Journalist Ilya Shepelin has been summoned for questioning by the Investigative Committee. He suggested that this was connected with the case of the stolen painting by Vladimir artist Sergei Sotov, “A Bad Good Man.” “A certain investigator Alekseev called me, indeed, from a landline phone from the Investigative Committee. He said, we are waiting in Tekhnicheskiy Lane, on Monday morning,” Shepelin said in a conversation with Mediazona.

The verdict for Alexey and Oleg Navalny will be announced in the Zamoskvoretsky court on January 15. This was reported by a correspondent of Mediazona. The meeting will begin at 10:30 am. Previously, the state prosecutor demanded that they be sentenced to 10 and 8 years in prison, respectively, in a general regime colony. Navalny is accused of fraudulent theft of funds from the Yves Rocher Vostok company and legalization.

In the Saratov region, a defendant in the case of the murder of Pugachev resident Ruslan Marzhanov, which provoked riots in the city in 2013, was sentenced. The 17-year-old accomplice to the murder, whose name is not disclosed due to the law on personal data of minors, received a sentence of 9.5 years in prison to be served in a general regime colony, Rosbalt reports .

The state prosecutor in the case of Alexei and Oleg Navalny demanded that they be sentenced to 10 and 8 years in prison, respectively, in a general regime colony. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. The prosecutor demands that Oleg Navalny be sentenced to 6 years in prison for each article and, by partial addition of the sentences, to 8 years in prison. Alexei Navalny to 6 and 3 years on each article - and to 9 years in prison.

In the Krasnodar Territory, a criminal case has been initiated against the detective department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Kalininsky district of the Krasnodar Territory.

The Investigative Committee for the Kaliningrad Region opened a criminal case against an employee of the patrol service of the Internal Affairs Directorate. A 35-year-old police warrant officer is suspected of exceeding official powers with the use of violence (clause “a”, part 3, article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), according to the department’s website.

The trial of the case of the neo-Nazi group from BORN, which was supposed to take place on Friday in the Moscow Regional Court, was postponed, a Mediazona correspondent reports. The reason for the postponement of the hearing was the illness of one of the jurors; her blood pressure had risen sharply. The next one is scheduled for Monday, December 22nd. The BORN group began its existence in 2008, when several neo-Nazis committed the first murder motivated by ideological and national hatred.

In Crimea, two explosions were prevented in the prosecutor's office of the republic, as a result of which employees of the supervisory agency and its head Natalya Poklonskaya could have been seriously injured. Vigilantes from the People's Militia found a bag with explosives near the prosecutor's office building. The find was made on August 18, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports , citing a letter from Poklonskaya herself addressed to the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow on Friday extended until February 14 the house arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, accused of embezzling and laundering funds from the Yves Rocher Vostok company. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. The prosecutor's office insisted on the extension; Navalny himself objected: in his opinion, the verdict in the criminal case could well be rendered before January 15.

In the criminal case of the shooting at school No. 263 in the capital's Otradnoe district, a ballistic examination was not carried out. This became clear during a meeting of the Butyrsky Court, where the case of the tenth-grader shooter was submitted for consideration on the merits.