The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for evasion of alternative service (Part 2 of Article 328 of the Criminal Code) against the former head of Navalny’s Volgograd headquarters, Evgeny Kochegin. This was reported on the Instagram of the “Your Watch” movement, founded by Kochegin. The oppositionist considers the criminal case to be politically motivated and connects it with his speeches against fraud in the September State Duma elections.

Former employee of Navalny’s St. Petersburg headquarters, Alexander Gonzurevsky, stopped communicating after returning to Moscow. His friend and former head of the Krasnodar headquarters Anastasia Panchenko spoke about this. “In the afternoon he managed to write that he landed at Vnukovo airport. Since then, his phone has been turned off and he has not been in touch,” notes . In a conversation with Novaya Gazeta, Panchenko clarified that Gonzurevsky flew to Russia from Hurghada.

The Krasnogorsk City Court of the Moscow Region sentenced retired army colonel and left-wing activist Mikhail Shendakov to three years probation in the case of a call to cut off the balls of security forces. about this Shendakov himself told YouTube channel the RusNews . The prosecutor's office demanded that Shendakov be sentenced to five years in prison. He was found guilty of inciting hatred with the threat of violence (clause “a” of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

The Moscow City Court has recognized express testing of students in capital schools for coronavirus as legal. this with reference to the press service of the court. reports Interfax “The Moscow City Court rejected the claim of the legal representative of the minor to invalidate the order for the early detection of COVID-19 using a rapid test in educational organizations in Moscow,” the court said.

A report was drawn up on The Insider for violating the law on “foreign agents.” Mediazona found this information in the court file. The protocol on the article on violation of legal requirements for the media - “foreign agents” (Part 1 of Article 19.34.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) was received today, November 17, by the Tagansky District Court of Moscow. It is unknown what became the reason for the protocol.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow fined Novaya Gazeta and its editor-in-chief for mentioning “foreign agents” without appropriate labeling. attention to this , and the information to Mediazona was confirmed by the court’s press service.

The Prosecutor General's Office asked the State Duma to deprive Communist Party member Valery Rashkin of parliamentary immunity. this TASS reports with reference to the chairman of the lower house of parliament Vyacheslav Volodin. At the end of October, Rashkin was detained at night in a forest in the Saratov region. According to investigators, on the night of October 29, an elk was killed in the Lysogorsk region.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin ordered to reduce the number of migrant construction workers at city construction sites under the renovation program. His words are quoted by the Moscow agency. “People of a different quality [are needed], with a different salary, fewer migrants, of whom you have quite a lot today. Attract more Russians from nearby regions, increase wages, create working conditions <…> Increase labor productivity, mechanization and industrialization of construction.

The Main Radio Frequency Center, subordinate to Roskomnadzor, announced a tender for the creation of an animated video in 3D format for the “implementation of the law “on the sovereign Internet”” and popularization of activities. The documents are published on the government procurement website.

In the Moscow Regional Court, during the detention, they beat the journalist of the publication of Rosotrav, Kirill Borisov. This was reported in the telegram channel by his colleagues. Borisov was detained for shooting in the corridor of the court. The journalist came to a meeting to extend the preventive measure to his colleagues, Jan Kalevsky and Alexander Dorogov. “They began to strangle him to tumble on the floor and shook him into handcuffs,” the report said.

Yesterday in Kazan, 14 people were hospitalized with signs of methanol poisoning. As the investigation established, they confused alcohol with antifreeze, reports . the press service of the Investigative Committee for Tatarstan The department clarified that on the night of November 15-16, 18 young people celebrated the birthday of a friend.

Investigators conducted searches of the vice-rector and financial director of RANEPA Ivan Fedotov and Alexander Efremov in a fraud case. This was reported by RIA Novosti and TASS with reference to sources. The searches were carried out in a case of fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), in which the former deputy head of the Ministry of Education Marina Rakova and the rector of Shaninka Sergei Zuev are already involved, the agencies’ interlocutors noted.

The Abakan city court appointed a conditional term to the local resident Pavel Tyurenev for arson of the vaccination point. This was reported by the press service of the court. The man was found guilty of the destruction of other people's property (part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced to a year and six months of a conditional term.

The Kirovsky District Court of Ufa recovered 529,400 rubles from local activists Liliya Chanysheva, Olga Komleva and Ilgam Yanberdin for police work at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23. this . reports Apology Human rights activists noted that they plan to appeal the decision. Previously, the same court ordered Komleva to pay 1,944,901 rubles for the work of security forces at a similar action that took place on January 31.

In the Omsk region, five security officials were suspected of illegally hunting roe deer. This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, on the night of November 11, near the village of Shorino, game managers detained six hunters, and found the carcasses of roe deer and weapons in their car. Moreover, only two had vouchers to hunt roe deer. The detainees denied that they were hunting in the Zaozerny nature reserve.