The Tagansky District Court of Moscow on Wednesday extended until November 20 the arrest in pre-trial detention center of 19-year-old roofer Vladimir Podrezov, who is accused in the “high-rise case” of painting the star of a high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. this from the courtroom .

The State Duma on Wednesday, in the second reading, adopted a number of amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offenses, which tighten liability for the illegal trafficking of explosive devices and explosive materials, and also expand Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism).

The draft federal law “On municipal police in the Russian Federation” was submitted to the State Duma on Tuesday. It has already been sent for consideration to State Duma Chairman Sergei Naryshkin. The introduced bill proposes to make the positions of a number of police leaders at the grassroots level elective - police leaders in cities, towns and villages will be elected by the local population.

After the expiration of his sentence, Murmansk anarchist and social activist Alexey Raskhodchikov was released from the colony. He was first beaten by the police and then sentenced to a year in prison under Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code (use of violence against a government official). this on Wednesday . reported Russian Planet Alexey Raskhodchikov was sentenced to one year in prison in February 2014.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Mordovia sent a collective statement by 39 prisoners who demand a criminal against the IK-10 UFSIN of the Russian Federation on Mordovia. This was reported to the "Mediazone" in the human rights organization "Zone Law", whose lawyers are engaged in the help of these prisoners.

The Leninsky District Court of Grozny on Wednesday awarded 10,000 rubles in compensation for moral damage to Aima Makaeva, recognizing the investigation into the abduction of her son by security forces as ineffective, the press service of the Committee Against Torture reports . A month ago, on September 18, the European Court of Human Rights made its decision in this case, which came to the conclusion that the kidnappers of her son Apti Zayanalov were representatives of the state.

Lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina, who defends Crimean anti-fascist Alexander Kolchenko, accused of committing “terrorist acts” in Simferopol this spring, sent a statement of claim to the Kiev District Court of Simferopol to recognize Alexander Kolchenko’s right to retain Ukrainian citizenship.

An accountant at correctional colony N7 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Kostroma Region is accused of embezzling more than 600 thousand rubles, reports with reference to the regional department of the Investigative Committee. Interfax According to investigators, in 2013-2014, the accountant of IK-7 embezzled more than 600 thousand rubles, which were intended for travel of convicts and one-time benefits upon their release.

on Wednesday . reported In the Bryansk region, a criminal case has been sent to court against ex-employee of pre-trial detention center No.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow on Wednesday extended until December 10 the house arrest of opposition municipal deputy Konstantin Yankauskas, who is accused of fraud in raising money for the election campaign of Alexei Navalny. This was reported on Yankauskas’ official Twitter.

An assistant prosecutor of the city of Mirny, Mirny district of Yakutia, is suspected of beating his young adopted son, a criminal case has been opened under paragraph “d” of part 2 of article 117 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (torture of a person known to the perpetrator to be in a helpless state), reported Interfax on Wednesday with reference to the press service of the Republican Department of the Investigative Committee.

Lawyers from the interregional public organization “Committee against Torture” sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of Orenburg resident Alexander Bogdanov, who was brutally tortured by the police. this on Wednesday . reported The press service of the Committee Against Torture Alexander Bogdanov, who contacted human rights activists, said that in October 2011, he was severely beaten and bullied for two days by police officers at police station No. 3 in Orenburg.