A criminal case for fraud was opened against the mayor of Volokolamsk, Pyotr Lazarev, who spoke out against the Yadrovo landfill (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). The case dates back to April 11, the BBC reports . On April 13, at about four o'clock in the morning, they came to Lazarev's home with a search. “They turned the whole house over, even broke the dishes. It is unclear what they were looking for; there was no excavation.

The justice of the peace of the Leninsky district of Cheboksary considered the third case against the deputy chairman of Open Russia Dmitry Semenov on cooperation with an undesirable organization (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Semyonov was fined 6,000 rubles, reports Idel . Realities". The case was considered without the participation of the activist and his lawyer.

Nationalist and one of the leaders of the “Russians” association, Alexandru Belov (Potkin), accused of money laundering, was released from pre-trial detention center. Now he is under house arrest, writes Mediazona with reference to lawyer Igor Popovsky. Potkin spent three and a half years in prison. On April 12, the court decided to transfer him to house arrest. The nationalist is accused of legalizing the property of the Kazakh BTA-Bank (Article 174 of the Criminal Code).

Alexei Navalny’s headquarters volunteer Alexei Mironov, convicted of posts on VKontakte, is being transferred from the colony-settlement to pre-trial detention center No. 1. This is reported by Idel. Realii” with reference to the mother of the activist Veronika Mironova. After that, Mironov, presumably, can be sent to a colony in another region.

A civil activist from Mari El, Yevgeny Pirogov, who was sentenced to two years for a post on a social network, has been released from the colony. It is reported by "Idel. Realities". Yevgeny Pirogov was sentenced on May 29, 2016 under Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) to two years in a general regime colony. The reason was the publication in the social network "VKontakte".

In Moscow, Valeria Pavlova, a volunteer at the Same Children integration center for children of refugees and migrants, received a phone call from a man who introduced himself as an FSB officer. He invited the girl to meet to discuss the activities of the organization in which she works. Pavlova told OVD-Info about this. During the conversation, the girl asked the man what kind of organization he was talking about.

The Matveyevo-Kurgansky District Court arrested until June 12, 2018, the co-chairman of the Other Russia party Alexander Averin, who was detained in the Rostov region on the border with the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. about this with reference to the press secretary of the Rostov branch of the party, Sergei Cherepovsky.

In Volgograd, a court arrested activist Vladimir Telpuk for one day for posting on the VKontakte social network. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the lawyer Alexei Andriyanov. The court found Telpuk guilty of public demonstration of prohibited paraphernalia (part 1 of article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

In Petrozavodsk, prosecutor Elena Askerova appealed the decision of the Petrozavodsk city court, which acquitted Yury Dmitriev, a historian and head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial Human Rights Center. about this with reference to the press secretary of the Prosecutor's Office of Karelia.

In the Kurgan region, a criminal case was opened against a resident of the Almenevsky district for distributing prohibited literature. This was reported by the SOVA information and analytical center. The man is accused of promoting terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and inciting hatred (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

Igor Nagavkin / Photo: "Caucasian Knot" Judge of the Moscow City Court Elena Pospelova on April 12 extended for two months the term of detention of the human rights activist Igor Nagavkin. This is stated on the website of the All -Russian Public Movement "For Human Rights". Nagavkin is accused of theft from a pawnshop. His lawyers announced falsification in the case. At the moment, the human rights activist has been in jail for more than 18 months.

Dmitry Dinze, a lawyer for convicted pro-Ukrainian activist Volodymyr Balukh, claims that the head of the temporary detention center (IVS) in Razdolny, Valeriy Tkachenko, was ordered to write a statement against Balukh. about this After the meeting of the Razdolnensky District Court, he spoke in a video posted on Facebook on the page of Mikhail Batrak. According to Dinze, a conflict has been brewing between Balukh and Tkachenko for a long time.

In Moscow, police officers detained five participants in the action “We will not give hands to the Rostov FSB” near the FSB building on Lubyanka. This was announced by the ATD-Info by activist Mikhail Shemanaev. The participants in the action were defended by the former policeman Nikolai Germashev and held the posters with the inscriptions “We will not give the hands of the Rostov FSB!”, “Freedom to ex-policeman Germashev N.V.!” And “the Rostov FSB is fabricating custom affairs!”.

Photo: Dmitry Kalinin, Facebook In Yekaterinburg, unknown people beat the editor -in -chief of the "Regional Gazeta" Dmitry Polyanin and human rights activist Dmitry Kalinin. Polyanin spoke about beating on the website of the "Regional Newspaper". According to him, in the evening of April 12, unknown people hit him behind the reinforcement right at the Uzeza. The editor has a broken rib, he also received a concussion and several bruises.

On April 12, the Moscow Meshchansky Court sentenced nationalist and one of the leaders of the “Russians” association, Alexander Belov (Potkin), accused of money laundering, to house arrest. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to lawyer Igor Popovsky. The judge chose house arrest until June 11 as a preventive measure. In addition, the court granted the prosecutor's request and postponed the hearing to April 17.