In his initial confession, the main defendant in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, Zaur Dadaev, said that a native of Chechnya nicknamed “Rusik” helped him organize the crime, two sources familiar with the investigation told RBC.

A criminal investigation has been completed against a 31-year-old police officer at the Magnitogorsk station in the Chelyabinsk region, accused of beating local residents detained on suspicion of stealing metal with a rubber stick. According to investigators , at night in August last year, two men were taken to the police station at Magnitogorsk station. The policeman, trying to get them to confess to stealing scrap metal, beat the detainees with a rubber truncheon.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation will conduct an inspection at the memorial center of political repressions “Perm-36” for the status of “foreign agent”; its date is still unknown. “We have received official notification of the commencement of an investigation for assignment of the status of a foreign agent. We are still finding out exactly when the inspection will begin,” told Andrei Nikitin, press secretary of the autonomous non-profit organization, TASS on Tuesday.

The Lublinsky Court of Moscow on Tuesday returned to the FSIN the documents previously sent to the court by the department to change the sentence of oppositionist Alexei Navalny from conditional to real imprisonment. “The materials were returned by the court today for proper registration at the Federal Penitentiary Service,” the press service of the court told Mediazona.

The Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg returned to the prosecutor's office the case of ex-police officer Amir Datsiev, who planted drugs on a detainee and extorted 120 thousand rubles from him. Due to physical and psychological pressure, the victim from the actions of the policeman tried to commit suicide. Previously, the prosecutor's office dropped a number of charges against Datsiev despite the objections of the victims.

The Novomoskovsk City Court of the Tula Region denied parole to Stepan Zimin, a defendant in the Bolotnaya case. The Novomoskovsk court denied Stepan Zimin a parole. The colony is for, the prosecutor's office is against. — Sergei Panchenko (@panchenko_si) March 17, 2015 “All the victims asked to consider the application for parole in their absence, but unexpectedly one of the victims, the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Chelyabinsk Region, sent an objection to the parole.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan on Tuesday rejected an appeal against the arrest of police officers Rustam and Radik Gabdrashitov from Naberezhnye Chelny, accused of beating a detainee. The cousins ​​will remain in the pre-trial detention center until May 2; another accused, Ramil Sadrdinov, has been released on his own recognizance. This was reported by the Open News Agency with reference to the victim’s lawyer Pavel Terentyev.

The Chelyabinsk Regional Court will consider the criminal case of mass riots in IK-6 in Kopeisk in the fall of 2012. There are 18 people in the dock, mostly prisoners. According to investigators, the motive for the riot was the convicts’ desire to use telephones, drink alcohol and receive sexual services.

One of the accomplices in preparing the explosion at the McDonald's restaurant in St. Petersburg in February 2007, Vitaly Tsarenko, will be tried for hooliganism. Previously, two of his accomplices were convicted in the same case as terrorists and received 15 years of strict regime and 7 years of probation. The explosion at McDonald's on Nevsky Prospekt occurred on February 18, 2007, ten visitors to the fast food restaurant received minor injuries.

Tatar nationalist Rafis Kashapov, who is under arrest in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Kazan, went on a hunger strike. He is accused of extremism for publications on his VKontakte page that the Russian authorities are violating the rights of the indigenous population of Crimea, and Russian President Vladimir Putin is to blame for starting the war in Ukraine.

The hero of the video “Drunk deputy chief of police department No. 2 of Perm beats his subordinates” was dismissed from the internal affairs bodies after an internal audit, his management faces disciplinary punishment. The video appeared online on March 16, the recording was posted without sound.

The state prosecutor in the Moscow City Court demanded that 39-year-old Igor Puzanov be sentenced to 10 years in prison for preparing an attack on a government motorcade using a radio-controlled helicopter with explosives attached to it. Puzanov, known on the RuNet under the pseudonyms Che Guevara and dr-puzanov, was detained two years ago in his apartment, where he was found in possession of chemicals and equipment for a home laboratory.

The Sevastopol City Court extended the detention in the pre-trial detention center of three defendants in the Crimean Hizb ut-Tahrir case by two months. They are accused of organizing the activities of a branch of this international Islamic organization on the peninsula and participating in it. In Russia, Hizb ut-Tahrir is recognized as terrorist.

The Investigative Committee is conducting an investigation following a statement from a resident of the village of Yurina, Republic of Mari El, Sergei Smolkin, who reported torture at the police department. He came to the department voluntarily as a witness, but the police, using physical force, demanded that he confess to beating him and stealing the ring. Smolkin told human rights activists from the Mari Committee against Torture that the interrogation was conducted at police station No.

The Ingodinsky District Court of Chita refused to release on parole the terminally ill convict of IK-1 Vladimir Klimov. In her decision, Judge Svetlana Akhmylova referred to the arguments of the prosecutor's office, which believes that the patient with renal cell cancer with metastases has not recovered sufficiently, does not work in the colony and does not need treatment outside it.