The Investigative Committee has begun a pre-investigation check into the circumstances of the fire in a warehouse in the east of Moscow.

In Moscow, five firefighters died while extinguishing a fire in a warehouse on Amurskaya Street in the Golyanovo district, TASS reports , citing a source. The one-story warehouse building caught fire Thursday evening. The fire area exceeded 500 square meters. 20 fire and rescue units were sent to extinguish the fire. “Five firefighters died while extinguishing a fire in a warehouse on Amurskaya Street.

President Vladimir Putin invited Sergei Naryshkin to become director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, cites a statement from press secretary Dmitry Peskov. Interfax The issue was discussed at a meeting between Putin and Naryshkin and the current head of the SVR, Mikhail Fradkov, who has held this post since 2007. Putin himself invited Fradkov to become the head of the board of directors of Russian Railways.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Orenburg Region found out the reasons for Orenburg resident Vitaly Popov’s numerous injuries at Orenburg Police Department No. 1 and decided that the police were not involved in this, the “Committee for the Prevention of Torture” said in a statement.

In St. Petersburg, a criminal case of fraud has been opened against the district commissioner of the 12th police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Frunzensky District, 24-year-old Andrei Mogulyan, reports the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In June 2016, Mogulyan, while on duty, met a 74-year-old pensioner and began to help him with everyday matters.

In Yekaterinburg, Sergeant Yuri Shumikhin was sentenced to 11 years and 6 months in a maximum security colony for the murder of his wife, reports . the press service of the Main Military Investigation Department On June 20, 2015, Shumikhin, a soldier of military unit No. 7605, strangled his wife during an argument. He then dismembered her body and buried the woman's remains in the forest in the Great Horse Peninsula area.

In the Nesterovsky district of the Kaliningrad region, a local resident was sentenced to two years in a general regime colony for beating his 90-year-old grandmother, reports . the press service of the regional prosecutor's office In April 2016, a 34-year-old man, while at home, beat his 90-year-old grandmother, a group I disabled person. The grandson was annoyed that the pensioner was scratching her feet.

Employees of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Tatarstan found a video clip on the Internet for a song by a singer from Kazan, Rezeda Ganiullina, in which she performs a dance in front of a mosque in the city of Bolgar, after which they began a pre-investigation check.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing the former head of the 6th Internal Security Directorate (USB) of the FSB, Ivan Tkachev, as head of Directorate “K” of the FSB’s economic security service (counterintelligence in the financial sector), Novaya Gazeta reports , citing its own sources.

A 41-year-old resident of the Ulyanovsk region, living under a fake passport, was detained on suspicion of committing murder in June 1996, the regional department of the Investigative Committee said in a statement . Investigators believe that on June 2, 1996, a drunk man and two relatives killed a 15-year-old teenager in the forest near the village of Krasny Yar, Cherdaklinsky district. The young man was beaten to the head with a shovel and then buried in a nearby ditch.

In the Stavropol region, the court found the district police officer in the Kochubeevsky district, Vyacheslav Kramarenko, of stealing someone else’s property using his official position (part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), reports the press service of the regional Investigative Committee. In August 2015, in the village of Kazminskoye, Kochubeevsky district, Kramarenko conducted an investigation into the beating of a local resident.

The Ivolginsky District Court of Buryatia found guilty and sentenced members of an organized criminal group who were involved in the sale of heroin in the republic and the Irkutsk region in 2014, the reports press service of the republican investigative committee . The gang included district administration employee Olga Serebrennikova, village deputy Olga Slepneva and her partner, “criminal authority” Viktor Raevsky.

Lawyer Igor Trunov, devoid of the status of a lawyer by decision of the Law Chamber of the Moscow Region, said to the police about the abduction of a sign with the name of the Trunov, Aivar and Partners law, TASS reports . “The sign was carried away tonight. The theft application has already been submitted to the police. Now we have already ordered a new sign, ”Trunov himself told the agency.

The Kalininsky District Court of Tyumen found a convict from medical correctional institution No. 19 guilty of attempting to infect two employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service with HIV, whom he splashed with his blood, the local prosecutor’s office said in a statement .

The Severodvinsk City Court of the Arkhangelsk Region sentenced policeman Vladimir Vinogradov to nine years in a maximum security colony. The convict was charged with the murder of a young girl, reports . the press service of the regional prosecutor's office According to the investigation, on the morning of August 17, 2014, Vinogradov, while intoxicated, met a girl near the Arcalis bar and offered her a ride in a car. After the car left the city, Vinogradov and his companion had a fight.