Former deputy director of the Leninets plant, Alexander Meshkov, in an interview with Kommersant, named the head of the police department, who, at his request, tried to find the address of journalist Oleg Kashin, on whom an attempt was later made. It turned out to be Ilya Galchuk, four years after these events, sentenced to eight years in a maximum security colony for torturing detainees.

The former deputy director of the Leninets plant, Alexander Meshkov, gave an interview to the correspondent of the Kommersant newspaper Grigory Tumanov. The conversation took place via video link using Skype.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill guaranteeing a detainee the right to make one telephone call within two hours after arrest. The corresponding document is posted on the legal information portal. According to the document, changes are being made to Article 96 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (notification of the detention of a suspect).

In the Leningrad Region, a deputy of the Council of Deputies of the Municipal Education of the Shlisselburg city settlement Andrei Khomenko, who is suspected of hooliganism (part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code), was detained, the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee reports on Wednesday.

In the city of Pechora in the Komi Republic, a criminal case against the former head of the guardianship and trusteeship department, who is accused of fraud and embezzlement, was sent to court, FlashNord reported on Wednesday, citing a message from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the republic. According to investigators, the official, under the pretext of providing assistance in purchasing housing, stole 870 thousand rubles from a former pupil of a correctional boarding school.

A criminal case against Inessa Tarverdieva, her daughter Victoria Tarverdieva, Sergei Sinelnik and his wife Anastasia Sinelnik has been transferred to the court. According to the press service of the Investigative Committee, depending on the role of each, they were charged with committing crimes under Part. 1.2 tbsp. 209, paragraphs. “a”, “c”, “d” “h” part 2 of Art. 105, part 3 art. 30, pp. “a”, “h” part 2 art. 105, pp. “a”, “c” part 4 art. 162, part 4 art.

In Moscow, investigators detained three neo-Nazis who are accused of desecrating the Victory banner. A criminal case has been opened against the young people under Part 2 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism or desecration of symbols of military glory), wrote on Wednesday. the SOVA information and analytical center In May 2015, a video appeared on the Internet showing young people in balaclavas setting fire to the Victory banner and then urinating on it.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow on Wednesday granted the request of politician Alexei Navalny to provide him with an installment plan to pay the civil claim of the Multi-Processing Company, which was one of the injured parties in the Yves Rocher case, the politician’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh reports.

The Moscow City Court blocked access to the portal rutor.org and ten other sites with pirated content, RAPSI reported on Wednesday, citing the head of the press service of the Moscow City Court, Ulyan Solopov. Thus, the claim of Bazilevs Distribution LLC, directed to 14 defendants, was partially satisfied. “For the first time in Russia, access to websites has been permanently suspended due to a copyright claim,” Solopova said.

The Moscow City Court on Wednesday sentenced the former head of the Ukrainian defense plant Znamya Yuri Soloshenko to six years in prison, finding him guilty of espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code), a RAPSI correspondent reports from the courtroom. The details of the case are not known due to its secrecy, but at the court hearing it was mentioned that the special services seized some equipment from Soloshenko, which has now been transferred to one of the military units.

The Suntarsky District Court in Yakutia convicted a local resident who tried to sell her five-month-old son for 1.5 million rubles via WhatsApp. The court sentenced the 26-year-old defendant to 3 years of suspended imprisonment, Interfax reported on Wednesday, citing the press service of the republican prosecutor's office. According to the investigation, on July 2 of this year, a woman born in 1988, who has two children, came with her five-month-old son to the district center of Suntar.

Two unknown people attacked Krasnoyarsk cyclist blogger Roman Romanov with an ax, Sib.fm writes on Wednesday. Romanov runs the online public “KrasDTP” and the website 24velo.com about violations on the roads, where he posts photographs and videos of exposures and accidents. Immediately after the attack, the blogger made a video message in which he said that two unknown men, probably armed with an ax, attacked him near the entrance on October 13.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Novosibirsk Region opened a criminal case into the beating of the Rottweiler Zeus in the Novosibirsk microdistrict Strizhi. The case was initiated under Article 245 of the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals), agency representative Yulia Khabibullina told a Sib.fm correspondent on Wednesday. A resident of Novosibirsk brutally beat the dog Zeus with rebar on September 22.

The Sinarsky District Court in Kamensk-Uralsky in the Sverdov Region sentenced nine gang members who, under the guise of fighting pedophiles, were engaged in extortion, blackmail and robbery.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of the Novosibirsk Region sentenced former employee of Pre-trial Detention Center No. 2, Yuri Kurbakov, who was accused of exceeding his authority with the use of violence (clause “a, b”, part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code), the regional prosecutor’s office reported on Wednesday.