The Smolensk Regional Court recognized the legal and fair sentence imposed on deputy Andrei Ershov for humiliating former juvenile prisoners of concentration camps, but canceled the fine of 200 thousand rubles imposed on him due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. this on Tuesday reported State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Smolensk .

A woman accused of stealing things in a shopping center in Kaliningrad stole a bag from an employee of the Central District Magistrate's Court, where her criminal case was being heard. In court, a 27-year-old woman was accused in a case of a theft committed several months ago, but in her free time from the hearing she managed to steal a bag containing documents, money and a bank card, the press service of the Kaliningrad Regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, the State Duma adopted in the third reading a law on bringing employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to administrative responsibility in a special order. In particular, they will not be subject to administrative arrest. Now this procedure applies to deputies, judges and prosecutors, military personnel, firefighters and pregnant women.

On Tuesday, the alleged instigator of the riot in Chelyabinsk pre-trial detention center No. 1, Kargiev, was supposed to testify in the case of false denunciation against the head of Kopeisk colony No. 6 Denis Mekhanov. Previously, Kargiev was summoned to court, but he refused to go there, and now had to be forcibly brought in for questioning.

A criminal case has been opened in Krasnodar over the beating of Dagestan construction workers, in which a police colonel took part. He himself was dismissed from the internal affairs bodies. this on Tuesday reported Yuga.ru . A criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism) at the request of the injured construction workers.

The Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk decided to close the administrative case against Tajik citizen Umidjon Abdukhafizov, who was required to be deported from Russia by the local branch of the FMS. The lawyer representing the interests of Abdukhafizov in the case of torture by the police with electric shock now also intends to sue the migration service.

Oppositionist Sergei Mokhnatkin, accused of attacking police officers, fought with bailiffs in the Tverskoy courtroom in Moscow and notified the judge of his intention to kill the lawyer assigned to him. As reports a RIA Novosti correspondent , the oppositionist wanted to defend himself on his own, but the judge, in accordance with the law, was forced to involve a government lawyer to participate in the process.

A resident of St. Petersburg, Mikhail Babichev, was sentenced to compulsory treatment in a general psychiatric hospital in a case of extremism. Babichev left several comments in one of the communities on the social network “Vkontakte” with calls to go to political rallies, as well as to storm the Kremlin. Verdict under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (calls to carry out extremist activities) was ruled on Monday by the Primorsky District Court of St.

The case against Rostov-based journalist of the Rosbalt agency Dmitry Remizov, who was accused of desecration of the Russian flag, was discontinued due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. As the Glasnost Defense Foundation recalls , the case against Remizov was opened in February 2013, charging him under Art. 329 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (outrage of the State Flag of the Russian Federation).

Igor Matveev in the Pacific Naval Military Court of Vladivostok, 2012. Photo: Vitaly Ankov / RIA Novosti The Vladivostok garrison military court sentenced the former internal troops officer of the Primorsky Territory Igor Matveev, who in 2011 spoke about corruption in the Primorsky Brigade of the Internal Troops and that the soldiers were given dog food instead of stew.

The Sakharov Center received notification of an unscheduled inspection by the Ministry of Justice in connection with the law on foreign agents. It is being carried out at the request of an unnamed citizen and will take place from December 12 to January 19. The official website of the Sakharov Center reports that a notification and order for an inspection were received from the Ministry of Justice.

The Russian Ministry of Justice included the Moscow School of Civic Education in the register of NGOs performing the functions of a foreign agent. This autonomous non-profit organization is eighteenth on the list.

The Vladivostok garrison military court sentenced to 4.5 years in prison a former officer of the Internal Troops of the Primorsky Territory, Igor Matveev, who became famous in 2011 for his loud revelations of abuses in a unit where canned dog food was stored in a warehouse instead of stewed meat for soldiers. This time Matveev was accused of abuse of power and fraud. “Igor Matveev was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison.

Russian State Duma deputy Mikhail Starshinov intends to send a request to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to conduct an inspection of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service in connection with the act of disobedience in pre-trial detention center No. 1. “Apparently, this is a consequence of some kind of system failure. Today's events are clear confirmation of this.

The criminal article “Slander” (Article 129 of the Criminal Code) was decriminalized in December 2011 under President Dmitry Medvedev. In the summer of 2012, after Vladimir Putin returned to power, libel was again included in the criminal code as Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code. According to judicial statistics, in 2013, 107 people were convicted of libel under this new article 128.1.