Vyacheslav Kryukov, accused in the “New Greatness” case, has stopped the hunger strike he has been on since September 11. Kryukov’s statement was published by a member of the Moscow Public Monitoring Committee, Evgeniy Enikeev. Kryukov said that in the hospital at the pre-trial detention center, where he was sent after the start of the hunger strike, he was diagnosed with many serious problems with his internal organs.

The Moscow prosecutor's office approved the indictment of six defendants in the case of crimes in the Moscow pre-trial detention center-4 "Bear", writes Interfax with reference to a message from the Prosecutor General's Office. Of the six defendants in the case, three are former employees of the detention center.

The head of the logistics department of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Saratov region and the commander of the patrol service regiment of the city police department were fired after the death of two police horses from exhaustion, according to a message on the department’s website.

The Investigative Committee for the Rostov Region opened a criminal case on the application of violence to a representative of the authorities (part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) against five people who participated in a brawl with police in Bratsk Lane, according to the SK website.

The government has tightened the rules for returning driver's licenses after suspension, making pre-payment of fines mandatory. The resolution was published on the official legal information portal. The updated version of the rules states that the traffic police must check whether the driver who came to return his license has any debts on administrative fines in the state payment information system. You can also show the inspector paper receipts for payment of fines.

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced ex-FSB employee Vyacheslav Tarasov to four and a half years in a maximum security colony in the case of attempted fraud on an especially large scale (part 3 of Article 30, part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), reports the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg. According to investigators, in March 2017, Oleg Seredin, who received the same sentence in this case, introduced Tarasov to a woman.

The Moscow District Military Court, at an off-site hearing in the Leningrad District Military Court, sentenced Uzbekistan citizen Samandar Khusinov, accused of justifying terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), to three and a half years in a maximum security colony. This was reported by the press service of the courts of St. Petersburg.

Checks in Russian colonies and pre-trial detention centers, which began after the publication of videos of torture in Yaroslavl, revealed 168 violations of the rules for the use of physical force and special means, the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service told Interfax. The department reported that a total of 2,101 inspections were carried out. Moreover, in 104 cases, video recording was not turned on during the use of physical force and special means.

Unknown people robbed the house of Alexander Rybenko, deputy of the Voronezh Regional Duma and executive director of the EkoNivaAgro agricultural enterprise, writes Bloknot-Voronezh. According to the publication, Rybenko himself, as well as his wife and son, were present during the robbery of the house. The attackers tortured the deputy with an iron and beat him with baseball bats, and then stole a large sum of money and fled.

The Investigative Committee for Vologda sent to court a criminal case against an investigator from one of the police departments, who is accused of two thefts (Part 1 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code) of money from an official safe. This is stated on the UK website. In the summer of 2018, the accused, left alone in her colleague’s office, opened the office safe and pulled out an envelope with money, recognized as evidence in one of the cases under investigation.

The representative of the prosecution in the case of extorting money from the Alushta branch of United Russia for refusing critical publications in the press asked local city council deputy Pavel Stepanchenko, editor of Tvoya Gazeta Alexey Nazimov, and cameraman Andrei Oblezov. about this on Facebook.

The Altai Regional Court canceled the decision on an inpatient psychiatric examination of a person accused of extremism (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) because of Anton Angel’s VKontakte posts, writes Open Russia human rights coordinator Alexey Pryanishnikov on his Facebook. The decision on the examination was made by the Zarinsky City Court. It was appealed by lawyer Andrei Miller, who represents Angel’s interests at the request of the human rights group Open Russia.

The Minister of Labor, Employment and Migration of the Saratov Region Natalya Sokolova was fired after making statements about living with a minimum set of products, the press service of the head of the region told Vzglyad-info. “I consider it unacceptable for the head of a regional ministry to have a dismissive attitude towards topics of vital importance to people.

Dmitry Litvin. Photo: Personal page "VKontakte" In Irkutsk, the magistrate of the site No. 8 Maxim Kuchugur begins to consider the case of insulting the feelings of believers (Article 148 of the Criminal Code), excited against the 20-year-old anarchist Dmitry Litvin. The young man is accused of posting VKontakte several anti -lrical cartoons and a photograph in which he shows the middle finger to the Orthodox temple.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court found 35-year-old former firefighter from Yekaterinburg Alexei Falkin guilty of rape and murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment, E1 reports . “In most cases, he attacked women and girls in the evening and at night in sparsely populated places,” the publication writes on its online account. “He threatened to kill me, beat me with his hands, knives and a screwdriver.