The head of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, Igor Kalyapin, who was attacked near a hotel in Grozny City, wrote a statement to the police. The human rights activist decided to leave Chechnya. “I wrote a statement, wrote an explanation, the police took photographs of all my clothes. There were no bodily injuries - they kicked me lightly several times, once hitting me in the stomach, fortunately, it’s big. So I refused a medical examination,” Kalyapin told Mediazona.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in Chechnya, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, addressed the republican department of the Investigative Committee with a request to initiate a criminal case against Novaya Gazeta correspondent Elena Milashina. As stated in a press release from the Ombudsman's Office, Nukhazhiev accuses the journalist of “disseminating deliberately false information” regarding the Chairman of the Chechen Parliament Magomed Daudov.

In Grozny, an attack was carried out on the head of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, a member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) Igor Kalyapin. Dmitry Utukin, an employee of the human rights organization, reported this on Twitter. Just at the entrance to the hotel, a formidable city attacked Igor Kalyapin.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow detained until May 10 Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov, suspected of theft on an especially large scale, reports . the Moscow agency The official is suspected of organizing the theft of the budget allocated for the restoration of architectural monuments. According to investigators, the amount of theft is estimated at more than 50 million rubles. “He has neither the ability nor the desire to hide.

In Chuvashia, a criminal case has been initiated against the 43-year-old former head of colony-settlement No. 8, which is located in the Alatyr region. He is suspected of abuse of power (Part 1 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, from May to November 2014, the suspect used the labor of prisoners serving their sentences in the colony he led.

In Krasnoyarsk, a criminal investigation has been completed against a mechanic of the Krasnoyarskkraigaz emergency maintenance service, who is accused of violating safety rules during work (Part 2 of Article 216 of the Criminal Code), which resulted in the death of a person in a household gas explosion in a residential building. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee for the Krasnoyarsk Territory. A domestic gas explosion occurred on February 25, 2015 in house No.

The Zubovo-Polyansky court of Mordovia refused to grant parole to 70-year-old police major Pyotr Stakhovtsev, who was sentenced to death in 1991 for murder and banditry, his lawyer Dmitry Dinze told Mediazona. “Judge Zarenkova read out the decision to deny parole, which did not contain a single argument against it, except for the penalty that Stakhovtsev was given the very next day after the hearing on February 25,” the lawyer’s assistant clarified.

In the Sverdlovsk region, the skeletal remains of men and his personal belongings were found, among which there were three photos shot on Polaroid. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. Photo: SK site in the Sverdlovsk region The remains of the man were found in the Bogdanovichi district, in the forest near 104 kilometers of the Yekaterinburg -Tomsk highway.

US President Barack Obama called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release Ukrainian serviceman Nadezhda Savchenko, who is on trial in Russia on charges of murdering VGTRK journalists near Lugansk. this Slon.ru reports with reference to Interfax.

The investigator has formally charged Orthodox activist Lyudmila Esipenko, who was detained earlier on Wednesday in connection with the pogrom at the exhibition “Sculptures We Don’t See” in the Moscow Manege. this RIA Novosti reports with reference to Esipenko’s lawyer Oksana Mikhalkina. According to Mikhalkina, her client was charged with damaging cultural property (Part 1 of Article 243 of the Criminal Code). Esipenko does not admit guilt and refuses to testify.

The police suspected a 31-year-old resident of Saransk of beating his 40-year-old friend, and a criminal case was opened. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Mordovia. Police department No. 4 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs received a statement from a resident of Saransk, who asked that her friend be brought to justice. It turned out that a drunk man came to visit her and began to demand that she feed him.

In Omsk, a 37-year-old woman stabbed her 14-year-old son, who tried to take her modem to play on the computer. A criminal case has been opened for intentionally causing grievous bodily harm (Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the Investigative Committee for the Omsk Region. On the evening of March 9, an ambulance took a teenager to the hospital with a stab wound, after which a criminal case was opened.

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg will consider the submission of the head of the prison hospital, who asked for the release of two convicted women dying of cancer, as well as the petitions of the convicts themselves. Lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov, who represents the interests of those convicted on the initiative of the human rights organization “Zone of Rights,” reported this to Mediazona. The meeting will take place on March 17 at 11:00.

In the United States, the famous dissident Alexander Yesenin-Volpin, who in 1965 was the organizer of the “glasnost rally” - the first protest rally in the post-war USSR, died at the age of 92. Interfax reports this with reference to Yesenin-Volpin’s friends. The son of the poet Sergei Yesenin and the poetess Nadezhda Volpin, Alexander Yesenin-Volpin was born in Leningrad on May 12, 1924. In 1933 he moved with his mother to Moscow.

On the morning of March 16, in the urban village of Plekhanovo in the Tula region, about a hundred people from the Roma settlement started a scuffle with the police. This was reported by the local publication “Moya Sloboda”. The cause of the conflict was an accident on gas networks that occurred the day before, on March 15. The accident occurred due to an attempt by residents to illegally connect to gas networks. As a result, about 400 houses were left without gas.