Estonian Security Police officer Eston Kohver did not appeal the verdict of the Pskov Regional Court, which sentenced him to 15 years in a maximum security colony on charges of espionage; Thus, the sentence to the Estonian citizen came into force, TASS reports .

In the Tomsk region, two local residents were fined for publishing an anti-fascist Walt Disney cartoon about Donald Duck on a social network, the SOVA information and analytical center reported on Thursday.

Vladimir Merkulov, a suspect in the murder of a four-year-old girl and her grandmother, who is also suspected of an attempt on the life of a prosecutor’s office employee in Voronezh, died while being detained by police officers.

More than ten oppositionists were interrogated in Rostov-on-Don as witnesses in a criminal case regarding the posting of comments on entries in LiveJournal by journalist Sergei Reznik. The Caucasian Knot wrote about this on Thursday from the words of activist Boris Batu, accused in the case.

Investigators are conducting an investigation into the death of a man under the wheels of an electric train near the Zarya platform in Balashikha near Moscow, the Moscow agency reported on Thursday, citing the press service of the Investigative Committee. According to preliminary data, the man suffered from cancer and committed suicide.

In the Volsky district of the Saratov region, police detained an intruder who stole a goat from prisoners of a local women's colony, reports Wolsk.ru. According to the publication, the goat disappeared around noon on August 22 from a pasture near the village of Vidim. On September 2, employees of the Volsky District Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained a 34-year-old man involved in the crime. “That day, he and his friend got very hungry and decided to kidnap a sheep.

In the Voronezh region, a criminal case has been initiated against a 38-year-old lawyer and eleven of his acquaintances aged from 27 to 44 years old, suspected of committing a crime under paragraph “b” of Part 2 of Article 241 of the Criminal Code (organizing prostitution by other persons, and also the maintenance of dens for prostitution and the systematic provision of premises for prostitution, committed with the use of violence and the threat of its use). this on Thursday .

The case was transferred to the court regarding the mayor of Yaroslavl Evgeny Urlashov, his former deputy Dmitry Donskov and adviser Alexei Lopatin, accused of corruption, the press service of the Investigative Committee reports on Thursday. Evgeny Urlashov, 2013. Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS According to the investigation, Urlashov and his two subordinates in 2012-2013 extorted 18 million rubles from the director of LLC, Radostroy LLC.

A court in the Irkutsk region granted the request for parole of the former mayor of Tomsk Alexander Makarov, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for abuse of power, taking a bribe and extortion, Interfax reports . During the parole hearing, a representative of the prosecutor's office supported the defense attorney's position. A criminal case against Makarov was initiated in December 2006, at which time he was arrested and removed from the post of mayor of Tomsk.

In Nizhny Novgorod, a criminal case has been instituted against local police officers who have beaten a local resident Sergei Sysuev, the “Committee for Prevention of Torture” reports on Thursday. Sysuev appealed to human rights activists with a statement on the application of physical violence by him from the Nizhny Novgorod police. He said that on July 14 this year, at about 3 a.m., he was detained in the apartment of his friend, where the woman’s mother called the police.

In the Leningrad Region, the head of the department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Alexander Rumyantsev, and his subordinates Denis Tsarev and Evgeny Kostyuk will appear in court. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, the police, escorting the prisoner without weapons to the place of the investigative experiment, allowed him to escape, after which he killed the girl.

In the Kaluga region, a criminal investigation has been completed against a traffic police inspector and his acquaintance, accused of kidnapping, which through negligence resulted in the death of the victim (clause “c” of Part 3 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code), unlawful taking of a car without the purpose of theft (clause “c”) a" part 2 of article 166 of the Criminal Code), theft committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy (paragraphs "a, c" part 2 of article 158 of the Criminal

Moscow police reported the arrest of members of a criminal group suspected of kidnapping a businessman and extortion, reported on Thursday. the press service of the capital's Ministry of Internal Affairs The victim said that on August 4, when he was driving his Mercedes-Benz car, unknown men in a Renault car staged an accident, after which they hit him on the head, put an opaque bag over his head and injected him with a certain drug.

Igor Zhitenev (left) and Mikhail Bezmensky, June 22, 2015. Photo: Oleg Harsseev / Kommersant The Novousmansky District Court of the Voronezh Region continues to consider the case of local politician Mikhail Bezmena and Cossack chieftain Igor Zhitenev, who fought against Nickel’s extraction in the Voronezh region.

A court in Rostov-on-Don found local resident Andrei Gulevich guilty of murdering a Muslim minor motivated by national and religious hatred, distributing extremist materials and child pornography, the reported on Thursday. Caucasian Knot The investigation established that on October 2, 2014, in a grove in the Temernik microdistrict, 20-year-old Gulevich approached an unfamiliar 17-year-old Tajik.