The Investigative Committee for the Volgograd Region began a pre-investigation investigation into the fact [Roskomnadzor] of a 38-year-old man in a cell of the escort service of the Kamyshinsky City Court, according to the department’s website. The man was found dead around 12:40 today. As the Ministry of Internal Affairs clarifies , a resident of Kamyshin was found [by Roskomnadzor] on his outer clothing. Previously, he was taken to court to select a preventive measure.

The Supreme Court reduced the sentence of former radio engineer GRU of the Ministry of Defense Gennady Kravtsov, convicted in a treason case, from 14 to six years in prison, the Moscow agency reports. Moreover, the minimum punishment under Article 275 of the Criminal Code is 12 years in prison. “The court decided to reduce Gennady Kravtsov’s sentence from 14 years in a maximum security colony to 6 years,” the court said.

In Mari El, a criminal case was opened against a 26-year-old employee of correctional colony No. 4 for using violence against a government official (Article 318 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Mariskaya Pravda publication with reference to the head of the press service of the FSIN department, Andrey Kanateev. The incident occurred on January 3 in the village of Svetly, Medvedkovsky district, Mari El.

The Sosnovoborsky City Court of the Leningrad Region fined the charitable environmental organization “Green World” 300 thousand rubles for refusing to enter the register of “foreign agents”. Lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov, representing the interests of the non-profit organization, reported this to Mediazona.

The investigative department for the city of Pushkino, Moscow region, opened a criminal case on the negligence of officials of state and municipal bodies of the city of Ivanteevka in the performance of their official duties, which resulted through negligence in the death of a child (Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the Moscow region department of the Investigative Committee.

Refugees from the war zone in eastern Ukraine, who are in the Balakovo temporary accommodation center in the Saratov region, went on a hunger strike due to the impossibility of obtaining a temporary residence permit. This was reported by the local information portal Sutynews.ru. The refugees who went on hunger strike said that they saw no other way to draw attention to their problems except in such a drastic way, writes Sutynews.ru. The number of people on hunger strike is not reported.

A fire-technical forensic examination in the case of the death of five children and their mother in a fire in Tatarstan showed that the cause of the fire was a short circuit. Since August 2013, their house was disconnected from the gas supply without a court order, so the house was heated using electric heaters and a stove. Lawyer Andrey Suchkov, who represents the interests of the injured party on the initiative of the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” told Mediazona about this.

The magistrate's court of the Industrial District of Stavropol began consideration of a criminal case against local resident Viktor Krasnov, accused of insulting the feelings of believers in correspondence on VKontakte (Part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code). Krasnov’s lawyer Andrei Sabinin reported this to Mediazona.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny announced the creation of the Black Notepad website , where a list of Russian officials and security forces whom he considers to be involved in crimes is published. this The oppositionist reported on his blog. At the time of writing, there are 265 people in the Black Notebook.

In 2015, the cyber police unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs identified an international group of cybercriminals who were planning to steal money from almost all banks in Russia, said the head of the “K” department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexey Moshkov, speaking at Infoforum-2016. this . reports RIA Novosti “Last year, Directorate K identified an international criminal community that jeopardized the security of the entire banking system of the Russian Federation.

Activist Irina Kalmykova, who left for Ukraine and is accused under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code of repeated violations of the procedure for holding protests, was arrested in absentia and put on the wanted list. The hearing of her case in the Tverskoy District Court has been postponed to March 14, journalist Anastasia Zotova reported on her Facebook. “Irina Kalmykova was put on the wanted list.

In the Irkutsk region, a criminal case was opened against unidentified persons for the torture of the 35-year-old mother of many children, Marina Ruzaeva, at the Usolye police department. this on its Facebook page . reports The Public Verdict Foundation The interests of the victim Ruzaeva, with the assistance of the fund, are represented by lawyer Svyatoslav Khromenkov.

The Chelyabinsk Regional Court sentenced five activists of the international movement Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia, to long prison terms for “an attempt to seize power in favor of the ‘worldwide Islamic caliphate’.” this TASS reports with reference to a court representative. According to the agency, a visiting session of the Moscow District Military Court was held in the Chelyabinsk Regional Court.

Three students of the National Research Nuclear University of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (NRNU MEPhI), who are Turkish citizens, were expelled by decision of the FSB. This was reported in the response of the Prosecutor General's Office to the appeal of the Presidential Council for Human Rights.

In Yekaterinburg, employees of the microfinance company "Home Money" tried to break down the door to the apartment of a former colleague, broke his meter and turned off his electricity due to an overdue debt of his former client. This was reported by the online publication E1.ru. A former collector, 33-year-old Oleg, told the publication that in the fall of 2015 he got a part-time job as an agent at the Home Money company.