The Amur Regional Court reduced the sentence of the head of local government of the Evenki village of Ivanovskoye, Selemdzhinsky district, Sergei Nikiforov, convicted on charges of bribery. This was reported by the portal of civil activists Activatica. Nikiforov was sentenced to five years in prison in a maximum security penal colony and a fine of 16 million rubles. The regional court reduced his prison term to four years and reduced the fine to three million rubles.

The trial of Saratov nationalists from the Narodnaya Volya movement Andrei Martsev and Kirill Kablov, accused of vandalism, will begin on December 17. this Martsev reported to the online publication “Public Opinion”. On July 12, Martsev and Kablov were detained in different parts of Saratov, without any charges being brought against them. Then several information carriers and propaganda materials were confiscated from them.

In the city of Kamen-on-Obi, a criminal case was opened against a 23-year-old man who, together with his girlfriend, took the driver and his friend hostage, threatening them with an air pistol. This was reported by the FlashSiberia agency with reference to the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Altai Territory.

Accused of extremism, Dmitry Demushkin, the former leader of the nationalist movement “Russians”, recently banned in Russia, was released on his own recognizance. this Demushkin reported to the Interfax agency. “I was charged with eight charges under Article 282. Experts recognized eight photographs and pictures with quotes as extremist,” Demushkin said. He added that as a preventive measure he was given a written undertaking not to leave the place.

A resident of the Novosibirsk region, Bakhtiyar Akramov, was sentenced to 18 years and 6 months in a maximum security colony, having been found guilty of beatings (Part 1 of Article 116 of the Criminal Code) and murder of a minor with extreme cruelty (points “c, e” of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee. The incident occurred on March 6, 2015.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin called the events on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6, 2012 “a rehearsal for the Maidan.” this . reports The Interfax agency “Do you know that this was a rehearsal for the Maidan on Bolotnaya Square? There were tents and tires under the stage, just like it was on the Maidan,” Bastrykin said.

The Main Investigation Department of the Moscow Investigative Committee sent a criminal case to court against 41-year-old Khasan Zakaev, accused of complicity in the seizure of the theater center on Dubrovka in 2002. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee.

A criminal case has been opened against a resident of Pikalev who stabbed to death his older brother who was preventing him from watching TV, according to the website of the Investigative Committee for the Leningrad Region. The murder was reported to the police before the start of the broadcast of the Paris Saint-Germain - Shakhtar match, clarifies .

Those involved in the attack on journalist Oleg Kashin “were partially found,” Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said. He made this statement in response to a question from Dozhd journalist Mikhail Fishman about the possible involvement of the governor of the Pskov region Andrei Turchak in the beating of Kashin, according to the channel’s website.

In Angarsk, an unknown person shot with a pneumatic weapon at children who were playing in the yard. One child was injured, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Irkutsk region. “About 17:00 (12:00 Moscow time - MZ) several ten-year-old boys were playing in the courtyard of houses located in the 25th quarter of Angarsk.

Krasnodar activist Daria Polyudova, accused of calls for separatism, was detained near the market in the village of Poltavskaya, where she was distributing advertising leaflets. this . reports The website of the OVD-Info project Polyudova told OVD-Info that she distributed advertising leaflets to earn money. She was taken to the police department, where the police realized that her leaflets were not political.

Dmitry Demushkin, the former leader of the Russian nationalist movement recently banned in Russia, was charged with extremism for a photograph of a Russian March banner published on his VKontakte page. Demushkin told the Interfax agency about this. “They brought charges under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred and enmity - MZ),” Demushkin said.

The investigation established that in the official car of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, shot in St. Petersburg on the morning of December 4, a large amount of money was transported, which was stolen by criminals. The money was intended to pay for the labor of illegal migrants working at the construction sites of the State Institution “Central Distribution Center” in the Krasnogvardeisky district, according to the website of the Investigative Committee.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin believes that the people who committed the murder must be executed. this . reports The Interfax agency “Liberals begin to argue: whether the death penalty is necessary or not, what is higher, what is better, what is Christian, what is not Christian. I personally support the death penalty, first and foremost as a human being. I believe that people who commit such serious crimes have no place on earth,” Bastrykin said.

Officials plan to oblige mobile messengers to enter into contracts with Russian telecom operators and cooperate with Roskomnadzor. This was reported by the Vedomosti newspaper, which has a copy of the bill regulating the work of instant messengers in Russia. According to Vedomosti, the authors of the initiative propose to amend the laws “On Information...” and “On Communications”.