The court sentenced to eight years in a general regime colony a resident of the city of Kungur, Perm Territory, who stabbed to death a man who had roughly treated her pet cat Vasily. As reported on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee, the court thus found the woman born in 1985 guilty under Article 105 of the Criminal Code (murder).

A 28-year-old resident of Saratov was taken into custody for driving his seven-year-old stepson to suicide, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, from November 2014 to August 22, 2015, the man systematically beat a seven-year-old boy in various parts of his body, tied him to a chair with a rope, insulted and humiliated his human dignity.

Krasnodar investigators began a pre-investigation check to establish the cause of death of a pregnant patient in a antenatal clinic, reports with reference to the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. Interfax According to the agency's interlocutor, we are talking about a 27-year-old woman, and the incident itself occurred on January 14.

The Bazarno-Karabulaksky District Court found 39-year-old road patrol officer Ivan Bokov and his friend Vyacheslav Frolov guilty of stealing sheep, according to the Investigative Committee’s website. Each accused was fined 20 thousand rubles. The men’s actions were qualified under points “a”, “c” of Part 2 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code (theft of property committed by a group of persons causing significant damage to a citizen).

In the temporary detention center (temporary detention center) of police station No. 4 Mugur-Aksy of the intermunicipal department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs "Dzun-Khemchiksky", a local resident committed suicide. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tyva, a 34-year-old man was found dead in his cell today at about 16:00. A local resident was detained for evading the execution of an administrative penalty (Article 20.25 of the Administrative Code).

The head of the Federal Drug Control Service, Viktor Ivanov, in a letter sent to President Vladimir Putin, said that the distribution of grants had become “a successful startup at the regional level,” writes Kommersant (the newspaper has a copy of the letter).

The Chelyabinsk Regional Court recognized as legal the decision to collect 20 thousand rubles from a member of the local Public Monitoring Commission (POC) Oksana Trufanova as compensation for moral damages in favor of the head of correctional colony No. 1 of Kopeisk Alexey Titov, RAPSI reports . With this decision, the regional court rejected the human rights activist’s complaint, and the decision of the Leninsky District Court came into force.

The Investigative Committee of the Murmansk Region has begun a pre-investigation check in connection with the death of a foreigner on the border of Russia and Finland, according to the department’s website. According to Flashnord's law enforcement source, the deceased is an Indian citizen. The body of a 33-year-old refugee was found in a car on January 17. The car was parked near the Priozersky checkpoint in the Kandalaksha district.

A member of the informal nationalist organization “Restrukt”, Kirill Filatov, fully admitted his guilt during the first hearing in the case, a Moscow agency correspondent reports from the Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow. “I fully admit my guilt,” Filatov said. “For all the things I have done, I ask for your forgiveness. I also understand that I have brought a lot of suffering to my family. Sorry again,” he added, addressing the victims.

In Rostov-on-Don, four young people were detained who are suspected of preparing a terrorist attack; a special operation to detain them took place on January 17, writes Bloknot-Rostov. The young people were detained in a private outbuilding in the Leninsky district of the city. According to the publication, in the house rented by three girls and a young man, investigators found two bundles of 400 grams of elastide.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of Orenburg on Monday considered an administrative case brought against a local truck driver activist for organizing an unauthorized rally. The court fined truck driver Alexander Gubantsov 75 thousand rubles, writes Orenday.ru.

The case of six juvenile far-right activists from Moscow and the Moscow region, who attacked migrants on trains and on suburban platforms, has been sent to court, the reported on Monday.

In the Amur region, a leading engineer of the Vostochny Cosmodrome Directorate was detained while accepting a bribe, the regional department of the Investigative Committee reported on Monday.

The police have discontinued criminal proceedings related to the supply of food to the banquet of the city manager of Samara. As reports , the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported this to the publication.

A former employee shot the director and deputy director of a landscaping company in Moscow, Interfax reports, citing a source in law enforcement agencies. According to the source, on Monday at 11:00 a former employee entered the company’s office at 7 Vavilova Street and fired several shots from a hunting rifle. As a result of the shooting, the director of the company and his deputy were killed. According to preliminary data, the cause of the shooting was a long-standing hostile relationship.