During the investigation into the death of a five-year-old girl from the Lipetsk region after rape, investigators established the fact that not only her adoptive father, but also her mother was involved in the death of the child. As reported on the Investigative Committee’s website, on March 21, a 32-year-old resident of the Lipetsk region committed “violent acts of a sexual nature” against his five-year-old adopted daughter.

A 36-year-old prisoner, suffering from late-stage cervical cancer, HIV and hepatitis C, is being held in the Gaaza prison hospital of the St. Petersburg department of the Federal Penitentiary Service, and appealed to the ECHR with a complaint about the failure to provide assistance.

A Russian citizen was detained in Switzerland after a false report of a bomb at a watch exhibition, TASS reports citing AFP agencies. According to the agency, the incident occurred on March 22, a few hours after the terrorist attacks in Brussels, but the Swiss prosecutor's office reported this only today. The agency began an investigation against the 25-year-old security guard, who, according to the agency, is a Russian citizen, as well as his colleagues, two Israeli citizens.

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, a married couple was detained for drowning their newborn child and hiding his body in the forest, according to the website of the region’s investigative department. According to investigators, on January 31, 2016, in the Moskovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region, a 26-year-old woman independently gave birth to a healthy full-term baby at home. As the investigative department notes, the woman did not register for pregnancy and did not seek medical care.

In Bryansk, a regional court found guilty two men who transported migrants from Afghanistan to Europe through Ukraine, reports , citing the press service of the regional FSB.

In the Kemerovo region, investigators charged a previously convicted 29-year-old pregnant woman who hacked to death an 88-year-old neighbor with an ax and stole her medals and two bottles of alcohol. This was reported in a press release from the regional investigative department.

Investigators in the Lipetsk region have opened a criminal case against a local resident who is suspected of raping his five-year-old stepdaughter to death, according to a press release from the regional investigative department. According to investigators, in March 2016, a five-year-old girl was raped in the Lipetsk region. On March 22, the child died. The girl's adoptive father was detained on suspicion of committing a crime. The man confessed.

In the Chelyabinsk region, a court found guilty a local resident who shot his friend and her five-year-old daughter, according to the website of the region’s investigative department. According to investigators, on the night of October 11, 2015, in one of the houses in the village of Kamenka, Chelyabinsk region, a drunken 35-year-old Anatoly Khvatkov shot and killed his friend and her five-year-old daughter.

The investigation into the case against a 58-year-old resident of Veliky Ustyug, accused of raping girls who helped him with housework, has been completed. According to investigators , in 2014 the accused met a 12-year-old girl from a disadvantaged family and offered to help her with the housework for a monetary reward. The girl agreed and began to come to his house. During one of her visits, a man locked the girl in a room and raped her.

In the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, investigators opened a criminal case against a 29-year-old police officer who awarded himself the title “Veteran of Labor” and received a long-service pension. This was reported on the website of the regional investigative department.

In Norilsk, investigators are conducting a pre-investigation check after the death of a woman under a demolished roof, according to the website of the investigative department of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. According to preliminary data, on March 23 at about 15:30 local time in Norilsk on Talnakhskaya Street, the roof was torn off from one of the five-story buildings. A 32-year-old local resident died under the rubble, three more people were injured and taken to the hospital.

A 48-year-old man from the Irkutsk region was detained for the murder of an 84-year-old woman who was borrowing money from local residents. As reported on the Investigative Committee’s website, on March 14, the duty department received a message about the discovery of the body of an 84-year-old woman with head injuries in one of the houses in the village of Malyshevka, Irkutsk Region.

Investigators of the Republic of Dagestan opened a criminal case on the fact of improper performance of duties for the supervision and education of minors in the boarding school for mentally retarded children “Zabota”. This was reported on the website of the regional investigative department.

President Vladimir Putin, during his speech at a meeting of the board of the Prosecutor General's Office, spoke about numerous violations of the rights of prisoners. In particular, the head of state recalled that several years ago he visited the St. Petersburg detention center “Kresty” and found that medical care in the institution was in a deplorable state. “Teeths are removed without anesthesia. What is it? What century are we living in?

In St. Petersburg, a cafe visitor was detained who attacked the cook and the visitor, writes , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. Fontanka According to the publication, on March 23, at about two o'clock in the morning, in a cafe on Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street in St. Petersburg, a man stabbed one of the visitors in the head with a knife, and then rushed at the cook of the establishment.