Provocateur Alexei Kan, who handed over 20 kilograms of salt to pediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova in the pretrial detention center, failed to exceed the weight limit for the parcels. Maria Botova reported this to the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission on June 18. "She did not receive the package that the media wrote about. The management of the pretrial detention center showed prudence and did not accept such a package (Nadezhda Fyodorovna refused to accept it).

The Investigative Committee for Krasnodar Krai reported the initiation of a criminal case against a native of Rostov Oblast who burned personal belongings at the Eternal Flame in Sochi. The defendant in the case was detained - she is accused of damaging a memorial structure (clause "b" of part 2 of article 243.4 of the Criminal Code).

Russian military shelled Kharkov using controlled aerial bombs (CABs), one of which fell near a residential building. This was reported by the city's mayor Igor Terekhov and the head of the Kharkov region Oleg Sinegubov . Initially, two people were reported dead and 18 injured . Later, the number of dead increased to three, and the number of injured to 38.

FSB officers reported the detention of a resident of the Novosibirsk region while attempting to cross the border of the Belgorod region with Ukraine. Kommersant and TASS write about this with reference to a press release from the security forces.

Judge of the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow Andrei Kuznetsov has arrested 50-year-old programmer Ilya Vasiliev, known by the pseudonym Arvi Hekker, until August 20 in connection with the case of military "fakes" (clause "d" of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Lawyer Oskar Cherdzhiev told Mediazona about this. Since the hearing to choose a preventive measure was scheduled for Saturday, even the accredited press was refused entry to the court.

A criminal case has been opened against three residents of the Rostov Region for attempting to set fire to relay and battery cabinets on the railway. This was reported by the Western Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for Transport.

The defendant of the "Swamp case" Alexei Gaskarov in court. Photo: Evgeny Feldman The publishing house of Boris Akunin published the book “Dreamers against astronauts. Courage and tragedy of anti -Putin protest ”by the photographer Evgeny Feldman - a chronicle of key milestones in the history of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine of the last 15 years. Rallies and courts, political campaigns and artistic actions, Maidan and Donbass.

The Krasnodar Regional Court has registered a criminal case against Anapa resident Dmitry Polunin - he is accused of confidential cooperation with a foreign organization (Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona drew attention to the case file. The details of Polunin’s prosecution under Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code are unknown. Previously, before his formal arrest in a criminal case, Dmitry Polunin spent almost six months under administrative arrest.

Not only the Investigative Committee, but also representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, bailiffs, investigators of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and customs began to recruit defendants and suspects in criminal cases for war, Kommersant reports .

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has placed former president of the AFK Sistema holding company Evgeny Novitsky under house arrest. This was reported by the joint press service of the capital's courts. Novitsky is accused of six counts of fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code).