The St. Petersburg department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case regarding the use of unlicensed software from the 1C company in the non-profit organization League of Voters.

Investigators opened criminal cases against the deputy head of the Vishnevsky police department of the Kazan department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vitaly Popov, and the senior detective of the same department, Artem Chirkov. According to investigators, one of them stole a car, and the other tried to bribe a colleague from the owner who discovered the loss.

Investigators are conducting an investigation into the discovery of the corpse of a man in the guard room of the Orenburg Regional Court in the city of Orsk. According to preliminary data, he hanged himself after hearing that the judge sentenced him to 18 years in prison.

Two young men attacked the editor-in-chief of the Novosibirsk publication Taiga.Info, Evgeny Mezdrikov. The attack took place in the portal's office. According to the publication, the attackers entered the editorial office, located in the center of Novosibirsk, under the guise of couriers. They held empty boxes in their hands. One of them hit Mezdrikov several times in the face, the second began to fight with an editorial employee who tried to stop him and knocked him to the floor.

President Vladimir Putin considers the Russian judicial system one of the most developed in the world. He announced this during a meeting with judges of the Constitutional Court (CC). As TASS reports , during the meeting the president recalled that last week he held a meeting with human rights activists who criticized the work of the Russian judicial system.

The Supreme Court of Russia refused to initiate cassation proceedings on the complaint of the mother of the auditor of the Hermitage Capital fund, Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a pre-trial detention center. She asked to stop the posthumous persecution of her son. As told lawyer Nikolai Gorokhov, who represents the interests of the auditor’s mother, RAPSI, he will appeal this decision in the future. According to him, the complaint will be sent to the chairman of the Supreme Court.

Investigators opened a criminal case against a 26-year-old resident of Tver. According to investigators, he beat two police officers at the Department of Internal Affairs. As reported on the website of the Investigative Committee, on the night of December 6, a 26-year-old drunk man was taken to the police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tver for investigation and drawing up a report on an administrative offense.

The European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaint of the paralyzed 31-year-old auditor Vladimir Topekhin, who was serving his sentence in Matrosskaya Tishina and Kostroma IK-1. In the document, Topekhin pointed out the tortured conditions of detention in these institutions.

The Laishevsky District Court of Tatarstan sentenced Robert Khatipov, a former inspector of a separate battalion of the traffic police traffic police, to four years in prison. The policeman was found guilty of accepting a bribe, hitting a colleague and destroying the video recording of the incident.

Russia has demanded from Germany the extradition of environmentalist Suren Ghazaryan, who is wanted in the “Putin’s palace” case. “It seems that an extradition request addressed to me came from Russia to Germany. They are summoned to the Amtsgericht (local court) with documents about obtaining asylum in Estonia,” the environmentalist wrote on Facebook. He attached a copy of the ruling from the German court to the message.

The Tatarstan prosecutor's office has completed an investigation into the mass poisoning of prisoners in IK-19. Based on its results, the supervisory agency named the cause of poisoning as the convicts’ consumption of poor-quality water. As stated in the department's statement, prisoners began to contact the colony's medical unit with complaints of abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting on the morning of November 27.

The criminal case initiated against St. Petersburg resident Konstantin Sankov has been sent to court for consideration on the merits. Investigators saw signs of incitement to hatred in a comment left by a man under an NTV story about last year's unrest in Moscow's Biryulyovo district. According to investigators, on October 14 last year, Sankov, while at home, logged into the VKontakte social network through his Apple MacBook Pro computer.

A court in Pyatigorsk sentenced a PPS police officer from the Pyatigorsk Ministry of Internal Affairs to three years and six months in a general regime colony for beating an interlocutor who insulted him, the regional prosecutor's office reports . As the court found, on May 29, 2014, policeman Starikov V.N. was on the site near the building of the Lilia-Impulse nightclub, where he arrived on call at about 6 am. One of the men at the scene uttered obscene language at the police officer.

An electrician from the Raspadskaya mine in Mezhdurechensk (Kemerovo region), fired for absenteeism, was killed during detention. He shot and killed one policeman, wounded two more and seriously injured his shop manager. The shooting in the administrative building of the Raspadskaya mine began at 08:30 local time (04:30 Moscow time), told Interfax Nadezhda Ananyeva, senior assistant to the head of the IC department for the Kemerovo region, .

Photo: Timofey Vyatkin / TASS The FSB officers took a Dagestan student from Moscow and delivered to the Stavropol pre-trial detention center: he became a suspect in the case of recruiting fighters to Syria. A few days later, the doctors removed the pen, which was fully included in his skull. Traces of torture were found among other defendants in the case.