A representative of the prosecutor's office in the St. Petersburg City Court requested a life sentence for former district police officer Sergei Krokhin, accused of murdering six people, told RIA Novosti. Daria Lebedeva, head of the joint press service of the city courts, “State Prosecutor Nadezhda Mariinskaya, in the debate on February 18, asked that Nikitin be sentenced to 16 years in prison, and Krokhina be sentenced to life imprisonment,” said the agency’s interlocutor.

Left Bloc activist Pavel Yudin told Mediazona that on February 23, police broke his finger during his arrest. According to Yudin, he was detained at the Universitet metro station - there he was waiting for an acquaintance with whom he was going to go to the rally “For a Change of Government.” The police demanded to hand over the bag, which contained vests with the symbols of the Left Bloc, but the activist refused.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) awarded 9,800 euros in compensation for moral damage to photographer Alexandra Astakhova, journalist Elizaveta Fokht and Tatyana Makarova, who were detained in December 2012 near the State Duma during single pickets against the “law of scoundrels.” The ECHR ruling, provided by lawyer Nikolai Zboroshenko, is at the disposal of Mediazona.

During the debate in the Moscow Regional Court, the state prosecution requested from three years and three months to three years and ten months a colony of general regime for the eight accused in the Buntu case in the Mozhaisk educational colony. This was reported to the Mediazone lawyer Inna Herbovitskaya, who defends Mikhail Vishnyakov. The prosecutor requested such deadlines taking into account the remaining time of imprisonment in the previous cases of the defendants.

After an inspection by the prosecutor’s office, the migration department of the Department of Internal Affairs in the Moscow district of Kuntsevo fired a foreigner who had been working there illegally for more than two months, according to the department’s website.

The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg arrested operative of police department No. 4 Anatoly Diordiy and employee of the city Department of Internal Affairs Dmitry Izibaev in the case of kidnapping (part 2 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code) and preparation for receiving a particularly large bribe (Article 30, part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code), reported RIA "News" in the press service of the court.

The Kalininsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory confiscated a new apartment worth 3.2 million rubles from policeman Sergei Khrapov, since he could not explain where he got the money for it. Interfax was informed about this by the press service of the regional prosecutor's office. On appeal, the decision remained the same.

Igor Malashenko, a political strategist and one of the founders of the NTV television channel, was found dead in Spain, Kommersant and Vedomosti write, citing their sources. “According to some reports, he [Roskomnadzor] is with him,” notes Kommersant, without specifying the source of the information. Vedomosti's interlocutors confirmed the information about Malashenko's death. According to them, 64-year-old Malashenko committed [Roskomnadzor].

Activist Vladimir Ivanyutenko, against whom a case was filed for transferring components of an explosive device to a participant in an operational experiment (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code), went on a hunger strike in pre-trial detention center No. 6 of the Leningrad Region, Dinar Idrisov, coordinator of the St. Petersburg branch of Sitting Russia, told OVD-Info.

In South Butovo, police detained the brother of a preschool teacher for an attack with a tire iron on the headmistress of school No. 2109, Lyubov Egorova, who wanted to fire his sister because of complaints from the students’ parents, the Moscow agency was told in the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow and the city department of education and science. .

President Vladimir Putin said at a closed meeting last week that he had not given prior consent to the arrest of Baring Vostok investment fund founder Michael Calvey, told Bloomberg three sources familiar with the meeting . At the same time, the president, as the agency adds, called the arrest in some economic cases justified.

33-year-old Tajik opposition activist Sharofiddin Gadoev was detained in Moscow on February 14 and forcibly returned to Tajikistan, according website to the Human Rights Watch . Four human rights organizations, including the Central Asian Migrants Association, the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia, Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, demanded the immediate release of Gadoev and allow him to travel to the Netherlands, where he legally lived.

The St. Petersburg City Court changed the verdict of the court of first instance against far-right activist Vyacheslav Datsik and ordered his immediate release, reports on its Telegram channel.

In Ufa, near a 12-story building on Komarova Street, an employee of police department No. 8 was found dead, who, according to preliminary data, committed [Roskomnadzor], Ufa1.ru , ProUfu.ru and Bashinform report , citing their own sources. The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Bashkiria told publications that they were conducting an internal investigation due to the incident. “Presumably, the incident happened on family grounds.

The Shcherbinovsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory canceled the decision of the magistrate on the application of medical measures to the local activist Maxim Sokolov, against whom a criminal case was opened due to complaints about the security forces, the lawyer of the international human rights group of Agora Vitaly Zubenko told Mediazone.