The head of the religious group “Community of Christians,” Alexei Kolyasnikov, who the day before was fined for an “unauthorized event” and reading the Bible in the presence of “random visitors to a cafe,” told the “Caucasian Knot” on Wednesday that the premises were rented specifically for the group’s meeting, but they got inside police officers and the FSB - it was the presence of these “random visitors” that the court justified its decision. “We officially rented the cafe from its owner.

The Kopeysk City Court of the Chelyabinsk Region on Tuesday interrogated the suspended head of IK-6 Denis Mekhanov, accused of abuse of power. Mekhanov denies his guilt in organizing illegal production in the colony and extorting relatives of prisoners, saying that the charges against him were the result of revenge from criminals. A criminal case was opened against Mekhanov after a prisoner riot in 2012.

The Investigative Committee announced the verdict in the case of Evgeny Pomelov, a defendant in the first criminal case initiated in Crimea by Russian investigative authorities. 25-year-old Pomelov, who worked as an assistant prosecutor in Yalta, was sentenced to 3 years in prison for accepting a bribe. The former employee of the prosecutor's office will serve his sentence in a general regime colony, the press service of the Investigative Committee said in a statement.

The Novokhopersky District Court of the Voronezh Region sentenced 44-year-old Mikhail Boyarishchev to 2.5 years in a penal colony for setting fire to a drilling rig after a rally against nickel mining. A native of the city of Uryupinsk, Volgograd region, Boyarishchev was found guilty under Part 2 of Art. 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (deliberate destruction or damage to someone else’s property by arson), the prosecutor’s office of the Voronezh region reported on Tuesday.

The site lj.rossia.org, which is a platform for creating blogs, is included in the Unified Register of Prohibited Sites and is blocked. This summer, access to the site was already blocked, but this was done only by those providers that do not have the ability to block access to individual pages and block by IP addresses.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation may withdraw from the Supreme Court the claim for the liquidation of the human rights society “Memorial” if the organization eliminates all violations. this reports Interfax with reference to the press service of the ministry. The hearing of the lawsuit to liquidate Memorial is scheduled in the Supreme Court for November 13. The Justice Ministry's claims relate to the structure of the organization.

The court sentenced Evgeny Rozanov, former deputy mayor of Yaroslavl Evgeny Urlashov for urban planning, to 5 years in prison in a maximum security colony. In addition, Rozanov will have to pay a fine of 5 million rubles.

The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg partially satisfied the claim of the head of the ECOM Center of Expertise, Alexander Karpov, against member of the Legislative Assembly Vitaly Milonov, who called Karpov a “reptile and a beetle.” Milonov will pay 25 thousand rubles for moral damage caused. The court's decision was reported by Fontanka.ru with reference to Karpov's Facebook page.

The court found the former employee of the line police department at the Nizhny Novgorod airport guilty of violating traffic rules that resulted in the death of a person and sentenced her to 1.5 years in prison. The traffic accident for which the former inspector was accused occurred in the city of Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, on January 5, 2013. The driver of a Honda car lost control, drove into a public transport stop and hit a 51-year-old woman. The victim died on the spot.

A kindergarten teacher in Nakhodka was fired for tying up a two-year-old child, and a criminal case was opened against her. If found guilty, she faces up to five years in prison. The mother of one of the children became aware of the inhumane methods of upbringing, reports the Open Information Agency with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Primorsky Territory. A woman came to pick up her two-year-old son and found him in his crib.

The Central District Court of Chelyabinsk satisfied the claim for compensation for moral damage filed by Kopeysk resident Sergei Ryzhov, the son of pensioner Anatoly Ryzhov, who died in 2010 as a result of the actions of police officers. They came to question the pensioner about the circumstances of the storage of the hunting rifle, and in the end they blocked the air supply in the bathhouse, where Ryzhov died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Ryzhov Jr.

The assistant chief for work with personnel of the Alatyrsky department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is suspected of giving deliberately false testimony during the investigation and trial in the case of land fraud. According to the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for Chuvashia, a case was opened against the police officer under Part 1 of Art. 307 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (knowingly false testimony as a witness).

The driver of the snowplow Vladimir Martynenko, suspected of involvement in the crash of the Falcon-400 plane at Vnukovo airport, was detained and interrogated. According to investigators, the driver was drunk at the time of the collision with the plane, but his defense claims that Martynenko is contraindicated for health reasons. about the detention of the driver of the snowplow His lawyer Alexander Karabanov informed Interfax .

The Central District Court of Kaliningrad extended by two months the detention period of the accused in the case of hoisting the German flag on the FSB building in the Kaliningrad region: Dmitry Fonarev, Oleg Savvin and Mikhail Feldman. Activists of the Committee for Public Self-Defense (KOS) of Kaliningrad reported this to Mediazona. The decision to extend the arrest of Savvin and Feldman was made on Monday; the court decided to keep Fonarev in custody last Friday.

A bill on unhindered access to colonies and pre-trial detention centers for members of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) and the Public Chamber (PC) is being prepared for submission to the State Duma. The Ministry of Justice has not yet commented on the initiative. The draft amendments to the Criminal Executive Code (EC) of the Russian Federation were developed by A Just Russia deputy Valery Gartung, Kommersant wrote on Tuesday.