Lawyers from the human rights organization Committee for the Prevention of Torture contacted the Investigative Committee with a report of a crime against Pirogov University student Murad Ragimov and his father. As reported on the organization’s website, human rights activists are asking investigators to check information about the many hours of torture of a young man and his father Firrudin Ragimov by members of the Special Rapid Reaction Unit (SOBR) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

President Vladimir Putin appointed Oleg Baranov head of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, according to the Kremlin website. Before that, he was deputy head of the main department. Anatoly Yakunin was dismissed. According to the presidential decree , he will head the operational department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

A resident of Novokuznetsk, who fatally stabbed an opponent who hit him with a stool, received a year's probation under the article on exceeding the necessary defense (Part 1 of Article 108 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Kemerovo region. According to investigators, in May 2016, a 25-year-old man was drinking while visiting his 23-year-old friend.

In the Arkhangelsk region, a case was opened against a district police officer under Part 1 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (abuse of official authority), after he persuaded the victims to write a statement to terminate the inspection, since the people who attacked them were from the “shamaninsky” organized crime group. This was reported on the website of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the region.

The Novosergievsky District Court of the Orenburg Region dismissed the administrative case of a Baptist pastor from the village of Suzanovo, Alexander Demkin, who was accused of organizing an uncoordinated picket for holding children's games and competitions on a site equipped by the pastor himself, reports Echo in Orenburg. As clarifies , the court did not fine the pastor. Religion and Law “I would say that the judge approached the law.

In Volgograd, a Toyota Corolla car, which belongs to an employee of the prosecutor's office, parked illegally under an overpass being repaired at the Samara junction, was filled with cement mortar, writes the regional publication V1.ru with reference to civil activist Alexei Ulyanov. According to him, the prosecutor's office employee's car was parked in violation of traffic rules.

In Salavat, the former general director of the Gazpromneftekhimsalavat company was shot with a hunting rifle, reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. RIA Novosti As the agency's source noted, on the morning of September 23, the 60-year-old former general director of the oil company, which he led in the early 2000s, was shot dead. “Vitaly Zakharov was walking his dog on the banks of the Belaya River in the morning.

The Supreme Court of Komi sentenced a 41-year-old resident of Ukhta, who killed an acquaintance with 228 knife blows, to nine years in prison. This was reported on the website of the regional prosecutor's office. According to investigators, on November 25, 2015, Liliya Spirina was drinking in her apartment with a friend. Spirina did not like one of the woman’s remarks and she grabbed a knife and struck her 228 times. The guest died on the spot from her injuries.

The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized Maxim Smyshlyaev, a student from Rostov-on-Don, accused under Part 3 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code (complicity in the preparation of a terrorist attack), as a political prisoner, the organization reported in a press release. According to investigators , Smyshlyaev helped Ukrainian citizen Artur Panov in preparing a terrorist attack. Investigators made this conclusion based on the correspondence between the accused and the Ukrainian.

In the Moscow region, investigators opened a criminal case against a 53-year-old Cuban citizen accused of murdering his compatriot. This was reported on the website of the regional investigative department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, on September 21, 2016, a man came to a private house in Podolsk, where his compatriot lived. There was a conflict between them, as a result of which the suspect wounded the owner of the house with a knife in the stomach.

The Moscow City Court found Bauman Moscow State Technical University teacher Vladimir Lapygin guilty of treason and sentenced him to seven years in a maximum security colony, reports , citing the court’s press service. RIA Novosti “The court found Lapygin guilty of treason and sentenced him to seven years’ imprisonment in a maximum security colony,” the court said. The Bauman MSTU teacher was detained in May 2015.

In the Smolensk region, a resident of the city of Yartsevo was detained, who, due to the inability to pay with a bank card, threatened the ticket office cashier with an air pistol, demanding two tickets to Moscow, Interfax reports , citing the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region. According to police, in the city of Yartsevo, a man was detained in one of the city's motor transport companies for threatening a cashier with an air pistol.

In Irkutsk, investigators opened a criminal case against a 44-year-old local resident who chained his former partner because she mixed up his name, RIA Novosti reports , citing the official representative of the regional department, Karina Golovacheva. According to investigators, at the end of August 2016, the man kept an acquaintance in his apartment, chaining her to the radiator, while he repeatedly beat the woman.

In Pyatigorsk, a case was opened against a policeman from Nalchik after a conflict with shooting, according to the website of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Stavropol Territory.

71-year-old police major Pyotr Stakhovtsev, sentenced to life imprisonment, spoke about being beaten by the head of the life imprisonment station Sergei Kanaev in correctional colony No. 1 of Mordovia, where he is serving his sentence, lawyer Dmitry Dinze told Mediazona. Stakhovtsev told Dinza about what happened over the phone. The convict clarified that he was beaten after the departure of another lawyer, Olga Dinze, on September 8.