The Ministry of Justice has included the “Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus” in the register of non-profit organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent, according to a message on the department’s website.

The man detained in the case of shooting from a wedding procession in the Tsaritsyno park area in Moscow works in one of the regional branches of the prosecutor’s office, Alexander Nikitin, a representative of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, told RAPSI.

The former head of the specialized investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Tambov Region failed to appeal the court decision in the case of accepting a large bribe, for which he was sentenced to seven years in prison, reports the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow decided to extend until December 19 the arrest period of the Deputy Head of the Investigative Committee's Internal Security Department, Alexander Lamonov, accused in the Shakro Molodoy case, reports . Interfax “The court decided: to satisfy the investigation’s request, to extend the period of detention in relation to Lamonov until December 19,” judge Anna Zhurman announced the decision. Lamonov's defense promised to appeal the extension of the arrest.

A court in Omsk found two local residents guilty of covering up a murder committed by their acquaintances and sentenced each to a fine of 10 thousand rubles, the regional department of the Investigative Committee said in a statement . 25-year-old Ruslan Leshko and 21-year-old Vladislav Vishnyakov were found guilty under Article 316 of the Criminal Code (concealment of a particularly serious crime not promised in advance).

The Eksmo publishing house, which published the book by Investigative Committee press secretary Vladimir Markin, called the lack of quotation marks and links to publications used in the text a “technical error” and apologized to their authors. The corresponding statement, signed by the director of the company Sergei Rubis, was published on the publishing house’s website.

The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow found local resident Svetlana Pribytkova guilty of fraud and theft of paintings by famous artists of special cultural value, according to a statement on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office. The prosecution proved that the 58-year-old Muscovite in 2007–2011 was engaged in deceiving collectors and stealing expensive paintings and money from them.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office asked the Supreme Court to officially ban the activities of the Aum Shinrikyo sect, . RIA Novosti reports, citing a court representative on Tuesday, a court official. “The court received a lawsuit from the Prosecutor General’s Office demanding a ban on the activities of the international religious association AUM Shinrikyo. The claim is scheduled for consideration on September 20,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The chief engineer of the printing house on Altufevskoye Highway in Moscow, where 17 people died in a fire at the end of August, has been detained, the press service of the Investigative Committee told the Moscow agency.

Press Secretary of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin in his book “The Most Loud Crimes of the 21st Century in Russia” used fragments from an article in The New Times magazine without references, journalist Ilya Barabanov said on his Facebook.

The court in the ZATO Seversk, Tomsk region, found a local pensioner guilty of torturing her grandson with beatings and sentenced her to suspended imprisonment, according to a message on the website of the regional prosecutor's office. The court agreed with the investigation's version, according to which the 11-year-old grandson came to visit his 61-year-old grandmother in Seversk in September last year.

Investigators from the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kostroma Region brought to court the criminal case of a resident of Kostroma, who is suspected of large-scale fraud with numerous loans. “55 residents of the regional center reported that for 6 years, at the request of their good friend, they took out loans for themselves, after which they transferred the money in her favor.

Former official of the St. Petersburg department of Rosreestr Boris Avakyan, accused in a smuggling case, sent a complaint to the Investigative Committee about unfounded persecution, in which he indicated that he feared for his life, writes RBC.

The military prosecutor's office of the Eastern Military District conducted an audit of the expenditure of money under government contracts for the construction of the infrastructure of the Vostochny cosmodrome and discovered a new theft involving the management of the enterprise as part of Spetsstroy of Russia.

A man from the capital's Novogireevo district reported a fictitious robbery to the police, being afraid to tell his wife that he had lost money and personal belongings, the was told by the Department of Internal Affairs for the Eastern Administrative District. Moscow agency A 22-year-old young man who contacted the police said that on 2nd Vladimirskaya Street he was attacked by five masked people who threatened him with a pistol.