The Kiev court of Simferopol, at the request of the investigation, placed under arrest five defendants in the case of blowing up the Crimean bridge. Interfax reports this with reference to a source. Lawyers for two defendants in the case confirmed the choice of a preventive measure. Artyom Azatyan, Georgy Azatyan, Roman Solomko, Vladimir Zloba and Artur Terchanyane were sent to pre-trial detention center, the agency’s source clarified .

EU diplomacy chief Josep Borrell said that if Russia uses nuclear weapons, the West will “destroy” its army without resorting to such weapons. Borrell's words are quoted by the BBC Russian Service. “Putin says he is not bluffing. So, he cannot afford to bluff. And it should be clear that the people who support Ukraine, the European Union with its member countries and the United States with NATO are not bluffing either,” added the head of EU diplomacy.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) posthumously awarded 15.5 thousand euros to the former guard of the first President of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov, Ayub Tuntuyev, in a claim of torture in the Vladimir IK-6. This was reported to Mediazona by the press service of the Legal Initiative, which represented the interests of the plaintiff.

Art: Maria Tolstova / Mediazona Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, numerous military draft offices, police departments, FSB and Rosgvardia (National Guard) buildings, offices of United Russia and KPRF parties, and local authorities' buildings have been set on fire all over the country. With so many cases, it makes sense to put things into perspective, so we compiled a map of all anti-war arson attacks. This map will be updated regularly.Most recent update: July 26.

Illustration: Mari Msukanidze / Mediazone From the beginning of the war, military registration and enlistment offices, recruiting points, police departments, the FSB, the Russian Guard, the administration, the offices of United Russia and the Communist Party and the Communist Party began to be set fire throughout the country. We collect information about such attacks and made an interactive map of anti -war arson, it will be regularly updated. Last update: October 13.

Since the beginning of March 2022, the courts of Russia received 4644 administrative cases of “discrediting” the army. This follows from the data of the GAS “Justice” system, which collected the Mediazona. Of these, 4642 are considered in district courts, and 2 - in the military. By June, the number of cases began to subside up to hundreds a week, but in the first two weeks after the mobilization announcement, it grew again.

Illustration: Mari Msukanidze / Mediazone Today, the authorities for the first time officially recognized the death of the mobilized in Ukraine: the government of the Chelyabinsk region announced that five natives of the region had died. This is not the only well -known case of the death of mobilized at the front, where they were promised not to send them without preparation and additional training. But in training centers, mobilized are constantly dying, such messages appear almost every day.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) awarded two thousand euros in compensation to Left Resistance activist Daria Polyudova. about this . writes The Network Freedoms project Polyudova’s defense complained to the ECHR about excessively long detention during the investigation into a criminal case for justification of terrorism in 2020-2021.

The FSB came with a search to the Novosibirsk Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS. this to the Rodnye Berega publication A source at the institute reported . According to preliminary data, the searches are being carried out due to suspicions of corruption by the head of the laboratory “Intensification of Heat Transfer Processes” Oleg Kabov. The institute's press secretary, Elena Shishkina, called it a "routine check." “We have such FSB checks almost every week,” she explained.

The Kaliningrad Regional Court sentenced three police officers to terms of up to three years and 10 months in a general regime colony in a case of falsifying evidence. Axiom lawyer Dmitry Novikov told Mediazona about this.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution in support of Ukraine, which provides for the recognition of the Russian political regime as terrorist. this on his Telegram channel . reported Alexey Goncharenko, a member of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE, The resolution, which talks about the need to create an international tribunal for war crimes in Ukraine, was supported by 99 delegates, one abstained.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) awarded 7.5 thousand euros to Agora, the head of the organization Pavel Chikov, as well as lawyers Irina Khurunova and Ramil Akhmetgaliev in the case of a search in the Kazan office of human rights activists in 2009. attention to decision the court's Chikov drew .

at a meeting in Melitopol The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said that there are 402 captured soldiers of the Ukrainian Azov regiment in Russian pre-trial detention centers. According to Bastrykin, the “Azov men” were placed in the Volgograd, Rostov, Belgorod and Voronezh regions, where the FSB and the Federal Penitentiary Service are carrying out a “complex of investigative and operational search activities” with them.

The collection point of mobilized citizens in Serpukhov. Photo: Alexander Shcherbak / TASS The heads of state enterprises and private companies are increasingly having to “knock out” a delay from mobilization for their employees from the military commissariats - first of all, to save the business. A full list of organizations whose employees are entitled to a delay is closed, which creates favorable ground for all kinds of transactions and speculation.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) awarded a total of 354 thousand euros to 11 Russians from eight regions in cases of violence by security forces. attention to decision . the court’s drew The human rights project “Axiom,” which represented one of the plaintiffs, The court in Strasbourg concluded that the Russian authorities violated the article prohibiting torture (Article 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms).