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Two men suspected of publication of Nazi photo on Immortal Regiment site plead guilty

Two suspects in a case over publishing photos of Nazi criminals on the Immortal Regiment website acknowledged themselves in the wrong.

10:25 01.06.2021

New cases opened over publication of Nazi photo on Immortal Regiment site

Investigators opened new criminal cases against two Russian nationals and two citizens of Ukraine, who had attempted to publish photos of Nazi criminals on the Immortal Regiment website.

13:59 31.05.2021

Russia’s Investigative Committee conducts probe at WWII mass grave site in Bryansk

Officers the Russian Investigative Committee in cooperation with experts with the civil society movement engaged in search for the soldiers and civilians perished in the Great Patriotic War are working on extraction and identification of the remains of those killed at the location of the Dulag-142 concentration camp in the city of Bryansk as part of a criminal case on the genocide of the peoples of the USSR.

12:16 31.05.2021

Voronezh court fines user over publishing Hitler photo on Immortal Regiment site

The Voronezh Regional Court has imposed a fine on local resident Alexander Khoroshiltsev, who posted a photo of Adolf Hitler on the Immortal Regiment website.

14:05 27.05.2021

Terrorist recruiter gets 13 years in Russian penal colony

A court in Irkutsk has sentenced a national of Tajikistan guilty of recruiting new members to the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia to 13 years in high-security penal colony.

13:23 26.05.2021

Man accused of $150K agricultural equipment leasing fraud goes on trial

Keldimurat Dzhumashev born in the Stavropolsky Krai born in 1983 will stand trial in an 11 million-ruble ($150,000) agricultural equipment leasing fraud case.

16:27 25.05.2021

Investigation into Prime Finance bank embezzlement case completed

Investigators have completed the embezzlement probe into Prime Finance bank president Mikhail Tabunov and bank teller Maya Alekseyeva.

13:58 17.05.2021

Ex-deputy chair of government of Russia’s Mordovia arrested on corruption allegations

Law enforcement on Friday arrested former vice-governor of Russia’s Republic of Mordovia Alexey Merkushin on suspicion of giving bribes.

11:03 14.05.2021

Extradited from Spain defendant in fraud case pleads guilty

The defendant in a 7.5 million-ruble ($100,000) fraud case Russian national Alexey German, extradited to Russia from Spain, has pleaded guilty.

12:07 13.05.2021

Alleged Kazan school shooter to undergo mental examination

Ilnaz Galyaviyev, who is suspected of fatal shooting in a Kazan school building and mass murder, will undergo mental examination.

16:06 12.05.2021

Investigators launch case over fatal school shooting in Russia’s Tatarstan

Investigators launched probe into the shooting attack in a school bulding in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, on Tuesday.

12:34 11.05.2021

Investigators complete probe into Chelyabinsk Region officials accused of abuse of office

Investigation into criminal cases against Mayor of Troitsk, a town in Russia’s Chelyabinsk Region, Alexander Vinogradov and his deputy, who stand charged with abuse of office, has been completed.

14:40 28.04.2021

Moscow resident put in detention on terrorism funding allegations

A court has detained a Moscow resident charged with funding the Islamic State, the international terrorist organization banned in Russia.

12:31 28.04.2021

Ex-police officer, former attorney sentenced to jail for fraud

A court in the Moscow Region has sentenced a former drug control department chief of the Mytishchi Directorate of the Interior Ministry and a former attorney to 2.5 years in penal colony each for fraud.

10:56 28.04.2021

Defendant in 2009 crime lord murder case sentenced to 14 years behind bars

Moscow’s Savelovsky District Court on Friday sentenced Kakha Gazzayev, a defendant in the case over the killing of crime lord Vyacheslav “Yaponchik” Ivankov in July 2009, to 14 years in high-security prison.

15:33 23.04.2021

Case over $157,000 bribe launched against two Moscow investigators

The Main Investigative Department of the Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case over receipt of a bribe in the amount of 12 million rubles (about $157,000 at the current exchange rate) by the head and deputy head of the investigative department of the Interior Ministry in the Solntsevo district of Moscow.

10:51 23.04.2021

One more illegal rally participant sentenced to jail for assault on policeman

Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Thursday sentenced a participant of the illegal January 23 rally Stanislav Akhmedov to 2 years in penal colony for attack against a police officer.

12:04 22.04.2021

Russian Investigative Committee registers falsification complaints of forensic study in Cherkalin case

Russia’s Investigative Committee and Prosecutor General’s Office have registered applications concerning falsification of the examination in a case of the Federal Security Service’s (FSB) colonel Kirill Cherkalin.

18:57 21.04.2021

Investigator’s refusal to open case over nationalist Martsinkevich’s death deemed illegal

The Chelyabinsk Regional Court invalidated an investigator’s refusal to open a case over the death of the leader of the Restruct nationalist movement Maxim Martsinkevich, who was found dead in a Chelyabinsk detention center in the fall of 2020.

17:40 19.04.2021

Moscow Economic Policy Department's official charged with $65K bribery - investigators

Deputy chief of the Moscow Economic Policy Department Leonid Kostroma and two other persons stand charged with taking over 5 million rubles (over $65,000) in bribes.

17:01 16.04.2021