Blogger Alexander Lapshin, who has Russian citizenship, was extradited from Minsk to Baku, reports . Interfax Lapshin was delivered to Baku on a special flight. According to the agency, the Russian was handed over to employees of the State Security Service of Azerbaijan. Earlier today, the Supreme Court of Belarus rejected the Russian's complaint against his extradition. Alexander Lapshin was detained in Belarus on December 16, 2016 at the request of Azerbaijan.

The Prosecutor General's Office approved the indictment in the criminal case of the former governor of the Sakhalin region, Alexander Khoroshavin, according to the department's website. The case materials were transferred to the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court. In addition to Khoroshavin, the case involves his deputy Sergei Karepkin, adviser Andrei Ikramov and the former Minister of Agriculture, Trade and Food of the region Nikolai Borisov.

Denis Roshchin, a leading researcher at the Department of Economics and Resource Provision of Health Care at the Central Research Institute for Organization and Informatization of Health Care of the Ministry of Health, who became one of the authors of the memorandum on the pseudoscience of homeopathy, was fired for working on the document, writes Health Mail.ru. Today Roshchin was informed of the termination of his employment contract.

The Investigative Committee closed the criminal case against a resident of Vladimir, who himself came to law enforcement agencies and confessed to the murder committed in 1999, the department reports .

Activist Mark Halperin, detained earlier in the morning, was questioned as a witness in a new criminal case, his lawyer Ksenia Kostromina told Mediazona. The lawyer did not provide any other details, explaining that she and her client signed a non-disclosure agreement.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law abolishing criminal liability under Article 116 of the Criminal Code for domestic battery. The document was published on the legal information portal. From Article 116 (beating or other violent actions that caused physical pain, but did not cause harm to health), the wording “in relation to close persons” was excluded. In the summer of 2016, the president signed a law decriminalizing unqualified beatings. These actions became an administrative offense.

In the pre-trial detention center of Blagoveshchensk, 21-year-old convict Nadezhda Astafieva committed [Roskomnadzor], Amur.info reports with reference to the brother of the deceased. According to the agency's interlocutor, on January 27, Astafieva in the city of Shimanovsk was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony, having been found guilty under Article 228 of the Criminal Code (illegal acquisition, storage, transportation, manufacture or processing of drugs).

A resident of the village of Koashva, Murmansk region, was accused of murdering his cohabitant, reports . the regional Investigative Committee According to investigators, on the evening of December 27, 2016, a conflict occurred between a 47-year-old man with a previous conviction and his partner, as a result of which a resident of Koashva stabbed his acquaintance and then left the apartment.

The prosecutor's office demanded that the defendants in the case of preparing a terrorist attack in Moscow in 2015 be sentenced to imprisonment for a term of from five to 15 years. this RAPSI reports with reference to the press secretary of the Moscow District Military Court Irina Zhirnova. For Aslan Baysultanov and Mokhmad Mezhidov, the prosecutor requested 15 years in prison, for Elman Ashaev - five years in prison. According to RAPSI, on February 8 the defendants will make their final plea.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for false denunciation against Koba Shurgay, a prisoner of the Segezha IK-7, reports the department of the Investigative Committee for the republic. Shurgaya repeatedly reported beatings and torture in the institution. He insisted that his rib was broken, and lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov, who visited him in the colony a year after the beating, said that traces of violence were still visible.

In St. Petersburg, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against employees of the Hospital No. 1 branch of medical unit 78 of the Federal Penitentiary Service, suspected of involvement in the death of a 37-year-old cancer patient, convict N.

The chief bibliographer of the Russian National Library, Tatyana Shumilova, was fired after an interview criticizing the idea of ​​merging the institution with the Russian State Library, Fontanka reports . The dismissal was motivated by absenteeism on January 30, when Shumilova spoke at a press conference criticizing the association.

The Basmanny District Court sent Civil Rights Committee activist Aigul Makhmutova under house arrest for two months in an extortion case, reports . Novaya Gazeta As noted, the trial took place on January 23, but the publication writes about this the day before the appeal, scheduled for February 8. Makhmutova, as noted, was registered in the apartment of human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseeva, but did not live there. The court sent her under house arrest to this apartment.

In the Kamchatka Territory, the Investigative Committee is investigating the circumstances of the death of a man whom a doctor refused to examine when he was taken to a medical department in the village of Manila with complaints of abdominal pain. This is reported on the UK website. As the Investigative Committee clarifies, citing media reports, the doctor refused to go to work and examine the patient, so the man lay under the supervision of a nurse for eight hours.

The Petrozavodsk City Court rejected Oleg Kuznetsov, a former prisoner of Segezha IK-7, in his claim for being sent to a punishment cell, which was declared illegal. Activist Anastasia Zotova reported this to Mediazona from the courtroom. Zotova noted that the court made this decision due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.