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The Supreme Court of Crimea extended the arrest period for the gas pipeline bombers in the village of Perevalnoye on the Angarsk Pass of Crimea, the Akhtemov brothers, and the organizer of the sabotage, the first deputy head of the Crimean Tatar Majlis recognized in the Russian Federation as an extremist organization, Nariman Dzhelyalov. They will remain in the pre-trial detention center until at least July 26, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The court scheduled the next hearing for March 3. The lawyer of the detainees, Mikhail Polozov, said that...

The Third Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction, located in Sochi, confirmed the verdict of the leader of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, banned in Russia, Refat Chubarov, which was handed down to him by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea in June of this year. This was reported by the press service of the court, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the verdict, Chubarov will have to spend six years in prison in a general regime colony, and also pay...

The Ukrainian security forces who were in Crimea in 2014, and simply “armed citizens,” had to resist, then Vladimir Putin would have retreated, and Russia would have refused to annex the peninsula. Nikolai Polozov, a Russian lawyer who defends extremists, stated this on air on the Majlis TV channel ATR, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I am still convinced that if I had been provided...

The Ukrainian Naval Forces ships, detained by Russian border guards during the incident in the Krechensky Strait and handed over to Ukraine yesterday, were deprived of navigation and electronic equipment. Moscow lawyer Nikolai Polozov, who defends the naval forces sailor involved in the incident in the Kerch Strait, told the Kyiv online publication “Apostrophe” about this. “The ships were handed over, but in the criminal case, which are in Russia, they retain the status of material evidence...

Investigators of the State Bureau of Investigation began interrogating Ukrainian sailors released on September 7 in the case of the “Kerch incident,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The sailors' lawyer Nikolai Polozov wrote about this on his Twitter page. “These days in Kyiv, investigators from the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) began interrogating recently released Ukrainian sailors in the case of the “Kerch incident”, initiated by...

Ukrainian sailors detained for violating the state border of the Russian Federation in the Kerch Strait may be released under personal guarantee from the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova - a guarantee of the application of Russian criminal procedural law to the detainees. Izvestia writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. As a high-ranking source in Russian diplomatic circles explained to the publication, Moscow is indeed ready to transfer 24 sailors to Kyiv...

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea does not have mechanisms to force a state to implement its decisions, so Russia can ignore the demand to release Ukrainian sailors detained while attempting to unauthorizedly break through the territorial waters of the Russian Federation. The lawyer of the arrested Ukrainian sailors, Nikolai Polozov, stated this on the Pryamoy TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “De jure the tribunal, like other UN institutions, except...

Member of the Moscow Regional Bar Association Nikolai Polozov, who gained fame as a lawyer for Pussy Riot, and who recently defended Nadezhda Savchenko and members of the Mejlis in Russian courts, believes that Ukraine can initiate increased sanctions against Russia. A significant reason for this, in his opinion, is Moscow’s refusal to comply with the demand of the UN International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for immediate...

Moscow - Kyiv, October 30 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Ukrainian military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who is facing another criminal case in Russia - for illegal border crossing, claims that she was taken from the Lugansk region to Russia by force. Yesterday, her lawyers reported, she identified the man who led her abduction: this is the current head of the LPR, Igor Plotnitsky. Subscribe to news...