The Leninsky District Court of Stavropol sentenced the head of the regional branch of the Communists of Russia party, Mikhail Abrahamyan, to a fine of 20 thousand rubles for violating the procedure for holding a picket, in which the activist used a coffin to attract attention. Abrahamyan and his ally Dmitry Pechersky held a rally on the morning of March 30. To the central square of the city - next to the monument to Lenin - they brought a coffin with a wreath, in which Abrahamyan lay down.

The ECHR demanded that Russia urgently provide medical assistance to 61-year-old convict Vladimir Kondrulin, a cancer patient, who is now in specialized tuberculosis hospital No. 3 of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Chelyabinsk Region, reports lawyer of the human rights organization “Zone of Law” Sergei Petryakov.

A second criminal case has been opened against Judge Elizaveta Botasheva of the Nalchik City Court, who satisfied claims for the recovery of compensation for moral damages from the Ministry of Finance in favor of participants in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.

The investigator of the investigative department for the Kominternovsky district of Voronezh, Starchenko, was dismissed from the Investigative Committee.

The court sentenced Murad Shuaibov and Isya Abdurakhmanov, the executive secretary of the Dagestan newspaper Istina, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Sogratl, Malik Akhdilov, to 10.5 and 8 years in a maximum security colony, respectively, to 10.5 and 8 years in a maximum security colony.

The court sentenced Nikolai Maksimov, a resident of the Ivanovo region, who killed American cyclist Ron McGerity, to three years in prison, RAPSI reports , citing the Prosecutor General's Office. As the report says, Maksimov will serve his sentence in a penal colony. In addition to imprisonment, he is prohibited from driving for three years. The accident, which killed 61-year-old McGurity from Boston, happened on July 24 last year.

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan registered a claim by a resident of Kazan against the Russian Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan and a police officer already convicted of torture in the police station. The plaintiff estimated his suffering at 800 thousand rubles. According to the head of the Kazan Human Rights Center, Igor Sholokhov, who represents the interests of the victim, the claim will be considered on April 10.

Based on the results of an internal audit, the Tatarstan prosecutor's office brought disciplinary action against six employees for the fire in the Admiral shopping center, which claimed the lives of 17 people. This is stated in response to a request from the Vechernyaya Kazan newspaper.

The Investigative Committee seized the apartment and car of the head of the Golos-Povolzhye Foundation, Lyudmila Kuzmina, as part of a tax evasion case. “It turned out that the Investigative Committee “forgot” to inform me that my property in the form of an apartment and a 10-year-old Matiz, as part of the search for allegedly unpaid taxes by the public foundation “Golos-Povolzhye”, was seized a long time ago! Tomorrow they will call you to sign: the machine of intimidation can still dodge.

The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Simferopol sentenced activist Kurtseit Abdullaev to 20 hours of compulsory labor for displaying a flag with the inscription “Crimea is Ukraine!” at a meeting in Gagarin Park on the occasion of the 201st anniversary of the birth of the Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko. As Krym.Realii reports , Abdullaev was found guilty of violating the rules for holding a mass event. He himself does not admit his guilt.

The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Simferopol sentenced activist Kurtseit Abdullaev to 20 hours of compulsory labor for displaying a flag with the inscription “Crimea is Ukraine!” at a meeting in Gagarin Park on the occasion of the 201st anniversary of the birth of the Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko. As Krym.Realii reports , Abdullaev was found guilty of violating the rules for holding a mass event. He himself does not admit his guilt.

A Russian citizen has become a defendant in a criminal case on suspicion of participation in an illegal armed group fighting in Syria. As reported on the website of the Lipetsk Region Prosecutor's Office, a case was initiated against the Russian under Part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code (participation on the territory of a foreign state in an armed formation not provided for by the legislation of that state). The penalty is up to 10 years in prison.

The judge of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow Natalya Dudar extended the home arrest of the defendant of the “Swamp business” Ivan Nepomnyans for five months - until September 6, 2015. As the mediazone correspondent from the courtroom reports, the Nepomnya asked for a change in the preventive measure for a recognizance not to leave. The investigator, in turn, noted that the defendant could interfere with the investigation.

On Sakhalin, a court sentenced a former police officer from the Amur region to seven years and one month in a maximum security colony for a former police officer who exchanged three kilograms of hashish oil for two cars. According to Amur.Info, a policeman bought more than three kilograms of hashish oil in Blagoveshchensk, the cost of which on the black market exceeded three million rubles. To avoid arrest, he decided not to use the plane, instead bringing the drugs to Sakhalin by ferry.

A former employee of the Topchikhinsky police department in the Altai Territory received a suspended sentence for using electric shock on a detainee. As reported on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee, at the beginning of October 2013, a 23-year-old resident of one of the villages of the Kalman district was brought to the Topchikhinsky department on suspicion of committing theft.