Overview
- A Murmansk court sentenced an 80-year-old Arkhangelsk region resident to nine years and six months in a general-regime colony for the 1969 rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl.
- Investigators reported the defendant confessed; the girl disappeared on February 16, 1969 and her body was found on June 21 near Semyonovskoe Lake, with the suspect later linked after renewed scrutiny of his past offenses.
- A Moscow court gave four men prison terms ranging from seven to nine years in strict-regime colonies for kidnapping a man and attempting to extort money.
- Prosecutors said the group seized the victim near his home on Angarskaya Street on July 29, 2024, demanded 300,000 rubles, and the victim was freed when traffic police intervened after the rented car was blocked.
- The Moscow case rested on CCTV footage, witness and victim testimony, and operational-search findings that reconstructed the suspects’ movements and preparation.