The Syktyvkar City Court sentenced Viktor Polovnikov, the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Komi, to nine years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 14.5 million rubles in the case of and. This was reported by the press service of the court. Polovnikov was also banned from working in law enforcement for five years.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Saratov Region opened a criminal case of sexual violence against a prisoner in the local tuberculosis hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service No. 1 (clause “a” of Part 2 of Article 132 of the Criminal Code). this .

The head of the Saratov department of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Alexey Fedotov, resigned after the publication of a video of torture of prisoners in the tuberculosis hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service No. 1 in Saratov. This was reported by Interfax, citing an “informed” source, and Vzglyad-info, citing sources in the Public Monitoring Committee. “Fedotov wrote a resignation letter. He is currently on vacation, from which he may not return to work,” Interfax’s source said.

Maxim Ivankin. Photo: David Frenkel / Mediazone Maxim Ivankin. Photo: David Frenkel / Mediazone The convicted person, Maxim Ivankin, said that in the hospital at the Vladimir IK-3, other prisoners forced him to write a confession in the case of murder under Ryazan. Excerpts from his survey by lawyers laid out the New Gazeta. “Immediately when I was taken to the hospital, I was met by the Reds (activists from among the prisoners),” said Ivankin.

For the first time, Roskomnadzor drew up a protocol against Facebook under the article on repeated failure to delete publications, which implies negotiable fines (Part 5 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code). this The supervisory agency reported to TASS. Yesterday, Roskomnadzor called representatives of the corporation to draw up a protocol and after the meeting reported that 1,043 materials had still not been removed from Facebook at their request, and 973 from Instagram, which it owns.

The Novocheboksarsk City Court of Chuvashia fined the head of Alexey Glukhov five thousand rubles under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization” (20.33 of the Administrative Code). The human rights activist himself told Mediazona about this. against Glukhov In total, nine protocols were drawn up for this article due to Facebook posts and a tweet from 2016-2017 with links to the Open Russia website. For each he was fined five thousand rubles.

The Central District Court of Chelyabinsk recovered 2 million 179 thousand rubles from five local activists for police work at the January rallies. This was reported by the human rights organization “Apology of Protest” with reference to lawyer Andrei Lepekhin.

The Nizhny Novgorod prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit in the regional court demanding to ban the unregistered interregional association "Men's State". Mediazona found a case file on the court’s website. The press service of the court confirmed to a Mediazona correspondent the existence of a lawsuit related to the “Male State.” As the press service clarified, the prosecutor’s office demands that the “Male State” be recognized as an extremist organization.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to establish a “reasonable” period of undesirability for comedian Idrak Mirzalizadeh to stay in Russia instead of life. This was announced by lawyer Sergei Badamshin, who represents the interests of the stand-up comedian.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Irkutsk arrested several Jehovah's Witnesses in the case of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). This will be reported on the court's website. The release did not say how many people were arrested.

The Federal Penitentiary Service began an investigation after the publication of a video of torture from prison tuberculosis hospital No. 1 in Saratov. this with reference to the department's press service. reports Interfax “A video recording of illegal actions against an unidentified man was published on the Internet. The author of the publication claims that this video recording was made at the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Saratov Region,” the message says.

In Kazan, on the night of October 4, the building of the fourth department for investigating particularly important cases of the Investigative Committee for Tatarstan was robbed. reported this with reference to sources Tatar-inform and Komsomolskaya Pravda . Several masked men approached the building on Karl Marx Street at night, covered the surveillance camera and broke open the door.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a case of knowingly false report of a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code) against a 61-year-old pensioner from Lebedyan, reports the department’s department for the Lipetsk region. According to investigators, the woman called 112 and said that she was “ready to blow up her entrance if they didn’t turn on the heating for her.” Security forces inspected the building and found no explosive devices.

In Novosibirsk, a criminal case was brought to court against three employees of a city psychiatric hospital, accused of stealing 6 million rubles from patients. this The regional prosecutor's office reports . According to investigators, in 2016-2019, employees took advantage of the “mental state of patients who have lost relatives and social connections” and stole more than 6 million rubles from their bank cards. A total of 12 people were injured.

A representative of Roskomnadzor told Vedomosti that Facebook removed content deemed prohibited on the social network of the same name and on Instagram . The newspaper’s interlocutor added that the corporation still faces a fine of one tenth of turnover, since by law the prohibited content had to be removed within 24 hours after Roskomnadzor’s request. On September 14, TASS reported that the amount of Facebook fines for refusing to remove prohibited content reached 90 million rubles.