The official representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, apologized to Novaya Gazeta journalist Nadezhda Prusenkova, whom he called a “journalist” in response to accusations of plagiarism. At the same time, the Major General of the Investigative Committee did not answer the substance of the accusations of borrowing the text.

In the Chelyabinsk region, a criminal case has been dropped against a resident of the village of Miasskoye, suspected of killing four people in self-defense. This was reported on the website of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the region. The investigator decided to terminate the criminal case due to the lack of corpus delicti (clause 2 of Article 24 of the Code of Criminal Procedure).

The Supreme Court of Chechnya sentenced 37-year-old local resident Rustam Ganiev, who tried to blow up a military man, to life imprisonment. As Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports with reference to the Prosecutor General's Office, according to the case materials, in March 2002, Ganiev planted an IED on the side of the road between the settlements of Achkhoy-Martan and Bamut. When military personnel were passing by, conducting reconnaissance of the area, Ganiev, using a radio station, activated the IED.

In the Kostroma region, police detained a 19-year-old young man and his minor girlfriend who set fire to several cars for photographs. This was reported on the website of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the police, on the night of September 6-7, 2016, three cars caught fire at once in the village of Nikolskoye, Kostroma region; later, two more car owners contacted law enforcement agencies, reporting that their vehicles had been set on fire.

In Chuvashia, investigators are checking a video in which several people in police uniforms beat two detainees, according to the website of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the region. As noted in the department's statement, the incident occurred on the night of September 7-8, 2016 in Novocheboksarsk on Vinokurova Street on the territory of a gas station. Investigators organized a pre-investigation check.

In the Ust-Dzhegutinsky District Court of Karachay-Cherkessia, during the debate, the state prosecution requested sentences for five police officers who beat a detainee to death. This was reported by the human rights organization “Public Verdict,” which represents the interests of the family of the deceased.

In Yekaterinburg, a court arrested three participants in the conflict in a Roma village for two months, TASS reports citing the court’s press service. “Rasim Grigoriev and Igor Ryabov have been released. Dmitry Pestrikov, Yanek Knyazev and Ruslan Ogly were arrested for two months, until November 5 inclusive,” the court said. The conflict with shooting in the Roma village occurred on the evening of September 3, 2016.

The investigator took rap artist David Nuriev, known under the pseudonym Ptakha, under a written undertaking not to leave Moscow, the musician’s lawyer Ilnur Sharapov told Mediazona. The initiation of a criminal case under Article 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of hatred or enmity) against Ptah became known the day before. Today, a search was conducted in the musician’s apartment .

The Tatarstan prosecutor's office was contacted by parents whose children were forced to sing the Russian national anthem at night during a vacation in the Stalker camp and doused with foam from a fire extinguisher, writes . Vechernyaya Kazan As the teenagers themselves said, the counselors forced them to sing the Russian anthem at night as punishment. And one of the teachers once doused the children with foam from a fire extinguisher.

The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced the security guard of billionaire restaurateur Yevgeny Prigozhin, who attacked an FSB officer after chasing the businessman's motorcade, to two years of suspended imprisonment, TASS reports . During the debate, the state prosecution requested three years probation for former special forces soldier Sergei Plashchenko.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court changed the preventive measure for blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky and sent him under house arrest, his lawyer Alexey Bushmakov told Mediazona. The young man’s defense insisted on changing the preventive measure to house arrest or asked to release the blogger on bail.

A daily hot meal ration for disabled people held in temporary detention centers in the city of Vladimir will cost the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs 186 rubles per day. The Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Vladimir has calculated the cost of a daily ration for those kept in a temporary detention center and a special reception center in the regional center.

Environmentalists reported that in Kuban, Cossacks are preventing Greenpeace volunteer forest firefighters from fighting grass fires, this was reported on the environmental organization’s website. According to environmentalists, on September 7, volunteer firefighters extinguished a large fire in Chernovsky Plavni. However, today, September 8, a group of Cossacks began to interfere with environmentalists while driving to another fire, where emergency workers were waiting for them to help.

In Pyatigorsk, a criminal case was opened against a 25-year-old local resident after the abduction of a 16-year-old bride, according to the website of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Stavropol Territory. “According to the investigation, on the morning of August 21 of this year, the suspect, with the aim of subsequent marriage according to national tradition, kidnapped a 16-year-old girl.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs will pay resident of the Orenburg region Vladimir Ignatiev 125 thousand rubles in compensation for beating at the police department, reports the Public Verdict Foundation, which represents the victim. As noted in the message of human rights activists, in 2008, Ignatiev was beaten by law enforcement officers.