A criminal case was opened against the deputy of the legislative assembly of the Penza region, Vladimir Vdonin, for showing traffic police officers a fake prosecutor’s ID. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. As the investigation established, on November 30, a drunk deputy was driving his Land Rover. He was stopped by traffic police inspectors. The man showed them a fake ID of an employee of the Prosecutor General's Office.

The Council of the HSE Student Initiatives Support Fund has stripped DOXA magazine of its status as a student organization. about this with reference to the head of the fund and adviser to the rector Oleg Solodukhin. writes MBKh Media Solodukhin is sure that the magazine caused reputational damage to the university. “What right did the HSE student organization have to write something about other universities? This is simply unacceptable, a violation of any rules of decency,” he said.

Russian Oleg Nikitin was arrested in the United States for trying to circumvent sanctions, the American Department of Justice reports . Nikitin is charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering and faces up to 20 years in prison. As stated in the release, Nikitin owns the company KS Engineering . He was allegedly contacted by an unnamed Russian state-owned company, who asked to buy a Vectra 40G gas turbine in the United States for $17.3 million.

The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow extended until February 7, 2020 the arrest of anarchist Azat Miftakhov, accused in the case of a broken window in the United Russia office in the Moscow district of Khovrino. this reports DOXA . At the court hearing, lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina asked to transfer him to house arrest. MSU graduate student Azat Miftakhov was detained in early February due to explosives discovered in Balashikha.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Lipetsk Region opened a criminal case of murder against a local resident who, in an attempt to defend herself, stabbed her man with a knife. This is reported on the department's website. According to investigators, there was a conflict between a 21-year-old girl and her partner. The man hit her on the head, after which she took a knife and stabbed him in the chest. The girl immediately called an ambulance, but her partner died in hospital.

The European Court of Human Rights awarded 25 thousand euros in moral compensation to Yoshkar-Ola resident Alexey Konakov, who was tortured in the building. about this writes The Committee Against Torture ; the decision was published on the court’s website. In May 2006, Konakov was detained by police officers from the drug control department and taken to the FSKN department in Mari El. As the man said, he was tortured there for three hours, they put a gas mask on his head and cut off the air.

The prosecutor's office has asked for up to nine years in prison for a former policeman from Bashkiria accused of raping a colleague. this .

The Office of the Investigative Committee on Karelia canceled the refusal to institute criminal proceedings against the journalist of the Mediazona Alla Konstantinova because of an article on torture in the Petrozavodskaya IK-9, whose head considered the material slander. About this Mediazone was told by lawyer Roman Masalev, who represents the interests of Konstantinova.

A resident of the Krasnodar Territory was arrested on charges of murdering his ex-wife in the village of Yam near Moscow, the regional department of the Investigative Committee reports . According to investigators, on November 24, the man arrived in the Moscow region to meet with his ex-wife. During a conversation on the banks of the Pakhra River, they quarreled. The man hit his ex-wife on the head with a log, she died on the spot. After that he flew back.

The Belgorod Regional Court canceled the termination of administrative cases against two activists for a picket in support of independent candidates for Moscow City Duma deputies. this . reports “7×7” On August 17, Yuri Polyakov and Andrei Ruban took turns at the picket with a banner with the inscription “There is real hell in Moscow!! People are being beaten with batons! Dragged into paddy wagons! People chant: We are for love! Allow it!

Russian Vadim Sokolov (real name Vadim Krasikov), arrested in Berlin for the murder of Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, was wanted for the murder of a businessman in Moscow, but then disappeared from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Interpol database, reports The Insider . In Moscow, on the night of January 19, 2013, businessman Albert Nazarov was killed - the killer rode up to him on a bicycle and shot six times.

In the Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow, where the hearing in the New Greatness case is taking place, the broadcast equipment has broken down. Journalists who were not allowed into the main hall cannot follow the meeting, reports a Mediazona correspondent. Interrogations of two witnesses and one of the defendants are scheduled for December 3. At the last meeting, the interrogation of the accused Vyacheslav Kryukov took place; Mediazona conducted an online broadcast.

In Mytishchi, a man hit a traffic police officer for remarking about jaywalking. This was reported by TASS with reference to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Moscow Region. “The citizen was crossing the road in the wrong place. A traffic police officer reprimanded him, after which the man attacked the policeman and hit him,” the press service said. The department clarified that the attacker was detained, and the policeman was provided with medical assistance.

In Ufa, a police operative was found with one gram of hashish after he and several other people “tried to hide” from security forces from the drug control department. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the department, police officers detained several people when they took drugs from the stash. The men tried to leave by car, but were detained. Znak.com clarifies that an operative was driving the car.

The head of Otkritie Bank, Mikhail Zadornov, wrote a letter to the Chairman of the Supreme Court, Vyacheslav Lebedev, in which he demanded to “instruct” the court to take his side in the claim for 150 billion rubles. about this writes The Bell with reference to a copy of the letter . Otkritie is trying to sue the insurance company Capital Life for this amount for using the trademark. In 2017, businessman Danil Khachaturov exchanged Rosgosstrakh for a stake in Otkritie Bank.