The government has reduced the threshold for especially large amounts of methadone tenfold - from 1 kilogram to 100 grams, according to a document published on the legal information portal. to this RBC drew attention . The limit for significant methadone has decreased from 0.5 grams to 0.2 grams, and for large methadone - from 2.5 grams to 1 gram. The severity of punishment under narcotic articles of the Criminal Code depends on the amount of drug seized.

Northern Irish flutist from the Aquarium group Brian Finnegan was kept for a day at the airport and was not allowed into Russia, having been expelled from the country, said the band’s frontman Boris Grebenshchikov at a concert at the 1930 Moscow club . this . reports Novaya Gazeta “Yesterday they took his passport at the border, he was detained, he spent a day at the airport, and today he was put on a plane and sent back at his own expense.

More than 20 popular YouTube bloggers demanded the release of Yuri Khovansky, who was arrested on charges of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). The video was published on Khovansky’s channel. “You cannot put pressure on a person to persuade him to make a deal with the investigation.

The prosecutor asked to appoint eight years of a general regime colony Vyacheslav Igumnov in the case of an abandoned fire at a rally on January 23. This was reported to the Moscow Agency in the Tver District Court of Moscow. 22-year-old Igumnov is accused of hooliganism (part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) and the use of violence to the security forces (Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

Egor Prosvirnin. Photo: Personal page on Facebook In Moscow, the ultra -right publicist, founder of the nationalist publication "Sputnik and Pogrom", Yegor Prosvirnin, died. This was reported by TASS , Moscow Komsomolets and politician Roman Uneman with reference to the wife of Prosvirnina Marina Urusova. According to publications, he fell out of the window of the apartment on Tversky Boulevard at the Armenia restaurant.

The Sovetsky District Court of Bryansk sentenced two bloggers to 2 years 3 months and 2 years 6 months in a general regime colony because of a video that “contradicted the moral standards accepted in society.” This was reported by the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Bloggers aged 19 and 20 were found guilty under the article on the production of pornography (clause “a” of part 3 of article 242 of the Criminal Code).

Relatives of the scientist Viktor Kudryavtsev, whom the FSB accused of high treason, advocated for his trial to be held posthumously. This was reported by the human rights association “First Department,” whose lawyers defended Kudryavtsev. In April, Kudryavtsev died at the age of 77.

The Moscow Regional Court sentenced from 5 to 20 years in prison to nine people accused of killing GRU special forces soldier Nikita Belyankin during a street fight. reported this The prosecutor's office and the Investigative Committee . Sergei Khojayan was sentenced to 20 years, and Hamlet and Hrant Hayrapetyan were sentenced to 18 and 17 years in a maximum security colony.

The Kirovsky District Court of Ufa discontinued the administrative case of “foreign agents” against the local ex-coordinator Liliya Chanysheva. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta with reference to lawyer Ramil Gizatullin. Chanysheva was charged with carrying out the activities of a non-profit organization performing the functions of a “foreign agent” that was not included in the register of NGOs-foreign agents (Part 1 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code).

Russian human rights organizations criticized the draft amendments to introduce “torture” into the article of the Criminal Code on “excess of authority”, proposing to make it a separate crime. Their joint appeal was published by the Committee against Torture. a week ago Amendments were made by United Russia members Andrei Klishas and Pavel Krasheninnikov.

Journalist of the BBC Russian Service Andrei Zakharov, included in the register of media outlets as “foreign agents,” said that he noticed that he was being followed in Moscow and left for London. The video ““A club to the head”: what it’s like to be a foreign agent in Russia” was published on the publication’s YouTube channel. “<...> I noticed quite unprecedented surveillance of myself in Moscow and was forced to leave for London, where I am now.

The Moscow City Court extended until April 7 the arrest of journalist Ivan Safronov, whom the FSB accuses of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the joint press service of the city courts. The former correspondent for Kommersant and Vedomosti has been under arrest in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center since July 2020. Shortly before this, he became an adviser to the head of Roscosmos. By November 2021, the investigation into the case was completed .

A court in Tomsk sent a local resident to a pre-trial detention center for two months in connection with the arson of the second Lenta hypermarket. This was reported by the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and RIA Novosti . A case was opened against a Tomsk resident under the article on attempted intentional destruction or damage of property by arson (Part 3 of Article 30; Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code).

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing that he “does not see a trend” in the persecution of Memorial and. His words are quoted .

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg for the second time dismissed the administrative case about “foreign agents” against. This was reported by the Human Rights Fund. As human rights activists noted, the case was dropped due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for bringing to administrative responsibility. The Ministry of Justice included “Humanitarian Action” in the register of NGOs - “foreign agents” in December 2020.