Seventeen employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), identified on the video of the beating of a convict in the Yaroslavl colony No. 1, were suspended from their duties. about this Interfax was informed by Sergey Baburkin, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Yaroslavl Region. The Ombudsman added that the issue of bringing the employees of the colony to criminal responsibility will be considered.

Arrested on suspicion of having links with the Russian special services, Maria Butina received financial support from Konstantin Nikolaev, co-owner and CEO of the N-Trans group. She reported this . to the US Senate Intelligence Committee in April, according to The Washington Post According to Butina, Nikolaev financed the Right to Arms group, which she chaired.

The arrested head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, complained about the conditions of detention in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, where he was transferred from pre-trial detention center-5, in a letter to Dozhd journalist Kogershyn Sagieva, who is a member of the public monitoring commission (PMC) of Moscow. “SIZO-2 Lefortovo is designed in such a way as to humiliate prisoners, break them and suppress their will,” writes Shestun.

The law on changing the accounting for the period of detention before the verdict will affect about 100 of the 488 thousand prisoners, 14 thousand people will be released immediately after the recalculation. in a conversation with Moskovsky Komsomolets This was stated by Valery Maksimenko, Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN). “All convicted persons subject to federal law will have their sentences reviewed.

In Russia, 794 thousand people are in modern slavery, according to the Global Slavery Index for 2018. The authors of the rating are the Walk Free Foundation of the Australian philanthropist Andrew Forrest. By modern slavery, the authors of the ranking understand human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, forced marriage and any other relationship that violates the fundamental principle of equality and the universal right to freedom and dignity.

Russia expels Hezbollah of middle Eastern criminal markets and of regional policy Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah with supporters A metal gate in a stone wall surrounding a two floor home is what separates Lebanese and Syrian territories in the Lebanese border town of Qaa. The small, Christian border town that was target to six ISIS suicide bombers on a warm June day of 2016 is just one small example of the dozens of border towns scattered along the porous Lebanese-Syrian border.

Syria and South Ossetia have signed an agreement on the establishment of diplomatic relations, reports RBC with reference to the Syrian news agency SANA. Relevant information also appeared on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia. The agreement, according to the Syrian agency, "emphasizes the interest of the two countries in intensifying bilateral relations." A number of bilateral agreements are also expected to be signed.

Arrested on suspicion of having links with the Russian special services, Maria Butina in 2015 had contacts at a higher level than indicated in the charge against her. This is reported by Reuters, citing officials from the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve System (FRS). According to agency sources, she attended meetings attended by Stanley Fischer (then Vice Chairman of the Fed) and Nathan Sheets (Deputy Secretary of the Treasury for Foreign Affairs).

In the center of Moscow, near the Ploshchad Revolyutsii metro station, police detained activists Daria Polyudova and Kirill Kotov - they were standing in single pickets with posters against pension reform and VAT increase. This was reported by OVD-Info, the activists also confirmed the information in the event group in social networks.

Drones approached the Khmeimim air base in Syria on July 21 and 22, Interfax reports , citing a representative of the air base. Earlier, the agency wrote about a drone discovered on the night of July 21. The last attack took place on the morning of July 22, 2018 - an unknown drone was approaching the Khmeimim airbase from the northwest direction. On the evening of July 21, Russian air defense also detected and shot down one unmanned aerial vehicle.

The EU Parliament has frozen subsidies to members of the National Rally (formerly the National Front) party due to allegations of embezzlement, reports the Journal du dimanche. As the publication clarifies, the frozen grants were intended for members from the "National Association" to finance their activities and recruit assistants. for the same reason In early July, a French court ruled withholding 2 million euros in state subsidies to the party.

800 people, including activists of the White Helmets organization, were brought to Jordan from southwestern Syria, reports Reuters . The agency clarifies that the Israeli military took part in the evacuation of the volunteers. According to a spokesman for the Israeli forces, overnight they were able to complete "the operation to rescue members of a Syrian civilian organization and their families ...

UPDATE 18:22 The press service of Roskosmos, in a conversation with TASS, confirmed the information about the arrest of Viktor Kudryavtsev, an employee of TsNIIMash. A member of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) of Moscow, Evgeny Enikeev, during a visit to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, found 74-year-old Viktor Kudryavtsev accused of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code) there. this He announced on his blog. His full namesake (V.V.

Russia will build its satellite Internet. So at the expense of the budget they save the Angara project Photo: Valery Gasheev / TASS On Wednesday, July 18, President Vladimir Putin, at the request of the new General Director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, approved the creation of a federal target program to create a group of 640 sphere satellites, designed to provide satellite Internet - only in Russia. About broadcasting on other countries - not a word.

Russians and Ukrainians will wait until the Kremlin hears the desired price On July 3, 2018, Ukraine offered Russia a prisoner exchange deal. Kyiv stated that it was ready to hand over 23 Russians - that is, in fact, all those convicted for participation in the war in Donbass. And in exchange he asks for the same number of his citizens held in the Russian Federation.