The Presnensky Court of Moscow sentenced SERB movement leader Igor Beketov and movement activist Yuri Goroshko, who participated in disrupting the screening of the film “Flight of the Bullet” at Artdocfest, to seven days of arrest, Dozhd TV channel and BFM reported . As court press secretary Alexander Chernikov clarified to BFM, Goroshko was found guilty of disobeying the police (Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code). Beketov was also arrested for the same offense.

Members of the Association of Theater Critics named producer Alexei Malobrodsky the person of the year “For Honor and Dignity,” according to the organization’s website. Malobrodsky is a defendant in the Seventh Studio case. Previously, the association spoke out in support of the arrested theater producer and asked to soften his preventive measure.

The head of the Krasnoselsky municipal district, oppositionist Ilya Yashin appealed to the Moscow prosecutor with a request to issue warnings to the head of the city’s security department, Vladimir Chernikov, and the deputy prefect of the Central Administrative District, Sergei Travkin, who opposed the celebration of “Free Election Day.” Yashin published the appeal on his Twitter page.

The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) is checking information about individual cells in the Moscow “Matrosskaya Tishina” detention center with good repairs and expensive household appliances, Interfax reports with reference to the department’s press service. Earlier, the deputy head of the capital's public monitoring commission (POC), Eva Merkacheva , told the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper that in building No.

In Komi, a resident of Ukhta will be tried for being offended by a friend and washing her cat in a washing machine, reports , citing the regional prosecutor’s office. Interfax The prosecutor's office approved the indictment in the case against a 37-year-old Ukhta resident, who is accused of cruelty to an animal, resulting in its death and committed out of hooligan motives (Part 1 of Article 245 of the Criminal Code). The man admitted guilt, but could not explain his action.

Opposition politician Alexei Navalny published an election program on his website, in which he outlined the main directions of reforms that he intends to implement if he wins the presidential elections in 2018. In particular, the politician promised to change the Russian judicial system.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ordered Russia to pay 2,850 euros in compensation for moral damage to a resident of Yekaterinburg, whose HIV status was disclosed by the prosecutor during the trial, reports the Memorial human rights center. The applicant was detained in 2005 on suspicion of murder. According to him, the police demanded a confession from the man, threatening him with murder and torture.

In Murmansk, the Oktyabrsky District Court fined Violetta Grudina, coordinator of the local headquarters of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, ten thousand rubles for organizing a public event without filing a notification (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code), Grudina herself told OVD-Info. According to the activist, an administrative protocol was drawn up against her because of the action that took place on September 23.

On the night of December 12-13, the head of the CIS Migrant Federation, Karomat Sharipov, was expelled to Tajikistan, Radio Ozodi writes , citing lawyer Alexandra Medvedeva and anonymous sources. According to the publication’s interlocutor, the Siberia Airlines plane from Moscow to Kulyab with Sharipov on board landed at three o’clock in the morning in Tajikistan. Medvedeva told the publication that she was at Domodedovo airport during the departure of her client.

The number of journalists subjected to criminal prosecution in 2017 reached a historic high. Experts from the international Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) came to this conclusion. Authorities are primarily targeting media workers in Turkey, China and Egypt. In 2017, 262 journalists were subject to criminal prosecution worldwide, and in 87% of cases, correspondents were prosecuted for their professional activities.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs proposed to pay bonuses of 500 thousand rubles to citizens who helped security forces solve crimes and detain the perpetrators, reports with reference to a draft order published on the government portal.

The Krasnoselsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced the head of the municipality and deputy of the municipal council of the city of Kolpino, Vadim Ivanov, to eight years in a maximum security colony in a case of robbery committed 13 years ago, the said in a statement . joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg the head of Kolpino to be sentenced to this term The prosecution representative asked .

Crimean Tatar activist Seytumer Seytumerov wrote on Facebook that the Supreme Court of Crimea managed to consider his appeal without him, although he was only 10 minutes late. “Unfortunately, due to terrible traffic jams in Simferopol, I was 10 minutes late for the consideration of my appeal. The Supreme Court of Crimea managed to consider my case in 10 minutes and make a decision without me and my defense,” he writes. They promised to send the decision to Seitumerov by mail.

In the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Investigative Committee has completed its investigation into the case of a 45-year-old resident of Chita, who killed eight people motivated by national hatred, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

The Supreme Court of Greece decided to extradite Russian Alexander Vinnik, who was arrested in July at an American request, to the United States, where he is accused of laundering $4 billion through the BTC-e bitcoin trading exchange , reports the Washington Post from the Associated Press . “Only a decision was announced, no justification, it will still take a week to prepare,” told RBC.