The director of the Institute of Reactor Materials, part of the Rosatom corporation, Alexander Dyakov, was sentenced to three years probation for selling isotopes of weapons of mass destruction, TASS reports , citing the press service of the prosecutor's office.

In Ust-Kut, two men fired randomly at cars driving along the highway, killing a man and a woman. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee for the Irkutsk Region. The incident occurred on the morning of December 4, 2015. The Ust-Kuta police department received reports that on the road from Ust-Kuta to Bratsk, unknown persons shot at cars and damaged windshields.

The European Court of Human Rights awarded 40 thousand euros in compensation to an employee of the Glasnost Defense Foundation, Roman Zakharov, who filed a complaint about total wiretapping of telephones in Russia. The corresponding decision was published on the court's website. The ECHR found that the state violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the right to respect for private and family life) in relation to the applicant.

The police recognized the military unit of the FGKU 55002 FSB as the injured party in the case of the artist Pyotr Pavlensky, accused of vandalism based on ideological hatred (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), reports Pavel Chikov.

In the State Duma, deputies of the lower house of parliament voted for the adoption in the second and third readings of the Federal Constitutional Law establishing the priority of the Constitutional Court over decisions of international bodies for the protection of human rights and freedoms, including the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the reports Moscow agency . .

In the Sverdlovsk region, the head of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the city of Zarechny was charged with falsifying evidence in a criminal case (Article 303 of the Criminal Code), TASS reports with reference to the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

In Petrozavodsk, the city court arrested journalist Vadim Shtepa for one day for demonstrating Nazi symbols, reports Stolitsa na Onego. According to the publication, Vadim Shtepa asked the court not to arrest him, but only to fine him. In the evening he was going to leave on a business trip to Berlin.

In St. Petersburg, on December 4, the city court issued a verdict in the case of high treason against Vladislav Nikolsky, an employee of the 1st Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense, Interfax reports . The criminal case was considered behind closed doors, the court found captain first rank Nikolsky guilty of high treason and espionage to the detriment of the security of Russia, as well as incitement, smuggling and abuse of office.

In the Novosibirsk region, police detained a teenager who beat his adoptive mother with a baseball bat, according to a press release from the regional investigative department. According to investigators, on the afternoon of November 28, 2015, in the Ust-Tarsky district of the Novosibirsk region, the adoptive mother scolded a 14-year-old teenager because of poor performance at school. The boy took a baseball bat and hit his mother in the head several times; the woman died from her injuries.

The owners of the Moscow club “Constructor” were forced to cancel the post-punk festival “Mother Earth” after the management of the Badaevsky plant, where the concert venue is located, received a call from the Ministry of Internal Affairs center for combating extremism. “An hour ago, representatives of the Constructor club contacted me.

Three people have died in pre-trial detention center-4 in the north-east of Moscow over the past three weeks, reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. Interfax On Wednesday, December 2, 2015, a prisoner died during hospitalization; the cause of his death has not yet been established. Also on Wednesday, November 25, a 33-year-old Muscovite, who was accused of theft, died in the intensive care unit of City Hospital No. 20.

A criminal case was opened against Dmitry Demushkin under Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting ethnic hatred), the nationalist himself told Mediazona. According to Demushkin, in Moscow on December 4, the Investigative Committee held an interrogation with the participation of FSB officers.

In the Ryazan region, the court found the leadership of the regional traffic police guilty of committing 34 crimes, reports .

In Karelia, employees of Center “E” detained Vadim Shtepa, Russian Fabula reports , citing the publicist himself. According to the publication, the Center for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Karelia on the morning of December 4 detained journalist Vadim Shtepa in order to take him to the Petrozavodsk City Court. Shtepa is accused of distributing Nazi symbols. “I was not involved in any propaganda of Nazism, the accusation is completely absurd,” Shtepa said.

In St. Petersburg, unknown persons shot at a UAZ police car, FlahNord reports , citing eyewitnesses. A police car was attacked at the intersection of Murinskaya Road and Marshak Street. As a result, the UAZ caught fire. According to Fontanka, one person died in the car, one victim was taken to the hospital, and other victims have not yet been reported. TASS, citing sources in law enforcement agencies, reports two deaths.