In Yekaterinburg, the head of the service of district commissioners and juvenile affairs of one of the police departments was detained for extortion. The major extorted 2.5 million rubles from those suspected of illegally withdrawing money from bank cards while on vacation and having nothing to do with the investigation of this crime. The major extorted 2.5 million rubles from two unemployed men, one of them 28 years old, the other 31 years old.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev appointed the former head of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, Vadim Yakovenko, as deputy head of the Federal Migration Service. about this on Friday wrote Interfax with reference to the order published on the prime minister’s website.

The Pinezhsky District Court of the Arkhangelsk Region sentenced to 6 years in a general regime colony and payment of 10 thousand rubles a fine to the former head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Pinezhsky District, Alexander Nikiforov. The policeman took bribes with gasoline and electrical appliances, helping local officials avoid deprivation of their licenses.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow, at the request of the South-Western Transport Prosecutor's Office, blocked VKontakte groups where they post videos of so-called hookers moving on trains and electric trains outside a carriage or locomotive, clinging to various structural elements. By decision of the court, the communities “Zatsepery of Moscow and the region”, “Zatsepery of the Yaroslavl direction”, “Zatsepery of the Riga direction” and “Zatsepery of the Kursk direction” were blocked.

The European Court of Human Rights upheld the complaint of Uzbek citizen Rashid Razzakov, who was tortured for three days by the Voronezh police, demanding a confession to murder. Razzakov will receive 20 thousand euros as compensation from the Russian Ministry of Finance.

A former detective of police department No. 8 “Gorki” in the city of Kazan was found guilty of extorting 200 thousand rubles: he demanded a bribe from a man who was obviously innocent of robbery, promising to falsify evidence of his non-involvement in the crime. 25-year-old operative Bulat Fatikhov investigated a criminal case of robbery in August 2014.

In Moscow, the detection rate of crimes has decreased to 27%, capital prosecutor Sergei Kudeneyev told an expanded board of the prosecutor’s office on Friday. “A significant number of people who committed crimes in 2014 escaped from deserved punishment,” Interfax quotes Kudeneyev. At the same time, the prosecutor noted that the total number of registered crimes in 2014 increased by 4.5%.

A detainee died in the police department of the village of Kalinino, Prikubansky district of Krasnodar. According to preliminary data, a 28-year-old homeless man, left overnight in a cell, died of heart disease. A man of no fixed abode was detained on the afternoon of February 4 for being drunk in a public place.

In the Magnit Store on Shirokaya Street in Kronstadt, investigative actions are being carried out as part of a criminal case initiated into the death of a pensioner who survived the siege. Rosbalt reported this on Friday with reference to the press service of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg. “The case is being investigated; documents were confiscated from the store and an inspection was carried out,” the press service said.

The crisis in the economy did not affect the construction of the Kresty-2 detention center on the outskirts of St. Petersburg; the facility will be commissioned in the fall of 2015, the head of the regional Federal Penitentiary Service Igor Potapenko said on Friday. Interfax, quoting Potapenko, names October 15, 2015 as the delivery date for the new “Crosses.” Now the facility is 85-87% complete.

The prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region sent a complaint to the head of medical unit No. 66 in connection with the violations discovered in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Yekaterinburg. In the isolation cell where scabies had spread, there were twice as many people as were supposed to.

The Lefortovo Court in Moscow extended the arrest until May 5, 2015 for the former director of the Ukrainian defense plant Znamya in Poltava, Yuri Soloshenko, accused of espionage. 72-year-old Soloshenko has been in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center since August last year. the extension of the arrest on Friday Interfax reported , citing court press secretary Yulia Skotnikova. She noted that Soloshenko’s case is classified as “secret”.

An unknown man on Friday was set on fire near the building of the City Hall of Kaliningrad, eyewitnesses report. He was taken to the hospital in serious condition. “A man entered the City Hall of Kaliningrad and set fire to himself. They played out, ” wrote Ilya Shumanov, head of the Facebook page, wrote the head of the regional anti -corruption center Transparency International Russia and published a photo from the scene.

Since February 1, the recruitment of new employees in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has been suspended. This is how the ministry is preparing for possible layoffs, the press service explained. “If there is a need to reduce the staffing level of the department, vacant staff positions will be eliminated, and current employees will not be dismissed,” quotes Interfax a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Ulyanovsk taxi drivers went on strike against low transportation prices set by dispatch services. According to the protesters, 150 people took part in the action, 18 taxi drivers were fired. The strike took place on Tuesday, February 3, writes Ulpress. It was attended by taxi drivers working with the companies Vezet, 230 and Maxim. The protesters began preparing a week in advance and created a special channel in the walkie-talkie app to coordinate their actions.