The investigation excluded the article on abuse of office (Article 286 of the Criminal Code) from the charge against the former head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun. TASS about this . told His lawyer Pavel Bespalov “Investigators opened a criminal case against Shestun under Part 4 of Article 159 (fraud on an especially large scale) of the Criminal Code on the same grounds as under the article on abuse of power (Article 286 of the Criminal Code).

Correctional colony No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Yaroslavl Region. Photo: Oleg Smyslov / Kommersant In the case of the torture of the prisoner Evgeny Makarov in the Yaroslavl colonies of the now five victims, new episodes have also appeared. Moreover, we are talking about torture not only in colony No. 1, but also in another institution of the region-a prison in the territory of IK-8, where Makarov was transferred at the end of 2017.

The head of the Human Rights Center of Kabardino-Balkaria, Valery Khatazhukov, said that after a clash between riot police, Kabardians and Balkars, approximately 40 people were detained over a dispute about an 18th-century battle, writes the Caucasian Knot. “Unfortunately, we do not have exact data. According to the latest data, about 40 people have been detained. Among them there are people who were injured, injured, and bruised. We cannot yet say how many victims there are.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, the Nalchik City Court sentenced two employees of the Ministry of Education and the head of the Republican Unified State Examination Center, accused of taking bribes for exam scores, according to the prosecutor’s office website.

Banker Matvey Urin, who received eight and a half years in prison in September 2015, was released from IK-3 in the Tambov region after his sentence was recalculated according to the law “a day and a half.” This was reported by RBC with reference to a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Urin’s lawyer Gennady Shilo. According to Shilo, Urin’s sentence was recalculated according to the “day and a half” law adopted by the State Duma in June 2018.

The Kirovsky District Court of Kazan, at the request of the prosecutor's office, stopped the work of the rehabilitation center for minors "Symbol of Life", whose students spoke about torture and sexual violence, lawyer Andrei Suchkov, who represents the interests of the injured party on the initiative of the human rights organization "Zone of Law", told Mediazona.

In the Orenburg region, the Investigative Committee suspected the 37-year-old deputy head of correctional colony No. 3 in Novotroitsk of exceeding official powers with the use of violence (clause “a” of part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code). This is reported on the department's website. According to investigators, from January 2015 to August 2016, the deputy chief, along with other employees, forced prisoners to cooperate with the administration to “conceal shortcomings” in the colony.

In the Syktyvkar City Court, the state prosecutor demanded that the former mayor of Syktyvkar, Roman Zenishchev, be sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security colony in addition to the previous sentence, reports . 7x7 The prosecutor also demanded that Zenishchev be fined 1.5 million rubles and confiscate property worth 13 million 757 thousand rubles received as a bribe. The former mayor is accused of taking a bribe (Part 4 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code).

In the Saratov region, the Investigative Committee brought charges against a bailiff who sold the debtor’s car, which was left in his custody, according to the department’s website. The bailiff was accused of fraud using his official position (Part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) and abuse of official powers (Part 3 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, in June 2016, the Marx city bailiff department seized the debtor’s car to pay off his debts to the bank.

In Estonia, the Harju County Court on September 10 sentenced Yevgeny Slavin to a year and eight months in prison on charges of espionage for the GRU, writes Postimees . The publication reports that the 32-year-old Estonian citizen was detained on July 1, all this time he was under arrest. According to investigators, Slavin has been in contact with GRU employees since April 2016.

Photo: Ruslan Krivobok / RIA "Novosti" In the Tosnensky City Court of the Leningrad Region, preliminary hearings were held in the case against four police officers and one local resident accused of confusing drugs. Two operatives reported that during the detention they were tortured, demanding that they give a confession, and one of them claims that the FSB officers beat him with an electric shocker for so long that the device was discharged.

The first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation, Mikhail Yemelyanov, called the police stupid who opened a case against pensioner Viktor Troshev, who had a poppy growing in his garden, the reports . Moscow agency “We need to prove intent that the pensioner grew poppies for sale - as I understand it, this was not done, but there was an accusation based on the fact that poppies were found in the garden.

The Moscow City Court liquidated the StopHam public movement at the request of the main department of the Ministry of Justice due to the lack of reports on the organization’s activities. This was reported by a correspondent for the Moscow city news agency. The Moscow City Court upheld the claim of the Ministry of Justice. Now StopHam should be excluded from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.

In Tomsk, the Investigative Committee did not initiate a criminal case regarding the torture of Left Bloc activist Maxim Shulgin, who received burns during his arrest. This was reported in the telegram channel of the human rights movement “Open Russia”. “The FSB officers acted within the law,” the investigator stated in his refusal to initiate a case.

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, policeman Anton Merlugov was suspected of threatening to plant drugs on Vetluga resident Ivan Belov, who is a victim in a beating case at the department, the Committee Against Torture reports , citing a copy of the resolution.