Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin awarded the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov with the medal “Valor and Courage”. this Kadyrov himself announced on Instagram. According to Kadyrov, the medal “Valor and Courage” was awarded to him with the wording “for assistance in solving the tasks assigned to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.” “I also received expensive gifts from his hands - a personalized watch and a dirk,” wrote the head of Chechnya.

A pensioner from Sochi, Artur Zadelnikov, who became a victim of a robber, sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, asking them to take action in the case of his robbery. According to the man, an innocent young Chechen is in jail for committing this crime, but the real robber is at large; At the same time, the Sochi police, knowing this, refuse to take any measures and fabricate evidence.

A case has been opened against the head of the department for educational work with convicts at IK-2 in the Sverdlovsk region for an administrative offense under Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of extremist materials), according to the website of the regional prosecutor’s office.

The economic crisis caused a decrease in sales of products produced by prisoners in Tatarstan colonies. According to the head of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Daufit Hamadishin, the cost of unsold products is about 100 million rubles. This is the first time this has happened, the official noted. The head of the department spoke about the economic problems of the Federal Penitentiary Service at a meeting of the department’s final board, reports RBC-Tatarstan .

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan convicted former policeman Razil Karimov, who beat a detainee. Despite admitting guilt, the defendant was sentenced to four years in a general regime colony. As reported on the website of the Kazan Human Rights Center, whose head Igor Sholokhov represented the interests of the victim, during the debate the prosecution demanded six years in a general regime colony for the police sergeant.

The head of one of the departments of the Department of Internal Affairs in the Caucasus region of the Krasnodar Territory was taken into custody for selling synthetic drugs on an especially large scale, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, in November last year, a police officer sold a “synthetic drug on a large scale” to a drug-addicted local resident in the city of Ust-Labinsk.

A wave of staff layoffs has begun at the Republican Clinical Hospital of Vladikavkaz. At a meeting with representatives of political parties, the head physician of the hospital, Boris Gutnov, explained the layoffs as financial necessity, promising to employ the nurses as cleaners and the guards as private security companies. According to the newspaper Vestnik Beslana, several months ago “rural allowances” were removed from the salaries of RCH staff, thus reducing them by almost 30%.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow recognized as legal the actions of the Russian government, which refused to provide Alexei Navalny’s Progress Party with information on the income of the heads of state corporations, TASS reports . Progress Party lawyer Dmitry Krainev believes that the Cabinet of Ministers violated the party’s right to appeal to government agencies.

The prosecutor's office of the Zavodsky district of Saratov approved the indictment in the case against ex-investigative officer Alexander Menshchikov. A former police officer serving a sentence for brutally beating an 18-year-old detainee faces a new sentence for accepting a bribe.

Recently, some products in Russian regions have risen in price by 150%, said Marina Gridneva, official representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office. The Prosecutor General's Office began to conduct enhanced monitoring of prices for food and medicine after the introduction of a ban on the import of goods of certain categories.

The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture of the Council of Europe has published its 24th annual report. The document talks, among other things, about the situation of Russian prisoners. As stated in the 86-page report, since 2012, representatives of the organization have made six visits to Russia.

A former law enforcement officer in the Sverdlovsk region was beaten during his arrest for ATM fraud. According to members of the regional PMC Dmitry Rozhin and Vyacheslav Bashkov, doctors diagnosed him with a concussion. As Rozhin told the agency "Aktualno", when visiting the Yekaterinburg police department No.

Moscow pre-trial detention centers are still overcrowded - now the limit on the number of prisoners has been exceeded by 23.4%, said Anatoly Tikhomirov, head of the capital's department of the Federal Penitentiary Service. Last October, he said that isolation wards in Moscow were only 15% overcrowded.

Investigators are conducting an investigation into the death of a police officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kirov region. According to the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee, he died three days after passing tests for transfer to service in the riot police. According to investigators, on January 16, a 22-year-old police officer was tested for professional suitability for transfer to service in the riot police.

On the night of January 21, a fight broke out in the Opera cafe in Mineralnye Vody. One of its participants stabbed his opponent with a knife, from which he died. According to the source of the Notebook publication, the deceased served in the special forces.