In Zainsk, Tatarstan, a monument to a soldier-liberator, made of fire-resistant material, burned down. This was reported by Business Online . As the Ministry of Emergency Situations told the publication, at 18:39 the department was informed of a fire on Pobeda Boulevard, where the monument is located. By 18:50 the fire covering an area of ​​6 square meters was extinguished. Business Online .

In Tatarstan, police are suspected of forcing a local resident to prepare and take drugs, and then opened criminal and administrative cases against him. This was reported by the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

During the hearing in the Southern District Military Court, Raim Aivazov, accused in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, said that during his arrest he was tortured by FSB officers. this . reports Crimean Solidarity According to Aivazov, in April 2019 he tried to cross the border to enter the territory of Ukraine. A Crimean Tatar activist was detained . After this, one of the FSB officers put Aivazov in a black car without official insignia.

Deputy Head of the Ministry of Justice Andrei Loginov explained that the bill allowing corruption in “extraordinary circumstances” was developed for civil servants who did not have time to file income declarations or documents on conflicts of interest. His words are quoted by TASS. “We are in no way hiding corrupt officials with this law. The bill does not provide any exemption from liability in the event of an actual offense,” Loginov said.

The Kola District Court of the Murmansk Region sentenced a former police officer who detained an airplane passenger and beat him in handcuffs to one year of probation. This was reported by the North-Western Department of the UK Transport. The department does not name the security officer, but, judging by the case file on the court’s website, it is Pyotr Matyagin. He was found guilty of exceeding official powers (clauses “a” and “b” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code).

Illustration: Nikita Shulaev / Mediazon The court practically does not refuse conditional release by prisoners from IK-2 in Pokrov-it was in this colony that Alexei Navalny was the other day. The Mediazona studied the decisions of Russian courts on UDU and found out that the Petushinsky District Court, where they consider petitions from this colony, rejected extremely few petitions; At the same time, less materials come here than to neighboring courts.

Moscow security forces interrogated more than 300 people in connection with the “sanitary case.” This is stated in the capital's department of the Investigative Committee about filing a petition to extend the house arrest of the accused. The Investigative Committee explains the need to extend the preventive measure by the fact that the preliminary investigation expires on March 23, and it will not be possible to complete the work during this time.

The Traktorozavodsky District Court of Chelyabinsk fined activist Oleg Shamburov 15 thousand rubles for statements about security forces in the Telegram channel of the local headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny and on YouTube. This is reported with reference to lawyer Andrei Lepekhin. Shamburov was found guilty under Article 20.3.1 of the Administrative Code (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity).

The former mayor of the city, Yevgeny Roizman, was detained at the Yekaterinburg airport, he himself told Novaya Gazeta. “I was both detained and released. <...> Protocols due to the actions on January 23 and 31,” the politician said. The protocol, the publication writes with reference to the document, was drawn up under Part 5 of the article (violation of the requirements of the state of emergency). “I don’t agree with the report, I will testify in court.

In Sochi, the Third Court of Appeal overturned the acquittal of pensioner Nikolai Mishin in the case of the murder of eight-year-old Svelana Dudina in the Kuban village of Zvezda. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. The court decided to send the case for a new trial and appoint a new jury. The prosecutor and the victims' lawyer filed four appeals against the jury verdict.

The European Court of Human Rights awarded compensation of 15 thousand euros to two residents of Mari El, Dmitry Efremov and Ansar Vagapov, who complained of being beaten by the police. This was reported by the human rights organization “Committee against Torture” with reference to the decision . 48-year-old Efremov said that on the night of January 3, 2008, he quarreled in Yoshkar-Ola with two police officers who demanded that he show his documents on the street.

withdrew a bill that proposed bringing back the killing of stray animals in shelters using “humane methods.” This was reported on the website of the lower house of parliament. The website published a letter to State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin with a request to withdraw the bill. On March 15 , it became known that United Russia had prepared amendments to the law “On the Responsible Treatment of Animals,” adopted at the end of 2018.

A Russian by the name of Esipenko was detained in Crimea, who was collecting information for the Ukrainian special services, TASS reports with reference to the FSB public relations center. According to the investigation, Esipenko photographed and filmed “the area, life support facilities and places where people were in large numbers.” The department added that an “object with external signs of a homemade explosive device” was found in the detainee’s car.

in the second reading State Duma deputies adopted amendments that will introduce penalties for disseminating false information about veterans and humiliating their dignity into the Criminal Code. This was reported by the press service of the lower chamber. Irina Yarovaya and other deputies in February proposed equating this to the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code).

The prosecutor requested 22 years in a maximum security colony for warrant officer Alexey Smirnov of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who shot and killed employee of the internal security department Maxim Veyalko at the Ryazansky Prospekt metro station. Ulyana Solopova, press secretary of the Moscow City Court, reported this to Mediazona. The state prosecution demanded that Smirnov spend 10 of his 22 years in prison, and also requested another 2 years of restriction of freedom.