About a hundred workers of the Fortuna M market on 40th Anniversary of Victory Avenue in the Rostov district of Alesandrovka staged a rally, blocking the roadway. The main demand of the sellers was not to close the market. As DonNews reports, citing the words of an eyewitness, the protesters demanded a meeting with the governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev and the head of the city administration Sergei Gorban.

In 2014, Moscow district courts granted 93.43% of requests for detention filed by investigators - 13,646 out of 14,605. As reported by the Moscow agency, this was reported by the Chairman of the Moscow City Court Olga Egorova. “In 2013, 15,409 such petitions were considered, of which 14,540 were satisfied, and in 2014, 14,605 ​​petitions were considered, of which 13,646 were satisfied, that is, in 2014, judges granted 894 fewer petitions than in 2013 year,” she said.

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk declared illegal the decision of Roskomnadzor to issue a warning to the publication Sibkrai.Ru for material about the march for the federalization of Siberia. The court agreed that it did not contain signs of extremism.

The FSB has opened another criminal case against Ukrainian citizen Nadezhda Savchenko. According to lawyer Ilya Novikov, the case was initiated on the basis of illegal border crossing. “My client was presented with documents on the initiation of this criminal case,” he said, reports Interfax . Novikov recalled that the FSB had previously conducted an investigation into Nadezhda Savchenko’s possible illegal crossing of the Russian border.

The Mezhdurechensky City Court issued a ruling on the application of compulsory medical measures against a 29-year-old local resident who published extremist materials on VKontakte. As stated on the website of the prosecutor's office of the Kemerovo region, in the period from January to October 2013, a young man, while at home, created his own page on VKontakte, on which he posted audio and video recordings calling for hatred and enmity based on nationality.

Investigators detained one of the leaders of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Akhtem Chiygoz. He is suspected of organizing mass riots during a rally on February 26 last year near the building of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, according to the Investigative Committee’s website.

The operational-search part of the internal security of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Murmansk region is conducting an investigation into the fact that the detainee received bodily injuries. According to preliminary data from the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a previously convicted man was taken to the police department on suspicion of committing a crime (the department does not specify which one).

The court sentenced to seven years in prison a 20-year-old resident of Novosibirsk, who shot down and killed two policemen guarding a procession in honor of Easter. According to investigators , on April 20 last year, the defendant, while drunk, stole a Toyota Camry. Moving along Urmanov Street, he hit two pedestrians and three police officers who were protecting public order during a procession in honor of Easter. Two police officers - a man and a woman - died from their injuries.

Federal Drug Control Service officers detained a 33-year-old Muscovite in the Tsaritsyno district of Moscow who was selling methamphetamine, according to the department’s website. FSKN operatives caught the dealer in a “purchase” scheme, giving him money treated with a marking agent for the drug. Subsequently, traces of this substance were found during a search of the suspect on his hands and clothes.

Since taking office, Crimean Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya has sent six materials to the investigative authorities to organize criminal prosecution for actions of an extremist nature. In particular, she demands that cases be opened under articles on organizing mass riots and calls for separatism. As the Kryminform agency reports , Poklonskaya announced such data at a meeting of the interdepartmental working group on countering extremism in Crimea.

The leadership of the Novosibirsk Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs began an internal investigation in connection with the discovery of the fact of abuse of power by an employee of the inter-district department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia “Iskitimsky”. Local media sources claim that the suspect was police lieutenant colonel Sergei Yasinsky, who allegedly beat four teenagers 10 years ago, demanding that they confess to theft.

In the event of Russia's withdrawal from the Council of Europe, the competence of the ECHR on Russian territory will cease, said the head of the Ministry of Justice Alexander Konovalov. “Of course, leaving the Council of Europe means the termination of the competence of the ECHR. The only thing is that there is a clause that the cases that have time to arrive are now continuing to be considered,” quotes RIA Novosti him as saying.

More than a third of prisoners in the Krasnoyarsk Territory deliberately commit a crime after their release, because it is safer for them to live in colonies. Such data were obtained during a survey conducted by psychologists of the Federal Penitentiary Service among prisoners who were repeatedly deprived of their freedom, .

Investigators brought the case to court against the 40-year-old former head of the special accounting department of IK-5 of the Republic of Mari El. According to investigators, she accidentally released the prisoner seven months before the end of his sentence and tried to hide it.

The Prosecutor General's Office has identified cases of unjustified increases in prices for food and medicine in Russia by up to 400%. As RIA Novosti reports, this was announced by the head of the supervisory agency Yuri Chaika. “I have prepared an instruction... taking into account the increasing frequency of increases in prices for food and medicines, to conduct comprehensive inspections with the participation of representatives of regulatory authorities.