The ex-wife of Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin filed a claim in court for the protection of honor and dignity, demanding compensation for moral damage from Alexei Navalny and employees of the Anti-Corruption Foundation because of their investigation Lopatina’s lawyer Vladislav Grib told Interfax that the ex-wife of Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia Gennady Lopatin, Olga Lopatina, filed a lawsuit to protect her honor, dignity and business reputation in connection with the publication

In Novorossiysk, a tax inspector is suspected of receiving a bribe in the amount of 1.3 million rubles during an inspection of one of the organizations operating in the field of repair and sale of computer equipment. According to investigators, an inspector, conducting an audit of the organization in August 2015, revealed a tax debt exceeding 5 million rubles.

Krasnodar resident Sergei Lipkin was found guilty by the court of committing a crime under Part 1 of Art. 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal acquisition and storage of firearms, their main parts, ammunition, explosives and explosive devices).

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a law allowing the Constitutional Court to declare unenforceable decisions of international courts and in particular the European Court of Human Rights if they contradict the Russian Constitution. The text of the law is posted on the website of the Official Internet Portal of Legal Information.

At the end of 2015, the volume of Kuban's public debt should amount to 146.7 billion rubles. In the ranking of regional debtors, the Krasnodar Territory, based on the results of 9 months of 2015, took second place with a debt of 139 billion rubles. The first line belongs to Moscow with debts of 143 billion rubles. For the capital, this is only 9.1% in the ratio of debt to income of the subject, for the Krasnodar Territory - more than 93%.

The European Court of Human Rights has registered a complaint by a pastor from Sochi, Alexey Kolyasnikov, against the decision of Russian courts that fined him for reading the Bible in a cafe. This was announced by his lawyer Alexander Popkov. Kolyasnikov filed a complaint for violation of four articles of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed the law adopted by the State Duma in early December to extend the moratorium on the funded part of Russians’ pensions for 2016. The law will come into force on January 1. The funded part of Russians' pensions has been frozen for the third year in a row.

Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Veniamin Kondratyev announced that in the first months of 2016 the Kuban football club will be financed from the funds of a new investor. “A source of funding has already been found. This is a system source. Funds for the club will begin to arrive presumably in February-March 2016,” noted the head of the region. Funding for the Krasnodar football team “Kuban” will come from extra-budgetary funds that have already been found.

Regional and municipal authorities must stop providing assistance to residents of unauthorized buildings. Kuban Veniamin Kondratyev stated this during a personal reception of citizens. A resident of the regional capital, Natalya Sukhishvili, contacted the head of the region and asked to look into the issue of connecting two multi-storey buildings on Ochakovskaya Street to the central gas supply.

An anti-terrorism commission inspected more than 4 thousand houses in Sochi. This was announced by the director of the department for interaction with law enforcement agencies and public associations of the resort administration, Vladimir Volkov, at a weekly planning meeting on December 15. According to V.

Law enforcement agencies of the Krasnodar Territory have opened a case of forgery of documents to include the ex-wife of Deputy Prosecutor General Olga Lopatina among the founders of the company "Sugar Kubani", TASS reports, citing a source in the authorities. The case was initiated under Part 3 of Article 327 of the Criminal Code (use of a knowingly forged document).

The Krasnodar branch of the Russian LGBT Network held a successful blood donation campaign. This action, which took place in December, according to activists, became the first touchstone in the planned long-term program to popularize the donor movement among the LGBT community of Krasnodar.

The Central Bank of Russia on Tuesday, December 15, set the dollar exchange rate against the Russian ruble at 70.82 rubles. This became a historical high for the American currency after the 1998 redenomination. Compared to the previous day, the dollar rose by more than 60 kopecks. The Central Bank set the euro exchange rate at 78.23 rubles. The European currency has not yet exceeded its maximum, which was recorded in December 2014 at the level of 84.58 rubles.

In Sochi, a case was initiated against the director of the construction company Tekhnostroy LLC, A. G. Korotaev, suspected of tax evasion on an especially large scale. Reported by the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Krasnodar Territory. According to the investigation, in the period from 2011 to 2013, he submitted value added tax and income tax returns to the tax authority, adding false information to them.