The Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow placed nine activists of the opposition movement “New Greatness” in custody for two months, OVD-Info reports , citing lawyer Maxim Pashkov, who represents the interests of one of the activists. Among those arrested is a minor girl and the leader of the movement, Ruslan Kostylenkov. According to OVD-Info, the activists are accused under Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code (organizing an extremist community).

Anti-fascist Viktor Filinkov, a defendant in the Penza case, was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 6, which is located in the village of Gorelovo, Leningrad Region. His wife Alexandra told Mediazona about this. Alexandra added that she had heard about “very bad” conditions in this pre-trial detention center. “This isolator is called “torture”. I'm afraid that they might put him in a "press hut" there. Members of the POC of St.

British police are investigating the murder of 68-year-old Nikolai Glushkov, a business partner of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who received political asylum, according to the London Police Department website. Glushkov's body was found in his home in a London suburb on the evening of March 12, after which police were called to the scene. On Thursday, March 15, Glushkov’s body was autopsied. Today police received a pathologist's report that the cause of death was strangulation.

The Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow limited the time limit for familiarization with the case materials for the secretary of businessman Nikolai Smirnov, Yulia Manaenkova, who is accused of buying and selling the child of her boss and chairman of the BKF bank Olga Mirimskaya, the accused’s husband Arkhip Zhulev told Mediazona. The investigator asked to limit the familiarization period to March 26, claiming that the accused was delaying the familiarization.

The prosecutor's office of the Central District of Novosibirsk approved the indictment in the criminal case of three operatives of the local Drug Control Department, according to the department's website. According to investigators, on the evening of February 11, 2017, police from department No. 3 “Zaeltsovsky” handed over two administratively detained men to two detectives of the UNK.

On Malaya Ordynka Street in Moscow there is a memorial plaque to Boris Nemtsov. The installation was broadcast on Ksenia Sobchak’s channel. Nemtsov’s daughter Zhanna and a close associate of the murdered man Ilya Yashin did not take part in the ceremony. Nemtsova called the opening of the sign a “political event before the elections” and recalled that on March 15, Nizhny Novgorod activists were given 20 days of arrest for organizing a march in memory of her father.

The Investigative Committee (IC) opened a criminal case of attempted murder in a generally dangerous manner (part 3 of article 30, paragraph “e” of part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code) of the daughter of ex-GRU colonel Sergei Skripal, Yulia Skripal, according to the Investigative Committee’s website. The second case was opened regarding the murder of Nikolai Glushkov in London. Both victims had Russian citizenship.

Moscow anarchist Svyatoslav Rechkalov, who spoke the day before about torture, is suspected of vandalism (Article 214 of the Criminal Code) due to an action near the United Russia office in Khovrino, writes OVD-Info with reference to lawyer Mikhail Biryukov, who represents the interests of the activist. According to the lawyer, Rechkalov has now been released from the temporary detention center (IVS) on his own recognizance.

As a result of an accident that occurred on a cable car in the Georgian ski resort of Gudauri, four Russians were injured. This was reported by Interfax Tourism with reference to the commentary by the Minister of Labour, Health and Social Protection of Georgia David Sergienko to the Imedi TV channel. “Fortunately, no one was killed and there were no serious injuries.

In Buryatia, the criminal case of a local resident who received parole after the murder of his father and two months later beat his mother to death (part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code) has been submitted to the court for consideration on the merits, according to the website of the republican department of the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, the 40-year-old defendant was serving a sentence in a correctional colony for the murder of his own father.

The Privolzhsky District Court of Kazan recovered 200 thousand rubles from the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in favor of a local resident who lost the opportunity to have children after being kicked in the groin by a policeman, lawyer Andrei Suchkov, who collaborates with the human rights organization “Zone of Law” and the Kazan Human Rights Center, told Mediazona. The victim himself demanded compensation of 750 thousand.

Buenos Aires police officer Ivan Bliznyuk, accused of attempting to smuggle almost 400 kilograms of cocaine into Russia, personally organized joint activities between the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and local police before his arrest, RBC reports , citing its own sources. The events organized by Bliznyuk were attended by Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Zubov and Russian Ambassador to Argentina Viktor Coronelli.

The Moscow District Military Court released under house arrest retired police major general and former head of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department (MUR) Viktor Trutnev, accused of mediation in bribery committed on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 291.1 of the Criminal Code), TASS reports . On March 2, the Moscow Garrison Military Court sent the police major general to a pre-trial detention center for two months.

In the Nevsky District Court, at a meeting to extend the preventive measure for St. Petersburg Scientologists, the bailiffs threatened to break the lawyers’ hands and used physical force against them, lawyer Evgeny Smirnov told Mediazona. According to Smirnov, the day before the court considered a petition to extend the detention for a year of the spiritual leader of the Church of Scientology of St. Petersburg, Ivan Matsitsky, and the organization’s chief accountant, Sahib Aliyev.

The Investigative Committee has resumed the criminal case regarding the beating of Kristina Morozova, a resident of Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod region, at the local police department, the Committee Against Torture reports . in November 2017 The decision to terminate the case, which was made by Elena Lyadskaya, investigator of the Kstovo Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod Region, was cancelled.