The Constitutional Court of Russia on Thursday decided on the need to amend the article “fraud in business activities” (Article 159.4 of the Criminal Code). As RBC writes , the judges of the Constitutional Court recognized that the norm violates the principles of equality and allows different punishments to be imposed for similar crimes, and thereby contradicts the Constitution.

Igor Kalyapin in an independent press center, December 11, 2014. Photo: Maria Klimova / "Mediazona" On Thursday, during the press conference “Collective punishment as a method of struggle with armed underground in Chechnya”, several supporters of Ramzan Kadyrov were thrown into human rights activists in an independent press center, among whom was the chairman of the “Committee against torture” Igor Kalyapin.

In the Trans-Baikal Territory, a 27-year-old police officer for the Olovyaninsky district was detained, who is suspected of killing two teenagers in 2006. As Vesti-Chita reports with reference to the head of the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Trans-Baikal Territory Larisa Ivanova, two of his alleged accomplices were detained along with the policeman - a 43-year-old businessman and a 33-year-old miner.

The Zavodskoy District Court of Saratov made a decision on the claim for compensation for moral damage of Larisa Sotnikova, whose son Artyom was killed on April 27, 2012 by employees of correctional colony No. 13. Sotnikova herself demanded compensation in the amount of 30 million rubles, writes Svobodnye Novosti news agency.

A criminal case on public calls for extremist activities (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) was opened in Perm against an artist who draws posters under the pseudonym Paperdaemon, the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the Perm Territory reported on Thursday.

A criminal case has been opened in Moscow against the deputy head of the Donskoy police department, Sergei Osipov, and his assistant, Alexander Masalov. They are accused of committing a crime under paragraphs. “a, b, c” part 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking a bribe), reported on Thursday.

Tatar Tair Smedlyaev, who was charged with using violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code), was released from a pre-trial detention center in Simferopol on bail. Smedlyaev, like three other defendants in the “May 3 case,” is accused of participating in the events at the Armyansk checkpoint during a meeting between the Crimean Tatars of one of their leaders, Mustafa Dzhemilev, who was banned by the Russian authorities from entering the country.

Broadcasting of the radio station “Echo of Moscow” in Makhachkala stopped at about 11 am on Thursday, the director of the local branch of the radio station, Zaur Gadzhiev, told the publication “Caucasian Politics”. “The transmitting television station, which handles the broadcast, told us that Roskomnadzor gave instructions to suspend broadcasting. Allegedly the reason is a frequency mismatch... Or something like that. Of course, I asked them for papers.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin proposed introducing criminal liability for speculation in the foreign exchange market. As TASS reports , he said this while speaking on Thursday at the board of the Investigative Committee on the effectiveness of the investigation of crimes in the economic sphere.

A fire in the house of Anatoly Artyukh, assistant to St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly deputy Vitaly Milonov, located in Gatchina, occurred on the night of December 9-10. As reports with reference to Artyukh himself, at that moment there was no one in the house. Fontanka “The wall and roof were burned. This is an obvious arson, firefighters are checking,” Artyukh, who is also the coordinator of the “People’s Council” and the “Novorossiya Igor Strelkov” movement in St.

Investigators opened a criminal case for negligence resulting in the death of a person through negligence (Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code) against employees of the pre-trial detention center No. 1 of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Sverdlovsk Region located in Ekterinburg. This was reported by the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

The Chkalovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg declared the actions of the acting officer illegal. the head of the Department of Internal Affairs for the city of Berezovsky, Alexander Surin, and the deputy head of the investigative department of the Department of Internal Affairs, Vasily Tsibin, who denied members of the PMC access to the premises for detainees of the duty station at night.

The Nizhny Novgorod District Court of Nizhny Novgorod dismissed the claim of Filyus Khusainov, the head of colony-settlement No. 11 located in the village of Guberlya in the Orenburg Region, against the interregional public organization “Committee against Torture” for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation, reported the press service of the human rights organization on Thursday organizations.

In the Nizhny Novgorod for more than a year, 47-year-old anarchist Ilya Romanov has been in the pre-trial detention center, who served in Ukraine for 10 years in the case of “Odessa Komsomols”. After the explosion of the firecracker, Romanov’s left brush was amputated. The FSB charged him with preparing the attack. The anarchist said that the main evidence against him is two computer files, in his opinion, created by the operatives of the ED center.

During the press conference “Collective punishment as a method of struggle with an armed underground in Chechnya”, which was held in an independent press center on Thursday, several supporters of Ramzan Kadyrov, who were thrown into the hall of the Chairman of the “Committee against Torture” Igor Kalyapin, broke into the hall. This was reported by the correspondent of "Mediazons". “How dare you say such words when police officers died,” the attackers shouted.