Opposition activist Ildar Dadin became involved in a criminal case under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code; he is accused of violating the law on rallies. about this on Twitter . writes Anastasia Zotova, who is present in the Basmanny Court, Charge: organized a procession in a group of five people. Procession of five people!! — Anastasia Zotova (@Alasta_ven) January 30, 2015 Dadin was detained at a rally on Manezhnaya Square on January 15 and spent 15 days in a special detention center.

Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant (NEVZ), which employs about 10 thousand people, is suspending its work on February 1. The reason for this decision was the suspension by Russian Railways of the execution of the contract for orders. According to the publication Bloknot-Rostov, the order of the general director of the plant, Igor Shchedrov, was conveyed to all employees of the enterprise on the morning of January 29. According to the document, NEVZ stops work on February 1.

The prosecutor's office of the city of Michurinsk, Tambov region, demands that the leadership of the city administration be brought to disciplinary responsibility for the “formal approach” to the fight against extremism. The complaint made to the head of the city administration is reported on the official website of the regional prosecutor's office.

The Sverdlovsk District Court of Krasnoyarsk found former police officers guilty of committing a series of attacks. Six ex-police officers, using batons and stun guns, took drugs from drug dealers for personal use. The court sentenced Ivan Tkachenko, Dmitry Usoltsev, Mikhail Naumenko, Rinat Murtazin, Sergei Khudov and Ivan Tyukhay to terms of 6 to 8 years in prison in a maximum security colony. They were charged under paragraph “c” of Part 3 of Art.

Riot police officers carry out a force operation at the Rakhmat mosque on Kosmonavtov Avenue in Yekaterinburg: everyone’s documents are checked, some are put on police buses.

The Tagansk Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office demanded that the management of the Center for Anti-Corruption Research and Initiatives of Transparency International Russia provide documents as part of an audit of the organization's performance of the functions of a foreign agent. “Today prosecutors came to our half-empty office (a considerable part of the employees are at our Winter School). They handed us a requirement to provide a number of documents by February 2, that is, by Monday.

The Federal Service for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (FSKN) may be disbanded as an independent body, and its powers are planned to be transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. this on Friday, citing a source close to the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported The Vedomosti newspaper . According to an employee of the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, such discussions in connection with budget optimization plans do take place, but no decision has been made.

The court of the city of Iskitim, Novosibirsk region, left the deputy head of the Iskitimsky department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Sergei Yasinsky, who was detained on suspicion of exceeding official authority, under a written undertaking not to leave the place. According to investigators, 10 years ago Yasinsky, as an operative, beat four teenagers, but escaped punishment. “The request to arrest Yasinsky and place him in pre-trial detention center No. 1 was denied.

The Central District Court of Omsk will consider the criminal case of 53-year-old Alexander Khinevich, the founder of several associations of Orthodox Old Believers Yinglings, recognized as religious extremist organizations. Khinevich was charged under Part 1 of Art.

The detective of police department No. 5 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the city of Tyumen, who raped a woman who refused to admit to shoplifting, was placed under house arrest. The Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Tyumen Region reported on Friday that such a preventive measure had been taken against the operative.

The organizers of the picket of former employees of the Zlatoust Metallurgical Plant (JSC ZMZ) were unable to attend the action coordinated with the administration of Chelyabinsk, as the police detained them on suspicion of “transporting drugs and an atomic bomb.” “On the morning of January 30, I left the apartment, and 50 minutes later I returned for the posters, but the locks were filled with glue. We decided that we would draw new ones on the way to Chelyabinsk.

The Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights on Friday sent a request to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation in the case of a resident of the Smolensk region, Svetlana Davydova, accused of treason. Members of the HRC addressed the request to Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika.

A lawyer from the Samara region became involved in a criminal case of bribery: he gave the deputy head of a colony settlement 100 thousand rubles so that his client would not be transferred to another institution of the Federal Penitentiary Service. The lawyer who was under investigation worked at the Bar Association No. 17, reports the press service of the Samara Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee. He was charged under Part 3 of Art.

In 2014, in the institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Tatarstan, 12 people died from HIV, 9 people from tuberculosis. The incidence of tuberculosis among convicts increased by 27%. Prosecutor Ildus Nafikov presented such data at the final board meeting of the republic’s Federal Penitentiary Service, reports the Kazan Human Rights Center. In total, 69 people died in places of imprisonment and detention in Tatarstan.

The Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow decided to terminate the criminal case in which Anatoly Ballo, Deputy Chairman of Vnesheconombank, was accused for almost three years. Ballo was first accused of fraud, then the case was reclassified and charged with abuse of power. Now the investigator has come to the conclusion that Ballo’s actions lacked corpus delicti, Kommersant wrote on Friday.