The Investigative Committee opened a case of receiving a bribe (clause “c” of part 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code) against the deputy of the Nizhny Novgorod City Duma and the head of the “Management of Municipal Cemeteries” of the city Nikolai Inglikov, according to the department’s website. According to investigators, on the afternoon of March 27, Inglikov received a bribe of 160 thousand rubles from an intermediary.

The government sent to the State Duma a negative review of the bill on the activities of private military companies (PMCs). this with reference to the conclusion of the Cabinet of Ministers, which is at the disposal of the agency. reports Interfax According to the government, the provisions of the bill defining the activities of PMCs and military security organizations contradict Part 5 of Article 13 of the Constitution, which prohibits the creation of armed formations.

The Sverdlovsk District Court of Kostroma sentenced former police major Eduard Volkov, who cut the eyebrow of Alexei Navalny’s local headquarters volunteer Alexander Zykov, to three years’ probation, the reported . “Public Verdict” telegram channel Volkov was found guilty of exceeding official powers with the use of violence (clause “a” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code). Previously, the state prosecution asked to sentence the former police officer to four years probation.

Former British intelligence officer MI6 and author of the dossier on Donald Trump, Christopher Steele, prepared a secret report for the FBI, according to which the former Minister of Press and head of the Gazprom-Media holding Mikhail Lesin was beaten to death by Russian security forces on the order of an oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin. writes BuzzFeed .

The accused of murdering three women was committed by [Roskomnadzor] in the Samara Regional Court, TASS reports with reference to the regional department of the Investigative Committee. The agency writes that a man with “signs of [Roskomnadzor]” was found on March 26 in the guard room of the court. The defendant was taken to the hospital, but doctors were unable to save him. The Investigative Committee began a pre-investigation check.

The Odintsovo City Court arrested singer Vitas (Vitaly Grachev) for seven days, who staged a shooting near his country house in Barvikha, RIA Novosti reports , citing the press secretary of the Moscow Regional Court Natalya Osipova. Vitas was found guilty of petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). On March 26, Vitas was fined 500 rubles for shooting. However, as TASS reports , the prosecutor's office overturned this decision and demanded that the punishment be toughened.

The panel of judges of the Krasnodar Regional Court rejected the complaint of Alexei Navalny, Mediazona and Znak.com to ban the FBK investigation into businessman Oleg Deripaska, Nastya Rybka and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko, lawyer of the international human rights group Agora Alexander Popkov told Mediazona. Previously, the court granted the plaintiff's request for a closed trial.

The panel of judges of the Krasnodar Regional Court closed the hearing on a private complaint for interim measures in the lawsuit of businessman Oleg Deripaska against Anastasia Vashukevich (Nastya Rybka) and Alexey Kirillov (Alex Leslie), lawyer of the international human rights group "Agora" Alexander Popkov told Mediazona. As Popkov reported, the court decided to consider the plaintiff’s request for a closed trial and granted it.

Mikhail Maksimenko. Photo: Artem Korotaev / TASS / Archive In the Moscow City Court, the process continues in the case of the former head of the own security department of the Investigative Committee Mikhail Maksimenko, who is accused of receiving a bribe for the liberation of the Law in Law Shakro Andrei Kochuykov nicknamed Italian. On March 26, the accused himself spoke in court. "Mediazona" publishes the decryption of his testimony. The meeting begins.

In Krasnoyarsk, the FSB detained nine people whom it considers members of the terrorist cell of the Krasnoyarsk Jamaat, TASS reports citing the press service of the regional FSB department. According to the intelligence service, among those detained are three alleged organizers and six members of the cell.