On June 7, the State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill on the partial decriminalization of two articles of the Criminal Code - beatings and malicious non-payment of alimony were submitted to the Code of Administrative Offenses, RIA Novosti writes .

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia has completed an investigation into the case of the Director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature, Natalya Sharina. She is charged under paragraph “b” of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred or enmity using her official position) and parts 3 and 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code (embezzlement committed on a large and especially large scale).

The State Duma adopted in the third final reading a bill to reduce the number of jurors from twelve to eight people in regional courts. At the same time, assessors will consider cases in district courts, reports on June 7. Interfax The law will come into force in June 2018. According to the document, six assessors can take part in proceedings in district and military courts for especially grave crimes. In the regional courts, the collegium will consist of eight people.

Zurab Abashidze, the special envoy of the Georgian prime minister, said that the other day Russia released three Georgian citizens convicted of espionage in 2008-2010. This was reported on June 7 by Radio Liberty. According to the publication, one of the released is Sochi resident Yekaterina Kharebava. She was convicted for passing information to the Georgian special services about the movement of Russian troops towards Abkhazia.

Activist Ilya Pakhomov, who was detained for a one-man picket near the State Duma in April, dedicated to the "Panamanian scandal", was fined 15,000 rubles, the reports Progress Party . The court also ordered the poster seized from him to be destroyed.

At a rally in Alushta that was not coordinated and dispersed by the police, three people were detained, it follows from the material Crimea. Realities. Alushta City Council deputy Pavel Stepanchenko was released after 7 hours in the department, two local residents, Leonid Litvinchuk and Ruslan Marinkov, were held for 48 hours.

Roskomnadzor will not prosecute NTV for a film with bed scenes of representatives of the leadership of the PARNAS party Natalya Pelevina and Mikhail Kasyanov. Natalya Pelevina published a response from Roskomnadzor, in which the legitimacy of publishing these footage is explained by the interests of "public security".

On Sunday, June 5, Asmik Novikova, head of the research programs of the Public Verdict Foundation, and a volunteer of the foundation, documentary filmmaker Ksenia Gagai, were detained by an armed group of police officers and taken to the building of the E center in Cherkessk, according to a press release from the Public Verdict. received OVD-Info.

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) of the Council of Europe has concluded that Russia has not heeded its recommendations in the 2013 report. The Russian document proposed to revise the definition of extremism in the law "On Counteracting Extremist Activity" so that it applies only to "serious cases of hatred and violence." However, the State Duma finds no reason to change the legislation, writes on June 7.

The Federal Bailiff Service transferred ten thousand dollars to the Russian budget, which were due to Mikhail Khodorkovsky as compensation for moral damage according to the decision of the ECHR. The press service of the bailiffs reported this on June 7. Money in rubles equivalent to the indicated amount was transferred by the Russian Ministry of Justice to the deposit account of the department for the execution of particularly important proceedings of the FSSP.

The Sudak city court considered the case of Alim Muslyadinov, one of the four Crimean Tatars who were detained on May 18, at a motor rally on the day of memory of the victims of deportation, writes “Crimea. Realities". According to lawyer Konstantin Rustemov, the criminal proceedings against Alim Muslyadinov have been terminated. “There is reason to believe that all four productions will end with the same result.

Ulyanovsk publicist Sergei Kryukov received political asylum in Ukraine. Five criminal cases were initiated against Kryukov for publishing in the personal blog “Russia is a prison of peoples”. He was charged with part 1 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public justification of terrorism), part 1 of article 280 (public calls for extremism) and part 1 of article 282 (inciting hatred or enmity). All cases were combined into one proceeding.

The Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the Meshchansky District Court to extend until October 20 the period of detention of Pyotr Pavlensky. The Moscow City Court left the complaint of the defense unsatisfied.