The Investigative Committee opened 20 criminal cases of torture of prisoners in the Saratov prison tuberculosis hospital (OTB-1). This is stated in the response of the Deputy Prosecutor General, which was published by deputy Andrei Alshevskikh in his Telegram channel. “The reason was both video materials posted on Internet resources and materials from prosecutorial checks based on the results of consideration of appeals from convicts,” the document says.

Chechen Ombudsman Mansur Soltaev published a video with the wife of judge Saydi Yangulbaev, Zarema Musaeva, who was taken for interrogation to Chechnya. In the video, she says that there was “no violence” from the security forces.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, commenting on the visit of Chechen police to the retired judge of the Supreme Court of Chechnya, Saidi Yangulbaev, wrote : “A place awaits this family either in prison or underground.” Kadyrov noted that the judge’s family was sent a subpoena three times, and all actions of the Chechen security forces were coordinated and “carried out in accordance with the procedural legislation of the Russian Federation.” According to him, after Yangulbaev’s wife Zarema

The Krasnodar journalist of the CBS Media publication Vladislav Kramskoy told Yuga.ru and Notepad that the police beat him after he asked them to introduce himself. According to Kramsky, in the evening of January 20, when he was waiting for the bus at the stop, police officers approached him and asked for documents. Then the journalist asked them to introduce themselves, but they refused. After that, Kramskoy called the “102” number, at that time one of the security forces attacked him.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow for the second time in a row arrested Alexander Zimbovsky, who spoke out in support of protesters in Kazakhstan, for 15 days. This was reported by the Left Bloc telegram channel. According to the card on the court’s website, he was ordered to be arrested under a protocol for repeated violation of the rules of holding a rally (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

A court in Sri Lanka fined three Russian scientists Alexander Ignatenko, Nikolai Kilafyan and Artem Ryabov in the case of collecting rare insects. This was reported by TASS with reference to the vice-president of the Russian branch of the International Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, Ivan Melnikov. As writes RIA Novosti with reference to the Russian embassy in Colombo, the Russians were also sentenced to two years probation with a probationary period of five years.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow imposed 15 days of administrative arrest on Eduard Limonov’s Other Russia party activist Olga Shalina after a rally of solidarity with her arrested comrades. This is reported with reference to lawyer Ilya Utkin. According to the card on the court website, Shalina was ordered to be arrested under a protocol of disobedience to police officers (Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code).

In Buryatia, a court sentenced a resident of the village of Kurumkan, who burned a fellow villager alive, to 17 years and a month in a general regime colony. This was reported by the Republican Department of the Investigative Committee. According to the case file, in March 2021, a 38-year-old woman drank alcohol with her partner, and they went to the home of a fellow villager, who reported to the police about her partner’s illegal fishing.

The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow arrested Deputy Minister of Transport Vladimir Tokarev in a case of fraud while working for a Russian Railways contractor. This was reported by the joint press service of the city courts.

Novaya Gazeta reported that the deputy chief physician of the Surgut Clinical Trauma Hospital, Andrei Matveev, attacked their correspondents Isolde Drobina and Arden Arkman, who were filming a report on the suicides of two nurses.

A court in St. Petersburg recovered 60 thousand rubles from the Ministry of Internal Affairs due to the refusal to investigate an attack on a lesbian couple in 2014. This was reported by the LGBT initiative group representing their interests. On the night of October 20, 2014, two men at the exit from the metro attacked girls kissing on the escalator: one of them beat them with the words “fucking lesbians” and “no LGBT!”, while the second filmed it on his phone.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov commented at a briefing on yesterday's abduction of the wife of a retired Chechen judge in Nizhny Novgorod by Chechen security forces. His words are quoted by Mayak radio. “In general, a fantastic story. We prefer not to simply believe such messages without any confirmation. We live in too many false times,” said the Kremlin representative.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court reduced by four months-up to eight years of eleven months of the colony of general regime-the term of the 25-year-old son of Colonel of the National Guard Vladimir Vasiliev due to the road accident. This was announced by the correspondent of E1.ru from the court. Vasiliev was again guilty of violating the rules of the road in a drunken form, which led to two deaths (paragraph “a” of part 6 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code).

Illustration: Anya Leonova / Mediazone In September 2021, a member of the Communist Party, Artem Samsonov, won the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Primorsky Territory. A month later he was arrested-a former friend accused Samsonov of showing a phalloimitator to an 11-year-old boy. Samsonov in a pre -trial detention center for more than two months - all this time the deputy does not plead guilty, insists that he was agreed and demands to check on a lie detector.

In Podolsk, near Moscow, an Interior Ministry officer shot his police wife with a traumatic pistol. This was reported by TASS and RIA Novosti citing sources. The regional department of the Investigative Committee began an investigation. The agency does not specify the spouses’ place of work. Presumably, the man accidentally shot his wife while cleaning the pistol, the Investigative Committee notes. She was hospitalized.