Bastrikin requested a report on the investigation into the beating of scientist Ilya Zezin in Yekaterinburg.

      The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia will be presented with a report regarding the circumstances of the death of the scientist from the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nikita Zezin. The investigation is being conducted by the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Sverdlovsk region.

      “Social media has published a post stating that an appeal related to the investigation of the circumstances of the death of an elderly man in the Sverdlovsk region has been sent to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin. According to the applicant, the victim was brutally beaten before he passed away,” writes the channel “Investigative Committee” of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

      In this regard, the investigative authorities of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Sverdlovsk region are investigating a criminal case.

      The head of the agency instructed the head of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Sverdlovsk region, Bogdan Francishko, to present a report on the progress of the criminal case and the claims made in the publication.

      Let us remind you that State Duma Deputy Vyacheslav Wegner reported that the relatives of the scientist, the director of the agricultural research center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikita Zezin, who died of a heart attack, approached him. From them, Wegner learned that a few days before the heart attack, an unknown man publicly beat the elderly man and his deputy near the institute. After this information was made public, threats were directed at the Sverdlovsk politician himself.