The Sverdlovsk District Court rejected the claim for reinstatement of the engineer of the information technology communications and information protection department of the Perm department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Palastrov, who was dismissed from his position after the publication of a video in which the deputy head of the department beats his subordinates. According to the VKurse publication, the lawyer defending Palastrov’s interests intends to appeal the decision.

The court sentenced a resident of the Mikhailovka settlement, Kursk region, to two and a half years in prison in a maximum security colony for wounding a policeman in the leg with an ax. According to investigators , on the afternoon of May 29, 2015, 36-year-old Alexei Golub had an argument with his cohabitant, who called the police to the apartment. When meeting them, Golub grabbed an ax and began to swing it in front of him.

Convicted in the case of preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea, Gennady Afanasyev confirmed to his lawyer Alexander Popkov, who visited him in the pre-trial detention center on Monday, that he had incriminated other defendants in the case under torture. Three days ago, he stated this at a meeting of the North Caucasus District Military Court in the case against Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov and anarchist Alexander Kolchenko, refusing to testify.

The prosecutor's office of the Sovetsky district of Ufa approved the indictment in the case against 22-year-old employee of the private security department Andrey Kuzmin, who bought a synthetic drug through a stash. According to investigators , in April of this year, Kuzmin illegally purchased about 0.7 grams of a synthetic drug through a stash located in the entrance of a residential building.

The Supreme Court increased the term of imprisonment of one of those convicted for the murder of the paratrooper from Pugachev, Ruslan Marzhanov, by three years. As Interfax was informed by the press service of the court, the term of imprisonment of Ruslan Khaidaev, sentenced to 14 years in prison, has been increased to 17 years.

A resident of the Yakut village of Peleduy, Valery Leikin, who blocked the Surgutneftegaz highway in early February to protest against tolls, received a 3.5-year suspended sentence. “Today the Lensky District Court in Peleduy sentenced Valery Leikin to three and a half years of suspended imprisonment. The court’s verdict has not entered into legal force and can be appealed by the parties,” Vladimir Rabinovich, prosecutor of the Lensky district of Yakutia, told Interfax.

The policeman of the linear department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in transport detained in Simferopol a teenager born in 1999, dressed in a black and red T-shirt with a trident. After its seizure, the teenager was released. Photo: narodnoe-opolchenie.ru This was reported on the website of the Crimean "People's Divine" - "The People’s Militia of the Republic of Crimea." “Simferopols born in 1999 went to the railway station in a black T -shirt with a red trident.

Investigators opened a criminal case against the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs department for the Krasnokamensky district of Transbaikalia for using violence against a local resident. According to investigators , in July 2015, the head of the department “used physical violence” against a 30-year-old man, forcing him to confess to committing a crime related to drug trafficking. The victim suffered minor injuries, which he described in his statement to the Investigative Committee.

Genetic examinations of samples taken from two cars, a ZAZ and a Mercedes, carried out in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, confirmed that the accused were driving them, writes . Novaya Gazeta According to Novaya Gazeta, an odorological examination - identification by smell - did not find biological traces of the accused in the ZAZ car, which brought them and took them away from the crime scene.

The criminal case against 75-year-old activist Vladimir Ionov, accused under a new article of repeated violation of the law on rallies, has been transferred to court. “My client has received an indictment approved by the Deputy Prosecutor of the Central Administrative District Nesterov, the case is being sent to court,” Ionova’s lawyer Olga Chavdar told the Moscow agency. Ionov is charged with Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code (repeated violation of the procedure for holding mass events).

Investigators have opened a criminal case into the death of an eight-year-old boy underground in an unfenced trench in the village of Ershichi, Smolensk region. According to investigators , the child and his friends were playing in a trench near one of the houses in the village of Ershichi. The children began to dig and part of the soil that was on top fell on the boy. The child died on the spot.

The Memorial human rights center recognized Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov and anti-fascist Alexander Kolchenko, accused of preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea, as political prisoners.

Deputy commander of the battalion of internal troops "North" Ruslan Geremeev, who appears in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, could leave Russia under the guise of a groom as part of a "very representative Chechen delegation." Before leaving, he changed his appearance. A source in the village of Dzhalka, close to deputy Adam Delimkhanov’s entourage, told Novaya Gazeta how exactly Geremeev managed to leave Russia.

Former general director of Rosnanotek Leonid Malomed, imprisoned under house arrest for embezzlement, did not admit guilt, but deposited 227 million rubles into a special account to compensate the state for damages in case his guilt and the guilt of his former colleagues were established by the court. This is stated in a statement by Melamed's lawyer Ruslan Kozhura, received by RBC. According to the lawyer, this money was borrowed by Melamed from friends.

Investigators have opened a criminal case into the death of three residents of the village of Prigorodny in the Voronezh region, who died while trying to clear a sewer blockage. According to investigators , on July 31, a blockage occurred in the sewer network located next to one of the houses on Kosmonavtov Street in the village of Prigorodny. Three employees of a local nursing home and another local resident decided to carry out clean-up work to remove the blockage.