Investigators have begun checking reports of non-payment of wages for two months to employees of a management company in the Khakassian village of Vershina Tei, according to a message on the website of the republican department of the Investigative Committee. On October 5, employees of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise “Management Company “Administration of the Vershino-Teysky Council” informed the head of the administration that they had started a hunger strike due to non-payment of wages.

Investigators of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case after the death of 39-year-old resident of Naberezhnye Chelny Konstantin Saburov, who was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of a local hospital in September, the human rights organization “Zone of Law” told Mediazona. According to preliminary data, at 11 o'clock on September 18, Saburov was taken from the police department with a traumatic brain injury to the intensive care unit of the Emergency Hospital.

The former head of the Komi Republic, Vladimir Torlopov, has become a defendant in a criminal case about organizing a criminal community, told TASS. a source in local law enforcement agencies “A criminal case has indeed been opened against the ex-head of Komi Vladimir Torlopov under Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a criminal community and participation in it). The investigation is being conducted by the Investigative Committee of Russia.

A young man from Makhachkala, who kidnapped a girl at gunpoint, was detained on his way to Derbent, where he wanted to marry her, Rasul Temirbekov, a representative of the republican department of the Investigative Committee, told the Caucasian Knot. The incident occurred on October 3: in the courtyard of a house on Peter the Great Avenue in Makhachkala, a 29-year-old young man forced a 22-year-old girl into a black BMW, threatening to use a weapon.

The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Sverdlovsk Region has completed an investigation into the death of a resident of Yekaterinburg, on whom a 20-kilogram metal structure fell from a residential building in July.

Blogger Anton Nosik, found guilty on October 3 of inciting hatred or enmity on ethnic grounds for a post endorsing bombings in Syria, launched a collection of signatures on the website of the Russian Public Initiative for the abolition of Article 282 of the Criminal Code.

The Supreme Court recognized the legal verdict of Yevgeny Petrin, who calls himself a former employee of the Russian Orthodox Church and the FSB, in the case of treason, TASS reports . “The defense’s appeal is rejected and Petrin’s sentence, previously passed by the Moscow City Court, is recognized as legal,” the agency quotes the judge as saying. The Supreme Court also rejected the complaint of the state prosecution, which demanded a tougher sentence.

The investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Chkalovsky district of Yekaterinburg opened a criminal case for the use of violence dangerous to life or health against a representative of the authorities - a bailiff, on whose head a bottle fell from the balcony of a residential building.

The Government Commission on Legislative Activities approved a bill introducing short-term contracts for conscripts and contract workers, which will be concluded “in emergency circumstances” or during operations outside the country, according to a message on the government website. It is proposed to conclude contracts for a period “until the termination of the circumstances that necessitated its conclusion,” but not more than a year, or for 6–12 months.

In Saratov, a 26-year-old woman and her 22-year-old partner will be tried, accused, depending on the role of each, of leaving a seven-year-old boy in danger, torturing and killing (Article 125 of the Criminal Code, paragraphs “d, e, f” of Part 2 of Article 117 of the Criminal Code and paragraphs “c, e” of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee.

32-year-old resident of Stavropol Alexander Denisov was found guilty of using violence against a government official after an attack on a local police officer, reports the regional department of the Investigative Committee. The court agreed with the investigation's version, according to which on the evening of July 13, Denisov was taken to city police department No. 3 for committing an administrative offense - he was noticed drunk in a public place.

Investigators from the department of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Khakassia detained the third prisoner of correctional colony No. 35 in Abakan on suspicion of involvement in mass riots in July of this year.

The Moscow City Court rejected the cassation appeal in the case of activist Ildar Dadin, convicted of participating in unauthorized rallies under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code. This is reported on the court's website. From the case file, published in the “Information on the review of criminal cases” section on the Moscow City Court website, it follows that the complaint against the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow was rejected on September 30.

Former first deputy head of the presidential administration Vyacheslav Volodin was confirmed as speaker of the State Duma of the seventh convocation, reports . RIA Novosti Volodin’s candidacy was supported by 404 deputies. Volodin was nominated for the post of speaker by the United Russia faction after President Vladimir Putin proposed his candidacy . The candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Novikov, was nominated against him, but only 40 deputies voted for him.

A court in Omsk sentenced local businessman Vladimir Babitsky, accused of murdering his 40-year-old business partner (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code), to ten years in a maximum security colony. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee for the Omsk Region. The incident occurred on the afternoon of February 13, 2015 on Semirechinskaya Street in Omsk.