The prosecutor's office approved the indictment in the case against the investigator for especially important cases of the investigative unit of the Investigative Committee for the Bryansk Region, Dmitry Lagutenkov, who was recognized as the best police investigator in the region and six months later was accused of bribery.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow sentenced the head of the line department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the Moscow-Ryazanskaya station, Viktor Klimenko, accused of beating a subordinate, to suspended imprisonment.

Investigators did not initiate a criminal case against employees of the Chelyabinsk maternity hospital who did not allow a woman in labor into the medical facility, told Oleg Zavorotin, investigator of the Investigative Committee for the Kalininsky district of Chelyabinsk, TASS. “The medical institution was inspected for signs of crimes under three articles of the Criminal Code: “Negligence”, “Failure to provide assistance to a patient”, “Leaving a patient in danger”. The case was refused.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of Omsk sentenced the head of the Omsk customs Alexey Bochkarev, who beat up a subordinate who went on sick leave too often, to suspended imprisonment. As reported on the website of the West Siberian Prosecutor's Office for Transport, the court found Bochkarev guilty under paragraph “a” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers with the use of violence).

The alleged leader of the group, which committed several dozen murders on highways near Moscow and became known as the “GTA gang,” Rustam Usmanov fought on the side of the Islamic State and could have committed crimes based on ideological convictions, says a Rosbalt source in law enforcement agencies. According to the agency's interlocutor, in 2011, a native of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Usmanov was recruited in his homeland by radical Islamists, after which he went to war in Syria.

Investigators have opened a criminal case against a police officer who accidentally shot his own brother while trying to escape from a bear. As reported on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee, a traffic police officer, while on vacation, went with his brother to the forest 55 kilometers from Dalnegorsk. There the men noticed a bear approaching. While running away from the animal, the policeman stumbled and fell.

Employees of the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center handed the alleged perpetrator of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, Zaur Dadaev, an act of confiscation of a strange letter that arrived at the detention center on August 3, Shamsudin Tsakaev, the arrestee’s lawyer, told RBC.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow sentenced local resident Yuri Butorin to 3.5 years in a general regime colony, who shot two men with a traumatic pistol who were passing by the Haggis bar with the flags of the Donetsk People's Republic. “The court sentenced Yuri Butorin to three years and six months in prison; he will serve his sentence in a general regime colony,” told court press secretary Anastasia Dzyurko the Moscow agency.

Eight of the nine Nizhny Novgorod district police officers who wrote reports of dismissal due to the arrests of colleagues as part of the investigation of a criminal case about the murder of a large family changed their minds about resigning after conversations with management. “A working meeting was held in Nizhny Novgorod, which was attended by members of the Public Council and the leadership of the city Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

The court sentenced the head of the Blagoveshchensk linear department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for transport Tofik Niftaliev and his deputy Sergei Kapustin to a fine, finding them guilty of theft of subordinates' allowances and gasoline supplied at the expense of the state, according to the website of the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office.

The Sverdlovsk District Court of Irkutsk sentenced Novokuznetsk resident Alexander Bocharov, who agreed to transport 29 kilograms of heroin to pay off a gambling debt, to 10 years in prison. As reported on the website of the prosecutor's office of the Irkutsk region, at the beginning of February last year, 55-year-old Bocharov agreed to transport a large shipment of heroin from Novokuznetsk to Irkutsk for a reward of 170 thousand rubles.

The driver of the snowplow that the Falcon plane of Christophe de Margerie, head of the Total campaign, collided with at Vnukovo airport, Vladimir Martynenko, admitted his guilt and asked for the case to be considered in a special manner. “We submitted a request for a desire to consider the case in court in a special manner, which provides for a simplified procedural procedure and the possibility of receiving the most lenient punishment.

In the North Caucasus District Military Court, a representative of the state prosecution requested life imprisonment for ex-mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, reports Interfax . As the agency notes, the prosecutor considered it proven that Amirov organized the murder of an Investigative Committee investigator in 2011 and the shelling of a shopping and entertainment complex in Kaspiyskiye in the same year. He himself does not admit guilt.

Nine district commissioners from Nizhny Novgorod wrote reports of dismissal after criminal cases of negligence were opened against their colleagues as part of the investigation into the murder of a large family. As Vadim Grebenshchikov, chairman of the public council at the city Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, told Interfax, the district police cite the arrests of their colleagues as the reason for the dismissal.

The prosecutor's office of the Central District of St. Petersburg asks the court to recognize the information posted in the popular VKontakte community MDK as prohibited for distribution in Russia and to limit access to it, according to the website of the supervisory agency.