Border service officers detained two Ukrainian servicemen while crossing the Russian border, reports RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the FSB border department for the Rostov region. The military was detained in different areas. The Ukrainians told the correspondent that they did not want to serve in the Ukrainian army. “My name is Alexey Yatsun, I am a resident of the village of Melovoe, Ukraine. He was forcibly taken into the army, straight from work.

The Benin embassy confirmed the seizure of a ship with Russians on board in Africa, TASS reports . The country's ambassador to Russia, Anicet Gabriel Kochofa, clarified that the ship was outside the territorial waters of Benin at the time of the seizure. “The ship was indeed hijacked by pirates, but outside the territorial waters of Benin. There are indeed citizens of Ukraine and Russia on the ship.

The Shchelkovo City Court of the Moscow Region refused to arrest businessman Grigor Agekyan, suspected of shooting during a fight with the first deputy head of the Fryazino administration, the regional prosecutor's office reports .

The Moscow City Court overturned the decision to deport a migrant from Uzbekistan, Jakhongir Normatov, who claimed that another person came to the hearing in the first court instead of him, lawyer Filipp Shishov told RAPSI. The case, which was initially decided by the Perovsky District Court of Moscow, has been sent for a new trial. about what happened to Normatov in early November wrote Open Russia .

All license holders for the sale of alcohol in Chechnya renounced their permits after a meeting with the speaker of the parliament of the republic, Magomed Daudov, reports “Caucasus. Realities." In total, there were 14 holders of such licenses in the republic, working from 08:00 to 10:00.

Until January 29, 2017, the Babushkinsky Court of Moscow arrested the deputy head of the administration of the city of Odintsovo near Moscow, Vyacheslav Kudryavtsev, suspected of receiving a bribe. this . reports The Moscow agency Earlier, Kudryavtsev’s lawyer Ignat Yavorsky told RIA Novosti that the official does not admit his guilt and calls the incident a provocation. “I consider the detention to be unfounded, I have heart problems. I need to be constantly monitored by a doctor.

The Dmitrovsky District Court of the Moscow Region sentenced the former head physician of a psychiatric hospital, Murad Shaov, to four and a half years in the case of a fire in a medical institution with 38 deaths and amnestied him, Moscow Regional Court press secretary Natalya Osipova told RIA Novosti. “Shaov received 4.5 years in prison, and was also deprived of the right to hold positions in medical institutions.

Anti-Corruption Foundation lawyer Lyubov Sobol accused the Moscow police of inaction in investigating the attack on her husband, sociologist and publisher of the magazine “Archaeology of Russian Death” Sergei Mokhov. Sobol made this statement on her Facebook page.

The State Duma, in the third and final reading, adopted a bill tightening the article on bringing obviously innocent people to criminal liability, reports . Republic The changes concern Article 299 of the Criminal Code. The bill suggests that violation of Part 1 (bringing a knowingly innocent person to criminal liability) will now be punishable by imprisonment for a term of not up to five, but up to seven years.

The Moscow City Court confirmed the legality of the decision obliging Novaya Gazeta to remove an article about the wife of Rosneft head Igor Sechin Olga and her vacation on the Princess Olga yacht, the newspaper reports .

Deputy Minister of Finance 34-year-old Maxim Oreshkin agreed to President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to head the Ministry of Economic Development, reports . RIA Novosti “Maxim Stanislavovich, you have been working not so long, but in general you have been working for a long time, and you are working successfully. I want to offer you the position of Minister of Economic Development,” TASS quotes Putin.

The Moscow City Court recognized as legal the extension of the arrest of thief in law Zakhary Kalashov, nicknamed Shakro Molodoy, and the other four defendants in the criminal case, a Mediazona correspondent reports. The decision of the Moscow City Court concerns former police officer Evgeniy Surzhikov, contracting company employees Gerson Gamidov and Nikolai Nikolaev, accused of extortion, and Savely Ganovichev, accused of hooliganism.

The Investigative Committee in the Sverdlovsk Region opened a criminal case against a judge of the Asbestovsky City Court, suspected of receiving a large bribe and extortion. this TASS reports with reference to the press service of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, Vinogradov demanded a bribe of 6 million rubles from a woman accused of 18 counts of notary fraud in exchange for an acquittal.

The Moscow City Court recognized the legality of the transfer of Maxim Panfilov, a defendant in the Bolotnaya case, to the psychiatric department at the Butyrka detention center. this with reference to the Moscow City Court. reports RIA Novosti The decision to transfer Panfilov to the psychiatric department at the pre-trial detention center was issued by the Basmanny Court of Moscow on October 31.

Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov, arrested on charges of fraud, wrote a letter of resignation, several sources told TASS. Earlier on November 30, an agency source claimed that Pirumov’s resignation “will happen in the near future.” The Ministry of Culture refused to comment on this data until the court’s decision.