The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for especially large-scale fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) and forgery of official duties (Part 2 of Article 292 of the Criminal Code) against former judge of the Krasnodar Regional Court Elena Khakhaleva, reports with reference to the department. Kommersant According to the highest qualification board of judges, Khakhaleva flew to Yerevan at the end of 2021.

Yandex is looking for buyers for Russian assets - the search engine, mail and Kinopoisk. This was reported by Meduza, citing a source close to Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh and an interlocutor close to the company’s management. “Among potential buyers, according to a source close to Volozh, Sber and Rostec are being considered. A source close to the management of Yandex also heard about Rostec’s interest in these assets,” the publication notes.

The Barguzinsky District Court of Buryatia fined pregnant English teacher Elena Bagaeva 40 thousand rubles for talking to schoolchildren about the war. “People of Baikal” reported this. 31-year-old Bagaeva was found guilty of “discrediting” the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). According to the publication, on March 23, a teacher heard seventh-graders “beginning to talk emotionally” about the war in Ukraine.

The Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Alexander Kononov, deputy chairman of the branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, 40 thousand rubles for anti-war posts. This was reported by the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg. The protocol was drawn up because of three March posts from page Kononov’s VKontakte .

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow sentenced Dmitry Zakharchenko, ex-colonel and head of the “T” department of the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to 16 years in a maximum security colony in a bribery case. this . reports An Interfax correspondent The new sentence was imposed in conjunction with the sentence for the first sentence handed down in 2019. The prosecutor's office asked for 17 years in a maximum security colony.

The State Duma on Wednesday, May 18, will consider a draft resolution banning the exchange of “Nazi criminals.” this with reference to the head of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov. reports RIA Novosti Today, May 17, State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin, during a plenary session of the lower house of parliament, proposed “to do everything to ensure that Nazi criminals are brought to justice.” “Our country treats humanely those who surrender or are captured.

The Prosecutor General's Office asked the Supreme Court to recognize the Azov regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard as a terrorist organization. Interfax was informed about this in court. According to the Supreme Court file , the hearing will be held on May 26. It will be held behind closed doors, the court press service noted.

During the day, the St. Petersburg City Court overturned four cases of “rehabilitation of Nazism” (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the city courts.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sentenced four and four and a half years in prison to Moscow City Hall officials Tatyana Barsukova and Elena Semkina in the case of the death of 14 teenagers on Syamozero in Karelia. This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office. The heads of the department of labor and social protection of the population of the capital government will serve their sentences in a general regime colony.

The Yakut City Court fined musician Aikhal Ammosov 30 thousand rubles for graffiti “No to war” in three languages. He himself told Mediazona about this; the case file is on the court’s website. The musician was found guilty of “discrediting” the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). The reason was graffiti with the inscription “Suoh Buolun Seria! No war! No War! Ammosov was detained on April 25.

The Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Brazilian Lucas Ibiapin Lopez Dos Santos to three years and two months in prison in a drug trafficking case. This was reported by the joint press service of the city courts. He was found guilty of smuggling and purchasing drugs (clause “b” of part 2 of article 229.1 of the Criminal Code, part 1 of article 228 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, in December 2021, Ibiapina flew to Russia from Ireland on a Dublin-Helsinki-St.

The financial and economic magazine Forbes Russia will suspend publication of the paper version of the publication from June. this . report The editors themselves Journalists cite “the situation in the advertising market” as the reason for this decision. “We hope to be able to resume production of the print as soon as possible,” Forbes writes .

The Russian military is preparing for the transportation of the wounded from the Azovstal plant. Photo: Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters With the beginning of the war, the Ministry of Internal Affairs increased political propaganda among employees. In classes, where they used to talk about new laws, now they show propaganda films, Vladimir Putin’s performances and explain the reasons for the Russian attack on Ukraine - and then they force all this to be carefully summarized.

The head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Maksut Shadayev, said at the Knowledge Society forum that the Russian authorities are not planning to block YouTube . broadcast The event was on VKontakte. “We are not planning to close YouTube , that’s what I can say,” the minister answered a question from the audience about the timing of blocking the video hosting site.

On May 16, the Moscow prosecutor’s office began an inspection of the “Trade Union of Journalists and Media Employees.” this The association itself reports . As noted in the trade union, the department demanded that they provide financial statements, statutory documents, information on ongoing events, texts from speakers and speeches by representatives of the association in the media.