Employees of Russian Post branches in Inzhavinsky, Zherdevsky, Michurinsky and Staroyurievsky districts of the Tambov region charged local residents for transferring taxes, although these transfers do not require payment, the regional prosecutor's office reports . The department conducted an inspection at the request of the deputy head of the administration of the Tambov region.

In Crimea, border guards detained an alleged member of the Ukrainian volunteer battalion, Seit-Ibraim Zaitullaev, while trying to enter the territory of the peninsula, reports with reference to the FSB border department. Interfax The department claims that a Ukrainian citizen tried to cross the border from the Ukrainian side, bypassing the checkpoint.

Information about the kidnapping of a child on Verkhnie Polya Street in the southeast of Moscow has not been confirmed, reports . the Moscow agency “This information has not been confirmed,” said the press service of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Earlier, the police received information that on Verkhnie Polya Street a man forcibly put a child into a car and fled.

A criminal case was not opened against the leader of the Polite Farmers movement, Alexey Volchenko, for giving a bribe (Article 291 of the Criminal Code), as previously reported, writes Activatica, citing the activist’s lawyer Vladimir Shamshurov. The lawyer explained that yesterday, February 16, from 18:00 to 22:30, Volchenko was interrogated in the bribery case, but as a witness, not a suspect.

The Elista City Court has begun considering a criminal case against seven employees of correctional colony No. 1, who are accused of beating convicts, one of whom died. this RAPSI reports with reference to lawyer Andrei Sabinin, who represents the victims on the initiative of the human rights organization “Zona Prava”.

The police are checking information about the abduction of a child in the southeast of Moscow, told the Moscow agency. the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the capital “Information was received that on Verkhniye Polya Street a man allegedly forcibly put a child into a car and disappeared,” the press service officer said. Earlier, Life reported that the police put a black Mercedes Gelandewagen on the wanted list, into which the girl was allegedly forcibly placed.

In Nizhnekamsk, a 14-year-old teenager shot his 15-year-old classmate in the eye with a traumatic pistol, reports the department of the Investigative Committee for Tatarstan. The incident occurred on February 11, the victim was hospitalized at the Children's Republican Clinical Hospital, and died on February 17.

Law enforcement officers came to the entrance where Andrei Barabanov, convicted in the Bolotnaya case, is registered, Barabanov himself, who lives in the Czech Republic, told Mediazona. “One was a local police officer, the second was an “eschnik”. First they rang the doorbell of the apartment, then they started knocking. They asked the concierge about whether it was quiet in the apartment, whether there were crowds of people going there,” Barabanov said.

The North Caucasus District Military Court sentenced Ingushetia resident A. Aushev, finding him guilty of publicly justifying terrorism and calling for extremism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code and Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) for administering a group on the social network VKontakte. This was reported by the Interfax-South agency with reference to the press service of the regional FSB. The court sentenced Aushev to two years and two months in a penal colony.

The Arbitration Court of the Sverdlovsk Region determined the subsistence level for regional parliament member Ilya Gaffner, known for advising Russians to “eat less” during the crisis, reports . RAPSI From the property put up for bankruptcy proceedings, 10,653 rubles per month were allocated for the deputy, another 30,621 rubles were allocated for the maintenance of three children who are dependent on him.

Four coordinators of “death groups” were detained in North Ossetia, the government of the republic reports . It is clarified that two of the detainees are minors. The teenagers “sent SMS to their acquaintances with an offer to join the game,” they “explained their action with a desire to prank their friends.” “Two teenagers, residents of North Ossetia, were identified on social networks. They sent invitations to children and teenagers to play the Blue Whale game.

The Verkhnepyshminsky city court of the Sverdlovsk region began to consider the case of a former policeman from Dagestan, Arsen Bayrambekov, accused of murdering six people, while four were killed according to the canons of sacrifice in order to receive “power from above.” After his arrest, Bayrambekov admitted his guilt and made a deal with the investigation, reports . the Kommersant newspaper At the preliminary hearing, the court extended Bayrambekov’s arrest until June 6.

At the same time, five publications reported, citing an anonymous source, that the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church had not been agreed upon with President Vladimir Putin.

A prisoner in Krasnoyarsk colony-settlement No. 48 reported that, under pressure from the administration, she signed documents to transfer a three-month-old child to an orphanage, the Legal Initiative organization told Mediazona. As the human rights organization explains, from 2007 to 2016, mothers were allowed to live in the colony with young children, but this decision was canceled after the regional prosecutor’s office decided that this situation violated the rights of children.

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow again brought charges against the former leader of the special purpose police unit (OMSN) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Sergei Danshin, in the case of the death of Moscow economist Kirill Shchiborshch in 2006. This was reported by the Public Verdict Foundation. Danshin is accused of exceeding official powers (Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code).