The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, named the reason for the fight between servicemen in a military unit in the Chechen village of Borzoi, which occurred earlier on Thursday. this incident Kadyrov commented on on his Instagram, saying that the fight “was frankly of a domestic nature.” According to Kadyrov, the fight “had nothing to do with the performance of military duties.” “The conflict began with an incident that took place on February 23.

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow extended the period of detention of artist Pyotr Pavlensky until April 5 inclusive, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. The inquiry period has been extended until April 6. Today in court, the artist’s lawyer Dmitry Dinze said that the statute of limitations in the first criminal case for the “Freedom” protest has expired.

The social and environmental non-profit organization “Planet of Hope” filed a claim for the protection of business reputation against VGTRK, lawyer Ivan Pavlov reports on his Facebook page. “We demand from VGTRK a refutation of phrases about industrial espionage. We will demand compensation in the amount of 1 ruble - for us, the very recognition of the fact of blatant lies on federal air is fundamental,” writes the lawyer. We are talking about two stories from the Russia 1 TV channel.

The State Duma, in the third reading, adopted an amendment to the law on the procedure for holding elections, which tightens the requirements for accreditation of journalists who plan to cover voting at a polling station, the Moscow agency reports . Now only those journalists who have entered into an employment contract with the editorial office at least two months before voting day will be able to obtain accreditation to a polling station.

State Duma deputies in the second and third readings adopted a bill equating car rallies with means of visual propaganda to demonstrations, and shawl towns with posters in public places to picketing, the Moscow agency reports . In addition, after the first reading, an amendment was made to the bill, which obliges a participant in a single picket to submit a notification at least three days before the action if he uses large equipment, including cubes.

In Vologda, a 50-year-old former employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service committed [Roskomnadzor] in his own garage, reports Gorodche.ru. The acting head of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for Vologda, Vasily Boldyrev, said that investigators are considering the [Roskomnadzor] version due to excruciating pain. The Investigative Committee is also checking other versions of what happened.

the number of children killed last year Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin announced on Friday during the department’s final board meeting. According to the Investigative Committee, in total, 12 thousand minors suffered from violent crimes in 2015. During the year, 484 murders of children, 1,645 rapes and more than 5,300 sexual assaults were investigated; Almost ten and a half thousand criminal cases were sent to the courts (25% more than in 2014), Bastrykin said.

In Chelyabinsk, a representative of the Democratic Coalition, Vyacheslav Kislitsin, who organized a rally in memory of the murdered politician Boris Nemtsov, was beaten, reports in his blog. the leader of the local PARNAS branch, Alexey Tabalov, He clarifies that Kislitsin was attacked this morning at the entrance to the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. “He has numerous bruises, a broken rib and a heart attack,” writes Tabalov. The victim is now in the hospital.

The Central District Court of Chelyabinsk remanded two detectives from correctional colony No. 2, Vladimir Malinin and Alexander Dontsov, into custody for two months, the press service of the human rights organization “Zone of Law” reports.

The North Caucasus District Military Court of Rostov-on-Don found guilty three defendants in the case of recruitment into the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, recognized as terrorist in Russia, according to the court’s website. The convicts are residents of Dagestan Shamil Ramazanov and Umar Nikiforov, as well as citizen of Kyrgyzstan Kizimzhan Sheraliev. Ramazanov was sentenced to 9 years in prison, and Nikiforov and Sheraliev were each sentenced to six years in prison.

The Investigative Committee began a pre-investigation check in the Mozhaisk correctional colony on the fact of mass unrest in the institution on February 21, the department reports . According to investigators, two convicted teenagers on the evening of February 21 closed the colony's dormitory from the inside and barricaded the stairs.

In Khakassia, the court sentenced the head of the Efremkinsky village council of the Shirinsky district, Natalya Vrazovskaya, to a year of correctional labor with the deduction of 10% of her salary in favor of the state. According to the Investigative Committee, Vrazovskaya was released from punishment and given amnesty in the case of fires in the region in the spring of 2015.

The Petrodvorets court took into custody a 27-year-old officer of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Shikhmagomed Israpilov, suspected of murdering a policeman in Peterhof, Life78 reports . Israpilov was arrested for two months. Earlier today, another suspect, the 24-year-old brother of Internal Troops officer Gasan Israpilov, was arrested. According to the TV channel, he wrote a confession.

In the Altai Territory, a court sentenced a 26-year-old resident of the village of Kulunda to two years in a penal colony, finding her guilty of violating fire safety requirements, which negligently resulted in the death of two people (Part 3 of Article 219 of the Criminal Code). The woman and her children lived in an apartment that did not have a stove or central heating; The room was heated using electrical appliances.

The Supreme Court of the Republic of Mari El recognized as legal the refusal of Yoshkar-Ola resident Evgeny Dydychkin to compensate for moral damage caused to him by the work of investigators, reports the Committee for the Prevention of Torture. The judges found that nine decisions refusing to initiate a criminal case for beating by police and the pre-investigation check, which has been going on for three years, do not violate Dydychkin’s rights.