The judge of the Leninsky District Court of Saratov received a warning from the qualification board for a too lenient sentence: he sentenced Pavel Radzievsky, accused of robbery, to a suspended sentence, not knowing that he had already been convicted before. Remaining free, the robber first committed a theft, and then a double murder, and is already serving a life sentence.

A witness in the case of the nationalist movement “Ataka”, whose members are accused of creating an extremist organization, Sergei Sukhanov turned from a witness into a suspect; he was given a written undertaking not to leave. Thus, the number of defendants in the case increased to five. The Moscow agency, citing a source in law enforcement agencies , reports that Sukhanov will be formally charged within ten days.

Former platoon commander of the traffic police regiment of the Kazan traffic police, Rinat Sabitov, was sentenced to 3.5 years of suspended imprisonment and a fine of 4 million 800 thousand rubles for accepting a bribe. For 120 thousand rubles, Sabirov agreed to replace the material evidence found in the car: instead of a bag of drugs, he attached a drug collection to the case materials. Sabitov was found guilty under Part 3 of Art.

The Kaluga District Court of Kaluga on Wednesday granted a request for the parole of Moscow student Alexandra Lotkova, convicted of shooting with a traumatic weapon in the Moscow metro. “The issue of parole was considered and decided positively by the court, Lotkova was released 6 months 7 days before the expiration of her sentence,” Svetlana Belokopytova, deputy head of the judicial department of the Kaluga region, told Mediazona.

The Tverskoy District Court on Wednesday granted the request of activist Sergei Mokhnatkin, accused of attacking police officers, to refuse a defense lawyer. Mokhnatkin himself requested to refuse a lawyer, but his lawyer did not object, RAPSI reports : he asked to be released from participation in the trial due to the impossibility of developing a consolidated position on the case with his client.

A prisoner committed suicide in a Nizhnekamsk colony: a 27-year-old man, serving a sentence for robbery, hanged himself in the basement of IK-4. The disappearance of the convict was noticed on the evening of November 16 - he did not show up for dinner, reports the Kazan Human Rights Center. The man's body was found in the basement; he hanged himself. The name of the prisoner is not known; it is known that he was convicted of robbery and had four more years to serve.

The Strasbourg court demanded that Russia urgently diagnose convict Vladimir Klimov, who is serving a sentence in correctional colony No. 5 of Chita. Klimov has cancer in the fourth stage. Strasbourg obliged to involve medical experts independent from the Federal Penitentiary Service in the diagnosis. The human rights organization “Zone of Law” reported this on Wednesday with reference to lawyer Irina Khrunova, who represents Klimov’s interests in the European Court.

The Investigative Committee of Russia began a pre-investigation check in connection with the publication about the financing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny with funds received from the Kremlin. The article was published in LifeNews, removed from publication, but after some time reappeared on the site.

The Moscow City Court on Wednesday rejected the appeal of Dmitry Ishevsky, who was sentenced to 3 years and 2 months for participating in mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. The verdict came into force. After a five-minute meeting, the panel of judges announced the operative part of the decision, in which they refused to commute the sentence with the wording: “the court did not find any grounds for mitigating the sentence,” reports TASS .

The court extended until January 21, 2015 the detention of 23-year-old activist Daria Polyudova, accused in the case of calls for separatism, which was opened against the organizers of the “March for the Federalization of Kuban.” Polyudova has been in a pre-trial detention center since the beginning of September this year; a court hearing on the issue of extending the arrest was scheduled for November 21, but took place on November 18, reports OVD-Info with reference to Viktor Chirikov, an