The Oktyabrsky District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced Vladimir Romanyuk, former deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region, to 8.5 years in prison in a bribery case. this TASS reports with reference to the press service of the Investigative Committee; the case file is on the court’s website. In addition, the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs department for the Yaroslavl district of Moscow, Sergei Glushchenko, received 7.5 years in prison.

The FSB conducted massive searches of followers of Jehovah's Witnesses in Sevastopol. report this The organization itself and “ Grati ” . According to believers, early in the morning security forces came to three houses with searches, after which two Jehovah's Witnesses were taken away for interrogation. “Grati” write that searches took place in nine places, five people were detained.

In the Zavolzhsky district of Yaroslavl, a district police officer harshly detained a 14-year-old teenager who refused to let his bicycle be checked. Video of what happened in the public “Free Yaroslavl”. The publication claims that the young man was riding a bicycle past the bushes when the security officer came out of them, which is why the teenager had to brake sharply.

The Kochenevsky District Court of the Novosibirsk Region ordered the arrest of a 33-year-old resident of the village of Chik, who killed his wife on their wedding day. This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee. The Siberian is suspected of murder (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code).

The prosecutor's office demanded that police colonel from Dagestan Magomed Khizriev be sentenced to eight years in a maximum security colony in an attempt to buy the post of head of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs. this . reports Kommersant Unemployed Luiza Merzhoeva, who was investigated as a mediator in bribery, was asked to serve 12 years in prison and a fine of 350 million rubles.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Mikhail Ptitsyn as chairman of the Moscow City Court. The document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information. Olga Egorova, who headed the Moscow City Court for 20 years, resigned on September 11. The Supreme Court criticized her for lack of qualifications as judges.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on an undesirable organization (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code) against Nizhny Novgorod businessman and Pastafarian Mikhail Iosilevich. Alexey Matasov, a lawyer from OVD-Info, told Mediazona about this. It says that Iosilevich was twice punished in 2019 under the administrative article on “undesirable organizations” (20.33 of the Administrative Code) due to cooperation with Open Russia.

Rostelecom terminated the broadcasting agreement with the Krasnoyarsk TV channel TVK unilaterally without explanation. this . reports TVK The letter about the upcoming termination of the contract was sent to the editorial office back in July, but the channel’s lawyers were unable to find out the reason for the operator’s decision, TVK says. “Rostelecom is a federal company, but it is not a major cable operator in Krasnoyarsk.

In the city of Lermontov, a traffic police inspector shot and killed a driver during his arrest. This was reported by the Stavropol department of the Investigative Committee. On the night of October 1, two police officers were patrolling the streets and noticed a VAZ-2114. According to investigators, the driver “behaved suspiciously” and did not stop at the request of the employees.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow extended until December 5 the period of detention in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center of the author of YouTube channel the UrbanTurizm Andrei Pyzh in the case of information containing state secrets. This was reported by a Moscow agency correspondent from the courtroom. Pyzh, who published videos of abandoned buildings and closed objects on YouTube, was detained in a Moscow restaurant and arrested on August 6.

The judge of court district No. 6 of Vologda dismissed the criminal case against the former administrator of the Police Ombudsman project, Igor Khudyakov, for distributing pornography. This was reported by TASS and the Moscow agency with reference to lawyer Maxim Pashkov. “During the court hearing in the Khudyakov case, I filed a motion to dismiss the case due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. The prosecutor supported him, and the court satisfied him,” Pashkov clarified.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow returned to the prosecutor's office the case of former financier of the Summa group Alexander Kabanov and top manager of Globalelectroservice Khachim Eristov about the Magomedov brothers. this . reports TASS Brothers Ziyavvudin and Magomed Magomedov, co-owners of the Summa group with assets in transport, construction and the oil and gas sector, were arrested in March 2018.

The Investigative Committee refused to initiate a criminal case against 14-year-old Krasnoyarsk schoolgirl Alena Prokudinova. This was reported by the head of the international human rights group Agora. On August 27, investigators “received a message” that a schoolgirl in August filmed videos and “made public statements calling for action to shoot people in educational institutions,” the resolution said.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, due to the growing number of people infected with coronavirus, ordered all employers to transfer at least 30% of their employees to remote work from October 5. This was reported in the mayor's blog. In addition, Sobyanin notes, all people over 65 years of age or suffering from chronic diseases should also work from home, if possible.

The leadership of the Federal Penitentiary Service at a meeting of the Security Council will request about 3 billion rubles for equipment for jamming cellular communications in order to fight telephone scammers in colonies. This was reported by the Kommersant newspaper, citing sources. “It is planned to use a set of means: in some places it is signal shielding, in others it is selective noise generators,” said an unnamed Rostec top manager.