FSB officers detained Russian Alexander Zhitnyuk, suspected of spying for the United States. Rosbalt reports this with reference to an informed source. “During the surveillance of Zhitnyuk, facts of his transfer of information containing state secrets to representatives of one of the Western intelligence services were documented,” the publication’s source said.

Muscovites continue to complain about GPS failures in the center of Moscow. Residents of the city encountered this problem several days ago. Then the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov referred the question to the special services about the reasons for the mass failure of GPS navigation that occurred in Moscow. Peskov denied the information that the geolocation failure could have been caused by special equipment in the Kremlin.

In the Vnukovo district of Moscow, janitors protested outside the building of the State Budgetary Institution “Zhilishchnik” due to non-payment of salaries. For this, the management of the state institution threatened the protesters with dismissal, reports . Open Russia According to the publication, the conflict between the janitors and the State Budgetary Institution “Zhilischnik Vnukovo” began two years ago, when workers’ salaries began to be delayed.

The court in Magnitogorsk overturned the decision to terminate the criminal case of rape of local resident Salima Mukhamedyanova at the police department, reports Public Verdict. When making the decision, the court noted that the investigator did not conduct an examination of the recordings from internal surveillance cameras in the department even after it became clear that the recording was missing certain fragments.

The head of the department for combating illegal drug trafficking of the criminal investigation department of the linear unit on water transport, Major Anton Boev, suspected of kidnapping and extortion, was transferred from custody to house arrest by decision of the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg, TASS reports . For two more defendants in the case - policeman Vladimir Gruzdev and former FSKN employee Nikolai Lavrov - the court extended their detention for two months.

The former head of the Anti-Doping Center, Grigory Rodchenkov, was charged in absentia with two counts of illegal trafficking in potent substances (Part 3 of Article 234 of the Criminal Code), . Interfax reports, citing a source familiar with the situation Several criminal cases are being investigated against Rodchenkov in Russia.

Residents of the Katangsky district sent a letter to the head of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Irkutsk region, Andrei Kalishchuk, complaining about the long absence of essential products in the villages, writes Baikal-info with reference to a copy of the letter that was in the possession of the editors.

The Shcherbinsky Court of Moscow found five defendants in the case of a mass brawl at the Khovanskoye Cemetery guilty of hooliganism and sentenced them to three years in a general regime colony, reports Business FM . The court, at the request of the prosecution, decided to reclassify the charge to a more lenient one and excluded the article on intentional destruction or damage to property and two episodes of intentional infliction of minor bodily harm.

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) published on its website a statement from athletes about their readiness to participate in the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, under a neutral flag. “We hold a firm position of non-acceptance of any kind of boycott in sports and are also absolutely convinced that it is unacceptable to deprive an athlete of the right to compete and represent his country at the main sporting competition - the Olympic Games.

In the Kaluga region, an investigation has been completed into the case of the head of the department of the Kozelsky district administration, who did not prevent the death of a 15-year-old teenager killed by his father. The woman is accused under Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code (negligence resulting in the death of a person through negligence), according to the Investigative Committee’s website.

On December 8, the Orenburg District Court fined the director of the Vishnevsky pig farm, Vildan Muratov, his deputy Alexei Kanishchev, as well as 18 employees of the enterprise, who on September 11 blocked the highway leading from the regional capital to Sol-Iletsk for several hours, reports 56orb.ru . The protesters were found guilty under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for holding a public event).

In St. Petersburg, the Krasnogvardeysky District Court sentenced three former employees of the regional department of the Federal Drug Control Service, who extorted a bribe from a local resident detained for drugs, to terms of 3 to 7 years in a maximum security colony, reports the joint press service of the city courts. The court considered it proven that former FSKN officers should have detained a local resident after he took at least 100 grams of cocaine from the stash.

A subsidiary of Rostec, Technopromexport LLC, appealed to the European Union court with a demand to exclude it from the sanctions list, in which it was included for the supply of Siemens turbines to Crimea, Vedomosti writes , citing an appeal published in the official journal of the EU Council. The publication notes that the appeal was submitted on October 17, but was published only on December 11.

Karomat Sharipov. Photo: Denis Vyshinsky / TASS On December 12, the Moscow Regional Court will consider the complaint about the expulsion of the Tajik migrants of Karomat Sharipov from Russia from Russia. Mediazona tells what the public activist was doing, who, after the loud conflict of workers from Central Asia with the guards of the Moscow market, lost his passport, apartment and freedom once.

In Transbaikalia, the Investigative Committee has completed an investigation into the case of a 26-year-old resident of the city of Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky, who poisoned her six-month-old son to death with alcohol and hid his body in a chicken coop, according to the Investigative Committee’s website. The woman is accused of causing death by negligence (Part 1 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code).