The head of the first department for the investigation of especially important cases of the main department of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg, Yuri Yashkov, in an interview with Fontanka, spoke about prisoners who returned from the war in Ukraine. When asked by a journalist what to do with people who were pardoned for participating in the war and who commit crimes again, Yashkov replied that "there hasn't been much of that in St.

Businessman Andrey Kovalchuk, convicted in a case of organizing cocaine smuggling to Russia through the embassy in Argentina, asked to be sent to war in Ukraine. Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights (HRC), wrote about this in an article for Moskovsky Komsomolets. The human rights activist reported that the administration of the strict regime penal colony No.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has sent Pyotr Krasko to pretrial detention until October 21 in connection with his participation in the Freedom of Russia Legion, the joint press service of the capital's courts reported . Krasko is accused of participating in an illegal armed group (Part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code). The details of the case are unknown.

The Holy Synod has temporarily suspended Metropolitan Hilarion from the management of the Budapest-Hungarian Diocese and other church positions. This was reported on the ROC website. The Metropolitan has been suspended pending the work of the Commission, which will examine the state of affairs in the diocese in Budapest. The reason for the investigation is not stated in the Synod journal.

The 2nd Western District Military Court, at a visiting session in the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court, imposed a fine of 300 thousand rubles on the Left Socialist Action (LevSD) activist Yuri Chilikin in a criminal case on justifying terrorism. This was reported to the human rights organization Memorial by lawyer Kristina Tyurina.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has sent the general director of the Military Construction Company of the Ministry of Defense, Andrei Belkov, to a pretrial detention facility; information about this appeared in a file on the website of the capital's courts. Belkov is suspected in a case of abuse of office in the execution of a state defense order with grave consequences (clause “b” of part 2 of article 285.4 of the Criminal Code).

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications Alexander Khinshtein announced a reduction in the speed of video uploads to YouTube to 70% by the end of next week. "By the end of this week, YouTube download speed on desktop computers may drop to 40%, and by the end of next week, to 70%. This measure will only affect desktop versions. It will not affect mobile communications for now," Khinshtein writes in his Telegram channel.

In the village of Berezovka in the Belgorod region, a tank ran over a Niva. According to the Telegram channel Pepel, the driver of the car died. According to the authors of "Ashes", the car was driving on the main road in compliance with traffic regulations. When exiting the turn, the tank did not let the "Niva" pass and ran over it. The accident occurred on July 24 in the afternoon. As Pepel writes , after running over the car, the tank continued moving for about a hundred meters.

The Samara Regional Court has released lawyer Vyacheslav Bunakov from punishment in the case of military "fakes" (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the human rights project "Network Freedoms". The criminal case against Bunakov was opened due to his posts on VKontakte about the deaths of people in the Ukrainian cities of Kramatorsk, Severodonetsk and Lisichansk.

Lawyer Ilya Novikov was added to the list of "terrorists and extremists" of Rosfinmonitoring. Information about this appeared on the federal agency's website. This register includes persons involved in cases of extremism or terrorism. Novikov is included there with a typographical "asterisk" mark, which means suspicion of terrorism. At the same time, no official announcement has been made about the initiation of a case under this article against the lawyer.

The Voroshilovsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don fined stylist Arayik Ishkhanyan 40,000 rubles for desecrating religious symbols (Part 2 of Article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The court's decision was discovered by the Verstka publication. The hearing on Ishkhanyan's case took place on April 17, but it only became known now.

The State Duma has adopted in the first reading a bill prohibiting the placement of advertisements on blocked websites, the lower house's website reports .

An 18-year-old suspect in the murder of former Verkhovna Rada deputy Iryna Farion has been detained in Dnipro, the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced . The detainee lived in Dnipro, added the head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry Igor Klimenko.

The magistrate of the No. 9 judicial district of the Moscow district of Kryukovo sentenced the capital's resident Alexander Muraev to 240 hours of compulsory work in a case of insulting the feelings of believers (Part 2 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the Moscow courts.

The Tyndinsky District Court of the Amur Region sentenced blogger Dzhamil Nurakov to one and a half years in a penal colony for a comment about the war on social networks. This was reported by the press service of the regional courts. The 46-year-old Tynda resident was found guilty of "discrediting" the army because of his comments in the NTV public page under a post about the talk show "Mesto Vstrechi" (Meeting Place) by propagandist Andrei Norkin. The content of the comments is unknown.