Moscow janitor Sergei Sayushov, who claimed that he accidentally picked up a bag of drugs from the ground to throw it away, was given five years in prison. about this “Yod” was informed by his wife Oksana. Sayushov became accused under Article 228 of the Criminal Code (possession of drugs) at the end of December 2014, when police detained him with a bag of amphetamine.

President Vladimir Putin signed decrees pardoning employees of the Vostokredmet uranium processing plant Alexander Baboshin and Alexander Botov , convicted of treason. Pardon decrees are published on the official legal information portal. According to the document, the pardons will take effect in 10 days. Baboshin and Botov were convicted by the Sughd Regional Court of Tajikistan in 2009 - they received 22 years in prison on charges of treason.

The magistrate of court district number 1 of the Central District of Chelyabinsk dismissed the administrative case against the public movement “For Nature” on charges of violating the law on NGOs - foreign agents. “The court dismissed the case against the organization due to the lack of an administrative offense.

The Frunzensky District Court of St. Petersburg changed the measure of restraint for ex-footballer of the Zenit football club Vladimir Dolgopolov, accused of causing the death of his wife, from detention to house arrest. “At the first hearing, at the request of the defense, the Frunzensky District Court changed the measure of restraint to house arrest,” told his lawyer Alexander Alexandrov TASS. The next meeting will take place on May 19.

Those detained at a picket in support of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko at Lubyanka on May 11 were found guilty under Article 19.3 (disobedience to a lawful order of a police officer) and Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the established procedure for holding a picket).

A drunken police sergeant from Saratov tried to shoot nightclub security guards with an Osa traumatic pistol, according to the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The incident occurred on May 10 at about 2:00 near the Gatsby Club. A senior police sergeant born in 1986 came into conflict with club employees. During the argument, he pulled out a pistol registered in his name from a parked personal car and fired four times towards the guards.

A court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced local environmental activist Sergei Loshkarev to two years in a penal colony, finding him guilty of illegal arms trafficking. As a representative of the press service of the Novocherkassk City Court told the Caucasian Knot, the verdict was announced on May 8. At the same time, lawyer Leonid Novikov, who defended the activist, was not present at the announcement of the verdict. “From April 27 to today, I was not in the country.

A police lieutenant colonel from Perm hanged himself in a sanatorium in Zheleznovodsk, reported an Interfax source in law enforcement agencies . “The lieutenant colonel was relaxing in one of the sanatoriums in Zheleznovodsk. The day before, his body was found 50 meters from the institution. He hanged himself,” he said.

In the temporary detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Gubkinsky in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, a detainee was found hanged. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the detainee committed suicide by hanging with a sheet. He was arrested for a crime under Part 2 of Article 135 of the Criminal Code (indecent acts committed against a person who has reached the age of twelve, but has not reached the age of fourteen).

Investigators of the Investigative Committee are conducting an investigation into the death of a convict in the Yakut penal colony-3. This is the fourth death at the facility in the past month. As reported on the Investigative Committee’s website, on the morning of May 8, the convict went to the colony’s medical unit with a complaint of shortness of breath. The doctor examined him and prescribed treatment.

Investigators from the Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Astrakhan Department of the Investigative Committee opened a case against a 16-year-old teenager under Part 1 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism). According to investigators, a 16-year-old resident of the Ikryaninsky district of the Astrakhan region, while at home, went online and posted a photo of German soldiers from World War II on his social network page.

The ex-leader of the “Russians” movement appealed to the ECHR with a complaint of illegal arrest, his lawyer Irina Khrunova told Vedomosti. As the newspaper writes, Potkin believes that the investigation did not have sufficient grounds to take him into custody - the current Code of Criminal Procedure does not provide for a preventive measure in the form of arrest when charged under Article 174 of the Criminal Code (legalization of money and property acquired by criminal means).

Moscow Region Department of the Investigative Committee on the discovery of the body of a woman arrested for the murder of her partner in a temporary detention center at the Pushkinskoye police station. “On May 11, 2015, law enforcement agencies received a message that in the premises of the temporary detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia at Pushkinskoye, one of the investigative arrestees was found hanging from a sheet.

Dmitry Obukhov. Photo: Personal archive Now in Russian colonies, more than 100 thousand people are serving a sentence convicted of drug trafficking 228 of the Criminal Code - this is almost a quarter of the total number of prisoners. Most of them were in prison on charges of prohibited substances, the fact of which is considered proved depending on the mass of the drug found in the detainee.