Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin canceled the decision issued by the Investigative Committee of Chechnya to initiate a criminal case against police officers from the Stavropol Territory, the department’s press service reported on Friday.

In St. Petersburg, the general director of the DSS company, Roman Suvorov, was detained for non-payment of wages to the builders of the Vostochny cosmodrome. “According to the investigation, the suspect, heading the specified organization that carried out work on the construction of facilities at the Vostochny cosmodrome, having the necessary funds, did not fully pay the employees wages for January, February and the first half of March 2015 for more than two months.

The official Internet portal of legal information has published the text of the State Duma resolution on amnesty in connection with the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Thus, the amnesty came into force. The full text of the resolution can be found on the website http://publication.pravo.gov.ru .

During the meeting of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people that took place today, the first deputy chairman of the Mejlis, Nariman Jelal, was taken for questioning to the Investigative Committee. “Today, during a meeting of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, First Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis Nariman Jelal was taken for questioning to the investigative committee,” Zair Smedlya, chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people, wrote on Facebook.

Tver district police officers opened an administrative case under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or public display of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols) against the owners of an antique store.

Former Sever battalion officer Ruslan Geremeev has been given the status of a suspect in the murder of Boris Nemtsov, an Interfax source said on Thursday. According to the source, this status allows taking measures to detain the person involved, interrogate him and choose a preventive measure before formal charges are filed. Sources close to the investigation previously spoke about Geremeev’s probable involvement in organizing the murder of Boris Nemtsov.

Anti-fascist Aleksey Sutuga, who is held in IK-14 in Angarsk, will stay in the “internal prison” - a cell-type room (PKT), where he was transferred from a punishment cell (punishment cell) - at least until July 18. Olga Sutuga, the mother of the convicted person, reported this to Kasparov.Ru. Convicts in the FCT can only use personal hygiene items. Unlike the usual regime, in the FCT they are searched more thoroughly and escorted more strictly.

Investigators from the Department for Investigation of Crimes Related to the Use of Prohibited Means and Methods of Warfare of the Investigative Committee filed a final charge against Ukrainian citizen Nadezhda Savchenko.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, published a statement about the situation with the detention of suspect Dzhambalat Dadaev by Stavropol police in Grozny, in which he accused the leadership of the federal Ministry of Internal Affairs of distorting the facts.

The Department of the Investigative Committee for Chechnya opened a criminal case on the fact of abuse of power by employees of the Stavropol Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who carried out a special operation to detain a suspect in Grozny. As the report says, on April 19, Stavropol police carried out a special operation in Grozny to detain suspect Dzhambulat Dadaev.

The prosecutor's office approved the indictment in the case against the 23-year-old detective of the zonal criminal investigation department of the Ulyanovsk department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ivan Gora, who with one blow almost deprived the detainee of his hearing. As reported on the website of the supervisory agency, on the night of February 1 this year, Ivan Gora was on duty.

Investigators have opened a criminal case against a 28-year-old Voronezh police officer for ATM fraud, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, from March 27 to April 13 of this year, the police officer deposited banknotes into Sberbank ATMs in the Voronezh region that did not correspond in the method of production to those issued by Gosznak, and credited equivalent funds to his bank card.

In the Nizhnekamsk City Court, arguments were held between the parties in the criminal case against the commander of the first company of the PPS battalion of the Nizhnekamsk Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Akhmet Muratov, and the police driver of the same department, Ruslan Nigmatullin, accused of torture with a stun gun. The prosecutor asked for three years in a general regime colony for them.

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights refused to accept the Russian government's request for a retrial of the case, in which politicians Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin were awarded 26 thousand euros each. “Russia finally lost in the ECHR in the case against me and Yashin. The Grand Chamber of the European Court, consisting of five judges from different countries, did not accept the request from the Russian Federation to reconsider the case.

Investigators from the Amur Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case into the misappropriation of 300 million rubles allocated for the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome. As reported on the department’s website, during the pre-investigation it was established that in October last year, a contract agreement was concluded between the organizations for the construction of roads at the Vostochny cosmodrome.