A Kaliningrad court sentenced Baltic Fleet reserve lieutenant colonel Fyodor Boriskin, accused of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), to 12 years in prison, TASS reports , citing the press service of the regional FSB department. Boriskin must serve his sentence in a maximum security colony.

The Ostankino District Court of Moscow sentenced Oleg Shakhov, the former head of Khimki near Moscow, to six years in prison, TASS reports . As court spokeswoman Natalya Osipova said, Shakhov was found guilty of fraud. He will not be able to hold any public office for three years.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow extended the house arrest of the director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature Natalya Sharina, accused of inciting hatred on ethnic grounds (Article 282 of the Criminal Code), reports . Interfax Sharina was left under house arrest until January 28. Earlier in court, the investigator said that the investigation period in the case had been extended until the same date.

President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Council for Culture and Art that he first learned about the house arrest of the director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature Natalya Sharina, Interfax reports . “This is the first time I’ve heard about detention and house arrest, I just can’t even comment because I don’t know what we’re talking about,” Putin said, answering a question from literary critic Alexander Arkhangelsky. He asked to intervene in the fate of the library director.

This morning in the south-west of Moscow, a BMW driver who did not allow an ambulance to pass had his nose broken, reports . RIA Novosti The incident occurred in the area of ​​house 9 on Ostrovityanova Street. A conflict ensued between the BMW drivers and the ambulance, and then an eyewitness intervened. According to the driver of the foreign car, the latter hit him in the face and disappeared.

The prosecutor's office of the Krasnoyarsk Territory approved an indictment in a criminal case of financing terrorism against a resident of the region, 29-year-old S.V. Shamanaev, according to the department’s website. The case materials were sent to the Moscow District Military Court. Shamanaev is accused under Part 1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code (financing of terrorism) and Part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code (illegal acquisition and storage of drugs on a large scale).

The Zyuzinsky District Court of Moscow returned the case against ten members of the Russian National Association "Ataka" to the prosecutor's office, the Moscow agency reports , citing lawyer Ivan Mironov. According to him, judge Natalia Kuchina returned the case to eliminate shortcomings. Some episodes of the indictment do not indicate the time and place of the crimes, and there are other serious errors, Mironov explained.

An employee of the Rusalians company was fined three thousand rubles for an incident with a polar bear on Wrangel Island, Flashnord reports , citing a source in the administration of the Wrangel Island Nature Reserve. According to him, the person who blew up the bear was found guilty under Article 8.39 of the Code of Administrative Offences—violation of the rules for the protection and use of natural resources in specially protected natural areas.

In the Kirov District Court, prosecutor Evgeny Trushin, during the debate, asked Tomsk blogger Vadim Tyumentsev for four years in a penal colony in a case of extremism, writes . Novaya Gazeta The prosecutor also asked to deprive Tyumentsev of the right to post information on the Internet in public access for two years. As reported by Novo-Tomsk, lawyer Roman Vlasov asked to acquit his client. The next meeting is scheduled for December 29, when Tyumentsev will make his final speech.

Andrey Litasov. Short: present / YouTube In the Krasnodar Territory, 39-year-old Andrei Litasov was arrested-the brother of Maxim Litasov, a young man from Absheronsk, who was posthumously convicted of attacking the house of four local pensioners. Lawyer Alexei Avanesyan, who told Mediazone about the detention of Andrei Litasov, connects his persecution with numerous complaints, with which he tried to restore the good name of his brother.

Vadim Prokhorov, a lawyer for the relatives of politician Boris Nemtsov, said that, according to the case materials, the murder of the co-chairman of RPR-Parnas began to be prepared in September 2014, RIA Novosti reports . These data refute the version that the motive for the murder of the politician was his statements about cartoons in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

In the Apsheronsky district of the Krasnodar Territory, police shot and killed a man during his arrest, reports . the region’s investigative department The Investigative Committee is conducting a pre-investigation investigation into the use of service weapons by police officers, which resulted in the death of a 65-year-old local resident.

In the Novosibirsk region, a criminal investigation has been completed against the 41-year-old head of the intermunicipal department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs “Iskitimsky”, who is accused of beating a detainee, according to a press release from the region’s investigative department. According to investigators, on the evening of May 18, 2015, the head of the police department came to the Linevskoye department to check on his subordinates.

Photo from the case file The case against the three police officers who were accused of killing a migrant in the ATS building - according to the investigation, detained by the builder from Tajikistan broke the ribs were transferred to the Solnechnogorsk city court; He died as a result of acute respiratory failure. The accused did not admit their guilt of his deed.

Andrei Barabanov, convicted in the Bolotnaya case, has been released, the May 6 Committee tweets. Barabanov left IK-6, located in the village of Stenkino in the Ryazan region. Andrey Barabanov is free! — Committee May 6 (@help6may) December 25, 2015 Convicted in the first wave of the Bolotnaya case, Andrei Barabanov was sentenced to three years and seven months in prison in February 2014.