I don’t really want to discuss this gloomy topic, but if you don’t discuss it, then you have to deal with discarded barrels of mummified infant remains The story of the barrels with the remains of human fetuses discovered in the Urals highlights several unresolved problems at once - both ethical and legal. I don’t really want to discuss this gloomy topic, but if you don’t discuss it, then you have to deal with discarded barrels of mummified infant remains ...

In the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, regular hearings on the case against sambo wrestler Rasul Mirzaev have ended, Rosbalt reports . The state prosecutor asked to sentence the world sambo champion to 2 years in prison. According to the state prosecution, the athlete did not have the intent to inflict grievous bodily harm on Ivan Agafonov. During the debate of the parties, the prosecutor stated that Mirzaev's actions fall under Art.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) declared unfounded the complaint of Uralvagonzavod against the actions of the Moscow department because of the auction for the supply of 120 trams to the city for 9.2 billion rubles, the agency reports.

State Duma deputy Gennady Gudkov says that the police have suspended the license of another security company owned by his family - this time in St. Petersburg, according to NEWSru . The parliamentarian said that on August 1, employees of the St. Petersburg Department of Internal Affairs seized weapons from the private security company Oskord, and on the evening of August 7, they also suspended the license until August 30.

Jamison Firestone, the head of Sergei Magnitsky, who died in prison, sent an appeal to the President of the Russian Federation as chairman of the Anti-Corruption Council, as well as to all officials included in this structure. Attached to the letter is a statement about the crimes committed by those persons who, in the applicant's opinion, were involved in the murder of Magnitsky and the theft of budget money.

Today, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry issued a statement announcing the recall of all Belarusian diplomats from Stockholm and the closure of the Belarusian embassy in Sweden, and also requires the Swedish Foreign Ministry to close the embassy in Minsk until August 30. As a reason for the recall of diplomats, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry names the expulsion of two Belarusian diplomats from Sweden.

Irina Ruzankina, a resident of Novosibirsk, has filed a lawsuit with the Kuntsevsky Court of Moscow seeking compensation for moral damages against members of the punk band Pussy Riot, Interfax reports citing Aleksey Krestyanov, director of the law firm Ryabina, Zinoviev and Krestyanov. The amount of the claim is 30 thousand rubles. She asks to recover this amount from three members of the group, who are now under arrest.

Foreign Minister Edgar Rinkevich has decided to declare former Kremlin official and current editor-in-chief of the Russian news agency Regnum Modest Kolerov and his deputy Igor Pavlovsky persona non grata in Latvia, RIA Novosti reports .

Lawyers for members of the punk band Pussy Riot report that in the event of a guilty verdict against the arrested girls, in different countries in support of the defendants. According to Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's lawyer, Mark Feygin, the defense is confident that the verdict against the members of Pussy Riot will be guilty. Feigin explained that the action has been planned for a long time, and many people from the Internet know about it.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow on Wednesday sentenced four people found guilty in the case of mass riots on Manezhnaya Square, which occurred in December 2010 during a rally in memory of Yegor Sviridov, a Spartak fan killed in a fight, to terms ranging from suspended sentences to three years in prison. , Interfax reports .

Video conferencing between the Sverdlovsk Regional and Vernepyshminskiy courts was organized for two reasons. Firstly, it will allow the affected residents of Sagrin not to constantly travel to the neighboring city. Secondly, it softens the pressure from the defendants. As follows from the course of the judicial investigation, this measure is not superfluous. Within two days, four out of eleven (the 12th is now in the army) victims were interrogated.

The Simonovsky Court of Moscow on Wednesday sentenced the director of the Obraztsov Puppet Theater Andrey Luchin, accused of embezzlement of about 12 million rubles, to five years in prison on probation, RIA Novosti reports . Earlier, the prosecutor demanded that Luchin be sentenced to five years in prison. The court also sentenced Luchin's wife Natalya Peshenkova to four years probation, accused of aiding and abetting fraud.

More than 120 deputies of the German parliament signed a letter on Tuesday in defense of members of the punk band Pussy Riot, against whom he is heard in the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow, reports the BBC . The message, in which representatives of all Bundestag factions expressed their concern about what is happening in the Khamovniki Court, was addressed to the Russian Ambassador to Germany, Vladimir Grinin.

The widow of the legendary British rock musician John Lennon, singer Yoko Ono spoke in support of members of the punk band Pussy Riot. "Punk rock is not a crime! Freedom for Pussy Riot," Yoko Ono wrote in her microblog on the Twitter portal. "Mr. Putin, you are a wise man and should not fight with musicians and their friends. Release Pussy Riot, leave a place in prison for dangerous criminals," Interfax quoted Yoko Ono's entry as saying .

“I am almost satisfied that the lawyers have almost reached their goal. I will be satisfied when the goal of my lawyers is achieved in full, ”Platon Lebedev reacted this way when the defenders informed him of the court decision. The Velsky District Court of the Arkhangelsk Region today, August 8, in the person of its chairman Viktor Ivanov, reduced the prison term of Platon Lebedev by 3 years and 4 months. Thus, he should be released in 6 months 24 days - March 2, 2013.