Tagir Khasanov, a 70-year-old pensioner from Nizhny Novgorod, sentenced to five and a half years in a general regime colony for recruiting militants to Syria, is not receiving medical care in a pre-trial detention center, despite “almost complete” paralysis of his body, his lawyer Marat Ashimov said . According to him, Khasanov is now in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Nizhny Novgorod, awaiting consideration of his appeal against the verdict.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Andrei Yarin as head of the internal policy department of his administration, reports the Kremlin press service . Previously, this post was held by Tatyana Voronova. Before his appointment to the presidential administration, Yarin was the plenipotentiary representative of the president in the Central Federal District. Earlier, RBC reported that Yarin could become the head of the internal policy department of the AP.

In Grozny, the judicial investigation into the case of Ukrainian Stanislav Klykh for insulting a prosecutor has been completed, reports the Caucasian Knot . The debate between the parties will take place on October 31. At the end of May, Ukrainian citizens Stanislav Klykh and Nikolai Karpyuk were convicted for allegedly fighting on the side of Chechen separatists during the First and Second Chechen Wars and killing Russian soldiers.

Former RUBOP employee Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, convicted in the case of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, was transferred from Mordovian IK-5 to a single cell-type room at IK-10 after he complained about the pressure of operatives who demanded to testify against Boris Berezovsky, a lawyer told Mediazona Andrey Vikanov.

Director Oleg Sentsov, convicted in a terrorism case, was transferred to a punishment cell (punishment cell), his sister Natalya Kaplan told Mediazona. According to her, Sentsov was placed in a punishment cell for 15 days, probably starting today. The reasons for this decision by the colony administration are unknown.

Russian Evgeny Nikulin, arrested in the Czech Republic on suspicion of involvement in the hacking of LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring in 2012, was charged. This was reported on the website of the US Department of Justice. Nikulin is accused of illegally obtaining computer data and access means, as well as aggravated theft of personal data. According to the indictment, Nikulin conspired with unknown persons to transfer stolen personal data of Formspring users.

The Investigative Committee dropped the criminal case against the son-in-law of former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and his two accomplices accused of embezzlement. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to a source close to the investigation. According to the investigation, Valery Puzikov, Valery Sedov and Irina Petukhova, on behalf of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise St.

A court in Khabarovsk placed a minor girl suspected of cruelty to animals under house arrest, TASS reports , citing a source close to the investigation. On October 19, a resident of Khabarovsk was detained at the Novosibirsk airport when she was trying to fly to St. Petersburg. Soon the girl became a defendant in a criminal case of cruelty to animals (Part 1 of Article 245 of the Criminal Code).

The former head of the Butyrka pre-trial detention center, Dmitry Komnov, who appears on the Magnitsky list, was included in the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission, as follows from the list of new members of the POC published on the Public Chamber website. The new composition of the commissions was determined by the OP council. According to Novaya Gazeta, Komnov’s candidacy was nominated by the all-Russian public organization “Russian Association of Legal Journalism”.