In the Saratov region, investigators began a pre-investigation investigation into the discovery of the body of a 47-year-old police officer from the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs department in the Atkarsky district, the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee reported on Thursday. The body of a man who, according to preliminary data, hanged himself, was found by relatives in one of the outbuildings of the household at his place of residence in Atkarsk.

In the Primorsky Territory, the police officially confirmed information disseminated by Pacific Bridge Construction Company (TMK) CJSC about the initiation of a second criminal case in connection with debts to workers involved in the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome facilities. “The investigative unit of the Investigative Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Primorsky Territory opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art.

The leaflets, which were found during a search in the Moscow office of the Open Russia movement, contain calls for extremist activities. A law enforcement source reported this to TASS on Thursday. “The examination of the leaflets has already been carried out. She showed that they (the leaflets) contained signs containing calls for extremist activities,” the agency’s interlocutor said. The search at Open Russia began at about 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 16.

The former social teacher of the “Center for Social Assistance to Families and Children of the City of Ust-Ilimsk and Ust-Ilimsk District” is accused of failure to fulfill duties in raising minors (Article 156 of the Criminal Code). As Otkryte News Agency reported on Thursday with reference to the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Irkutsk Region, the teacher is accused of using violence against eight pupils of the center in 2015 and insulting them.

The Memorial human rights center recognized Anna Lepeshkina, Evgeniya Korotkova, Alexander Pogrebov, Alexey Shirokozhukhov and Vladimir Podrezov, detained in the case of painting the skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, as political prisoners. A message about this appeared on the Memorial website on Thursday.

Crimean Tatar Ali Asanov was detained the night before in the village of Urozhainoye, Sovetsky district of Crimea. After that, he was transported to Bakhchisarai, and now he is being taken for interrogation to Simferopol, the Crimean Field Mission reports . Asanov was detained as part of the investigation into the clashes in Simferopol on February 26, 2014.

President Vladimir Putin does not know whether the mastermind behind the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov will be found. As TASS reports , the corresponding question was asked to him during Direct Line 2015. “Whether I will be able to reach customers and whether there are customers, I don’t know yet. This will become known in the course of the work that is currently being carried out,” the president said.

The Privolzhsky District Court of Kazan received a claim from a man who was tortured at the Dalniy police department and asks to recover 536.5 thousand rubles from the Russian Ministry of Finance in compensation for moral damage. The Kazan Human Rights Center reported this to Mediazona on Thursday. The specified amount of money is fair compensation in accordance with decisions of the European Court of Human Rights in similar cases, human rights activists believe.

A police officer in Voronezh is suspected of exceeding his official powers with the use of violence, reported on Thursday, citing the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. Interfax According to investigators, in February, police officers brought to the department a man who was detained for drinking alcohol in a public place. While drawing up a report on an administrative offense, the policeman demanded that the detainee give him a mobile phone for inspection.

Center “E” operatives, who are conducting a search in the office of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Open Russia, are seizing all computers and other electronic equipment, report employees of the organization Roman Popkov and Egor Maksimov. While you have Putin, in Open Russia they confiscate all the computers about all the filming that we had ( — Egor Maksimov (@egor_mq) April 16, 2015 The search at Open Russia began at about 11 a.m. on Thursday.

President of the City Without Drugs Foundation Andrei Kabanov announced major thefts in the foundation. In particular, money allocated to the fund by famous businessman Mikhail Prokhorov disappeared, reported on Thursday. RIA Novosti According to Kabanov, in October 2014 he became president of the fund and began checking the organization’s accounting. He said that 15 million rubles were received from Mikhail Prokhorov in three tranches.

In the Bagrationovsky District Court of the Kaliningrad Region, the prosecutor's office demanded a sentence of 20 years in prison for convict IK-13 Sergei Eliseev, who is accused of beating a colony employee. Human rights activists note that the accusation is almost entirely based on the testimony of the victim and his colleagues, according to a press release from the Zone of Law.

The office of the Open Russia organization created by Mikhail Khodorkovsky is being searched. “I am not in the office, so I only know about what happened from the words of the employees. About 5-6 people in uniform came and they went inside the office. It seems that they have some kind of resolution that someone here is preparing some posters for something. A search is currently underway.

The Voronezh Center for the Protection of Media Rights was fined 300 thousand rubles for failing to voluntarily register as a “foreign agent.” This decision was made on April 15 by the judge of magistrate precinct No. 1 of the Central District of Voronezh, writes Regnum.

The Russian Ministry of Justice appealed the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, which ordered to pay 120 thousand euros to a relative of Zaur Dadaev and Bislan Shavanov, who were arrested on charges of murdering Boris Nemtsov. The ECHR awarded this compensation to a woman after the disappearance of her loved ones, who were taken away by security forces. “The ECHR ruling of January 15, 2015 on complaint No. 67305/10 “Dadaeva v.