A fire occurred in the building of the Tagansky District Court of Moscow, reports The Village . According to eyewitnesses, people are trying to leave the building through the windows. The Lifenews TV channel reports that a fire started in the archive room. People are being evacuated from the building; there is heavy smoke in the courthouse. Information about the fire in the courthouse was confirmed to the Moscow agency by a source in the city’s emergency services.

The Moscow City Court rejected the complaint of the lawyers of Temirlan Eskerkhanov, accused in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, against the refusal of investigators to open a criminal case for torture, the Moscow agency reports , citing lawyer Roza Magomedova.

The Investigative Committee for the Arkhangelsk Region and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) opened a criminal case against the head of the department of property and land relations of the NAO administration, Nikolai Drozdov, under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (receiving a bribe on an especially large scale for committing illegal actions). As reported on the department’s website, the official was detained today by officers from the regional FSB department.

The murder of a native of Dagestan on Solyanka Street was most likely ordered, Interfax reports, citing a source in law enforcement agencies. He said that the man was a well-known businessman in Dagestan. As a law enforcement source told the Moscow agency, the person killed was 35-year-old Mukhtar Medzhidov. He was elected to the People's Assembly of Dagestan of the third convocation in 2003.

The Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow returned the claim to Olga Lopatina, the ex-wife of Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin, which she filed against Alexei Navalny, employees of FBK and Google, Interfax reports . “By the court’s decision, the specified statement of claim was returned due to the shortcomings contained,” explained the press secretary of the Lublin court Lyudmila Morozova.

A TT pistol was found in the hand of the man killed on Solyanka Street, TASS reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. “According to preliminary data, there was a conflict between two men. Both opened fire at each other,” he said. The shooter fled in a black Infiniti SUV. Investigators seized CCTV footage from the scene of the incident. According to a TASS source, the participants in the conflict first stood together and communicated, and then a shootout occurred.

The Investigative Committee for the Leningrad Region opened a criminal case against a former district police officer of one of the police departments of the Vsevolozhsk district of the region under paragraph “b” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official authority with the use of special means).

An unknown person shot a man from a car on Solyanka Street in Moscow, reports . the Moscow agency “On the evening of December 16, service 02 received a message from citizens that on the street. In Solyanka, an unknown person from a black SUV shot at a man with an unidentified weapon and fled. The victim died on the spot,” the Moscow Ministry of Internal Affairs told the agency.

In Smolensk, a criminal case was opened into drug trafficking, which was carried out by a 14-year-old schoolboy, according to the website of the regional department of the Federal Drug Control Service. “The young man was engaged in the retail sale of heroin to drug users, as a rule, in a contactless way through bookmarks. He made bookmarks in different places, including near schools,” the department said in a statement. The schoolboy received wholesale quantities of heroin from Moscow.

The Central District Court of Kaliningrad found the song Hools by the Russian group “Faberge Eggs” to be extremist, according to the website of the regional prosecutor’s office.

After a complaint to the republican department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Kabardino-Balkaria, an HIV-positive inmate of correctional colony No. 4 was given the necessary medications, the press service of the human rights organization “Zone of Law” reports. A prisoner with HIV serving his sentence in Tambov IK-5 was provided with antiretroviral drugs for three weeks. This happened after he filed a lawsuit for compensation for moral damage for a million rubles.

Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Civil Rights Andrei Mayakov was suspected of another episode of fraud, Interfax reports, citing a source in law enforcement agencies. Now Mayakov is suspected of receiving 100 thousand rubles from the prisoner’s wife for easing conditions in prison. According to the agency's interlocutor, we are talking about a prisoner serving a sentence in a colony in the Kirov region.

In the Kirov region, investigators opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code (public actions expressing clear disrespect for society in order to insult the religious feelings of believers). The suspects are two residents of the region who hung an effigy on a worship cross, reported on Wednesday.

Two young people who were detained in St. Petersburg on suspicion of detonating two homemade explosive devices said during interrogation that they committed the crime as a protest against the authorities and the fact that “the Antichrist is reigning” in Russia, writes . Fontanka The first incident occurred in the Petrogradsky district of the city on March 5, when a traffic police officer came on shift and kicked a cherry juice bag near the post.

On the outskirts of the Dagestan Kizilyurt, security forces killed three armed accomplices of militants during a clash on Wednesday, reports , citing a source in the security forces. Chernovik The shootout began after security forces tried to stop a VAZ-21099 car for inspection, but fire was opened from it. “Two were killed by return fire from security forces. According to preliminary data, they were accomplices of a local gang,” a source told the publication.