The Basmanny District Court of Moscow granted the investigation's request, which demanded that the defense be limited in the time it took to familiarize itself with documents from the materials of Dmitry Buchenkov, the defendant in the Bolotnaya case, lawyer Ilya Novikov told Mediazona. The review period is limited to March 23. Novikov explained that he planned to get acquainted with the case materials for another month, but instead he had two weeks left. Previously, there were no time limits.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case regarding the theft of more than 12 million rubles during the construction of the road to the Kresty-2 pre-trial detention center under construction, the reports . department’s department for St. Petersburg It is clarified that the contract for the construction of the road to the detention center was concluded for 15.86 million rubles.

Andrei Zakhtey, accused in the case of sabotage in Crimea, demanded to be deprived of his Russian citizenship, his lawyer Alexander Popkov told Meduza.

In the southeast of Moscow, a 27-year-old FSB officer's Mercedes C300 was stolen from his special service seal and access to facilities, a law enforcement source told the Moscow agency. According to the agency, a 27-year-old employee contacted the police and said that his Mercedes C300, parked at house No. 14 on Simonovsky Val, had a window broken and a Calvin Klein bag stolen.

On March 6, the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don began considering the case of former security officer of the first president of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov, who was previously convicted in the case of a terrorist attack in the village of Znamenka, Ayub Tuntuev. Mediazona was informed about this by the human rights organization Legal Initiative, which provides legal assistance to Tuntuev. At the first meeting the indictment was announced.

In Belgorod, a 15-year-old girl was suspected of murdering her grandfather, reports the regional Investigative Committee. “According to investigators, at about 02:00 on March 8, 2017, the suspect, who was intoxicated, quarreled with her 57-year-old grandfather because her granddaughter’s friends were in the apartment at such a late hour. During the quarrel, the girl stabbed her grandfather twice in the chest,” reports the Investigative Committee.

The Investigative Committee did not find any crime in the action against the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church. “The materials have been returned to the police. In our opinion, there is no corpus delicti,” told TASS. senior assistant to the head of the Investigative Committee’s department for St. Petersburg, Sergei Kapitonov, We are talking about events that took place on January 28.

President Vladimir Putin supported the initiative to introduce criminal liability for inducement to [Roskomnadzor], which State Duma Deputy Speaker Irina Yarovaya spoke about earlier on Thursday. this . reports RIA Novosti “I support the initiative of the State Duma to supplement the legislation with a norm that expands the list of actions for which criminal liability arises for reporting to [Roskomnadzor].

The Presidium of the Supreme Court of Karachay-Cherkessia canceled the decision to return to the prosecutor's office the case of the former deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Cherkessk, Ruslan Rakhaev, accused of beating a detainee to death.

In 2016, every seventh candidate for service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs failed to pass tests for drug and alcohol addiction, as well as for criminal and corruption tendencies. this The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, announced at the board of the department, RIA Novosti reports.

The Gnessin Academy of Music fired singer and ex-deputy Maria Maksakova for absenteeism, reports . RIA Novosti “Maria Maksakova was fired. They collected supporting documents that she was not there, and sent her telegrams twice, to which they received no response. They drew up a report stating that she was absent during working hours, and, in connection with labor legislation, she was fired,” the educational institution reported.

President Vladimir Putin signed an order to relieve ten generals and prosecutors of Chuvashia and the Jewish Autonomous Region from their posts. The decree of the head of state is posted on the portal for publishing legal information.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is using its potential “far from fully”; almost half of the crimes committed in Russia remain unsolved, President Vladimir Putin said at an extended meeting of the Ministry of Internal Affairs board. this .

The state prosecution requested 23 years in prison for Khasan Zakaev, accused in the case of hostage-taking at the Nord-Ost musical, TASS reports . The department found Zakayev guilty of preparing for a terrorist attack, participation in a criminal community, complicity in hostage-taking, attempted murder, illegal possession of weapons and aiding terrorists.

The photo from the feminist rally on March 8 at the Kremlin showed signs of editing. St. Petersburg photographer David Frenkel conducted an error level analysis (ELA) and drew attention to the strange shadow from the fire that was allegedly lit on the Corner Arsenal Tower when, according to feminists, the banner “National Idea - Feminism” was hung on it. The photo comes from a press release sent to reporters on March 8th.