Due to the fact that the number of riots among prisoners in colonies and pre-trial detention centers has increased, the Ministry of Justice has developed amendments according to which the National Guard will help the Federal Penitentiary Service deliver special forces to remote colonies to suppress unrest, reports . Interfax According to the department, in the first half of 2016 there were nine “group illegal actions”, in 2015 - 19, and in 2014 - 14.

Two US diplomats were drugged with unidentified psychoactive substances during a conference in St. Petersburg last year. this . reports Radio Liberty According to the radio station, the incident with the Americans, a man and a woman, occurred in the bar of one of the St. Petersburg hotels. Svoboda suggests that the drug used was one of the so-called "rape drugs" - substances that are often used by rapists to suppress the will of their victims and cause short-term memory impairment.

A court in Kirovo-Chepetsk sentenced a local resident who drowned a dog in front of children to seven months in a maximum security colony. This was reported on the website of the prosecutor's office of the Kirov region. According to investigators, in July of this year, a man vacationing on the shores of Vyatka “deliberately grabbed and held a dog under water” in the presence of young children, as a result of which it died.

Energy workers have limited the supply of heat to 62 facilities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Buryatia due to debts, it was reported on Monday on the website of the heat supply company PJSC TGC-14. According to the company's press service, the debt of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Buryatia amounts to 2 million 172 thousand rubles. The debt has been accumulating since April 2016.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow placed Vadim Loiko, detective officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovskoye district, under house arrest in the case of protecting brothels for blackmailing clients after sex with minors. this . reports RAPSI “Loiko has been chosen as a preventive measure in the form of house arrest,” the agency quotes a message from the court’s press service. Earlier, on October 1, the court chose preventive measures for seven defendants in this criminal case.

The Tyumen prosecutor's office sent a case to court against former investigator of police department No. 5 Tatyana Kolesnikova, accused of forging documents in seven criminal cases. This is reported on the department's website.

A court in Taganrog sentenced local resident Igor Gaivoronsky to a fine of ten thousand rubles for a “public Hare Krishna event.” This was reported by the publication "Ruff". Gaivoronsky was found guilty of an administrative offense under Part 1 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picketing).

Police in Kaliningrad are searching for unknown persons who desecrated several memorials to Soviet soldiers. this with reference to the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. reports Interfax “For the first time in Kaliningrad, the police have recorded a series of incidents of vandalism and desecration of monuments to the Great Patriotic War.

The European Court of Human Rights accepted for consideration the claim of Communist Party deputy Valery Rashkin regarding the verdict of the Leninsky District Court of Saratov, which ordered him in 2010 to pay United Russia member Vyacheslav Volodin 1 million rubles in a claim for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case after 11 patients at the Helmholtz Moscow Research Institute of Eye Diseases lost their sight due to poor quality treatment. this .

The Investigative Committee for the Republic of Buryatia is investigating the criminal case of three police officers in the Zakamensky district who used a stun gun during interrogation, according to the department’s website. According to investigators, on September 24, a large batch of pine nuts was stolen from one of the warehouses in Zakamensk. After interrogating the watchman, the police found out that two local residents could have been involved in the theft.

Employees of the Construction and Industrial Plant in Nizhnevartovsk staged a strike due to a five-month delay in wage payments, according to a message in the group "PE [in] Nizhnevartovsk" on the VKontakte social network. “The husband works at this factory, we are waiting for a salary for May. We have two children, now I'm on maternity leave. We have a mortgage, ”one of the participants in the discussion wrote in the comments.

Several dozen prisoners in correctional colony No. 2 in Rybinsk went on a hunger strike. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Yaroslavl Region, Sergei Baburkin. “We received an appeal that several dozen prisoners in the Rybinsk colony went on a hunger strike. Allegedly, the hunger strike has been going on for several days. We are checking this information,” the agency quotes the words of a representative of the ombudsman’s office.

The Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court sentenced three local residents for organizing prostitution and human trafficking. This was reported on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow found Internet entrepreneur and blogger Anton Nosik guilty of inciting hatred or enmity on national grounds for publishing a post categorically approving the bombing in Syria, a reports from the courtroom. Mediazona correspondent The court sentenced him to a fine of 500 thousand rubles. Nosik was given a recognizance not to leave.