The police are looking for a reader of the Saratov publication “The Fourth Estate” who left a comment on the topic of changing the hands of the clock, according to the publication’s website. A request about this came to the editors of the publication from department “K” of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is engaged in the fight against crimes in the field of information technology and illicit trafficking in radio-electronic and special technical equipment.

In Ryazan, traffic police officers beat a driver during his arrest. A video recording of the incident from the recorder of one of the cars appeared today on YouTube. The footage shows police dragging a man out of a car and kicking him. According to the date indicated on the video, the incident occurred on March 23 at 11 am.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg decided to expel US citizen Mike Sherman, director of a private language school, from Russia and fine him six thousand rubles, RAPSI reports . “The court decided on a fine of six thousand rubles and on independently controlled departure from Russia,” said the secretary of judge Anzhelika Morozova, how she considered the case.

In Tatarstan, a court found the former head of the educational department of correctional colony No. 10, Vitaly Ryabov, guilty of receiving a bribe (Part 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code) and abuse of office (Part 1 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code). As reported on the website of the Investigative Committee, a 29-year-old employee of IK-10 was sentenced to four years and two months in a general regime colony.

In Kursk, a court sentenced two former police officers who beat a detainee to death in 2007, according to the website of the region’s investigative department. According to investigators, on the evening of September 19, 2007, the deputy platoon commander of the Kursk police department, Romanenko, and the platoon commander of the same department, Zolotushnikov, beat a man while taking him to the department.

The Yoshkar-Ola City Court has tightened the preventive measure for civil activist Evgeny Pirogov, accused of inciting hatred on a social basis (part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) for a blog post, reports 7x7. The recognizance not to leave was replaced by detention. The lawyer provided to the activist, Sergei Eroshkina, said that the first hearing in the criminal case took place on March 24. Previous meetings were postponed from the end of January.

In Moscow, in the Alexander Garden, two activists were detained holding a rally in support of Nadezhda Savchenko, according to the OVD Info website. According to the project, activists Vasily Nedopekin and Viktor Kapitonov were heading to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, and along the way they held a rally in support of Ukrainian serviceman Nadezhda Savchenko, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison.

In the Altai Territory, a man was detained for beating to death a one-year-old girl who had scattered ash from the stove, according to the website of the region’s investigative department. According to investigators, on March 23, 2016, in the village of Krasnoshchekovo, Altai Territory, a one-year-old girl was under the care of her mother’s 22-year-old partner, who was away on business.

Convicted police major Pyotr Stakhovtsev, sentenced to death in 1991 for murder and banditry and denied parole, was deprived of bed rest in a colony, his lawyer Dmitry Dinze told Mediazona. According to him, on March 21, 2016, an appeal was filed against the judge’s decision denying parole to Pyotr Stakhovtsev. After an application addressed to the head of IK-1, which contained a request for a cane and oilcloth for his bed, Stakhovtsev was deprived of bed rest.

The Sovetsky District Court of Samara sentenced lawyer Olga Gisich to 8.5 years in a general regime colony, finding her guilty of extorting money from the IDK clinic, after an examination in which she was mistakenly diagnosed with cancer, as well as organizing an attack on the general director of this company and setting fire to two of her cars employees.

In Krasnodar, police and Cossacks disrupted the international festival of activist art “MediaUdar,” one of the event’s speakers, Alexei Knedlyakovsky, told Mediazona. The International Festival of Activist Art was scheduled to take place from March 25 to 27, 2016 and opened with a discussion on the topic “Radical Art Activism Today.” On the morning of March 25, police and Cossacks came to the building where the event was to take place.

An administrative case was opened against Cheboksary resident Semyon Kochkin under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public display of Nazi symbols) for reposting from the public page of an 11th grade student from Yekaterinburg, who writes songs under the pseudonym Monetochka. As Kochkin told Mediazona, a summons was received at his place of residence, which did not indicate his procedural status.

President Vladimir Putin appointed Ramazan Kadyrov as acting head of the Chechen Republic, reports . Interfax The President expressed hope that Kadyrov will go to the polls in September 2016. “Today I signed a decree appointing you as acting head of the Chechen Republic, followed, I hope, in September of this year, by going to the polls,” Putin told Kadyrov.

Investigators of the Novgorod region have opened another criminal case against the mayor of Veliky Novgorod, Yuri Bobryshev, who is suspected of negligence (Part 1 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code), according to the Investigative Committee’s website. According to investigators, the administration of Veliky Novgorod in 2014-2015 allocated more than 100 million rubles for the purchase of housing for orphans. These funds were used to purchase housing for only nine orphans.

In Cheboksary, the Leninsky District Court found a local resident guilty of killing his nephew because of a debt, according to the website of the region's investigative committee. According to investigators, on the evening of November 23, 2015, a 51-year-old man was at home during a quarrel and beat his 37-year-old nephew, who owed him money. The victim died from his injuries.