The head of the Ministry of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva signed an order refusing to deprive the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky of the academic degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences, according to the website of the Ministry of Education and Science.

Investigators do not connect the delay of the ambulance to the dying patient and the protest rally of Alexei Navalny’s supporters in the center of St. Petersburg, writes with reference to local ombudsman Alexander Shishlov. Fontanka At a hearing on the law on the rally in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Shishlov said that during the investigation, the version about the ambulance being late to patients because of the protesters was not confirmed.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow fined three volunteers from Alexei Navalny’s headquarters who hung a banner “Putin, you will be responsible for Nord-Ost” near the White House, reports OVD-Info. As lawyer Dmitry Volov said, at the Presnensky police station, protocols were drawn up against the activists under Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (violation of the procedure for holding public events). The court imposed a fine of 10 thousand rubles on each person.

The host of the program “News of the Week” on the TV channel “Russia-1” and the general director of MIA “Russia Today” Dmitry Kiselev advised the editor-in-chief of the radio station “Echo of Moscow” Alexey Venediktov to consult a psychiatrist, reports RIA Novosti . This is how Kiselyov responded to Venediktov’s statement about plans to contact the Investigative Committee with a request to interrogate VGTRK employees because of the attack on journalist Tatyana Felgenhauer.

Russian intelligence services and enterprises of the military-industrial complex were included in the new US sanctions list published by the State Department. There are 33 enterprises and six organizations on the list. These include Rostec, Kalashnikov, Uralvagonzavod, Izhmash, Tupolev, as well as the FSB, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and the Foreign Intelligence Service.

In Moscow, co-owner of the Luxor cinema chain Evgeny Lensky was detained, suspected of evading taxes on salaries of company employees (part 2 of Article 199.1 of the Criminal Code), a source in law enforcement agencies told the Moscow agency. Lensky holds the position of General Director of Cinemamanagement, the founder of the Luxor cinema chain. According to the investigation, the businessman did not pay personal income tax. “In the period from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2015, E.

The investigation suspects the former deputy head of the anti-corruption department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Dmitry Zakharchenko, accused of abuse of power and bribery, of receiving another bribe from businessman Avsholum Yunaev, a source familiar with the situation told Interfax. According to the agency’s interlocutor, Zakharchenko received about 800 thousand rubles from the entrepreneur.

In Crimea, the relatives of Lemar Alyadinov, who disappeared in August 2014, were notified that the man’s body was found buried that same year, reported “Crimea. Realities" representative of the public project "Crimea SOS " Evgenia Andreyuk. “The kidnapped Lemar Alyadinov, who disappeared and nothing was known about him since August 2014, this month (October - MZ) the family received a notification that his body was found back in 2014. The body was allegedly buried,” Andreyuk said .

The editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow, Alexey Venediktov, will send journalist Ksenia Larina abroad for six months after Vladimir Solovyov’s broadcast on the Vesti FM radio station , the editor-in-chief said on the Dozhd TV channel.

In Voronezh, the Levoberezhny District Court fined a 17-year-old local resident 30 thousand rubles for trying to hack the website of the Kursk region administration, according to the website of the regional prosecutor's office. The teenager was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 273 of the Criminal Code (creation, use and distribution of malicious computer programs).

The Central District Court of Sochi overturned the conviction against local resident Viktor Nochevnov, who was fined 50 thousand rubles under Article 148 of the Criminal Code (insulting the feelings of believers) for reposting pictures of Jesus. Alexander Popkov, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, told Mediazona about this.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow granted the investigation's request to extend the house arrest of mathematics teacher Dmitry Bogatov until January 31 next year in the case of calls for terrorism, TASS reports . At the same time, the court granted Bogatov’s request to visit doctors.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow until December 23 arrested activists of the Artpodgotovka movement, banned in Russia, Yuri Korny and Andrei Keptya, who were detained on Manezhnaya Square on October 12, court spokeswoman Yulia Bocharova told Mediazona. The activists are suspected under paragraph “a” of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code (a terrorist act committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy or by an organized group).

In Moscow, three volunteers from the headquarters of opposition politician Alexei Navalny were detained for hanging a banner on the gates of the White House “Putin, you will answer for Nord-Ost, reported ” Navalny LIVE on Twitter . OVD-Info published a photo of the banner on its Twitter. According to the project, the detainees are now being taken to the Presnensky court.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow granted the investigation's request for house arrest for two months of the director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT) Sofia Apfelbaum in the case of fraud (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) in the “Seventh Studio” of Kirill Serebrennikov, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. The day before, Sofya Apfelbaum was detained ; Previously, she was involved in the case as a witness. charged the same day She was .