The Presidium of the Supreme Court on Wednesday considered a proposal to resume proceedings on the complaint of Nizhny Novgorod resident Sergei Lyapin about torture in police custody in 2008 due to newly discovered circumstances, the Committee for the Prevention of Torture reports . A new circumstance in the case was the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which in 2014 ruled in the Lyapin case.

The Tagansky Court of Moscow arrested until March 8 Alexander Rul, accused of detonating a grenade at a bus stop on Pokrovka Street in the city center, a RAPSI correspondent reports from the courtroom. Rule has been charged with hooliganism with the use of explosive devices (Part 3 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

The examination revealed an excess of the permissible concentration of heavy metals in the body of PARNAS Deputy Chairman and Open Russia coordinator Vladimir Kara-Murza. According to the politician, this confirms the version that they tried to poison him, RBC wrote on Wednesday. A significant excess of the concentration of certain substances permissible for humans was found in Kara-Murza’s body, according to the conclusion of French specialist Pascal Kintz, which RBC has at its disposal.

The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia considers the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov solved, as reported by RIA Novosti, Bastrykin spoke about this in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta. “In 2015, the murder of Boris Nemtsov was solved,” said Alexander Bastrykin.

The Cheryomushkinsky District Court remanded in custody until March 18 the ex-employee of the landscaping company "Mon-company" Alexander Velichko, who shot the former boss and his deputy, the reports Moscow agency on Vavilov Street in Moscow . On January 18, a shootout took place —presumably, the criminal used a Saiga carbine and fled in a car. One person was initially reported killed and one injured, but he later died.

A court in Transbaikalia sentenced two teenagers to nine years in prison for beating a minor local resident to death with sticks, reports RIA Novosti , citing the regional prosecutor's office. According to the department, in June 2015, drunken teenagers quarreled with a young boy. During the conflict, they first beat their opponent and then dealt many blows to his head with wooden sticks. The boy died as a result of a severe traumatic brain injury.

Kommersant newspaper correspondent Olesya Gerasimenko reported on Twitter that she was warned by telephone about the impending delivery of a subpoena for questioning to the Investigative Committee in the case of the editor-in-chief of the Sputnik and Pogrom website Yegor Prosvirnin. At the same time, Gerasimenko emphasized that she is in no way connected with Prosvirnin and has not read a single text on his website.

The court sentenced to nine years in a maximum security colony a resident of Chuvashia who stabbed to death a guest who kicked his pet kitten. According to investigators , on the evening of October 21 last year, a 66-year-old resident of Alatyr was drinking in his apartment with an unfamiliar peer. At some point, a quarrel arose between them. The owner of the house stabbed the guest 16 times in the head, neck and chest.

The Constitutional Court published a decision according to which Russian citizens and legal entities do not have the right to find out the identity of the author of an anonymous complaint that led to an inspection by government authorities. The corresponding decision was published on the court's website.

Investigators have completed a criminal investigation against two residents of the village of Desnyansky, Bryansk region, aged 17 and 20, who stabbed an acquaintance to death for profit. Their loot was 50 rubles and an old cell phone. According to investigators , on the evening of January 30 last year, drunk young people entered the house of a 35-year-old fellow villager, where they began to beat him and demand money.

Investigators have charged a 23-year-old resident of Tuapse who killed a friend who asked to be taken to Adygea. According to investigators, on January 8, 2016, a 43-year-old resident of the village of Novomikhailovskoye asked a young man to take him to the village of Messazhai and wait for him there. The accused agreed. In Messazhai, the man got out of the car, and when he returned, he asked the young man to take him even further - to the Republic of Adygea. He refused.

Investigators opened a criminal case against Yuri Protasov, an employee of the capital construction department of Khakassia, who took into account actually unfinished houses for fire victims for a bribe.

A case has been opened against a 49-year-old resident of Cherepovets under the article of battery for beating her three-year-old granddaughter, who decided to play hide and seek in a grocery store. According to the Notepad publication, the incident occurred in the Aurora store. A three-year-old girl decided to play hide and seek - hiding behind the drinks counter, she covered her face with her mittened hands.

In Moscow, the non-profit organization Center for Assistance to Indigenous Peoples of the North was fined 300 thousand rubles under the law on “foreign agents,” lawyer Ilnur Sharapov, representing the interests of the Center, told Gazeta.Ru. The decision was made by the Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow - the court found the organization guilty of violating the procedure for the activities of an NPO performing the functions of a foreign agent.

The North Caucasus District Military Court sentenced Kalmykia resident Khalidin Khalilov to five years in a general regime colony, RIA Novosti reports , citing court press secretary Alena Katkalo. The accused, born in 1992, was found guilty of participating in battles in Syria as part of an illegal armed group and attempting to recruit new fighters. Khalilov fully admitted his guilt, his case was considered in a special manner.