The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs is investigating a criminal case of fraud worth 1 billion rubles with the assets of the Rossiya insurance company, the main defendant in which is Ukrainian entrepreneur and company owner Viktor Pinchuk, a law enforcement source told Rosbalt.

The leader of the rock group “Metal Corrosion” Sergei Troitsky, nicknamed the Spider, returned to Russia after prison in Montenegro. Life published by the musician’s mother, Valentina , to Ren-TV an interview with Spider; his return to Moscow was also confirmed . In addition, a day earlier, Troitsky published a message on Facebook where he jokingly talked about his release.

In Moscow, activists Ekaterina Ryzhik, Pavel Kuznetsov and Nikolai players were detained for a banner with the inscription “Putin is a war, Putin is death”, hung on the railway bridge at Komsomolskaya Square. The detained Ryzhik posted a video on Facebook, on which activists are delivered to the police department. Activists were told that they would be delivered to the Krasnoselskoy police department. OVD-Info reports that the detainees are located in the linear department of the Kursk station.

A resident of Ukhta Ivan Kolobanov was detained for shooting a protest rally from a drone, reports 7x7. “The police officer, at the direction of which Kolobanov detained, refused to show the 7x7 correspondent his badge, explaining this by the fact that he was a“ leader ”and said that the detention was carried out at the direction of an employee of the Federal Service (FSB). Kolobanov was taken to the police department and a written explanation was taken from him, ”the publication continues.

In the Saratov region, a court sentenced Vyacheslav Tiptsov, a resident of Bazarny Karabulak, to seven years in a maximum security colony for the murder of his cohabitant over dinner, reports the regional Investigative Committee. According to investigators, on the evening of November 16, 2016, 42-year-old Tiptsov drank with his 45-year-old partner at home on Lenin Street. “After the feast, a conflict arose between them due to the fact that the latter refused to help her roommate prepare dinner.

A special operation took place in Dagestan's Derbent, during which alleged members of a “sleeping cell” of an organization associated with the Islamic State were killed and detained, cites data from the National Anti-Terrorism Committee. Interfax One of the operations took place on Buynakskaya Street, where security forces blocked a house in which there was an alleged member of an organization associated with ISIS.

In the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg, a corpse was found on a rusty bicycle, reports , without specifying the source of information. Fontanka According to the publication, the man’s body was found at noon on March 4, about a kilometer from the gas station located at Primorskoe Highway, 49. “A man in a green sweatshirt was sitting near a fallen tree on a rusty bicycle thrown to the ground. At the same time, the dead man was tied to a tree by the neck with a clothesline,” Fontanka reports.

Seven Russian sailors who were among the BBC Caribbean crew members captured by Nigerian pirates have been released, reports . TASS “We have a joyful event: our sailors are already in Frankfurt, everyone is alive and well, the negotiations were successful, all eight captured crew members returned - seven Russians and one Ukrainian. The German company Briese held intense negotiations, during which, together with the Russian embassy, ​​all necessary efforts were made for a speedy release.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs denies that in Krasnodar, after a football match, Spartak fans were detained after a fight with police, TASS reports . “The police did not receive any information about the arrests; batons and tear gas were not used,” the department’s administration in the Krasnodar Territory claims. According to the agency's source, fans had a conflict with a local resident in the city center.