Kaliningrad Federal Penitentiary Service officer convicted of spying for Lithuania The Kaliningrad Regional Court yesterday found Vasily Khitryuk, a former employee of the Kaliningrad Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service, guilty of espionage and sentenced him to 7.5 years in prison in a maximum security colony. Lieutenant Colonel of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service Vasily Khitryuk was detained in October 2006 .

The mayor of Arkhangelsk was again found guilty The Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk yesterday again found the mayor of the city, Alexander Donskoy, guilty of illegal entrepreneurship and the use of a deliberately fake higher education diploma. According to the verdict, for using a false diploma, Mr. Donskoy must pay a fine of 70 thousand rubles, and for illegal business, the mayor was sentenced to one year of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of one year.

The Constitutional Court will consider the complaint of dismissed servants of Themis Members of the Constitutional Court accepted for consideration a complaint filed by former colleagues. Five citizens who previously worked in the courts of general jurisdiction of St. Petersburg, the Novosibirsk and Rostov regions and Karachay-Cherkessia, but who lost their judicial status after being accused of committing disciplinary offenses, applied to the Constitutional Court.

In the coming days, the Spanish authorities intend to extradite to Russia another person accused of murdering the governor of the Magadan region, Valentin Tsvetkov, who was shot in 2002 in Moscow . According to the Prosecutor General's Office, in December 2007, the Spanish authorities satisfied the request of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office to extradite Martin Babakekhyan, who is involved in this case.

The State Duma returns to the idea of ​​compulsory treatment for alcoholics State Duma deputies have prepared a not very pleasant surprise for their compatriots who have not really recovered from the New Year holidays. Yesterday, the new head of the parliamentary committee on health protection, Olga Borzova, who replaced Tatyana Yakovleva in this position, told reporters about the need for the speedy adoption of a law providing for the possibility of compulsory treatment of violent alcoholics .

The heads of the Ryazan forensic medical examination bureau were suspected of a selfish approach to corpses A new corruption scandal is breaking out in the Ryazan region. Last year, the prosecutor's office there opened criminal cases against a number of officials , including the mayor of Ryazan , and issued a personal warning about the inadmissibility of violating the law personally to the governor of the region, Georgy Shpak.