Safonov. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Former Ivanovo police officer Alexander Rimsky was charged with insulting a security officer (Part 1 of Article 319 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to Rimsky himself. According to investigators, the human rights project notes, after being detained at a rally on April 21, Rimsky “obscenely insulted” a police officer.

St. Petersburg deputy Maxim Reznik refused to participate in the elections to the Legislative Assembly for the 21st district of the city. This was reported on his telegram channel. “Last week we received a second refusal from the investigator to visit a notary. Brazenly violating the ruling of the Constitutional Court and my right to be elected, the punishers leave me no chance to begin collecting signatures in support of self-nomination.

The Moscow City Court reduced the sentence of Pavel Green-Romanov, a participant in the January protests, by six months, who received 3.5 years on charges of assaulting a security officer (Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to lawyer Artem Nemov. The Moscow Meshchansky Court sentenced Green-Romanov on April 9. The prosecutor's office demanded that he be sent to prison for eight years.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) has approved the procedure for electronic voting for the State Duma elections in September. This was reported in the CEC broadcast, the transcript of which is provided by the Law agency. In addition to Moscow, a remote plebiscite will also be held in the Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl regions - electronic voting has already been carried out in these regions.

View of the Moscow International Business Center "Moscow City", August 2010. Photo: Maxim Shemetov / TASS Forests in Russia are burning every year, but the summer of 2010 was remembered by many as unprecedentedly heavy. For a month, Moscow was shrouded in smog from burning peat bogs. The authorities could not cope with the elements and silent the real scale of the problem, and volunteers fought with fire, who took over the functions of rescuers, social services and the media.

In the Stavropol region, the head of the local traffic police department, Alexei Safonov, was detained. this Deputy Alexander Khinshtein reports without citing a source. Sources from RIA Novosti and TASS confirm the detention of the security officer. “Safonov was detained on suspicion of corruption and official crimes. Investigative actions are being carried out with him,” said a TASS interlocutor in law enforcement agencies.

The Svobodnensky City Court imposed real sentences on nine workers of the Amur Gas Processing Plant in the case of mass riots (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

member Pussy Riot Alexander Sofeev left Russia due to the systematic arrests of actionists. about this . He told Dozhd “If there is a choice between a wonderful second special detention center and a vacation on the sea coast, then I am inclined to choose the second option,” Sofeev noted. He is not going to “abandon Russia forever” and hopes that “groundless arrests” will stop after the September State Duma elections.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for the murder of a resident of the Smolensk region (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code) against Private Alan Dartai-ool. This was reported on the website of the Main Military Investigation Department. According to investigators, on July 18, in the city of Yelnya, a private, due to “suddenly arising” hostility, hit an unfamiliar man twice on the head with a stone picked up on the road. He died on the way to the hospital.