The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case into the death of a man in one of the Voronezh police departments, TASS reports citing the department’s press service. According to the report, the case was initiated under articles of intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, resulting in the death of the victim through negligence, and abuse of official authority. “According to preliminary data, the man’s death is of a criminal nature,” the press service reported.

The Railway Court of Crimea fined local activist Alexei Shestakovich one thousand rubles, finding him guilty under Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (production and distribution of extremist materials) for publishing the video “The Last Video Recording of the Primorye Partisans,” which was included in the federal list of extremist materials.

A woman from Tajikistan, who worked as a dishwasher in Moscow, was convicted in Kostroma in the case of drug trafficking, which she engaged in in order to pay off a debt on a dollar loan, said in a statement. the Dimitrovsky District Court The court agreed with the investigation’s version, according to which a 58-year-old citizen of Tajikistan, who had been living legally in Moscow for 17 years, could not pay off the loan in US dollars.

In Tyumen, a local resident was sentenced to two and a half years in a maximum security colony, who first extorted money from his ex-girlfriend in exchange for keeping her HIV status a secret, and then began to actively disseminate this information, the regional prosecutor’s office said in a statement .

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced criminal investigation officer Pavel Stepashkin to five years in a general regime colony, finding him guilty of stealing 2.3 million rubles from one suspected of pedophilia and extorting 2 million rubles from the mother of another. As reported on the website of the capital's prosecutor's office, on April 5, 2013, Stepashkin participated in the arrest of a local resident suspected of committing violent acts of a sexual nature against a minor.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs issued a statement regarding today's decree of President Vladimir Putin on reducing the maximum number of employees of the department, explaining this decision by the transfer of some employees to serve in the National Guard created this summer.

The publisher of MK Chernozemye, Denis Shaikin, was beaten by police officers during an attempt to arrest him, according to a message on the publication’s website. According to the publication, Shaikin was accused of driving while intoxicated without the appropriate results of a medical examination. Today he was summoned to police department No. 1 of the Kursk Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he came with a lawyer.

The defense of Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Zakharchenko, who was arrested for a bribe of 7 million rubles from the head of Nota Bank, filed a complaint with the Moscow prosecutor's office about the conduct of operational investigative activities of the FSB, writes RBC. According to lawyer Yuri Novikov, the FSB illegally obtained wiretapping materials, which made it possible to detain the colonel.

The Babushkinsky Court of Moscow found Andrei Mayakov, human resources director of the human rights organization Committee for Civil Rights, guilty of fraud and attempted fraud and sentenced him to six years in prison, the told TASS. court's press service “The court found Mayakov guilty of fraud and attempted fraud and sentenced him to six years in a maximum security colony,” said a court representative, whose name was not given.

The trial in the case of bullying pupils in the Reftinsky special educational institution for troubled teenagers will begin on September 22 and will be held behind closed doors, the told Znak.com. press service of the Asbest city court “The trial will be held behind closed doors, since the victims in the case are minors,” the publication quotes a court representative.

General Oleg Feoktistov, who until recently held the post of first deputy head of the FSB's internal security department, is moving to work at Rosneft, where he will take up the post of head of the security service, according to a message on the state company's website. “Oleg Feoktistov was born in 1964 in Moscow, graduated from the FSB Academy, worked in the FSB structures,” says the brief information about the new head of the service.

In the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, the state prosecutor asked to sentence former deputy of the legislative assembly of the Krasnodar Territory Sergei Zirinov to 25 years in prison in a maximum security colony, reports . Interfax The prosecutor also demanded that Zirinov’s freedom be limited for two years after leaving the colony and that he be fined 900 thousand rubles.

The European Court of Human Rights allowed the human rights group Agora to represent the interests of Chelyabinsk prisoner Vladimir Kondrulin, who died in prison from cancer, after his death. This was reported by the human rights organization “Zone of Law”, which cooperates with Agora. 61-year-old Kondrulin suffered from prostate cancer and had metastases in the inguinal lymph nodes. Prison doctors stated that it was impossible to provide high-quality treatment in detention conditions.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree changing the structure of the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the composition of which will be reduced by 761 people. The document was published on the official legal information portal. “Allow the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to have six Deputy Ministers,” the document says. In the previous version of the decree, signed in March 2011, there were seven deputies.

The Supreme Court, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, decided to ban the activities of the international religious association “Aum Shinrikyo” in the country, reports . Interfax The issue was considered behind closed doors. The decision was made a week after the statement of claim was sent . The message does not indicate whether the activities of the Aleph sect, into which Aum Shinrikyo transformed in 2000, were simultaneously banned.