The State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill giving the prosecutor's office the function of general supervision of the Investigative Committee. The document also introduces a new procedure for appointing prosecutors. According to the document , the prosecutor's office supervises the implementation of laws (the so-called general supervision) in relation to the Investigative Committee.

A criminal investigation has been completed against employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Uzlovsky district, the deputy chief of police, the head of the criminal investigation department, who are accused under Art. 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers causing grave consequences).

The Rostov Regional Court overturned the verdict of the Taganrog City Court against 16 Jehovah's Witnesses from Taganrog. Thus, the case is sent for a new trial. The reversal of the decision of the court of first instance was challenged by both Jehovah's Witnesses themselves and the prosecutor's office, notes the SOVA information and analytical center. The accused demanded full acquittal, and the supervisory authority filed a complaint against the sentence, considering it too lenient.

The Butyrsky Court of Moscow placed 31-year-old Muscovite Evgeniy Makurin, who beat a pensioner to death in line at a clinic, under house arrest until February 9. The Moscow agency was informed about this in court. Makurin is suspected of causing intentional grievous bodily harm, resulting in the death of pensioner Dinmukhamyat Tuktarov.

The Frunzensky District Court of the city of Ivanovo convicted a father and son who jointly beat three police officers. The court sentenced the son to a real sentence of two and a half years in prison; the father was sentenced to two years of suspended imprisonment. this IvanovoNews reports . According to the investigation, three police officers who were protecting public order at Lyceum No. 6 in Ivanovo arrived in response to a call from the director of the educational institution.

The Kirovsky District Court of St. Petersburg on Friday, December 12, rendered a verdict in the case of arson at the Economy hotel for migrants. Defendants Nikolai Antipanov and Alexey Konyakhin were sentenced to six and five years in a general regime colony, respectively, reports . Fontanka.ru The Economy dormitory, located at building 59 on Baltiyskaya Street, caught fire at about 10 p.m. on April 12. According to eyewitnesses, two men threw Molotov cocktails at the second floor windows.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested the former head of the Naberezhnye Chelny department for combating drugs, Radik Rashitov, suspected of abuse of power, reported on Friday. the Vechernyaya Kazan newspaper A criminal case against Rashitov under Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (exceeding official powers) was opened by the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee on November 11.

Perm artist and Internet activist Anton Myrzin, against whom a case of extremism was opened, left for Kyiv and intends to ask Ukraine for political asylum. this The artist, known under the pseudonym Paperdaemon, announced on his Facebook.

In Crimea, four police officers were convicted for extorting money from drug-addicted citizens for several years under the threat of bringing them to criminal responsibility, reports . the press service of the republican prosecutor's office The court found that at the end of 2010 - beginning of 2011, police officers in the territory of Yevpatoria and the Saki region were looking for drug-addicted citizens and demanding money from them in exchange for not prosecuting them for drug trafficking.

In Moscow, the lawyer of oppositionist Sergei Mokhnatkin, found guilty of beating two police officers, appealed the verdict, RAPSI reports citing the press service of the Tverskoy Court of Moscow. On December 10, Mokhnatkin was found guilty of beating two police officers at the Strategy-31 rally on December 31, 2013.

Members of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) for the Chelyabinsk region named the reasons for the riot in the Chelyabinsk pre-trial detention center-1, which occurred on Thursday, December 8. In their opinion, the riots were provoked by employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service. This is stated in a statement by members of the regional PMC, a copy of which is at the disposal of Mediazona.

The Khostinsky District Court of Sochi fined local resident Alexei Kolyasnikov 30 thousand rubles for reading the Bible in a cafe specially rented for this purpose, reports Gazeta.Ru , citing the pastor’s lawyer Alexander Popkov. Thus, the court agreed with the decision of the magistrate and found Kolyasnikov guilty of organizing a public event without submitting notification of its holding (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The defense has withdrawn its complaint to extend the house arrest of the head of AFK Sistema, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, accused in the Bashneft case, RBC reports . The appeal hearing was scheduled to take place on December 15. The reasons why the petition was withdrawn were not stated. In November, the Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the preventive measure against the businessman until March 16, 2015.

The Avtozavodskoy District Court of Nizhny Novgorod for the third time postponed consideration of the merits of the criminal case against six employees of the criminal investigation department of the police department. The defendants in the case are accused of several episodes of abuse of power and an episode of illegal entry into a home, which occurred in 2012, the Committee Against Torture reports .

The Moscow City Court on Friday withdrew from consideration the defense complaint of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko against the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow to extend her arrest, reports RAPSI . Earlier, the Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the arrest of Savchenko, accused of involvement in the death of the VGTRK film crew, until February 13, 2015.