Two men charged with police investigator murder go on trialTwo defendants in a case over the murder of the Interior Ministry Transport Department’s major case investigator, police lieutenant colonel Yevgeniya Shishkina, will stand trial.11:25 22.01.2020
Regional top police officer suspected of bribetakingA head of the Interior Ministry’s Komi Republic Directorate has been arrested on suspicion of receiving a bribe on a major scale, according to the Investigative Committee’s press service.10:25 17.01.2020
Journalist Golunov recognized as victim in police abuse of power caseJournalist Ivan Golunov has been recognized as a victim in a case over abuse of power against him by police officers.16:16 14.01.2020
Three former Russian policemen sentenced to jail in rape trialThree former police officers from Ufa, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Bashkiria, have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 6 to 7 years for raping their colleague.14:47 26.12.2019
Ex-police officer accused of hooliganism for beating 81-year old manA former road police officer, who had beaten an 81-year old man, was charged with hooliganism.18:08 12.12.2019
Ex-defendant in Moscow summer riots case arrested againPolice arrested a former defendant in a Moscow summer riots case Sergey Abanichev in the Tverskoy District Court’s building on Thursday.15:10 05.12.2019
Third ex-policeman fired over journalist Golunov case denied reinstationEx-police officer Maxim Umetbayev, who had been dismissed following illegal prosecution of journalist Ivan Golunov, on Thursday was denied reinstation.11:52 05.12.2019
Case of alleged murderer of Moscow police officer to be heard by juryJurors will consider a case against Nurlan Muratov, who stands charged with killing a police officer at a Moscow metro station.14:29 29.11.2019
Case over police torture of 9 years ago opened in Russia’s Nizhny NovgorodA criminal case has been opened in Nizhny Novgorod over alleged putting a man to tortures in the regional anti-extremism police office in 2010, Igor Kalyapin, a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights and chair of the Committee Against Torture NGO, has told RAPSI.16:40 27.11.2019
Alleged murderer of Moscow police officer goes on trialNurlan Muratov, who is charged with killing a police officer at a Moscow metro station, faces trial.14:13 21.11.2019
Moscow court refuses to reinstate ex-policeman fired over journalist Golunov caseThe Moscow City Court dismissed a lawsuit to reinstate ex-police officer Andrey Shchirov, who had been dismissed following illegal prosecution of journalist Ivan Golunov.12:53 20.11.2019
Five Russian policemen sentenced for teen’s death during questioningThe Supreme Court of Russia’s Republic of Buryatia ordered five police officers for terms ranging from 3 to 8 years as part of a case over tortures and death of a 17-year-old teenager.17:18 14.11.2019
Moscow Region schoolboy fined for false terrorism reportsMoscow’s Perovsky District Court has fined a schoolboy from Mytishchi, a town in the Moscow Region, 15,000 rubles (over $230) for three false telephone reports of terrorism to police.12:55 14.11.2019
Russian Interior Ministry ordered to pay $23.5k to mother of police torture victimA court in Russia’s Republic of Ingushetia collected 1.5 million rubles ($23,500) from the Interior Ministry in favor of Lemka Doliyeva, whose son had died after being beaten by police officers.18:00 21.10.2019
Defendant in $1.6 mln extortion case to remain in detention until late JanuaryMoscow’s Basmanny District court on Monday extended detention of Andrey Frolov, a defendant in a 100-million-ruble ($1.6 million) extortion case involving the Interior Ministry’s Major General Alexander Melnikov, for 3 months.14:45 21.10.2019
Russian police authorized to hand down cautionsA bill authorizing police to give citizens official warnings has become law.16:09 16.10.2019
Ex-police officer sentenced to 7.5 years for bribery in MoscowMoscow’s Izmailovsky District Court has sentenced a former deputy chief of a police office Murat Shtymov to 7.5 years behind bars for bribery.18:08 08.10.2019
State Duma MPs pass bill authorizing police to hand down cautionsThe lower house of Russian parliament, the State Duma, adopted a bill authorizing police to give citizens official warnings in a final third reading on Tuesday.13:30 24.09.2019
Three ex-police officers get prison terms for torturesA court in Russia’s city of Nizhny Tagil has sentenced three former police officers to prison terms ranging from 4.5 to 5 years in prison for abuse of power with the use of violence.15:18 18.09.2019
Russia’s lower house of parliament adopts bill on drone use in first readingThe State Duma passed a bill regulating the law enforcement bodies’ power to repress the use of air drones by citizens for unlawful purposes in the first reading on Wednesday.16:11 11.09.2019