David Khakim, a member of the Krasnodar branch of the unregistered Progress Party, has received political asylum in Spain, Vedomosti reports , citing lawyer Alexander Popkov. Hakim first went to Holland, where he also requested political asylum, but he was extradited to Spain because the activist had a Spanish visa.

In Simferopol, a criminal case was opened against the priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate, Father Sergius, for participation in an extremist organization, the Crimean Human Rights Group reports . According to human rights activists, yesterday at 21:30 the house of the priest’s parents was searched. The search warrant, dated December 22, was signed by Crimean prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya.

The Zyuzinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the founder of the Ataka movement, Vladimir Kudryashov, to one year in prison in a general regime colony, finding him guilty of creating and leading an extremist community (Part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office.

A prisoner died in maximum security correctional colony No. 2 in Chelyabinsk. A pre-investigation check is being carried out into the fact of his death, according to the website of the regional Investigative Committee. The body of a 39-year-old prisoner was discovered on the morning of December 22. The man was found hanged in a punishment cell.

The Aktanysh District Court ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to pay 15 thousand rubles to a 24-year-old man who was beaten by three police officers, trying to force him to confess to beating his friend. The victim’s lawyer, Pavel Terentyev, who collaborates with the human rights organization “Zone of Law” and the “Kazan Human Rights Center,” told Mediazona about this. The incident occurred in September 2014.

An employee of a rehabilitation center for drug addicts in the Kormilovsky district of the Omsk region was detained on suspicion of murdering a patient. this with reference to the regional department of the Investigative Committee. reports Interfax On Monday, December 21, the body of a 43-year-old man was discovered, whom relatives placed for treatment at a drug rehabilitation center. The man died from multiple fractures and ruptures of internal organs.

The judge of the magistrate court district No. 199 of St. Petersburg postponed the hearing in the case of the artist Pyotr Pavlensky, accused of vandalism on the Small Konyushenny Bridge, to January 14. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. Pavlensky was not brought from Moscow to St. Petersburg, since on Thursday, December 24, the Tagansky District Court of the capital will decide on extending his arrest in another case. The meeting on January 14 in St.

In Maykop, a criminal case for aiding extremism (Part 5 of Article 33, Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code), initiated against the 51-year-old director of the Institute of Regional Biological Research Valery Brinnich, was brought to court. His lawyer Alexander Popkov told Mediazona about this.

The Leninsky District Court of Orenburg sentenced two former detectives of the operational investigative unit of the criminal investigation department at the city police department, Kirill Sorokin and Alexey Pustovidov, to four and a half years in prison in a general regime colony each for torturing detainee Alexander Zhdan.

The Moscow District Military Court commuted the sentence of former Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces Vladimir Chirkin, who was sentenced to five years in a maximum security colony in the case of taking a bribe. His sentence was replaced with a fine of 90 thousand rubles, reports . Interfax The court decided to release Chirkin from custody. According to TASS, the charge against him was reclassified from an article of bribery to an article of fraud.

In the Krasnodar region, 17 employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service were fired after the death of a 16-year-old teenager in the Belorechensk correctional colony, who was beaten to death by its employees. The human rights organization “Zone of Law” reported this to Mediazona. According to First Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Anatoly Rudov, the department’s psychological service is now conducting a full inspection of all educational colonies.

The Chelyabinsk prosecutor's office opened an administrative case against a collection agency, whose employee paralyzed the work of the regional clinical hospital No. 3 with constant calls. this TASS reports with reference to the press service of the prosecutor's office. The prosecutor's office reported that the debt collector constantly called the work phones of all departments of the hospital and rudely demanded to repay the debt of one of its employees.

A 30-year-old administratively arrested man died in a special detention center in Yoshkar-Ola. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Mari El. The death of an arrested resident of Yoshkar-Ola was reported to the duty station of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Tuesday, December 22. The day before, he was placed in a special detention center by decision of the magistrate for committing an administrative offense (which one was not specified).

The State Duma adopted in the second and third (final) readings a law obliging the media to report to Roskomnadzor about foreign funding and establishing fines for concealing it. this . reports Interfax The amount of the fine for violating this law for the media will be equal to the amount of funds received from abroad, and officials (managers or publishers) will be fined from 30 to 50 thousand rubles. Not only editorial offices, but also broadcasters will be subject to the law.

A court in Russia arrested in absentia the former head of Yukos Oil Company Mikhail Khodorkovsky, accused of organizing the murder of the mayor of Nefteyugansk Vladimir Petukhov in 1998 and of organizing the attempted murder of businessman Yevgeny Rybin. Khodorkovsky has been put on the international wanted list. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee.