During an attack on a patrol in New Moscow, one National Guard officer was killed and another officer was wounded, . RIA Novosti reports, citing a source The Moscow agency, citing its source in law enforcement agencies , clarifies that a group of five to seven unknown men attacked National Guard employees in the settlement of Rogovskoye. “A group of five to seven unknown men, according to preliminary data, immigrants from the North Caucasus, attacked police officers.

The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions against the Federal Security Service and the Main Intelligence Directorate of Russia, according to the department's website. Three companies were sanctioned that, according to American intelligence services, contributed to GRU cyber operations - ANO PO KSI , LLC Special Technology Center and the TsOR security group , also known as Esage Lab .

The Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi sentenced local resident Ivan Shuvalov to three years in prison on charges of DDoS attacks on the BlogSochi website and other opposition resources in 2011-2012. At the same time, Shuvalov was released from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for the crime. this to the Caucasian Knot reported The press secretary of the court, Natalya Zubenko, . The first and only hearing in the case against Shuvalov took place on December 29.

Lutheran pastor from Kaluga Dmitry Martyshenko reported that he was beaten. Dmitry Martyshenko Martyshenko is known as a video blogger and the author of appeals to President Vladimir Putin and the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov (his video “Kaluga entrepreneurs turned to Kadyrov” received about 100 thousand views), and on his blog he also criticizes the regional governor Anatoly Artamonov.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya confirmed the verdict in the second criminal case against Ukrainian Stanislav Klykh, journalist Maria Tomak said on Facebook. Maria Tomak She noticed that the court also rejected the defense of the defense to conduct a psychiatric examination. In the second case, Klykh was sentenced to 240 hours of correctional labor for insulting the prosecutor, replacing them with a month of imprisonment.

Judge of the Perovsky District Court of Moscow Olesya Turlanova imposed a fine of 600 rubles on Dozhd TV channel correspondent Vasily Polonsky on charges of disobedience to a police officer (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent. He will appeal the decision. Most of the activists detained along with Polonsky on the night of December 29 were fined 500 rubles or 1 thousand, depending on their gender.

In Smolensk, police summoned journalist Maria Makarova, who works most of the time in Poland, to the local police station, she told Mediazona about this.

Judge Olesya Turlanova of the Perovsky Court of the Moscow District Court removed the press from the hearing to punish the journalist of the Dozhd TV channel Vasily Polonsky, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law expanding the grounds for the use of physical force and special means against prisoners, according to the portal for the publication of legal information. The State Duma adopted the draft law in the first reading back in 2015, but finally in December 2016. By the second reading, the provision that FSIN officers can use force against prisoners for violating the regime of a correctional institution was removed from the draft law.

The Petrozavodsk City Court sentenced former deputy Ivan Romanov, accused of sexual assault against minor cadets, to 20 years in a maximum security colony, reports . Petrozavodsk Speaks He was also sentenced to two years of restriction of freedom. Romanov himself said that he does not admit his guilt. According to investigators, in 2012 Romanov committed violent acts against 16- and 17-year-old cadets with the complicity of the deputy director for educational work Oleg Semenov.

The Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi began considering a criminal case against local resident Ivan Shuvalov, accused of organizing DDoS attacks during the 2011 protests. Shuvalov was charged under Part 1 of Article 273 of the Criminal Code - creation, use and distribution of malicious computer programs. Opposition activist Alexander Valov reported this to Mediazona.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree abolishing the Federal Agency for Special Construction (Spetsstroy), according to the Kremlin website. The functions and 200 employees of Spetsstroy are transferred to the Ministry of Defense, while the government is tasked with ensuring the continuity of the agency's functions. Kommersant announced plans to liquidate the agency at the end of November; it was stated that eight state unitary enterprises would be created instead of Spetsstroy.

A Sberbank branch in Rostov-on-Don was robbed by a man who threatened to blow up a diplomat, the press service of the credit institution reported to Interfax. It is alleged that a man entered the branch on Lenin Street and threatened the cashier with an explosive device in his briefcase. The bank employee pressed the panic button.

Lawyer Viktor Anufriev, representing the interests of the arrested head of the Karelian “Memorial” Yuri Dmitriev, explained the origin of the photographs, because of which he became involved in a criminal case on child pornography, reports 7x7. “I say again: we must keep in mind that he took a child who was in poor physical condition. She developed slowly. Before becoming a foster father, he took special courses and received a certificate.

The President of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers, Yuri Pilipenko, initiated disciplinary proceedings against the lawyer of the Moscow Region Bar Association, Violetta Volkova, after reports of her cooperation with law enforcement agencies. This information was confirmed to Mediazona by the FPA press service. The reason for initiating disciplinary proceedings was reports that Volkova handed over a bribe to an investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs under the control of operatives.