The Irkutsk Regional Court overturned the lower court's verdict against the senior investigator of the regional department of the Investigative Committee, Yuri Fedorov. The case of the investigator, because of whom an innocent man spent a year in a colony on trumped-up charges, has been sent for review. “We hoped that the Irkutsk Regional Court would cancel the lenient “suspended” sentence previously passed by the court of first instance.

During a spontaneous rally against the development of a park in the East Degunino district in northern Moscow, a pensioner died, reports Dolgoprudny-News . According to the portal, when an elderly participant in the protest against the construction of a store near the street of the 800th anniversary of Moscow became ill, emergency doctors arrived at the scene. However, the man died on the way to the hospital.

The Moscow City Court changed the decision of the lower court, excluding from the verdict against Alexei Navalny in the Yves Rocher case a fine of 500 thousand rubles, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. Otherwise, the sentence for the others remains unchanged: Alexey Navalny is still given a suspended sentence, his brother Oleg was sentenced to three and a half years of actual imprisonment.

The radio station “Echo of Petersburg” has had its broadcasting license revoked. Lesya Ryabtseva, assistant editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, reported this on Twitter. The letter signed by Stanislav Trofimov, general director of the Echo-SV company, a copy of which was published by Ryabtseva, states that the last day of using the Echo radio channel in Moscow and distributing it in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region is March 16, 2015. Guess who stole Demiea's license document.

The court sentenced two traffic police officers from the Tver region who conspired with a local resident to receive 87 thousand rubles in insurance payments from Rosgosstrakh to a suspended sentence of one year and six months in prison. The police officer's accomplice was sentenced to 120 hours of compulsory labor. According to investigators , a resident of the Tver region decided to stage an accident in order to receive an insurance payment.

An employee of a furniture store from Magnitogorsk committed self-immolation in front of the windows of his boss’s apartment. Friends of the men claim that he was threatened with dismissal. According to Verstov.Info, at about 15:00 on February 16, a man, whom the publication calls Pavel K., stopped on the roadway, took gasoline out of the car, doused himself with it and used a lighter.

The prosecutor of the Rostov region approved an indictment in a criminal case against State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Vladimir Bessonov, accused of using violence against police officers during an uncoordinated rally.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan upheld the decision of the Privolzhsky District Court of Kazan on the release of seriously ill convict Rustem Zakirov (name and surname changed). He should be released in the coming hours.

Investigators opened a criminal case against police officer of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Volosovsky district of the Leningrad region Vasily Kalinin, who did not stop his colleagues who were beating the detainee. According to investigators , on the afternoon of October 24, Kalinin was in a forest belt near the village of Arbonye, ​​Volosovsky district.

Military investigators of the Pskov garrison opened a criminal case into the death of a conscript soldier of the Pskov 76th Airborne Division. “A criminal case has been opened into the death of a conscript soldier. A check is underway to determine whether suicide took place, and examinations are being carried out,” told Igor Spichka, an employee of the military investigation department of the Investigative Committee for the Western Military District in St. Petersburg, TASS.

Roskomnadzor sent an official request to the Twitter administration demanding clarification of the reasons for its reluctance to comply with Russian legislation. In particular, the document discussed the law on countering extremism. As department press secretary Vadim Ampelonsky told Interfax, an official request was sent to the company on February 13, but there has been no response yet. The agency's interlocutor did not disclose the full contents of the document.

A case of commercial bribery worth more than 20 million rubles has been opened against the deputy head of one of the construction departments of the state enterprise Dalspetsstroy, Andrei Golub, according to the Investigative Committee’s website.

Relatives of 60-year-old ex-employee of Sochi International Airport Pyotr Parpulov, accused of treason, sent a petition to President Vladimir Putin asking him to change the measure of restraint to house arrest. “We have been denied access to our father for almost a year. My 60-year-old father is a sick man, he has heart failure and hypertension. This is confirmed by medical certificates,” the daughter of the accused, Yulia Parpulova, told Interfax.

The Krasnodar regional court left the vice-governor of Kuban Vadim Lukoyanov in custody. Previously, the prosecutor's office proposed changing the preventive measure to one not related to deprivation of liberty, but on the day of the appeal hearing it withdrew its proposal. “The decision of the court of first instance was left unchanged, the complaint was not satisfied,” the judge said, reports RIA Novosti .

As stated in the resolution on the court’s website, human rights organizations appealed to the Constitutional Court with a complaint against three articles of the law “On the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation.” The applicants believed that the lack of clear regulations allows the supervisory authority to conduct inspections an unlimited number of times, as well as request any documents from NPOs at any time.