The Central District Court of Sochi sentenced eight days of arrest to blogger Dour Pachulia, who pestered a girl on the street for a video. According to the press service of the Kuban courts, a report on petty hooliganism was drawn up against the man (part 1 of article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). At the end of September, the blogger published a video on his Telegram channel in which he persistently tries to meet a girl on the embankment.

Irina Slavina. Photo: personal VK page Margarita Murakhtaeva was arrested while laying flowers near the spot in Nizhny Novgorod where her mother, the journalist Irina Slavina, died by self-immolation in 2020. The detention is the latest act in a long-running campaign of official harassment against the family. Margarita Murakhtaeva was detained today at her mother’s unofficial memorial in the city of Nizhny Novgorod as she laid flowers.

The police detained the daughter of journalist Irina Slavina, Margarita Murakhtaeva, when she brought flowers to the scene of her mother’s death. Murakhtaeva herself told Mediazona about this. According to the girl, she wanted to lay flowers at the building of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There, five years ago, Irina Slavina committed self-immolation. “I came [to the Ministry of Internal Affairs building] and there was a fence and a bobby.

The Central District Military Court, at an off-site hearing in Saransk, sentenced Ukrainian prisoner of war Andrei Ostapchuk to 17 years in prison on charges of participation in a terrorist organization. His lawyer Valery Bundaev reported this to Mediazona. The Ukrainian military man was also charged with Article 205.3 of the Criminal Code, as follows from the case file , which was drawn to the attention of Mediazona.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow sent Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party Maxim Kruglov, accused in a criminal case about military “fakes,” to pre-trial detention until November 29. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent. Before the start of the meeting to select a preventive measure, lawyer Natalya Tikhonova told Mediazona that two posts in his Telegram channel became the reason for initiating a criminal case against Kruglov.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced 19-year-old Riad Safarov, a former college student at the Russian State University of Justice (RSUP), accused of preparing for a terrorist attack and participating in a terrorist organization, to seven years in a general regime colony. A TASS correspondent reports this. Safarov was detained at the end of January, when he was 18 years old.

The 1st Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg began to consider the case of military Maxim Vorobyov, accused of desertion, robbery associated with murder for mercenary motives and attempted murder, robbery with grievous bodily harm, as well as theft, Mediazona found out. The court extended his custody until March 7, 2026. Vorobyov is 26 years old, he was born in the Karelian city of Medvezhyegorsk, lived in Petrozavodsk and had a criminal record.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow sentenced Dozhd journalist Anna Mongait in absentia to five years in a general regime colony under the article on “fakes” (clause “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. She is also prohibited from administering websites for three years. During the debate, the prosecutor asked for 8 years in a general regime colony.

In temporary detention center No. 3 in Sochi there are two women who were detained after traveling to Turkey and subjected to “carousel arrests.” OVD-Info reports this with reference to their relatives. Elizaveta Ostroukhova from Kurgan stopped communicating on July 17, immediately after arriving in Sochi from Istanbul.

The Leninsky District Court of Vladimir convicted Daniil Kulikov and Kirill Anokhin, two students who were involved in obtaining information. Each of them was fined 150 thousand rubles, the press service of the court told Mediazona. Anokhin and Kulikov were charged with Part 6 of Article 272.1 of the Criminal Code. This article was introduced into the Criminal Code at the end of last year.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the next exchange of prisoners of war with Ukraine on October 2 in the “185 to 185” format. Soon, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky confirmed that 185 military personnel had returned from captivity.

The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg allowed 43-year-old resident of Surgut Maria Sokolova to undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF) with the sperm of her partner Vadim Aleshin, who died in the war in Ukraine, Kommersant-Ural and the E1 website reported.

Polish security forces detained 27-year-old Wladislav D., who is considered an agent of Russian intelligence. The Wyborcza newspaper reports this with reference to sources. According to the version of the Internal Security Agency (ABW) and the Polish prosecutor's office, which the publication cites, Russian intelligence services were preparing attacks using drones and corn cans in which explosives were hidden. The drones are believed to have dropped the cans on unnamed targets. Vladislav D.

Judge of the Kirov District Court of Yekaterinburg Ekaterina Ivanchenko awarded a fine of 300 thousand rubles to 70-year-old mathematician Mikhail Volkov, father of politician Leonid Volkov, in the case of financing FBK (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. The prosecutor's office asked to fine Mikhail Volkov 600 thousand.

The Dalnerechensky District Court of the Primorsky Territory dismissed the criminal case for possession of drugs on a large scale, brought against a participant in the war in Ukraine. This was reported by the press service of the regional courts. The case came to court in October 2024, after which the accused entered into a contract with the Ministry of Defense, and the criminal proceedings were suspended.