The Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi, represented by Judge Nikolai Trukhanov, found BlogSochi editor-in-chief Alexander Valov guilty of extortion from LDPR State Duma deputy Yuri Napso and sentenced the journalist to 6 years in a general regime colony and a fine of 700 thousand rubles under the article on extortion (Article 163, Part 2, Clause G of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Journalist Sofya Rusova told the Voice of Kuban about this.

As part of the execution of the decree of the President of Russia, employees of the veterinary supervision of the Pavlovsk interdistrict department of the Office of Rosselkhoznadzor for the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygea searched for imported products on the Kuban shelves. While monitoring Kuban counters for the sale of imported products, department employees discovered prohibited products in the Krylovsky district, namely just over 2.6 kg of Dorblu cheese from Germany.

The investigation of criminal cases against the former deputy head of the Main Construction Directorate of the Krasnodar Territory and the chief specialist of this department, accused of abuse of official powers, has been certified. In addition, the former chief specialist was charged with negligence causing particularly large damage. The investigation was conducted by the second department for investigating particularly important cases of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

Japan withdraws from the International Whale Commission (IWC) in 2019 to resume commercial whaling. This was announced by the Secretary General of the Japanese Cabinet of Ministers Yoshihide Suga, the Russian BBC Service reports . According to him, some countries included in the commission ignore scientific data indicating a sufficient number of whales and do not demonstrate a readiness to converge positions. In this regard, Japan is forced to leave the organization.

12/26/2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on increasing the minimum wage (minimum wage) by 117 rubles. According to the document published on the official Internet portal of legal information, the minimum wage will be increased to 11,280 rubles. per month. Thus, the minimum wage is increased by 117 rubles. The law comes into force on January 1, 2019 The last increase in the minimum wage happened in May.

The coordinator of the Krasnodar regional branch of Open Russia, Yana Antonova, received a summons to the Krasnodar prosecutor's office. Antonova believes that they once again want to bring her to administrative responsibility for “carrying out the activities of a foreign organization.” The document states that an administrative case has been initiated against the coordinator and that it is necessary to appear to draw up a protocol.