The Tushinsky District Court issued a verdict in the case of the murder of documentary filmmaker Tamara Yakzhina and fraud, the Moscow prosecutor's office reports . Yakzhina’s neighbor Igor Drozdov, accused of murder and preparation for fraud, received 13 years in prison; those accused only of preparation for fraud, Elman Karyakin, Roman Firsov and Irina Eremina, received three, two and two years in prison, respectively.

The State Duma instructed the Committee on Information Policy, Technology and Communications to check the activities of American media for compliance with Russian legislation, according to the website of the lower house of parliament. This initiative was made by Konstantin Zatulin from United Russia, a member of the Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots.

The Magas district court placed the head of the Sunzhensky police department, Magomed Bekov, under house arrest for two months, the human rights organization “Zone of Law” reports , citing lawyer Andrei Sabinin. Previously, Bekov did not come to the meeting to select a preventive measure, after which lawyer Sabinin asked the Investigative Committee to put him on the wanted list and remove him from office. On the same day, Bekov was removed from office.

The Marchukov sisters, accused in the case of withdrawing funds from Nota Bank, were released from the pre-trial detention center, told RIA Novosti. press secretary of the Tverskoy Court of Moscow Anastasia Dzyurko “On February 28, the court changed Marchukov’s preventive measure to house arrest for a period until May 2,” Dzyurko said. The reason for changing the preventive measure is not specified.

The criminal case of 19-year-old Maxim Klimkin, who is accused of preparing to kill his parents and organizing the murder of his 12-year-old sister, has been sent for consideration to the Moscow City Court, the city prosecutor's office said in a statement . To carry out the crime, he hired a resident of the Saratov region, who was 17 years old at that time.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sent Ivan Lebedev, a resident of Korolev near Moscow, who attacked the Choral Synagogue, for compulsory treatment to a specialized institution for compulsory treatment, told Interfax. court spokeswoman Yuno Tsareva A day earlier, during the debate, the prosecution insisted on this measure.

Police officers interrupted a meeting of Alexei Navalny with volunteers of his election campaign in Tomsk and, under the pretext of searching for a bomb in the building, demanded that everyone go outside, the politician’s representative Kira Yarmysh writes on Twitter.

The Kremlin did not receive appeals from a citizen of Uzbekistan, a freelance correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, Vecherdi Nurmatov (pseudonym Ali Feruz) and the chief editor of the REGNUM agency Yuri Baranchik with a request to provide asylum in Russia, said Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. It is reported by TASS. “We heard and saw media reports that supposedly [Nurmatov] turned, but we did not receive any appeals, this is the only thing I can state,” Peskov said.

Russia transferred 12 prisoners who were serving sentences in Crimea to Ukraine, told TASS. the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service “The transfer of convicts to their homeland to further serve their sentences took place in the Belgorod region in the presence of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Tatyana Moskalkova,” the agency writes. The names of the transferred prisoners were not specified.

In Kazan, one of the suspects in the pogrom at the Altyn shopping center was detained, told ProKazan. police “During the investigation of the criminal case, four suspects were identified, one has been detained so far. One car was also installed, in which the attackers were traveling,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs said. The amount of damage is being determined.

The State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill introducing criminal liability for hooliganism in transport, reports .

Investigators have sent a criminal case to court against a resident of Kiselevsk, Kemerovo Region, who broke her ex-husband’s shoulder with a door frame, according to the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to investigators, the woman beat the 39-year-old victim while visiting mutual friends. When a conflict arose between them, the woman tore out a wooden door frame and began hitting her ex-husband with it.

The Novomoskovsky District Court of the Tula Region found the former leader of the Young Russia movement and former Deputy Minister of Internal Policy and Local Government Development of the region Maxim Mishchenko guilty of fraud and sentenced him to two and a half years in a general regime colony, writes the Tula News publication. The court regarded the defendant's arguments about completing military service as a deliberate attempt to evade responsibility and not be punished.

In St. Petersburg, the court arrested Alexander Soldatenkov and Efim Statsyuk, who issued microloans to the poor and evicted them from their apartments, reports the city department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, in 2014–2015, a group that included several people operated in the city.

Yuri Baranchik , editor-in-chief of the analytical editorial office of the Regnum news agency, who was detained on the night of March 15 , was released after the expiration of his detention, according to a message on the agency’s website. “The issue of Baranchyk’s extradition has not yet been resolved,” the lawyers explained. “There is no refusal of extradition.” Lawyers told Regnum that Baranchik was released without signature or guarantees.