Chechen investigators are checking the circumstances of the kidnapping of bard Khussein Betelgeriev in Grozny after a report from the Caucasian Knot publication, to which the wife of the missing person complained about the inaction of the police, according to the website of the regional Investigative Committee. The prosecutor of Chechnya, Sharpuddi Abdul-Kadyrov, demanded that the search for him be intensified, according to the website of the republic's prosecutor's office.

In Mordovia, a resident of Saransk was convicted for beating his father, who accused him of wasting money on his mother’s funeral. This was reported by Gazeta 13 with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Mordovia. The incident occurred on December 17, 2015. The accused's mother died the day before. According to Gazeta 13, the accused and his father began to remember the deceased and, as a result, quarreled.

In the Chelyabinsk region, a 42-year-old resident of the city of Zlatoust was convicted, who in June 2015 committed sexual assault against an 11-year-old boy, stole his mobile phone and beat him. This was reported on the website of the regional prosecutor's office.

In March, the Central District Court of Chita sentenced two local residents D.A. Macionis and S.A. Rubtsov, accused of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm by a group of persons by prior conspiracy, which negligently resulted in the death of the victim (Part 4 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the Transbaikalia Prosecutor's Office with reference to Deputy District Prosecutor Nadezhda Selezneva.

The Olonets District Court sentenced an unemployed 32-year-old resident of Olonets to nine years in a maximum security colony for the murder of an acquaintance (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code). According to the prosecutor's office , in November 2015, in the village of Kapshoyla, the accused, being drunk, quarreled with his acquaintance and stabbed him at least nine times with a kitchen knife for using obscene language against him. The victim died on the spot.

The Supreme Court of Udmurtia declared a private morgue in a residential building in the Industrial district of Izhevsk illegal, satisfying the demands of the prosecutor's office, according to the website of the supervisory agency. The court also banned the provision of funeral services in the house. Previously, the district court, at the request of the prosecutor's office, declared illegal only the storage of the bodies of the dead in a residential building.

The Dmitrov City Court arrested until July 3 a resident of the Moscow region, Maxim Dobroy, who is suspected of beating the guitarist of the Lyube group Pavel Usanov, the reports . Moscow agency A resident of Solnechnogorsk, Dobry, was detained the day before, on April 3. After the incident, a criminal case was opened under Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm). The detainee has not yet been charged.

The Tatarstan prosecutor's office approved an indictment against the head of the Starokuvak rural settlement of the Leninogorsk region, Yusup Valiullin, and sent to court a criminal case regarding the death of five children and their mother in a fire in a house disconnected from heating, reports the press service of the "Zone of Law", which represents the interests of the victims jointly with the human rights group "Accent".

The Investigative Committee has completed the investigation of the criminal case against the co-founder of the Volgograd regional public organization "Commission for Anti-Corruption", accused of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). According to the Investigative Committee, the case was sent to court with an approved indictment.

The Uvinsky District Court sentenced Elena Popova, a 41-year-old resident of the Udmurt village of Vavozh, to three years and two months in a general regime colony for attempting to bribe a district police officer (part 3 of Article 30, part 3 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code). According to the regional prosecutor's office, Popova was also fined 25 thousand rubles.

The Sovetsky District Court of Omsk sentenced former Emergency Situations Ministry employee Dmitry Kuznetsov to eight years in a maximum security colony for the murder of his grandmother (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code), the regional prosecutor’s office reports . Kuznetsov was taken into custody in the courtroom. In April 2014, the court acquitted the rescuer because it did not find any crime in his actions.

In the Ivanovo region, a court sentenced a local resident to a year and ten months in a maximum security colony for kicking a traffic police inspector in the left leg, the regional prosecutor’s office reports . The man was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code (use of violence against a government official). The defendant himself did not deny guilt. The incident occurred in May 2015.

The Tartu District Court of Estonia sentenced Russians Alexey Kulvich and Inna Purge to four years in prison on charges of human trafficking, illegally crossing the Estonian border and illegally transporting foreigners across it, reports . Postimees As the publication clarifies, convicts must spend 10 months in prison, the rest of the term will be suspended. The beginning of the prison term is counted from the date of arrest as suspects, that is, from September 21, 2015.

The Investigative Committee has completed an investigation into a 71-year-old pensioner who is accused of sexual violence against a 12-year-old girl (clause “b” of Part 4 of Article 132 of the Criminal Code), according to the department’s website. According to investigators, in August, in a gardening partnership in the Vsevolozhsk district of the Leningrad region, a pensioner committed sexual violence against the granddaughter of his cohabitant.

In the Kemerovo region, police detained an 18-year-old resident of the city of Kiselevsk, who smashed the wall of a store with a sledgehammer for chocolates, reports the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A criminal case was opened against the detainee under Part 2 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code (theft).