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Russian Authorities Push Forward Murder Cases and Open Transport Safety Probes

Investigators reported new charges, completed case files, fresh checks across multiple regions.

Overview

  • Remains of an eight-year-old missing since 1997 were located in Kashira, and a 64-year-old local was charged with her murder and placed in custody.
  • Investigators in Krasnoyarsk finished a probe into a February double killing in Achinsk, sent the file to prosecutors, and said the detained suspect confessed.
  • Prosecutors opened a criminal case after a PAZ bus and a truck collided in Blagoveshchensk, injuring four people including a woman and a small child, while transport prosecutorates in Leningrad region launched checks into two derailments that caused delays but no injuries.
  • A Moscow court sentenced a 51-year-old man to 17 years in a high-security colony for killing his infant grandson, with the verdict not yet final.
  • In the Moscow region, investigators opened a hooliganism case over a school knife threat and are also probing a separate buggy crash by a 13-year-old that hospitalized two women, one in serious condition.