The wife of one of the leaders of the Kushchevskaya organized crime group, Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz, Natalya Tsepovyaz, told RBC about the company “Sugar Kuban”.

The Meshchansky District Court sentenced activists Alexander Shelkovenkov and Dmitry Karasev, who tried to chain the doors of Moscow's Basmanny Court, to two days of arrest, reports OVD-Info . Thus, the court found them guilty of an offense under Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (minor hooliganism). Shelkovenkov and Karasev will spend the night in the Krasnoselsky police station and will be released tomorrow morning.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow chose a preventive measure in the form of detention in relation to the Moscow anarchist Dmitry Buchenkov, the activist’s defender Svetlana Sidorkina told Mediazona. “Today in the Basmanny court at 12 o’clock they chose a preventive measure against him: detention for a period of two months, according to the secretary. I have not familiarized myself with the materials of the case, there is no judge,” she said.

In the Stavropol Territory, a criminal case was opened against a policeman from a separate platoon of the patrol service and a driver from the police department of the village of Zolskaya, suspected of beating a married couple, under paragraph “a” of part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official authority with the use of violence), reports the regional investigative control.

An investigator from the investigative department for the Kostroma region brought charges against the leader of the St. Petersburg PARNAS in the final version, said . Andrei Pivovarov himself According to the politician, the criminal investigation is coming to an end and soon the defense will be able to move on to familiarizing itself with the case materials.

Consideration in the first reading of the bill on equating car rallies to public events has been postponed, Yaroslav Nilov, head of the relevant Duma Committee on Public Associations and Religious Organizations, told Interfax. “At the Duma Council on Thursday, it was decided to move this issue from Friday due to the fact that the government representative would not be able to present to the Duma on that day, the committee did not object,” Nilov said.

In Tatarstan, police detained two local residents who were extorting 100 thousand rubles from a local police officer, reports the regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the department, the detainees did not work anywhere and were engaged in extortion and debt collection. One of the detainees was previously convicted of fraud and causing harm to health. “The suspects submitted their demand to pay 100 thousand rubles to the district police officer on November 18.

Lawyers cannot find Moscow anarchist Dmitry Buchenkov, who was detained on the evening of December 2, the activist’s defender Svetlana Sidorkina told Mediazona. In addition, the Investigative Committee interrogated Buchenkov’s brother. As Sidorkina said, the case was transferred to the Investigative Committee, however, she does not know which temporary detention facility Buchenkov is in, since she cannot find out which investigator has the case materials.

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, a criminal case has been opened against a wheelchair user who is suspected of murdering his wife's partner, the reports . regional Investigative Committee According to investigators, on the morning of December 2, 2015, in the city of Perevoz, Nizhny Novgorod Region, on Sovetsky Avenue, a man stabbed a 31-year-old local resident in the chest with a knife, who died on the spot.

In Moscow, the Simonovsky court sentenced a history teacher to 5.5 years in a general regime colony, who was accused of blowing up ATMs with an improvised explosive device in order to steal funds, TASS reports citing the court's press service. As the investigation established, the 33-year-old history teacher, having knowledge in the field of physics and chemistry, prepared explosive devices based on ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder, installed them and blew up ATMs.

In the Kirov region, a criminal case was opened against the head of the Kugalsky rural settlement of the Yaransky district. The official tried to shoot three men who came to his settlement for fishing, reports . the regional investigative department According to investigators, on the afternoon of November 28, 2015, the drunken 52-year-old head of the Kugalskoye Rural Settlement municipality came to the Kugalskoye pond. There he saw three men, previously unknown to him, who were fishing.

On December 3, 2015, the Kuibyshevsky District Court of Irkutsk refused to satisfy the claim for compensation for moral damage to former prisoner of pre-trial detention center-6 Nikolai Ananyin, reports “Public Verdict”. Ananyin demanded 500 thousand rubles from the state for the beatings he suffered in the pre-trial detention center. The victim's lawyer, Svyatoslav Khromenkov, says that the court's decision will be appealed.

In St. Petersburg, a criminal case was opened against two police officers suspected of exceeding official powers under paragraph “b” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers with the use of special means), reports the regional investigative department.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation and the authors of the investigation into the business of the Prosecutor General's family will sue Yuri Chaika in defense of honor, dignity and business reputation, Alexey Navalny said . Navalny noted that they usually don’t do this, but they can make an exception. “Otherwise, we won’t achieve the promise “I’ll soon announce who and what is behind this.” We will add a civil trial to the criminal investigation against Chaika and the entire mafia,” Navalny said.

In his address to the Federal Assembly, President Vladimir Putin proposed expanding the role of the jury, with a possible reduction in the number of jurors in court to 5-7 people. According to Putin, it is difficult to form a jury of 12 people, and it also requires a lot of money. At the same time, the president proposed expanding the number of crimes that could be tried by a jury.