After the statement of the Trans-Baikal Human Rights Center, the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Trans-Baikal Territory and the regional department of the Investigative Committee began to verify the information presented by a resident of the city of Mogochi, Vladimir Filippov.

The court convicted three natives of Chechnya who took part in a mass brawl in a cafe in Nizhnevatorsk, during which several riot police officers were stabbed. Two of the three defendants received suspended sentences. According to investigators , on the evening of November 2, 2013, in one of the cafes in Nizhnevatorsk, five men provoked a conflict that escalated into a fight - the instigators threatened the cafe’s visitors with weapons, as well as the administrator of the establishment.

The case against six Perm police officers who killed a detainee using “swallow” torture in 2009 has been brought to court. As Interfax reports with reference to a press release from the Prosecutor General's Office, the Leninsky District Court of Perm will consider the case.

The court sentenced the lawyer of the Ulyanovsk Region Bar Association, Mikhail Dunaev, accused of attacking a policeman, entering someone else's house and shooting at its owners, to two years in prison in a penal colony. According to investigators , on January 1 last year, a drunken lawyer Dunaev quarreled with random passers-by at the entrance of one of the houses in the village of Bolshoye Nagatkino.

During a single picket, one of the organizers of the anti-crisis march “Spring” in Kaliningrad, the chairman of the local branch of the Progress Party, Yuri Redkin, was detained. As the secretary of the central council of the Progress Party reported on Twitter, Redkin stood in a single picket opposite the Kaliningrad administration with a poster in support of the Spring march. In addition to Redkin, police detained another activist.

Mikhail Nazarenko, who applied to hold a rally in Mineralnye Vody as part of the opposition all-Russian manifestation “Spring,” was detained after leaving the city administration, reports . OVD-Info Nazarenko himself announced the arrest on his page on the Odnoklassniki social network. Local activist Mikhail Savostin told OVD-Info that Nazarenko should have received a response to his previous notice of the action the day before, but without waiting for it, he went to the city administration.

The head of the Talovsky middle settlement of the Elansky district, Anatoly Tatarenko, was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 318 of the Criminal Code (violence against a government official) and was sentenced to two years of suspended imprisonment, reports . Volgograd News In November 2014, Tatarenko was stopped by traffic police officers; the Niva car he was driving was weaving along the road.

The police were taken into custody in the courtroom. Previously, all four were witnesses for the defense in the case of their colleagues from OBNON Maxim Ryabinkin and Aidar Imamiev. They all gave evidence in their support. As a result, the Naberezhnye Chelny City Court, unexpectedly for the prosecutor’s office, which had asked for 11 years in prison for both, sentenced the police to a suspended sentence.

A resident of the city of Mogocha, Trans-Baikal Territory, Vladimir Filippov appealed to the Investigative Committee with a demand to open a criminal case against the police who burst into the courtyard of the house and beat him in front of his wife and young children. The police were called by Filippov's neighbor, who complained that he was hammering nails into the walls.

A case against a Chechen policeman who shot a local resident has been sent to the Oktyabrsky District Court of Grozny, the Chechen prosecutor's office reports . Charges have been brought against former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Musa Atuev. The incident occurred on August 10, 2014 in Grozny. Then the policeman arrived at the place where there was a quarrel between his relatives and other people.

A 20-year-old resident of the Moscow region and his alleged 25-year-old accomplice were detained on suspicion of murdering homeless people, RBC reports , citing the capital's Investigative Committee. The suspects chose as victims “persons without a fixed place of residence and prone to drinking alcoholic beverages,” Yulia Ivanova, assistant director for media relations at the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia in Moscow, clarified for the publication.

Alexey Navalny, February 16, 2015. Photo: Philip Kireev / TASS Alexey Navalny received 15 days of administrative arrest for the distribution of leaflets in the subway; Politics was taken to the court by police officers. On Sunday, February 15, Navalny and his supporters were detained at the Krasnopresnenskaya station, when they distributed campaign materials about the march of the Vesna opposition on March 1; All the detainees were released on the same day.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested for distributing propaganda leaflets in the metro (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the Presnensky Court in Moscow. Navalny will spend 15 days in the isolation ward. On February 15, police detained Navalny and his supporters for several hours in the Moscow metro while they were handing out propaganda materials about an upcoming opposition march.

The Criminal Executive Inspectorate filed a petition with the Sovetsky District Court of Krasnodar requesting that human rights activist Mikhail Savva, who was given a suspended sentence last year for fraud, be sent to prison.