Силовики задержали сотрудника правительства Калининградской области Владимира Литвинова по делу о пожертвованиях «Русскому добровольческому корпусу». Об этом сообщает «Новый Калининград». О задержании без имени и должности экс-чиновника областное управление ФСБ отчиталось 25 сентября. Согласно пресс-релизу силовиков, против мужчины возбудили дело о финансировании терроризма (часть 1.1 статьи 205.5 УК).

Nikolai Zyuzev, Doctor of Philosophy, sociologist and ex-teacher at Syktyvkar State University named after Pitirim Sorokin, was sent to a pre-trial detention center. Komi Daily drew attention to the decision to extend the preventive measure. According to the publication, on August 26, the Syktyvkar City Court extended Zyuzev’s detention. The case file does not indicate the article under which the scientist is accused. The decision to extend the preventive measure was approved on September 8.

Theatrical figure Vladimir Kekhman was removed from the post of general director of the Gorky Moscow Art Academic Theater. TASS writes about this with reference to the order of the Ministry of Culture on dismissal. The document published by the agency is dated September 29. According to the order, the ministry terminated the contract with Kekhman, which was concluded in 2021. They plan to pay him three monthly salaries.

The head of the Russian National Guard department for North Ossetia, Major General Valery Golota and his deputies were detained in a criminal case. This was reported by RBC , Osnova , TASS and the SHOT telegram channel. According to preliminary information, security forces opened a case of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code). In connection with the criminal case, searches were carried out in the building of the Russian Guard, writes SHOT .

In the Krasnodar Territory, Deputy Governor Alexander Vlasov was detained after he announced his resignation to go to war in Ukraine as part of the Kuban brigade. This was reported by the website 93.ru with reference to its source. Vlasov’s resignation became known on September 29 at the regional Council of Atamans, a meeting of which was held in the regional administration.

Judge of the 1st Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg, Alexander Khludnev, sentenced 25-year-old prisoner Evgeny Marchenko to 3 years under the article on justification of terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and, by adding it to the previous term, appointed five maximum security colonies. Mediazona became aware of this. Photo: Mediazona Prosecutor Artem Rogov asked to sentence Marchenko to 7 years and 5 months in a maximum security colony.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced political scientist and journalist Sergei Medvedev in absentia to 10 years in a general regime colony on criminal charges of repeated “discrediting” of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) and dissemination of military “fakes” (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the capital's prosecutor's office. Medvedev was also banned from administering websites for five years.

The Arkhangelsk Department of the Investigative Committee opened a case on the provision of services that do not meet safety requirements (Part 2 of Article 238 of the Criminal Code) after an attack on an employee of a local construction technical school with a knife.

Judge of the 1st Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg Sergei Krasnopevtsev sentenced 54-year-old St. Petersburg resident Andrei Shkolin to five years in prison in the case of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of a post about Mikhail Zhlobitsky, Mediazona found out. The court also decided to count the time he spent in the pre-trial detention center according to the formula - one day at a time.

The Moscow department of the Investigative Committee reported on the initiation of a criminal case for the dissemination of military “fakes” on the Internet against journalist Ksenia Luchenko (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). It is unknown what exactly she was charged with.

Governor of the Kursk Region Alexander Khinshtein submitted to the Kursk Regional Duma a bill amending the regional law “On Awards”. He reported this on his Telegram channel. The bill lists the grounds for depriving the Kursk region of awards. In particular, he assumes that those on the list of “foreign agents”, holders of residence permits or citizenship of foreign states will be deprived of regional awards.

Vladimir Putin signed a law denouncing the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, which was previously approved by the State Duma and the Federation Council. The head of government, Mikhail Mishustin, proposed withdrawal from the European Convention against Torture at the end of August, after which the bill was submitted to the chambers of parliament for consideration. The European Convention against Torture was adopted in 1987.

The Obninsk City Court sentenced a former employee of the research center to 4 years in a general regime colony in the case of illegal export of goods and technologies as part of a group (Part 3 of Article 189 of the Criminal Code). Interfax reported this with reference to the Kaluga department of the FSB. The website of the Obninsk court contains mention of only one case with such a composition - in relation to Evgeniy Rozhikhin.

The Savelovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Muslim Murdiev, a 15-year-old native of Chechnya, to a year and 11 months in prison, finding him guilty of four counts of Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism committed with the use of violence, by a group of persons by prior conspiracy), Chechen Ombudsman Mansur Soltaev told Grozny-Inform. Murdiev has been under house arrest since December 29, 2023.

The former vice-governor of the Sverdlovsk region Oleg Chemezov became ill during interrogation, he was taken from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs by ambulance. Lawyer Maria Kirilova reported this to Mediazona. “They called an ambulance and hospitalized me. There's something wrong with my stomach. This corresponds to the existing diagnoses and is a consequence of the fact that today the diet has been disrupted. We warned the investigation,” Kirilova said.