The Lyudinovo Interdistrict Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Kaluga Region opened a case against a 76-year-old resident of the city of Lyudinovo under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code (murder), the department reports . The pensioner was detained, and during interrogation he confirmed that he was involved in the murder. The court took the city resident into custody.

A Syrian family living in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport was sent to the temporary accommodation center of the Federal Migration Service of Russia, reports . Interfax According to the head of the Federal Migration Service, Konstantin Romodanovsky, the family from Syria has re-submitted an application to be recognized as refugees in Russia, and these documents are being considered.

The Maikop City Court found local resident Murat Shovgenov guilty of preparing to participate in an illegal armed group on the territory of a foreign state (Part 1 of Article 30, Part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code), reports with reference to state prosecutor Dmitry Gerasimov. Interfax Shovgenov was sentenced to a year and 10 months in a general regime colony. The court found that Shovgenov was going to join the Islamic State group banned in Russia.

The Ministry of Justice included in the register of “foreign agents” the autonomous non-profit organization Institute of Human Rights, which is headed by the first Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Sergei Kovalev.

State Duma deputies in the first reading approved the introduction of criminal penalties of up to two years in prison for diggers for “repeated unauthorized entry into underground or underwater structures of objects protected in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.” For committing “repeated unauthorized entry” by a group of people, it is proposed to imprison violators for up to four years.

The prosecutor's office filed a complaint with the Tambov Regional Court against the decision of the Kirsanovsky District Court to replace the sentence of environmentalist Evgeniy Vitishko with restriction of freedom. The activist will remain in prison until the court's decision, although he was supposed to be released on Saturday.

The Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow placed under house arrest Elena Bezrukova, a leftist activist from Lipetsk, who was detained on suspicion of drug possession. Activist Jacqueline Yakovleva announced the court's decision on Twitter. The representative of the investigation in the Bezrukova case petitioned to place her in custody, stating that she did not have a permanent income and place of residence.

Investigator for particularly important cases Viktor Rubashkin and investigator Vladimir Andrievsky, as well as their boss, who heads the 9th department of the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, Denis Evmenov, were detained on suspicion of receiving a bribe in the amount of 2 million rubles.

The Department of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region, conducting an investigation into the death of the musician of the Firebird group Sergei Pestov after interrogation by the police, stated that there was a drug den in the drummer’s garage in Dubna, Moscow Region, and the man’s death was caused by atherosclerotic heart disease.

The lawyer Alexander Kolchenko, convicted in the case of the so-called Crimean terrorists, Svetlana Sidorkina was not allowed to see her client in pre-trial detention center No. 4 in Rostov-on-Don, citing occupied offices. “I cannot say whether this reason was truly objective or far-fetched.

In Adygea, six criminal cases have been initiated against local residents on charges of participation in the activities of the Islamic State terrorist group banned in Russia, the FSB department reports. “The law enforcement agencies of Adygea have opened six criminal cases against residents of the republic who left the country to participate in the activities of the Islamic State.

The Pskov Regional Court upheld the legal sentence of Nikolai Budrin, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the murder of his wife during a meeting in the colony. Budrin received a long sentence as a result of a combination of punishments; his first sentence was also imposed for murder.

Former traffic police officer of the traffic police in the city of Kazan, Dinar Farkhutdinov, will appear in court in the case of a group created by her older brother Almaz. The brothers and their accomplices kidnapped and tortured minibus drivers, extorting money from them. According to the department of the Investigative Committee for Tatarstan, the group has been operating since 2012.

Kommersant Publishing House correspondents Dmitry Korotaev and Grigory Tumanov were detained in Makhachkala while filming prayers in a mosque. As Kommersant writes with reference to Korotaev, security officials did not explain their actions and threatened to take away the equipment and footage. At the moment, the journalists are being taken to the Kirovsky district police department of the city.

Judge Artur Galiullin of the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan awarded compensation for moral damages in the amount of 15 thousand rubles to the victim of a beating in the police. The amount of compensation was reduced by 51 times - the plaintiff demanded to pay him 765 thousand rubles.