The terrorist organization "Islamic State" (banned in Russia) claimed responsibility for the attack on the traffic police post on Shchelkovskoye Highway. This message appeared in the Amaq news agency associated with Islamists, SITE Intelligence Group reports .

In Samara, a policeman was sentenced to a suspended sentence for beating a detainee and stealing a car, according to the website of the regional investigative department. According to investigators, on April 12, 2015, a policeman of mobile platoon No. 4 of the PPS regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Samara, Artem Simonov, was patrolling the village of Mekhzavod. There he stopped a local resident who, in his opinion, might be drunk.

In Perm, the Kirovsky District Court sentenced to a suspended sentence a policeman who beat a man during his arrest, and then took him to the forest, handcuffed him and continued to strike him. This was reported on the website of the regional prosecutor's office. According to investigators, the commander of department No. 2 of company No.

A 60-year-old passenger was detained at St. Petersburg Pulkovo Airport for reporting a bomb in a DVD player, Fontanka writes , citing the press service of the North-West transport police. According to the department, on August 17, the duty department of the line department in Pulkovo received a report of a passenger who, during the search, reported an explosive device in her bag. She explained that the bomb was in the record player.

In the Altai Territory, a resident of Biysk received three years in prison for torturing a young man in the basement with an iron, whom he suspected of distributing drugs, according to the website of the regional prosecutor's office. According to investigators, the man suspected the victim of distributing drugs and, having decided to check it out, he and his acquaintance demanded that he get into the car. There they demanded that he confess to selling drugs.

In the Tver region, five suspects were detained in the murder of a mushroom picker who took his car to sell for spare parts, reported .

In the Altai Territory, a local resident who stood up for an acquaintance, killed her offender and cut off his ear was sentenced to 16 years in a maximum security colony. This was reported on the website of the regional investigative department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, on September 27, 2015, in the city of Yarovoye, Altai Region, a 38-year-old man came to the victim’s home to stand up for his friend.

In Kazan, a criminal case was opened against the head of colony No. 19, Almaz Tazeev, for bribery, ProKazan.ru writes , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. According to preliminary data, from January 2014 to December 2015, Almaz Tazeev received 523 thousand rubles from the wife of one of the convicts for resolving the issue of his parole and easing the regime.

The Prosecutor General's Office has recognized two foreign non-governmental organizations as undesirable, including the International Republican Institute, headed by US Senator John McCain, reports TASS with reference to the department's press service.

The Moscow District Military Court fined Patimat Gadzhieva, a student of the First Moscow State Medical University named after Sechenov, 400 thousand rubles for posting information on a social network about the Islamic State banned in Russia, Grani reports. During the debate, the prosecutor asked to sentence Gadzhieva to four years in a penal colony.

“Crimean saboteurs” who are suspected of preparing terrorist attacks on the peninsula will be tried in Crimea, reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. Interfax “The detainees are in one of the Crimean pre-trial detention centers. All investigative actions with them, as well as the trial process, will be carried out in Crimea strictly in accordance with Russian legislation on the principle of the territoriality of the crime committed,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The St. Petersburg City Court, at a visiting session in the Moscow City Court, sentenced the leader of the Tambov organized crime group, Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin), to 23 years in a maximum security colony in the case of an attempt on the life of the owner of Petersburg Oil Terminal CJSC and the murder of his security guard in May 2006. This was reported by the Dozhd TV channel.

The Investigative Committee is developing two versions of the attack on the traffic police post: it could have been a domestic crime of revenge or an attempt to seize a weapon, the Moscow agency reports , citing the department’s press service.

The Investigative Committee is developing two versions of the attack on the traffic police post: it could have been a domestic crime of revenge or an attempt to seize a weapon, the Moscow agency reports , citing the department’s press service.

In Mari El, a traffic police officer who beat a local resident four years ago was charged, according to the website of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture.