UPDATE On July 27, the Federal Penitentiary Service called unreliable reports of the use of physical force against Mokhnatkin. According to the arguments from his statement, an audit will be carried out. Employees of IK-21 in the Arkhangelsk region repeatedly let unknown gas into the cell of activist Sergei Mokhnatkin, who is on a hunger strike. This was reported by Tatyana Pashkevich with reference to the lawyer Andrei Krekov, who visited the colony.

The meeting of the Basmanny Court in the “case of Shestun” calls to question the election on September 9 throughout the Moscow Region Alexander Shestun on video from the pre -trial detention center. Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" So far, the head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun, speaking in the Basmanni court on video conferences, was catching baldly, but looked exciting.

MP Zheleznyak left a high post in United Russia, but retained the mandate and political prospects Photo: RIA Novosti On the morning of July 26, several media at once, citing its sources in United Russia, reported that Sergey Zheleznyak was leaving the post of deputy secretary of the general council of the ruling party. Zheleznyak was among those United Russia who did not come to a meeting under the bill on raising the retirement age. The party was an official reason called the sick leave.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Yaroslavl Region, Sergei Baburkin, visited Yevgeny Makarov, a victim of torture in Yaroslavl IK-1, in correctional colony No. 8, reports . Interfax According to him , Makarov fears for his life and health. “He believes that he can be killed, presenting it as a suicide. In addition, he asked not to take him out of the colony without a lawyer, Irina Biryukova," the Ombudsman told the agency.

The Babushkinsky Court of Moscow arrested until September 19 the general director of the Scientific and Production Association (NPO) named after V.I. Lavochkin Sergei Lemeshevsky on charges of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code), reports . RIA Novosti Lemeshevsky is accused of embezzling funds in the amount of 330 million rubles by fictitious payment for legal services of the Tretyakov and Partners law firm.

Trump and Junker declared a truce in the trade war between the United States and the European Union Photo: EPA On Wednesday, the head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Junker flew to Washington to discuss customs duties between the EU and the USA with Donald Trump-in the context of the actual trade war.

The Russian Football Union (RFU) has agreed on a new contract with the head coach of the Russian national team Stanislav Cherchesov under the 2 + 2 scheme, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Igor Lebedev, a member of the executive committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU). According to the "2 + 2" scheme, the contract with Cherchesov will be signed for two years with the possibility of its extension for the same period.

Since 1993, not a single referendum has been held in Russia since 1993. He will not be now-due to the law on pension reform Photo: RIA Novosti On July 23, the CEC received documents of the Communist Party to initiate the All -Russian referendum on the prohibition of raising the retirement age. The first regional meeting necessary to launch this procedure was held in Moscow.

The ACMG publishing house has appointed the head of the magazine's lifestyle app Andrey Zolotov as the new editor-in-chief, acting editor-in-chief Nikolay Mazurin, who is leaving the post on July 27, told Interfax. And, as the magazine's managing editor wrote on Facebook, the publication's editorial staff has been disconnected from the publishing system - they cannot log in using their logins.

At a meeting of the UN Committee on Torture, which is taking place in Geneva, Valery Maksimenko, head of the Main Directorate for Supervision of Investigations of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, said that during the investigation of the case of the head of the Grozny “Memorial” Oyub Titiev, “sufficient evidence of his guilt was collected, in connection with which the case has been sent to court." “The investigation did not allow any violations of Titiev’s rights,” Maksimenko said.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested former First Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations Sergei Shlyakov for two months, until September 25, on charges of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), RBC . reports He is accused of trying to sell the post of acting governor of the Yaroslavl region.

There is a sequel The meeting of the Basmanny Court in the “case of Shestun” calls to question the election on September 9 throughout the Moscow Region The Basmanny Court of Moscow recognized the initiation of a criminal case in relation to the head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow Region Alexander Shestun, who was accused of abuse of office, the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta from the courtroom reports. The judge also refused the complaint to the lawyer.

The State Duma adopted in the third reading a package of laws on the creation of special administrative regions (SAR) in Russia, which will become an alternative to foreign offshore zones. It is reported by TASS. The ATS will appear on the Oktyabrsky Islands in the Kaliningrad Region and Russky Islands in the Primorsky Territory.

The deputies disrupted the meeting of the commission for monitoring the reliability of information about the income and property of deputies, which is chaired by Natalia Poklonskaya. Interfax sources report that it was a "planned decision". According to the agency, out of 17 members of the commission, only two came to the meeting: one representative each from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and United Russia.

According to the ex-Senator, who wanted to head the Yaroslavl region, the former deputy minister of the Ministry of Emergencies was arrested Shlyakov - the extreme on the right.