Police report decrease in street crime rate in RussiaThe total number of crimes committed in public areas downed by 5.4% in Russia as of the first nine months of 2021.16:05 19.10.2021
Interior Ministry demands detention of vice-president of Russia’s SberbankThe Interior Ministry of Russia has filed a motion seeking to place vice-president of Russia's Sberbank Marina Rakova in detention until December 6 as part of a case over large-scale embezzlement.15:31 07.10.2021
Police to set reasonable term of ban to enter Russia for comic MirzalizadeThe Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow on Tuesday overturned designation of the stay in Russia of stand-up comic Idrak Mirzalizade undesirable for life and ordered the Interior Ministry to set a reasonable term of the entry ban.17:33 05.10.2021
Vice-president of Russia's Sberbank accused of embezzlement escapes from investigatorsVice-president of Russia's Sberbank Marina Rakova accused of large-scale embezzlement has absconded the investigative authorities.14:47 01.10.2021
Interior Ministry to detect abettors for illegal actions after State Duma electionsPolice will detect and arrest persons allegedly involved in instigation to take part in illegal actions in Moscow on Setember 20 and 25 after the State Duma elections.15:01 29.09.2021
Crime rate decreases in Russia in 2021 - policeThe number of crimes in total has decreased by 0.8% in Russia since the start of the year.15:47 27.09.2021
Police ruling on undesirability of stand-up comic’s stay in Russia suspendedMoscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court on Thursday suspended the Interior Ministry’s order designating the stay in Russia of stand-up comic Idrak Mirzalizade, who had been earlier placed in administrative detention for 10 days for insulting Russian people on account of ethnic descent.12:48 16.09.2021
Stay of stand-up comic guilty of xenophobic jokes declared undesirable in RussiaRussia’s Interior Ministry has designated the stay in Russia of stand-up comic Idrak Mirzalizade, who had been earlier placed in administrative detention for 10 days for insulting Russian people on account of ethnic descent, undesirable.14:33 30.08.2021
Two people became victims in scooter related collisions in Moscow in 2021– policeTwo people died in the road traffic accidents involving electric scooters in Moscow in the first seven months of 2021, the Interior Ministry’s spokesperson Irina Volk reported Tuesday.17:39 24.08.2021
Number of street crimes decreases in Russia – policeThe street crime rate decreased in Russia in the first six months of 2021.15:03 20.08.2021
Number of crimes committed by foreigners in Russia ups by 5% - police officialThe number of crimes committed by foreign nationals increased by 5% in Russia, First Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Gorovoy announced Thursday.15:44 05.08.2021
Former Kamchatka police chief arrested on suspicion of abuse of power – Interior MinisterRussia’s Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev on Tuesday reported arrest of the former head of the Interior Ministry’s Directorate for Kamchatka Region Mikhail Kiselev on abuse of office allegations.11:16 03.08.2021
Interior Ministry bans foreigners who participated in mass fights from entering RussiaThe Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has banned foreign citizens, who had been brought to administrative responsibility for participating in mass fights, from entering the territory of the Russian Federation.16:16 28.07.2021
Russian government backs People’s Front proposal to create register of homeless peopleThe Russian Ministries of Labor and of Internal Affairs are to develop criteria by which Russians will be classified as persons of no fixed abode, as well as the procedure for maintaining a register of such persons.16:25 09.07.2021
Detention centre officers ordered to report detainees’ hospitalization within 24 hoursRussia’s Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev has signed an order obliging employees of temporary detention facilities to notify relatives of first-aid dressing or hospitalization of detainees within 24 hours.16:20 06.07.2021
Number of online drug crimes up by 2.5 times – Russia’s Interior MinistryOver the past three years, the number of registered drug crimes committed with the use of modern technologies has increased by 2.5 times, Russia’s Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev has said addressing a meeting of the State Anti-Drug Committee.15:40 25.06.2021
Number of electric scooter related collisions rises in Russia - policeElectric scooter related collisions are on the increase in Russia this year.15:19 17.06.2021
Interior Ministry investigators detained in developer Khudoyan's case freed from custodyThe First Appeals Court of General Jurisdiction has overturned a lower court decision to detain deputy chief of the Interior Ministry’s Investigative Department Alexander Krakovsky and his colleagues Alexander Biryukov and Alexander Bryantsev charged with abuse of power when investigating the case of developer Albert Khudoyan.12:59 10.06.2021
List of persons subject to state protection proposed to be extended in RussiaThe Law-Making Government Commission has backed a bill extending public protection to all servicemen and employees of Russia’s Defense Ministry, Interior Ministry, Foreign Intelligence Service and National Guard.16:45 07.06.2021
Prosecutors seek 16 and 18 years behind bars for ex-policemen for planning terror attackPublic prosecutors have moved to sentence former police officers of the Krasnodar Directorate of the Interior Ministry Maxim Kotomanov and Dmitry Krasilnikov to 16 and 18 years in a maximum security penal colony charged with planning to send letters with poisonous substances to diplomatic missions.17:37 24.05.2021