A resident of the Krasnoyarsk Achinsk Alexander Butyanov, sent for forced treatment in the murder case and escaping after the sentence, was detained after seven years of the search. About this writes Radio Liberty. Elena’s sister, Sister, said that shortly before the detention, he decided to give up and came home to say goodbye to his wife and children. There he was detained by the police on the night of March 7. In the IVS of Krasnoyarsk, Butyanov announced a dry hunger strike.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has banned mass events of more than five thousand people until April 10. This was reported on the mayor's website. The mayor explained the ban by the spread of coronavirus. “Today I signed a decree banning mass events with more than 5,000 participants in Moscow,” he said. Sobyanin noted with regret that he would have to celebrate the Crimean Spring festival in honor of the anniversary of the annexation of the peninsula.

At a meeting of the 2nd Western District Military Court in the Art Podgetovka case in Moscow, the judge announced the murder of the witness of the prosecution of Dmitry Murmalev. About this "Mediazone" was told by the lawyer of one of the accused Andrei Tolkacheva Anastasia Samorukova. According to her, Murmalev was killed on January 15 "with a knife in the heart." The lawyer added that she did not know the details of the murder.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow extended the arrest to the participant of the “left resistance” Daria Polyudova in the case of separatism (part 1 of Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code) and the justification of terrorism (part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was announced from the courtroom by activist Nikolai Caucasian. The protocol on the initiation of a criminal case is at the disposal of "Mediazons".

The Kirovsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested in absentia the treasure hunter and search engine Anton Kolomitsyn in the case of the illegal receipt of information constituting a state secret (part 1 of Article 283.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Interfax with reference to the head of the human rights organization "Team 29" Ivan Pavlov. Kolomitsyn is in the Netherlands.

Russian poets demanded that the sentences of those convicted in the case of the “terrorist community “Network”” be reviewed. The list of those who signed the appeal was published by Afisha. “The word of a poet in Russia has always been highly valued, regardless of what political and social position they occupied. We hope that this word will be heard now,” the letter says.

DNA expertise confirmed that the remains found in the Ryazan forest belong to the familiar convicted person in the Penza case, Ekaterina Levchenko. This "Mediazone" was reported by her mother Tatyana Levchenko. Ekaterina Levchenko disappeared with her friend Artem Dorofeev in the spring of 2017. Dorofeev’s body was found eight months later in the forest near Ryazan, but his remains were identified only in February 2019.

A criminal case was opened against the lawyers of the ex-mayor of Vladivostok Igor Pushkarev for obstruction of justice (Part 1 of Article 294 of the Criminal Code), writes Kommersant with reference to the representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office Sergei Bochkarev.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya found guilty of attacking the Chechen police and the turnover of weapons of the eight Dagestanis, who were killed and burned. This was reported to the Mediazone by the lawyer of the international human rights group "Agora" Andrei Sabinin.

The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, demanded that the leadership of the agency’s department in the Perm region report to him about the investigation of the criminal case of beating a college student by an MVD operative. This was reported on the website of the main department of the Investigative Committee. On March 8, the publication 59.ru wrote that the adoptive mother of an 18-year-old teenager from the city of Nytva contacted Bastrykin.

editor-in-chief RT Margarita Simonyan, her husband Tigran Keosayan and their relatives received 736 million rubles into their personal bank accounts over three years under contracts with government agencies and billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. This is stated in the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, published on the website of politician Alexei Navalny.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) awarded Sergei Krivov two thousand euros in compensation to Sergei Krivov, convicted in the Bolotnaya case. The decision was published on the court's website. In addition, the activist won a thousand euros in compensation for legal expenses. As the ECHR found, the Russian authorities violated paragraph 3 of Article 5 of the European Convention (the right to personal liberty and security) in relation to the applicant.

The Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Court of the Sogdian Region of Tajikistan appointed 25 years in prison to the alleged members of the Gang GTA to Boir Gulomov and Murodzhon Karimov. This was reported on the website of the Prosecutor General of Russia. The defendants were found guilty of participating in an armed group, in murders and robberies in Russia. They left the country, but in 2014 they were detained in Tajikistan.

Elena, the wife of 25-year-old convict Amrakh Nagdiev, told the Siberia Legal organization that her husband was abused in pre-trial detention center No. 3 in the city of Mariinsk, Kemerovo region. attention to the publication . drew Taiga.info According to Elena, her husband was transferred to Mariinsk on January 18, without waiting for an appeal against the verdict. In the first letter, Nagdiev asked to send him a lawyer.

On the seventh attempt, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case regarding the beating by police of Alexei Shlyapugin, a resident of the Pervoe Maya village in the Nizhny Novgorod region, in 2017. This was reported by the Committee against Torture. Shlyapugin said that four plainclothes police officers came to his garage and started beating him, shouting “Lie down! Where are the drugs? “While they were pushing me to the ground, one of the men hit me several times in the head.