Investigators have opened a criminal case against the former prosecutor of Elektrostal near Moscow, Nikolai Shipunov, who was driving his car drunk and ran over a motorcyclist. As reported on the Investigative Committee’s website, on the night of August 9, Shipunov was driving an SUV in the Noginsky district of the Moscow region. Near a railway crossing, he hit a motorcyclist and his passenger, who were standing in front of the car queue and waiting for the barrier to open.

Timur Ilyin, an activist of the Young Guard from Tatarstan, also a member of the public organization Law and Order, was detained in Samara. Information about the arrest was confirmed to Business Online by the head of the public relations department of the Tatarstan department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Nizhelskaya.

Based on the fact of group disobedience of convicts held in the Bobrovsk educational colony of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Voronezh Region, a pre-investigation check is being carried out, according to the website of the Investigative Committee. “Currently, employees of the regional investigation department are working at the scene of the incident; the deputy head of the department has left to coordinate their activities.

The Moscow City Court overturned the decision of the lower court and decided to recover 10 thousand rubles from the NTV television company in favor of the nationalist Alexander Potkin, who was shown naked in the “Emergency” program. “The court decided to overturn the decision of the Presnensky Court and collect 10 thousand rubles as compensation for moral damage in favor of my client,” lawyer Sergei Badamshin told Interfax.

An article in the Russian-language Wikipedia “Charas” was included in the register of prohibited sites. For the first time, this was done not by decision of executive authorities (in most cases, the Federal Drug Control Service and Rospotrebnadzor), but by a court decision.

A man arrested for raping his stepdaughter committed suicide by cutting his wrists in a temporary detention center cell in Uglegorsk, Sakhalin. As reported on the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on August 20, during an inspection of a temporary detention center cell, a defendant born in 1974 was discovered who, using part of a blade, had caused multiple cuts to his left hand. The police gave him first aid and called a medical team.

The deputy imam of the village of Irgakly in the Stavropol Territory was found dead. Numerous gunshot wounds were found on the body. As a relative of the murdered man told the Caucasian Knot, 32-year-old Zamirbek Makhmutov was on his way to morning prayers at the mosque when he was shot. “Zamirbek had no conflicts with anyone, he is a completely peaceful person. He was killed for his religious activities; there can be no other motives here.

Investigators have completed the investigation of the case against a 31-year-old man who, after serving his sentence for committing a sexual crime against a woman, was released and began raping and killing children. According to investigators , on May 8, 2013, the man was released from prison, where he spent four years for committing a sexual crime against a woman. The former prisoner went to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where his wife and two children lived.

The Stavropol Regional Court rejected the prosecutor's office's protest against the decision to release convicted Anton Lanshakov, who suffers from cystic fibrosis. Thus, the decision of the Kochubeevsky District Court to release a convict suffering from a serious genetic disease was recognized as legal. “The convicted person is now subject to immediate release,” told Lanshakov’s lawyer Andrei Sabinin RAPSI.

The Chernovsky District Court of Chita recovered 300 thousand rubles from the Ministry of Finance in favor of the former general director of a metallurgical plant in Buryatia, Sergei Kolesnichenko, recognizing the criminal prosecution against him as unfounded. According to the Trans-Baikal Human Rights Center, the court partially satisfied the entrepreneur’s claim in the amount of 3 million rubles.

The Federal Customs Service has proposed introducing criminal liability for the illegal import into Russia of goods subject to the food embargo. Information about the relevant bill is published on the federal portal of regulatory acts. It is still at the development stage and the full text has not been published, however, from the description of the document it is clear that the FCS proposes to introduce criminal penalties for the import of sanctioned products.

In the Sakhalin region, three local residents were detained, who were suspected of involvement in the abuse of a bear. In a video published on the Internet, they run over the animal eight times in a jeep, and also discuss the possibility of raping it.

The Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications has developed a bill changing the rules for registering media outlets. Among other things, it prohibits the registration of media outlets by NGOs - foreign agents. As Vedomosti writes , the document is posted for public discussion on the official information disclosure portal.