Law enforcement agencies refused to initiate criminal proceedings against Orthodox activists led by Anatoly Artyukh, assistant to Legislative Assembly deputy Vitaly Milonov, who attacked Agora lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov, who was defending a gay activist.

The Kalininsky District Court of Chelyabinsk sentenced Alexander Ushakov and Maxim Kavaliauskas to three and a half and a year and eight months in prison, respectively, for arson at the prosecutor's office, the First Regional website reports .

The Syzran City Court found a 24-year-old local resident guilty under Part 1 of Art. 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (use of violence not dangerous to life and health against a government official in connection with the performance of his official duties). “The court found that the young man, while intoxicated on July 20, 2014, at the entrance to the Syzran-1 railway station building, used crude obscene language at passers-by.

Oleg Kashin demanded from the state a payment of 500 thousand rubles for delaying the investigation into the case of his beating on November 6, 2010, Ilnur Sharapov, a lawyer representing the interests of the journalist from the Agora Association, told Mediazona. The statement of claim (available to Mediazona) provides specific examples of reluctance to investigate the case.

The case of Chelyabinsk district police officer Andrey Starikov, accused of Part 3 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of official powers) and Part 2 of Article 292 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (forgery), was brought to court.

Despite the opposition of the prosecutor's office, the Privolzhsky District Court of Kazan granted the petition for the release from the colony of a man suffering from HIV and hepatitis. The application for release for health reasons was submitted by the Kazan Human Rights Center and the human rights organization “Zona Prava”. The colony supported the petition; the prosecutor's office opposed the release of the seriously ill man.

The Investigative Committee for the Kaliningrad Region has begun a pre-investigation investigation into the discovery of the body of a 52-year-old woman in a rope noose on the outskirts of the city of Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Region, the department reports .

The Sayanogorsk City Court made a decision in the case of the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in August 2009, which resulted in the death of 75 people. “Director of the branch of JSC RusHydro - Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP named after. P.S.

Human rights activists from Memorial became aware of five more destroyed houses in the republic, which belonged to relatives of the militants who attacked Grozny on December 4. “The family of Ruslan Magomadov lived in Gudermes (219 Krasnoarmeyskaya St.). Son Magomed was among the militants who took part in the attack on Grozny on December 4. After these events, the family left the city.

The Avtozavodsky Court of Nizhny Novgorod began considering the case against the former deputy head of police department No. 1 Vladimir Samsonov and five of his subordinates, accused of exceeding official authority. According to investigators, the police tortured the detainees, extracting confessions of car theft, writes Kommersant. The police officers are accused under two articles of the Criminal Code: abuse of power (Article 286) and violation of the inviolability of the home.