In Naberezhnye Chelny, police found five kilograms of mephedrone, more than 40 liters of precursors, and a tiger cub from suspected drug dealers, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs website. The 32-year-old leader of the group, as well as two of his relatives, were detained. The tiger cub, about two months old, was found at home with the alleged organizer of the group.

A fire occurred in Samara correctional colony No. 5, TASS reports with reference to the city’s Unified Duty Dispatch Service. “At 21:10 local time, the EDDS received a signal about riots in IK-5 and a fire. The fire has been extinguished, there were no casualties from the fire,” the service told the agency. Then the service clarified to Interfax that firefighters were extinguishing mattresses and blankets that caught fire on the third floor of the barracks.

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg placed under house arrest the vice-rector of the St. Petersburg State Chemical and Pharmaceutical University Sergei Khozin, accused in the case of the death of a student on whom ice fell, writes Fontanka.ru. At the same time, the investigator and a representative of the prosecutor’s office asked to send Khozin to a pre-trial detention center. The vice-rector himself asked for house arrest.

19-year-old resident of the Dagestan city of Khasavyurt Abdul Magomedov, who disappeared after a search on February 4, was found in a pre-trial detention center. He confessed in the case of the creation of an illegal armed group (Part 1 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code) and the illegal trafficking of weapons committed by an organized group (Part 3 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code), the Memorial human rights center told Mediazona.

In Makhachkala, police detained a correspondent for the publication “Novoe Delo” Idris Yusupov, who was filming on his phone the arrest of parishioners of a mosque on General Omarov Street. This is reported by “New Business”. “When people left the mosque, the police walked towards them and checked their documents. When they started doing it rudely, I started filming it all on my phone.

President Vladimir Putin appointed Police Major General Oleg Ilyinykh as head of Center “E”. The corresponding decree was published on the legal information website. Previously, Ilyinykh headed the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kurgan region.

The Central District Court of Tyumen arrested blogger Artem Talovikov for 13 days, who, together with his friends, recorded a video on the roadway in support of who were arrested bloggers David Manukyan and Karina Lazaryants, about this in Moscow for 10 days. Znak.com was informed by the press service of the local police.

The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized Open Russia activist Anastasia Shevchenko, who is under house arrest on charges of carrying out the activities of an “undesirable” organization (284.1 of the Criminal Code), as a political prisoner.

Open Russia activist from Kazan Gulnaz Ravilova spoke on Facebook about the visits of employees of the Center for Combating Extremism to her parents with a demand to leave the movement and threats of criminal proceedings. According to her, on January 31, CPE officers came to Ravilova’s place of registration and met her father there. The man was informed that an administrative protocol would be drawn up against his daughter and was invited to the police department the next day.

Journalist Daria Burlakova wrote in her blog on Ekho Moskvy that she was forced to resign from her position as TASS editor after she prepared material about dysentery in Moscow kindergartens and the involvement of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin’s company in it. According to Burlakova, she began to become interested in this topic a year ago, having received dozens of requests from parents.

Judge of the Magas District Court Gamid Murzabekov rejected the lawyer’s complaint about the refusal to familiarize himself with the materials of the case about the attack on journalists and human rights activists on the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia in March 2016. Andrei Sabinin, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, told Mediazona about this.

In Yaroslavl, the Investigative Committee began a pre-investigation check after the publication of a video showing three people in uniform beating a man. Echo of Moscow in Yaroslavl about this . told Christina Guzovskaya, assistant to the head of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Yaroslavl region, “During the inspection, the presence or absence of a crime under the article “Excess of official powers” ​​will be determined.

Novaya Gazeta entered into a settlement agreement with the ex-head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin and his son Andrei regarding an article about their connections with the murder of the Moscow Interior Ministry investigator Evgenia Shishkina. The court hearing on the second material, which caused the Yakunins’ claims, was postponed to March 1, told MBH Media.

Junior sergeant of the Marine Corps contract service Ruslan Ilyasov, who killed contract sailor Almaz Abutaliev with a knife at the Russian Khmeimim military base in Syria, escaped punishment in the form of imprisonment and was sentenced to a restriction in service for a year and ten months, writes Kommersant . He will also have to pay compensation to the family of the murdered man. The military incident occurred on March 18, 2017.

The criminal case against the engineer of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute Sergei Savitsky, who stabbed a colleague in the canteen of the Antarctic Bellingshausen station, was stopped due to the reconciliation of the parties, RAPSI reports from the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg. Savitsky pleaded guilty to attempted murder of welder Oleg Beloguzov in a state of passion.