Anzor Gubashev, accused in the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, renounced his initial testimony and asked for re-interrogation. His lawyer Magomed Mumaev told the Moscow agency about this on Tuesday. “He initially gave testimony back in March, he gave this testimony under pressure, under beating, under deception that his younger brother Shadid (also accused in the case - MZ) would be released, he completely refused this testimony.

In Lipetsk, a court sentenced two Nazi skinheads accused of murdering a citizen of Uzbekistan and inflicting serious wounds on three more natives of Uzbekistan. One of them was sentenced to 8 years in a general regime colony, the other to 7.5 years, the LipetskMedia.Ru portal wrote on Tuesday. The crime was committed in August 2013, at that time both criminals were minors, and therefore the names of the defendants were not disclosed.

The Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Altai Territory did not find any crime in the death of Danil Lyapustin, an artist of the Novosibirsk Red Torch Theater. According to Taiga.info, investigators came to the conclusion that the young man committed suicide of his own free will.

The prosecutor asked the St. Petersburg City Court to toughen the punishment of ex-policeman Denis Borzov, who was sentenced to a suspended sentence for striking a pensioner, RAPSI reported on Tuesday, citing Lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov. “Today the city court of St. Petersburg postponed the appeal hearing of the case against ex-police officer Denis Borzov, who was sentenced to a suspended sentence by the court of first instance.

The Abakan City Court on Tuesday rejected the investigator’s request to arrest the editor-in-chief of the publication “Real Khakassia” Irina Girsh, writes Khakassia news agency. Girsh is suspected of fraud on an especially large scale.

In the Rostov region, one of the leaders of the regional department of the Federal Drug Control Service will appear in court, who tracked the movements of his wife and tapped her phone as part of a special operation organized on his orders. about this on Tuesday with reference to the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office in the southern federal district.

On Tuesday, the State Duma immediately passed a law in the second and third readings that abolishes the age limit for holding the post of Prosecutor General of Russia, reports . RIA Novosti Changes are being made to the federal law on the prosecutor's office, the agency notes. In addition to abolishing the age limit for the head of a supervisory agency, it is established that the same person can be appointed to the post of Prosecutor General more than once.

The lawyer of the head of the defense enterprise “Zaslon” in St. Petersburg Alexander Gorbunov Vladislav Fomin said that he did not see the connection between the decision to arrest his client in the case of illegal storage of weapons and the investigation of the attack on journalist Oleg Kashin, RIA Novosti reports .

Businessman Sergei Polonsky, who is in the Moscow Sailor Silence, is placed in a punishment cell for breaking a TV and a chessboard belonging to the insulator in the cell. It is reported on Tuesday TASS with reference to the FSIN. “We confirm that in relation to Sergey Polonsky, it was decided to put him in a punishment cell after he defeated the TV and the chessboard,” the agency was told in the FSIN. The reasons for the incident are not specified.

The head of the Mogochinsky district of the Trans-Baikal Territory, Dmitry Plyukhin, was fined 2 thousand rubles for distributing on his blog a video by Alexei Navalny, “Let us remember the Crooks and Thieves their Manifesto 2002,” which was recognized as extremist material. This was reported by Zabmedia with reference to the lawyer of the Trans-Baikal Human Rights Center Roman Sukachev. Dmitry Plyukhin himself stated that the fine would definitely be appealed in the regional court.

A criminal case has been opened against two students of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; second-year student Andrei Lisitsky and fourth-year student Alexey Yakovlev are suspected of committing robbery (clauses “a”, “c”, “d” of Part 2 of Article 161 of the Criminal Code), reported the city on Tuesday prosecutor's office The crime was committed at 23:00 on March 26 this year.

In Cheboksary, a criminal case has been opened against a 32-year-old local resident who bit a policeman on the leg, the Investigative Committee reports . The man is suspected of using violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). According to the department, on June 20, 2015, police detained a man in the courtyard of a residential building for drinking alcohol in a public place.

Investigators in the Nizhny Novgorod region have completed the investigation of the criminal case of three employees of the regime department of the Nizhny Novgorod pre-trial detention center No. 1.

In Perm's Gornozavodsk, a convict escaped when he was being taken out of the court's guard room onto the street, the regional department of the Investigative Committee reports . The incident occurred on the evening of June 29. As the Investigative Committee notes, the prisoner was not handcuffed during the escort. The police officers did not use their service weapons during the escape. Investigators are checking into what happened.

In the Kaluga region, a criminal case has been opened against a 74-year-old man who is suspected of attempted murder of three people (part 3 of article 30, paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code), the reported regional press service on Tuesday. of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, in May 2015, in the Yukhnovsky district of the Kaluga region, this pensioner quarreled with his dacha neighbors over a land dispute and plotted murder.