In the center of Moscow on Manezhnaya Square, activist Mark Galperin was detained and is under investigation in a criminal case for repeated violations of the procedure for holding public rallies, OVD-Info reports . Halperin stood in a single picket at the monument to Zhukov. According to OVD-Info, two unknown men with placards approached the activist and stood next to him, after which all three were detained. The activist was taken to the Kitay-Gorod police station.

In Zhigulevsk, Samara Region, 18-year-old Vlad Kolesnikov, who publicly supported Ukraine and criticized the annexation of Crimea to Russia, committed suicide, for which he was persecuted by relatives and friends, reports . Radio Liberty The day before, December 25, he took a lethal dose of medication. The police told Radio Liberty that Kolesnikov could not be saved.

The head of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Omsk region, Yuri Tomchak, fired the deputy head of the local police, Rinat Nurgaliev, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that Nurgaliev was fired, refraining from further comments.

In the Oryol district of the Kirov region, a police officer, while intoxicated, caused an accident. As a result, one person died and five more were injured, according to the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The accident occurred on the night of December 26 at the 368th kilometer of the Vyatka federal road. The policeman, driving a personal Mercedes car, was driving towards Kirov.

In Moscow, a suspected drug dealer opened fire on a police officer in response to a demand for documents. this with reference to the press service of the capital's Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. reports Interfax The incident occurred on December 25 around 21:00 in a shopping center on Dmitry Donskoy Boulevard. There, police detained a drug trafficking suspect and noticed a second suspect nearby.

A criminal case has been opened against an employee of the Rusalians company who fed an explosive package to a polar bear on Wrangel Island. This was reported by the FlashNord agency, citing a source in the administration of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. “A criminal case has been opened,” the agency’s interlocutor said. He did not specify under what article the case was initiated. There is no official confirmation of this information yet.

Prisoners went on a mass hunger strike in Chelyabinsk maximum security colony No. 2, where a convict was found dead on December 22. This was reported on Friday, December 25, by the website of the community of human rights activists and relatives of prisoners Gulagu.net, citing an informed source. The website published a statement from project coordinator Alexey Pavlyuchenkov addressed to the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Gennady Kornienko.

The European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaint of Leonid Nikolaev, a member of the Voina art group, who died in September 2015. This was reported by the Vedomosti newspaper with reference to Damir Gainutdinov, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, who represents Nikolaev’s interests in Strasbourg.