Overview

• Police in the Moscow region identified the man seen on video punching a woman in a Podolsk shop and opened a hooliganism case, according to the Interior Ministry.
• The Podolsk assault occurred in front of the victim’s small child and was captured on widely circulated footage that prompted a rapid search for the suspect.
• Investigators in Novosibirsk completed their probe and sent an indictment to court against two Sverdlovsk residents accused of abducting a six-year-old boy in February.
• The Novosibirsk case stems from a custody dispute in which the child’s 40-year-old father allegedly hired accomplices; he was arrested in absentia and other suspects remain internationally wanted.
• In Primorye, a Nakhodka resident was remanded in custody after allegedly stealing a car with an eight-year-old inside and crashing it, with prosecutors charging unlawful deprivation of a minor’s liberty and police reporting a preliminary concussion for the child.