The Investigative Committee has reclassified the criminal case against the crew members of the Arctic Sunrise vessel and Greenpeace activists from the article "piracy" to the article "hooliganism," Vladimir Markin, official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee, told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

The Murmansk Regional Court dismissed an appeal against the arrest of Greenpeace activist, Swedish citizen Dmitry Litvinov and second mate of Arctic Sunrise, Argentine citizen Miguel Hernan Pérez Orsi. They will remain in custody until 24 November.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that it would not take part either in the arbitration proceedings on the claim of the Netherlands for the arrest of the vessel "Arctic Sunrise", or in the proceedings at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which was also requested by the Netherlands to take interim measures, until the composition of the arbitration tribunal is formed. .

"Bolotnaya case" Human Rights Watch calls for the release of all accused from custody Human Rights Watch website, October 16 : “Russian authorities should change the preventive measure to non-custodial measures for all defendants in the Bolotnaya case and investigate allegations of unlawful treatment and denial of medical care,” Human Rights Watch said.

Alienation zone - ik -14 The report of the Moscow photographers Alexander Baroshin and Konstantin Borodin, who often remove street shares, from the walls of the Mordovlax or IK-14, where until recently was Nadezhda Tolokonnikov, political prisoner in the case of Punk-Molebne in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. You can see a completely report here and here .