Lawyer Andrei Krekov, convicted in the case of attacking a police officer, went on a hunger strike due to his transfer to a punishment cell, reports the lawyer’s wife Victoria. The man's current weight is 59 kilograms. Employees of the administration of colony-settlement No. 3 of the Arkhangelsk region, where the lawyer is serving his sentence, placed Krekov in a punishment cell about a week ago for an unauthorized call to relatives.

In Karelia, a court imposed a fine on a journalist from Finland for an interview with the former mayor of Petrozavodsk Galina Shirshina, which he conducted without accreditation, reports, citing a source in law enforcement agencies. Interfax According to the agency's interlocutor, the journalist was fined for an administrative offense. Now he also faces being deprived of his visa to enter Russia.

The Investigative Committee has begun an investigation into the suicide of a policeman in his car, according to the department’s website. The incident happened the night before. “In a car parked at house 74 “A” on Moskovsky Avenue in St. Petersburg, a police officer of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Admiralteysky District of St. Petersburg shot himself in the head with a traumatic pistol,” the Investigative Committee said in a statement.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, investigators opened a criminal case after discovering the bodies of four people with gunshot wounds in an apartment in the city of Artemovsk, reports . the press service of the region’s investigative department According to investigators, on January 23, 2016, a relative of the victims contacted the police and, having come to visit, discovered the body of her 39-year-old son, his 38-year-old wife and their children, 17 and 9 years old.

In Dagestan, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is blocking supporters of the former head of the OPFR Sagid Murtazaliev, who planned to hold a car rally in support of Putin, Kadyrov and Murtazaliev, reports . Chernovik It was planned that the rally would be a continuation of the rally that took place in Grozny on January 22, 2016. The rally was supposed to take several routes, participants were supposed to join along the route of the column and finish the run in Derbent.