The Presnensky District Court took into custody a suspect in a shootout near a cafe on Rochdelskaya Street in the center of Moscow, TASS reports . We are talking about a man with the last name Romanov. Another suspect, Budantsev, was placed under house arrest. Both were given a preventive measure until February 15. The court hearing to select a preventive measure for the third suspect was postponed for 72 hours.

The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Muscovite Sergei Pozharsky, who was found guilty of murdering his brother, to seven years in a maximum security colony, TASS reports . As the agency was told in court, Pozharsky had not been previously convicted, he admitted his guilt. “Also, as a mitigating circumstance, the court took into account the immorality of the victim’s behavior, which became the reason for the crime,” said a court representative.

The Ministry of Justice has concluded that the movement “For Human Rights,” led by Lev Ponomarev, has ceased to serve as a “foreign agent,” TASS reports . “Based on the results of the audit, it was established that the all-Russian public movement for the protection of human rights “For Human Rights” has ceased to act as a foreign agent,” the ministry’s press service said.

The Investigative Committee for the Novosibirsk Region charged a 23-year-old detective with the criminal investigation department of the Verkh-Tulinsky Department of Internal Affairs under paragraph “a” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers). According to the Investigative Committee, the court sent the policeman to a pre-trial detention center. On the evening of November 22, a man was taken to the Verkh-Tulinsky police station.

The Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee extended the period of the preliminary investigation into the case of torture in the Kazan police department "Yudino", as a result of which Pavel Drozdov died, the Kazan Human Rights Center reports , citing the representative of the victims, Andrei Suchkov. The investigation was extended until March 10, 2016.

The Memorial human rights center on Friday announced that the circumstances of the death of some servicemen involved in the case of Ukrainian nationalists Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh. Both of them are accused of participating in the war in Chechnya on the side of the separatists and of killing Russian military personnel. Having analyzed the circumstances set out in the indictment in the case, human rights activists discovered a number of gross errors and inaccuracies in it.

In Chechnya, investigative authorities, at the request of the prosecutor's office, opened criminal cases against two local residents suspected of intending to leave for Syria and join the ranks of militants, the reported on Friday. Caucasian Knot “During the implementation of supervisory activities by employees of the prosecutor’s office of the republic, the fact of violation of federal legislation by employees of investigative bodies was revealed.

The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow took into custody the activist of the referendum initiative group “For Responsible Power” Kirill Barabash, the activist’s wife Daria Kucheryavaya told Mediazona. According to her, the meeting to select a preventive measure was held without a lawyer by agreement of Alexey Chernyshev. He arrived at the Khamovnichesky court at about one o'clock in the afternoon and learned that Kirill Barabash had already been arrested.

The Purovsky District Court of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug sentenced Alexander Trubchaninov, an employee of the regional Federal Drug Control Service department, for beating a passer-by to five years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of three years, the prosecutor's office of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug reports . He will also not be able to work in law enforcement for three years.

The Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg opened a criminal case into the death of a person in custody in pre-trial detention center No. 1 (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code). As reported on the department’s website, an ambulance was called to the accused being held in Kresty early in the morning on December 16, but the doctors were unable to save the man. He died from head and body injuries. The deceased prisoner of SIZO-1 was a defendant in a criminal case of rape.

Buddhist monk Pannyaavudho Topper bhikkhu demanded in the Tagansky District Court of Moscow to recognize illegal the decision of Rospotrebnadzor, which banned the commentary on the Godhika Sutta Godhika Sutta, which is part of the main collection of sacred texts of southern Buddhism, said the monk’s lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov. By decision of the supervisory agency, Roskomnadzor included links on the Internet with this comment in the register of prohibited sites.

Two district police officers of the closed administrative-territorial entity of the Sibirsky Altai Territory persuaded a local resident to take the blame for a crime that he did not commit, the Investigative Committee reports . For a thousand rubles, the man admitted to stealing a bicycle, which he had nothing to do with. A 32-year-old resident of Sibirsky was prosecuted and given a suspended sentence of eight months in prison.

The Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region has completed its investigation into the case against a 52-year-old resident of Shatura, who is accused of organizing preparations for the murder of a teenager (Part 3 of Article 33, Part 1 of Article 30, Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code). As reported on the Investigative Committee’s website, in March of this year, a school music teacher “out of personal hostility” tried to organize the murder of a 15-year-old schoolboy.

The OVD-Info project, which tracks arrests and criminal prosecutions of activists, has launched a campaign to raise money for the work of the monitoring group. The message from OVD-Info says that 997 thousand rubles are needed for six months of operation of the hotline and project participants who collect information and write news. “The monitoring group works 24/7, without weekends or holidays.

The presidential administration will not study the business of the sons of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, TASS reports citing presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. “This mechanism (checks for corruption existing in the Kremlin) is not concerned with the control of free entrepreneurs. If you ask me whether this mechanism will control the business of Chaika’s children, adults and independent entrepreneurs, the answer is clear - no,” Peskov said.