The Sovetsky District Court of Orel sent the administrator of the Orlets website Artem Prokhorov and journalist Vladimir Panfilov to pre-trial detention. This was reported by an Oryol News correspondent from the courtroom. They are accused of extorting 100 thousand rubles from businessman Vladimir Tilman for refusing to publish incriminating evidence against him (Part 2 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code).

The Ministry of Justice proposed removing three economic articles from the Criminal Code that did not provide for imprisonment. The text of the amendments they developed was posted on the portal of draft regulations.

FSB officers and police detained a 22-year-old resident of Yaroslavl who damaged the letter Z on a flowerbed along Moskovsky Prospekt. The press service of the regional department of the FSB told the publications 76.ru and “About the City of Yaroslavl” about this . The flowerbed was damaged on the night of August 1st.

YouTube deleted the Blogger Channel Dmitry Puchkov (Goblin). According to the posted beam screenshot, Hosting explained the decision by violation of the community rules. “The enemy resource, what to expect from it,” said the blogger to the television channel of the Zvezda Ministry of Defense. Dmitry Medvedev wrote Deputy Chairman of the Security Council under Puchkov’s post on VKontakte about the blocking “Hold on, namesake! We will take revenge for you.

The bodies of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Elena, July 29, 2022. Photo: AP On the night of July 28 to July 29, at least 48 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in Elena in Elena in the territory of the self -proclaimed DPR - mainly from the Azov regiment. Russia claims that they were killed by a blow from the Himars missile installation. Ukraine insists that the Russians staged shelling to hide torture and executions.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow arrested the editor-in-chief of The Insider , Roman Dobrokhotov, in absentia on charges of illegal border crossing, the court's press service told Mediazona. According to the investigation, on the night of August 1, 2021, Dobrokhotov crossed the border with Ukraine in the Voronezh region, bypassing customs. Because of this, a criminal case was opened against him under Part 1 of Article 322 of the Criminal Code. The FSB applied for a preventive measure.

The Bar Association of Chechnya has stripped Lilya Gemedzhi, Rustem Kyamilev and Nazim Sheikhmambetov of their lawyer status, reports . Crimean Solidarity Lawyers will not be able to participate in criminal cases and will not have the right to take the exam to re-acquire bar status for a year. Sheikhmambetov, Kyamilev and Gemedzhi associate the deprivation of status with human rights activities in Crimea.

The Khimki City Court of the Moscow Region sentenced American basketball player Brittney Greiner to 9 years in a general regime colony and a fine of 1 million rubles, finding her guilty in a drug smuggling case. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent. The prosecutor's office requested 9.5 years in prison and a fine of 1 million rubles for the basketball player. She partially admitted guilt.

The head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense forces of the Russian army, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, at a briefing accused the US Agency for International Development () of involvement in the creation and spread of COVID-19 . The briefing abstracts were published by the Ministry of Defense. According to the Russian military, since 2009, USAID has been funding the Predict program, which studied new types of coronaviruses and caught their carriers.

Vladimir Putin's ex-wife Lyudmila Ocheretnaya (Putina) receives hundreds of millions of rubles annually from the Moscow mayor's office, and her new husband Arthur Ocheretny owns two villas in Biarritz, two apartments in Malaga, Spain, and one in Davos, Switzerland. about this Aleksey Navalny’s associates spoke in a new investigation. According to investigators, in the 2000s Lyudmila Putina oversaw the Russian Language Development Center created especially for her.

Former deputy head of the Ministry of Education Marina Rakova admitted guilt at a court hearing to extend her preventive measure. This was announced by her lawyer Vyacheslav Zhukovsky, his words from the Tverskoy Court of Moscow are reported by Interfax. “Rakova confessed and wrote a confession and expressed her readiness to compensate for the damage,” Zhukovsky said. Rakova and her defense asked the court to place her under house arrest. Rakova was detained in October 2021.

The Leninsky District Court of Tyumen sentenced local resident Anton Shamonov to six months of correctional labor in a criminal case about “fake news” about the army. This was reported by the joint press service of the courts of the Tyumen region. Shamonov was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code. Also, Judge Marina Knyazheva decided to withhold 10% of the Tyumen resident’s salary for correctional work in favor of the state.

The ETS organization, which conducts the English language exam, has opened registration for testing for Russians . The correspondent of Mediazons was convinced of this. In personal accounts of users who indicated Russian citizenship, a warning was missing: "". The ability to register for an exam in test centers abroad has already opened. In addition, online testing is available. Screenshot from the account of the correspondent "Mediazone" In March, ETS stopped taking exams in Russia and Belarus.

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow imposed a two-year suspended sentence on 23-year-old policeman Artem Kartashov, who broke the leg of a metro passenger. this The human rights project “Axiom” reports on its Telegram channel. Kartashov was found guilty under the article on intentionally causing moderate harm to health (Part 1 of Article 112 of the Criminal Code). Judge Natalya Larina also ordered the police officer to pay the victim 100 thousand rubles in compensation.

Brittney Griner in в Химкинском городском суде. Фото: Alexander Zemlianichenko / Reuters In Khimki, just outside Moscow, the court has sentenced WNBA basketball star and two-time Olympic champion, Brittney Griner, to 9 years in the penal colony for drug smuggling of hash oil vape cartridges. She was also fined 1 million rubles (over 16 000 US dollars). Prosecution sought 9 and a half years in prison for her.