In Belarus, publicists Dmitry Alimkin and Yuri Pavlovets, who wrote for Russian publications, were placed in custody. They were taken into custody on charges of inciting national hatred (Article 130 of the Criminal Code of Belarus), according to the website of the Investigative Committee of Belarus.

RBC will demand that government representatives be involved in the consideration of Rosneft's three-billion-dollar claim in court, according to the publication's editorial note.

In St. Petersburg, employees of the Investigative Committee and FSB operatives detained and. O. the chief of police of the linear department of internal affairs for transport, Roman Frolov, reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. Interfax According to the agency, he was detained while accepting a bribe from an entrepreneur, to whom he promised “patronage.” The source noted that the issue of initiating a criminal case is being decided.

General Vyacheslav Kozlov was appointed as the new deputy head of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate, chief of the Moscow police; in this post he replaced Sergei Solopov. Vladimir Putin has already signed the corresponding decree, RBC writes , citing a source close to the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whose information was confirmed by the official representative of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate Alexander Knyazev.

A man detained for violating public order died in one of the Kyzyl police stations, according to the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tyva. On December 7, at about 1:35 p.m., a man was brought to the police in a state of intoxication. There he was locked in a room for administrative detainees. The department's statement clarifies that he was detained for violating public order. An hour later, police found the man lying on the floor unconscious.

The Preobrazhensky District Court placed fans of the Lokomotiv football team Evgeny Khoroshilov, Maxim Gadzhimagomedov, Roman Parshin and Nikita Bobrovsky under house arrest, the court’s press service told Mediazona. The fans are suspected under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (public incitement of hatred or enmity), the period of house arrest is until December 26, 2016. In total, the court received documents for four detainees.

Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Major General Valery Maksimenko, who recently called oppositionist Ildar Dadin, who complained of torture in the colony, “a very talented imitator,” received 14,189,184 rubles from the state in 2015 as a social payment for the purchase of housing. Moreover, he was already provided with housing, writes the anti-corruption investigation center Transparency International.

A court in Karelia sentenced the director of an orphanage who beat a pupil with a rubber slipper and kicked her to four years of suspended imprisonment. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee in the republic. According to investigators, from September 2014 to April 2016, the director of the Center for Assistance to Children Without Parental Care No. 4 systematically beat the minor pupil.

The man doused himself and his car with gasoline and set it on fire in the square near the new Church of All Saints in the city of Gusev, Kaliningrad region, reports “New Kaliningrad.Ru”. According to eyewitnesses, the incident occurred today at approximately 12:40. Taxi drivers present in the square used fire extinguishers and provided first aid to the man. A source in Gusev’s administration told the publication that the victim received burns on 100% of his body.

The State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption recommended adopting in the second reading a bill that regulates the use of physical force, special equipment and firearms by employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service against prisoners. this .

In the building of the Shpakovsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory, bailiffs detained a wanted man, reports . the press service of the regional FSSP The department’s report notes that the man “showed nervousness” when going through the checkpoint, which aroused the suspicion of the bailiffs. The bailiffs, having checked the detainee’s passport details, found that he was wanted as a defendant under Part 3 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud).

The head of the Center for Countering Extremism in Ingushetia, Timur Khamkhoev, and six of his subordinates, who were detained earlier, are suspected of robbery against a resident of Azerbaijan. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee of the Republic.

Evgeny Panov. Photo: Artem GO / Mediazone A citizen of Ukraine Yevgeny Panov, arrested in the Crimean saboteurs, sent a statement of torture to the Investigative Committee. According to him, after the detention at the border, the FSB officers beat it with an iron pipe, hung them for handcuffs and beat an electric current.

The Chernovsky District Court of Chita ordered investigator Daria Saltanova, who was accused of exceeding her official powers in relation to an orphanage pupil, to reimburse the costs of a lawyer, the reports . press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs A criminal case was opened against Saltanova in the fall of 2015 under paragraph “a” of Part 3 of Art. 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers with the use of violence).

The Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg found operative of the 26th police department Andrei Artemyev guilty of causing death by negligence and sentenced him to a year and nine months in a general regime colony, although the prosecutor's office asked to send him to a colony for 12 years for murder, a Mediazona correspondent reports.