The former vice-governor of the Ryazan region, Igor Grekov, was arrested for two months in a case of taking a bribe on an especially large scale, the press service of the regional Investigative Committee reports. According to investigators, Grekov received money from commercial organizations for his help with the conclusion of contracts for the supply of medical equipment for medical institutions in the Ryazan region.

A religious dispute in a Moscow suburb ends with both sides asking Putin for protection Russian Investigative Committee Russian Investigative Committee staff search a prayer house. May 18, 2023. Moscow has millions of Muslim residents but only four mosques, leading many to rely on smaller, and sometimes less official , prayer houses for their worship.

The Penza District Court partially satisfied the claim of Maxim Moiseev, the defendant in Russia's first case of evasion from mobilization, ruling to pay him 20,000 rubles in compensation for illegal criminal prosecution, according to the military lawyers human rights project. The case against Moiseev was opened at the end of September after he twice refused to appear at the military registration and enlistment office on the agenda.

Russia rejected South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s request for Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to attend the BRICS Summit instead of President Vladimir Putin, reports South Africa’s Deputy President Paul Mashatile. On March 17, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Putin. South Africa, which is set to host the BRICS Summit in August 2023, is a signatory to the ICC.

The Solomensky District Court of Kyiv granted the prosecutor's office's petition to change the measure of restraint for the abbot of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavlo, from round-the-clock house arrest to detention until August 14, the Ukrainian newspaper Strana reports. The metropolitan was also given the opportunity to post bail in the amount of over 33 million hryvnia (about 900 thousand dollars).

British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace commented on his statement that Ukraine needs to actively express gratitude for the help of the West, stressing that his words were "partially distorted." “I talked about the fact that Ukraine needs to sometimes admit that in many countries and in some parliaments there is not such a strong support that is in the UK,” the minister wrote on his Facebook, noting that he personally has always been “in the forefront of fight for the support of Ukraine.

Anti-war activists, teenagers, and wives of Wagner fighters explain their support for the mercenaries EPA / Scanpix / LETA Wagner Group fighters block a street outside the Southern Military District headquarters in downtown Rostov-on-Don during their armed rebellion on June 24.

In Tambov, Tver and Samara, searches were carried out at the homes of former employees of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny and their relatives, reports 7x7. Horizontal Russia. In Tambov, the police came early in the morning with a search to Igor Slivin: “They came at six in the morning, as usual. They knocked down, seized all the equipment: laptops, telephones and a router.

Russia has rejected a request from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to head its delegation to the BRICS summit in August 2023 instead of President Vladimir Putin, South African Vice President Paul Mashatile told the local newspaper Mail & Guardian. "We understand that we are bound by the Rome Statute , but we cannot invite someone and then arrest him. We would be happy if he [Putin] did not come," RBK quotes Mashatile as saying.

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Russian citizen Vadim Konoshchenko, who was arrested by the Estonian authorities, was extradited to the United States, according to the press service of the US Department of Justice. According to US authorities, Konoschenok is an FSB officer. He is suspected of smuggling products of American companies from Estonia to Russia, including electronics and ammunition subject to export control. In December 2022, Konoschenok was arrested in Estonia at the request of the United States.

In the Kotelniki near Moscow, riot police staged a raid in the prayer house for Muslims. Local residents complained about Putin because of the "stream of migrants" Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Verification of the House by employees of the Investigative Committee.

Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina, who was brutally attacked by masked men in Chechnya in early July, was questioned by an investigator from Chechnya about the assault, according to the Crew Against Torture. During the questioning, Milashina said her attackers threatened to kill her if she returns to the region. “We’re already beaten you, and you didn’t understand; this is the second warning, and there won’t be a third,” she recounted them saying.

Novaya Gazeta journalist Yelena Milashina, who was beaten in Grozny in early July, was interrogated by an investigator from Chechnya, the Team Against Torture reports. During the interrogation, Milashina said that the attackers threatened to kill her if she returned to Chechnya. “We already beat you, you didn’t understand, this is the second warning, there will be no third,” she quoted the words of the attackers.

Bryansk governor Alexander Bogomaz reported that the village of Belaya Beryozka, located near the border with Ukraine, was attacked by Ukrainian forces on July 14. According to the governor, one woman whose birth year was given as 1939 was killed. He also reported that three others, including a 16-year-old boy, were injured. Three residential homes reportedly caught on fire. The Telegram channels Mash and Shot also reported on the attack.