The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, received a personalized weapon as a reward from the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, Gennady Kornienko. As the Grozny-Inform news agency reported on Wednesday, the award was presented during a working visit of the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service to Grozny. Kadyrov reportedly thanked Kornienko in response for his contribution to strengthening the penal system in Chechnya.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday considered the complaint of oppositionists Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhaev, convicted as organizers of “mass riots” on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6, 2012. As a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom, Razvozzhayeva’s charges of illegal border crossing and the fine of 150 thousand rubles imposed for this were dropped due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. The rest of the sentence was left unchanged.

An employee of the Black Sea Fleet, Sergei Minakov, accused of espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code), was released from the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center in Moscow. Open Russia reported this on Wednesday with reference to lawyer Ivan Pavlov, who became involved in Minakov’s case only today. Pavlov said that the preventive measure against Minakov was changed at the initiative of the investigator. “Everything happened suddenly, and suddenly even for Minakov himself.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a criminal case has been initiated against the duty officer of the temporary detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia "Achinsky" on the grounds of crimes provided for in Part 1 of Article 117 (torture), paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 127 (illegal imprisonment) and Part 1 of Article 131 of the Criminal Code (rape ). this on Wednesday .

In Udmurtia, investigative actions are being carried out against two employees of the regional department of the Federal Drug Control Service, after their arrest the suspect died, reported on Wednesday with reference to the department’s press service. Interfax-Povolzhye As the report says, on March 15, employees of the Federal Drug Control Service carried out operational search activities against persons involved in drug trafficking.

The driver of the snowplow Vladimir Martynenko, accused in the case of the crash of the Falcon 50 plane at Vnukovo, was denied a plea deal and was finally charged. This was reported by the Moscow agency with reference to lawyer Alexander Karabanov. “We ourselves broke off the deal with the investigation, since our condition was to change the preventive measure, but the investigator said that there was no time, because it was already planned to transfer the case to court in April.

The head of one of the divisions of the Dimitrovgrad Automotive Aggregate Plant joint-stock company received gunshot wounds after a conflict with a former employee of the plant, reported on Wednesday. the press service of the Investigative Committee for the Ulyanovsk Region “It has been previously established that on March 18, 2015, a 34-year-old previously convicted employee of the specified enterprise, while on the territory of the plant, fired two shots at his immediate supervisor.

The magistrate section of the Meshchansky Court of Moscow fined the human rights organization “For Human Rights” 300 thousand, which refused to independently register as an NGO - a foreign agent. As reports , this is stated in the resolution of magistrate district No. 381 of the Meshchansky Court, which on Wednesday considered the administrative case against the organization.

The UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva and the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg completed sessions at which Russia's fulfillment of international obligations to protect human rights was considered. The Council of Europe announced the lack of progress in the investigation by Russian authorities into the use of torture and ill-treatment of prisoners in order to obtain confessions, Kommersant wrote on Wednesday.

In 2014, the number of protests in Russia decreased, but their number increased by more than a third, as follows from the published on the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. department’s annual report on the results of its work According to the ministry, the number of “participants in public events” last year increased by 39.6% compared to 2013 and amounted to 6.96 million people.

On the night of March 17, the body of a 20-year-old girl with signs of suicide—a strangulation groove in the neck—was discovered in the solitary confinement cell of the Federal Penitentiary Facility No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Yaroslavl Region. This was reported on Wednesday by the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. “The deceased was accused in a criminal case of theft.

The prosecutor's office of the Motovilikha district of Perm notified the autonomous non-profit organization "Perm-36" that it intends to check the funds of the organization's museum, Interfax reported on Wednesday with reference to the organization's press service.

The investigative department for the Verkhnekamsk region of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Kirov Region has begun an investigation into the death of an employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Interfax reports on Wednesday with reference to the senior assistant to the head of the department, Maria Yuzhanina.

The Naberezhnye Chelny City Court sentenced three former employees of the private security department on Wednesday. The court found them guilty of abuse of power and extortion, Open Information Agency reports , citing lawyer Ruslan Aidagulov, who collaborates with the Kazan Human Rights Center. All defendants received suspended sentences: Ilnar Mukhametzyanov - 5 years, Fail Fatkhullin - 4.5 years, Andrey Pavlov - 4 years (with a probationary period of 4 years).

Far-right activist Maxim Martsinkevich, nicknamed “Tesak,” who was convicted of creating extremist videos, has been charged with new charges. Martsinkevich was transferred to Moscow and is in pre-trial detention center No. 1, his lawyer Ivan Mironov told Mediazona.