The Third Court of Cassation banned walks for 80-year-old scientist Valery Mitko, who is under house arrest in a treason case (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). this with reference to lawyer Anton Golubev. reports Interfax Deputy Prosecutor General Igor Tkachev asked in court for a ban on two-hour walks for the scientist.

On Sakhalin, police officers will be given memos about the five-year work of United Russia before the elections. This is reported by Znak.com with reference to a document from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, its photograph is provided by Sakhalin.info . The document was signed by the head of the department for work with personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Sakhalin Region, Sergei Stakhiv, and sent it to the heads of other local police units.

A criminal case was opened against a resident of Novosibirsk under an article on intentional infliction of mild health (Article 115 of the Criminal Code) for beating a 7-year-old son of a cohabitant with a cord of an electric kettle. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the department. On August 3, the neighbors drew attention to the wounds on the child’s body and turned to the police. The boy was sent to the rehabilitation center for minors.

In Kaliningrad, a former police officer from the department for combating economic crimes was sentenced to 11 years of maximum security in a case of giving and receiving bribes. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. The defendant was found guilty of giving a bribe to an official (Part 3 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code) and receiving a bribe (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code).

Igor Kalyapin. Photo: Christina Kormilitsyna / Kommersant The Nizhny Novgorod prosecutor’s office is trying to attract a member of the HRC and the head of the “Committee against torture” Igor Kalyapin to administrative responsibility for cooperation with the Czech human rights organization “Man in Beda”, recognized as “undesirable” in 2019.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Nikolai the Ninth to 4.5 years in a general regime colony, accused of using violence against security forces (Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) at a January rally in support of politician Alexei Navalny. This was reported by Fontanka with reference to his lawyer Vladimir Tereshchenko and the press service of the city courts. In addition, the court satisfied two claims of victims for 150 thousand rubles.

The Leninsky District Court of Saratov arrested an employee of police department No. 4 in a rape case (Part 1 of Article 131 of the Criminal Code). this to Vzglyad-info and the Fourth Estate . The press service of the court reported The 18-year-old victim said that on the evening of July 20, she was called there for a preventative conversation, after which the 33-year-old beat and raped her in the detention room. The man was detained on August 3.

In Tatarstan, three prisoners were forced to repair a sewer system and were poisoned by gases. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to preliminary data, employees of IK-5, threatening violence, forced three convicts without special skills and equipment to repair a well and lay sewer pipes in the colony. While cleaning the sewer, prisoners were poisoned by ammonia gases, the release said.

In St. Petersburg, on charges of attempted drugs, a policeman was detained. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to Fontanka, we are talking about the 32-year-old duty officer 43 of the police department of the Petrograd district, senior lieutenant Alexei Zavorotko.

The Kizlyar City Court sentenced a former police officer to five years in a general regime colony for refusing to register a report of rape and taking a bribe from the attacker. this with reference to the press service of the court. reports RIA Dagestan As the court found, in July 2018, a police officer in the Babayurt district refused to register a report of rape. He demanded a bribe of 1.5 million rubles from the attacker and promised to cover up the crime.

The publication MBKH Media announced the cessation of work due to claims from the Prosecutor General's Office. “I am not ready to jeopardize the freedom and lives of other people. Mikhail Khodorkovsky too. The MBKH Media project is being closed,” wrote the project’s editor-in-chief Veronica Kutsillo.

An employee of the prosecutor's office, during the debate in the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow, asked that Alexei Navalny's associate Nikolai Lyaskin be sentenced in a “sanitary case” in the form of two years of restriction of freedom. This is stated on the oppositionist's Twitter. As in the case of another defendant in the “sanitary case,” Lyubov Sobol, he was asked to prohibit leaving the house from 10 p.m. to 6 p.m., as well as leaving Moscow.

Illustration: Arina Istomin / Mediazone On July 29, an absurd story took place in Sochi. On that day, three came to the Investigative Committee for the next interrogation: a beaten -one and a half years ago in the police department Rada Karamov and her two lawyers. However, instead of the investigator Eduard Boyko already familiar to him, an unknown man was sitting at the table, who tried to convince visitors that he was Boyko. And then a real (and unperturbed) briskly appeared in the office.

Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the “Profession – Journalist” award for journalists, established by businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky. attention to this . drew The Roskomsvoboda project According to the Roskomsvoboda register, the site was blocked yesterday at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office. On August 4, at the request of the prosecutor’s office, were also blocked .

The Open Media publication announced on its Telegram channel that it had stopped working after its website was blocked on August 4 at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office.