Senior investigator for especially important cases of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Sorokin, was arrested for taking a bribe of $50 thousand, according to the department’s website.

The government submitted to the State Duma the law “On the Security of Critical Information Infrastructure of the Russian Federation,” which defines measures to protect against computer attacks. The corresponding document was published on the State Duma website. According to the bill, a register of “significant objects of critical information infrastructure” will be developed. It should be conducted by a federal executive body that is “authorized to ensure” the safety of facilities.

A 23-year-old transgender woman, Albina Matyunina (according to her passport as Alexei Matyunin), convicted of stealing 1,800 rubles, was released from pre-trial detention center No. 3 in Novocherkassk, her lawyer Olga Badalyan told Dozhd. In 2011, the Novocherkassk City Court of the Rostov Region sentenced Alexey Matyunin to two years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of two years, finding him guilty of stealing 1,800 rubles from the store’s cash register.

The court arrested three defendants in the case of a road accident on the highway between Khanty-Mansiysk and Nefteyugansk, which killed 12 people, reports , citing a representative of the Khanty-Mansiysk District Court. RIA Novosti A representative of the carrier, Alexander Sidoruk, a bus driver, Marat Zainullin, and a truck driver, Rail Saikhanov, were sent to the pre-trial detention center. Previously, the Investigative Committee brought charges against them.

In Poland, officer Piotr Tsapala was detained, who is suspected of spying for Russia. This was reported by the state television channel TVN24. The lieutenant served at the first transport aviation base in Warsaw. The arrest was carried out by the Polish Military Counterintelligence Service. The operation also involved the Internal Security Agency, the military gendarmerie department, the criminal department of the Warsaw police and the border guard department.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg began to consider the claim of journalist Mikhail Zolotonosov against the Russian National Library, which refused to give him copies of the books “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler and “The Doctrine of Fascism” by Benito Mussolini. As RAPSI reports , the library reading room motivated its refusal by the fact that these books were included in the list of extremist literature.

Since the adoption of the Criminal Code in Russia in 1996, its norms have been tightened 124 times, said the Chairman of the Supreme Court, Vyacheslav Lebedev. Over the 20 years of existence of the Russian Criminal Code, changes have been made to its text 124 times aimed at expanding the scope of punishable acts and tightening sanctions for their commission. The Chairman of the Supreme Court of Russia, Vyacheslav Lebedev, spoke about this while speaking at the IX All-Russian Congress of Judges.

Kemerovo blogger Nikolai Nagaitsev was arrested for four days in November for publishing a screenshot of the blocked public page “Russia for Russians” on VKontakte, according to the website of the SOVA analytical center. According to the prosecution, 27-year-old Nagaytsev posted a screenshot on his VKontakte page with information about the blocking of the “Russia for Russians” public page.

Lawyers from the human rights association “Team 29” published a list of people convicted of high treason and espionage in the Krasnodar Territory over the past three years, which included a defendant in another case of high treason due to SMS correspondence with a Georgian citizen on the eve of the 2008 armed conflict. The material says that Ekaterina Kharebava, convicted of espionage, and released in June, spoke about her cellmate Inga Tutisani.

Ukrainian citizen Nikolai Karpyuk, convicted in the case of the extremist and banned organization UNA-UNSO in Russia, who allegedly fought on the side of militants during the First and Second Chechen Wars, was transferred to a colony in Vladimir, his lawyer Ilya Novikov said on his Facebook. On December 5, Karpyuk was sent to the Vladimir Central (officially the prison is called the Federal State Institution T-2) to further serve his sentence, according to the document published by the lawyer.

The Investigative Committee has brought charges against those involved in the case of an accident on the Khanty-Mansiysk-Nefteyugansk highway, in which 12 people died, according to the Investigative Committee’s website. Bus driver Marat Zainullin and Volvo tractor driver Rail Saikhanov are accused of violating traffic rules, resulting in the death of two or more persons through negligence (Part 5 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code).

Human rights activists have sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights against workers who were held for several years in the back room of a grocery store in Golyanovo, eastern Moscow. this . reports RBC Citizens of Kazakhstan Fatima and Aliya Musabeev and citizens of Uzbekistan Gulnazhar Nazanova and Bakiya Kasymova complained of violations of several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights. The complaint states that they were kept in slavery.

The Almetyevsk City Court began considering the case of former IK-8 employee Oleg Gerasimov, who transferred prisoners to a medical unit with better living conditions for money, reports . Realnoe Vremya According to the publication, since 2009, Gerasimov worked as the deputy head of IK-8 for medical and educational work, and after the “reorganization” in 2013, he became the head of a branch of the medical unit. The case against Gerasimov was opened in August 2015.

The former head of the department of international legal cooperation of the Investigative Committee, Igor Stepanov, now collaborating with Open Russia, filed a lawsuit against the Federal Security Service demanding to explain the reasons for the business trip to Georgia during the armed conflict in August 2008, writes RBC.

In St. Petersburg, a man who introduced himself as an employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service was detained on suspicion of fraud, according to the website of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to investigators, the person who introduced himself as an employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service gained confidence in the family of the released prisoner and offered help in finding a job for money.