In the Tula region, police began an investigation after several killed puppies were found in the city of Aleksin, reports , citing the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Interfax “The corpses of animals were found near garbage containers. The Aleksinsky intermunicipal department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is currently conducting an investigation into this incident, establishing the circumstances and causes of the death of the animals,” the department said.

Euromaidan supporter Vladimir Balukh was detained in Crimea; during a search of his home, cartridges were found, the Crimean Human Rights Group reports on Facebook, citing his wife. Balukh lives in the village of Serebryanka, Razdolnensky district of Crimea. According to his wife, the search lasted four hours; FSB officers said they found 90 rounds of ammunition and several TNT bombs in the attic. “Today there was supposed to be a trial to select a preventive measure against the activist.

The Deputy Head of the Department of Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Romeko-Gurko was removed from his post, RIA Novosti reports the representative of the department of Irina Volk. It is also reported that the Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev will petition for the dismissal of Romeko-Gurko in connection with the detention of his subordinate. Romeko-Gurko lasted for less than a year.

Law enforcement officials in Belarus detained another journalist from the Russian news agency Regnum, Sergei Shiptenko, the agency's executive director Evgeny Moskvichev told Mediazona. “He was on the phone with us, they broke down his door, the lights were turned off. Accordingly, since he can no longer contact us and does not answer, there are few options here. Since they broke his door, I think all his means of communication were taken away,” Moskvichev said.

Tula investigators are looking into the circumstances of the death of a three-month-old boy who was found on December 8 inside a car where his 35-year-old mother and her 42-year-old acquaintance were sleeping. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee for the Tula Region. According to the Investigative Committee, on the evening of December 7, a woman with her infant son, an acquaintance and a 29-year-old partner were driving around the city in a car.

In the Tikhvin Medical College in the Leningrad Region, exercises were held that simulate hostages with terrorists. Attention to the incident was attracted by the entry in the Tikhvinsky Soroka community on VKontakte. The author Elena Avericheva specified that this happened on December 3. “The students were gathered in the assembly hall, after which people in masks and weapons burst there. Among them was a woman dressed by a “moss” and wrapped in explosives.

Lawyers for Evgeniy Panov and Andrei Zakhtey, accused of preparing sabotage in Crimea, appealed the extension of arrest. Press secretary of the Lefortovo Court in Moscow, Ekaterina Krasnova, told RIA Novosti that Zakhtey’s lawyers appealed the extension of the preventive measure. Dmitry Dinze, representing Panov’s interests, told Mediazona that the extension of the preventive measure against his client was appealed on December 8.

The Chita Garrison Military Court sentenced the head of the medical service of military unit No. 55345, Igor Pavlov, in the case of the death of 20-year-old conscript soldier Pavel Besprozvannykh. The court banned Pavlov from holding leadership positions in the army for four years, the victim’s representative, lawyer Roman Sukachev, who collaborates with the Trans-Baikal Human Rights Center and the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” told Mediazona.

A 34-year-old resident of Sovetsk received two years in a general regime colony for causing grievous bodily harm to his wife’s former classmate (clause “h” of Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the prosecutor's office of the Kaliningrad region. The incident occurred in February 2016. At a school reunion in the village of Ulyanovo, the victim quarreled with a former classmate.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has found evidence of doping by thousands of Russian athletes, the agency said in a report . “More than a thousand Russian athletes participating in summer, winter and Paralympic sports can be identified as having engaged in or benefited from manipulation to conceal positive doping tests,” the report said.

Rosobrnadzor suspended the license of the European University in St. Petersburg by order No. 3502 of December 7, 2016, as indicated in the register of licenses on the Rosobrnadzor website. On what basis this decision was made is not specified. The European University in St. Petersburg was founded in 1994 with the support of the mayor of the city, Anatoly Sobchak.

Illustration: Anya Leonova / Mediazone Slander is the only article by the Russian Criminal Code, according to which acquittal sentences are several times more than accusations. Most often, officials dissatisfied with the statements of critics, but even cases against opposition activists are usually collapsed in court, are recalled about criminal liability for slander. Article 128.1 - slander - was introduced into the Criminal Code at the end of July 2012.

A native of the village of Kenkhi, Ramazan Dzhalaldinov, said that the Chechen authorities offered him 1 million rubles as compensation for his burned house, RBC reports . As specified, Dzhalaldinov, who became famous for his appeal to the country's authorities about corruption in Chechnya, spoke at a press conference in Moscow. In May, after a complaint, the house where he lived burned down. The head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, claimed that Dzhalaldinov himself burned the house.

The head of the 17th RUSB department of the Main Directorate of the Main Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the North-Western Federal District, Yuri Timchenko, was detained while trying to receive a bribe for terminating the criminal case of tax evasion, the Investigative Committee reports .

FSB officers are seizing documents related to the bonus of Russian Post CEO Dmitry Strashnov in the amount of 95 million rubles from the main office of Russian Post in Moscow. this with reference to an informed source. reports Interfax The agency emphasizes that it does not have official confirmation of this information, but writes RIA Novosti also about the seizure. At the same time, Russian Post, according to Interfax, is assisting the FSB.