The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow arrested the director of the travel agency Men Travel, Andrei Kotov, in the case of “organizing an extremist community” and participation in it (parts 1 and 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), Mediazona reports from the courtroom. Lawyer Leysan Mannapova called Kotov’s charges mutually exclusive.

The verdict to the site administrator has not yet been announced, and Hydra has already been replaced by several “successors” The Moscow Regional Court sentenced Stanislav Moiseev, the founder of the world's largest darknet drug trading platform Hydra, to life imprisonment and a fine of 4 million rubles, the prosecutor's office reports . The verdict was based on the jury's verdict.

Regions continue to increase one-time payments for concluding a contract with the Ministry of Defense, trying to attract as many contract soldiers as possible to the service. The governor of one of the regions - the Ulyanovsk region - directly admitted that this was necessary in order to make up for losses by the end of the year. On average, the country raised the payment every three days, and some regions increased it 75 times, “Important Stories” calculated.

He has already announced new arms supplies worth 650 million euros German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Kyiv today for the first time since the summer of 2022. He wants to find out from Zelensky “what he is ready for,” writes Bild, citing sources. Scholz planned this trip after Trump won the US presidential election. According to Bild, the chancellor wanted to have time to meet with the president of Ukraine before Trump’s inauguration in January.

Earlier, former coordinator of Navalny's headquarters Igor Rogov and his wife were arrested in the case of espionage in Poland The US Department of Justice has charged Russian woman Nomma Zarubina, who collaborated with the decolonial movements of the peoples of the Russian Federation abroad, with reporting false information. Lawyer Igor Slabykh writes about this with reference to the indictment.

The leak was discovered on Sunday morning on a section of the Druzhba oil pipeline in the Shamotul district (district) in western Poland, about 100 km from the border with Germany, writes the Polish publication Wiadomosci. Local residents smelled gas, and later an oil spill was discovered in the area of ​​the pipeline. The Polish operator of Druzhba, the company PERN, announced the closure of the oil pipeline on the eastern and western sides.

Russian regions continue to increase one-time payments for contracting with the Ministry of Defense in an effort to attract as many contract soldiers as possible. The governor of one of the regions, the Ulyanovsk Oblast, explicitly recognized that this was necessary to make up for the losses before the end of the year. On average, the country raised the payment every three days, and some regions increased it 75 times, by IStories’ estimate.

Opposition parties in Georgia called on residents of the country to take a vacation and join the protests, Formula TV channel reports . They also asked private companies to provide such vacations free of charge. The day before, Tbilisi residents again gathered thousands of people in the city center. The police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the protest, and fireworks were again launched towards the security forces.

What is behind Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze’s statement about the suspension of European integration and why the current protests are more serious than past ones - in the analysis of “Important Stories” What's happening in Georgia Mass protests in Georgia began after Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced the suspension of negotiations on accession to the European Union and continue for the fourth day in a row.

Previously, charges were brought against him for tax evasion and illegal possession of weapons. Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden. He stated this in an address on the White House website. The US President called his prosecution unfair and politically motivated. “An attempt was made to break Hunter, who had been sober for five and a half years, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution,” Joe Biden said.

The Presidential Administration (AP) named the target indicators for United Russia in the State Duma elections in 2026 - 55% of the votes with a turnout of 55%. Vice-governors received such introductory notes at the Senezh Management Workshop near Moscow. Kommersant and Vedomosti write about this with reference to seminar participants. Such events are held regularly, Kommersant notes.