A resident of the village of Olsha, Smolensk region, set fire to two houses, killed two people and fired at firefighters who arrived at the scene with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, told TASS. press secretary of the regional department of the Investigative Committee Nina Vasilkova According to preliminary data, the man first set fire to his house, then began to set fire to his neighbor’s, and when the owner of the home came out into the street, he shot him with a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

Designer Fatima Misikova, wanted in the case of extorting money from the owner of the Elements cafe Zhanna Kim, asks the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, to confirm or deny the information that she tried to hide from the investigation by faking her own death. about this RBC writes .

Crimean activist Vladimir Balukh was charged with illegal possession of ammunition and explosives (Part 1 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code and Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the Crimean Human Rights Group.

In St. Petersburg, at the intersection of Grechesky Avenue and 9th Sovetskaya Street, a gas explosion occurred, reports Fontanka . The Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in St. Petersburg confirmed the explosion to the publication. “At 19.10, an application was received at 9 Sovetskaya Street, 3.

The Supreme Court confirmed the verdict of Bauman Moscow State Technical University teacher Vladimir Lapygin, convicted of high treason. this . reports Interfax Thus, Lapygin’s sentence came into force; In the near future, the convict will be transported to the place where he will serve his sentence. The appeal was considered behind closed doors, since Lapygin’s case is classified as “top secret.” The scientist's lawyer Vasily Protsyk told the agency that his client does not admit his guilt.

In St. Petersburg, police seized the original medical record of Kommersant photojournalist David Frenkel, which recorded injuries. Rosbalt reports this with reference to Frenkel himself. “I came to pick up my card at clinic No. 37 at the same time as the precinct officer from the 78th police station. She was provided with the original document. But before my eyes they made a copy of it, which they still haven’t given to me yet.

A man arrested for a day by a magistrate died in a temporary detention center (temporary detention center) of the Fatezhsky district police department of the Kursk region, reports . the press service of the regional Investigative Committee The report clarifies that on the morning of December 14, a 39-year-old resident of the Konyshevsky district was found dead on his bed in a cell for administrative detainees. No bodily injuries were found on his body.

The State Duma adopted in the second, main reading a bill that regulates the use of physical force, special equipment and firearms by employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service against prisoners, TASS reports . For the second reading, amendments were made to the draft law: a provision was excluded from the text that gives FSIN employees the opportunity to use force and special means against prisoners for violating the regime of detention.

The Tula prosecutor's office found violations in the organization of meals for students in the canteen of school No. 45, reports , citing a senior assistant to the regional prosecutor. Interfax The department discovered that the portions of meals for schoolchildren were underestimated compared to those indicated on the menu; soups were not prepared with meat broth.

The State Duma finally adopted a law allowing the military to enter into short-term contracts for service abroad. this . reports Interfax According to the bill, contracts are proposed to be concluded for a period “until the termination of the circumstances that necessitated its conclusion,” but not more than a year. The law applies to conscripts and those serving under contract. Military personnel serving on ships and submarines will also be able to conclude short-term contracts.

The investigative department of the Investigative Committee in Segezha refused to initiate a criminal case after Ildar Dadin’s reports of torture in correctional colony No. 7. This was reported on the “Territory of Torture” website. The published document states that based on the results of the inspection on November 30, a decision was made to refuse to initiate a case.

Investigators in Kachkanar are investigating the death of a 36-year-old hunter, who committed [Roskomnadzor] with the help of a bear trap, a representative of the investigation department for Kachkanar of the Sverdlovsk Investigative Committee told Mediazona. The man's body was discovered in a rented apartment by his mother. He was lying on the bed with a trap slammed on his head.

Rosobrnadzor has restored the license of the European University in St. Petersburg to conduct educational activities, according to the agency’s website. The register on the Rosobrnadzor website states that the license is “valid.” On December 13, the Moscow Arbitration Court sided with the university in a dispute with the department. on The suspension of the license became known December 9. Rosobrnadzor referred to the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St.

The alleged members of the group that prepared a terrorist attack in Moscow in 2015, Aslan Baysultanov and Elman Ashaev, partially admitted guilt, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the Moscow District Military Court. The third defendant, Mokhmad Mezhidov, also partially admitted his guilt: he is accused only of storing explosives, although the indictment states that Baysutlanov kept them in his apartment without his knowledge.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Omsk Region began investigating a criminal case about the beating of a girl from the village of Rostovka by her mother for the sake of sporting achievements, according to a message on the department’s website.