The prosecutor's office has resumed the case of illegal trafficking in potent substances against the former director of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, an informed source familiar with the situation told RIA Novosti. The case was suspended in 2015. The agency's interlocutor admitted that he does not yet know which agency will investigate this case.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) took urgent measures on the complaint of Yaroslavl colony prisoner Yevgeny Makarov. According to the Public Verdict, the court ordered the Russian authorities to conduct an examination of Makarov within 48 hours by doctors independent of the Federal Penitentiary Service, and also to provide the court with a medical report based on the examination results.

The Supreme Court panel confirmed the decision to send Nizhny Novgorod blogger Albert Gyurdzhiyan for compulsory treatment in a mental hospital in a case of extremism, reports . Grani The hearings were held behind closed doors on the initiative of a panel of judges, who referred to the fact that the blogger’s medical documents would be read out at the meeting. Gyurdzhiyan participated in the proceedings via video link from regional mental hospital No.

In the convoy room of the Moscow City Court, members of the Moscow police convoy regiment beat up human rights activist Igor Nagavkin, accused of theft, reports . the movement “For Human Rights” “On the fact of beating Nagavkin, the movement “For Human Rights” and the human rights activist’s lawyers sent relevant statements to the police, the prosecutor’s office, the Investigative Committee and other departments,” the human rights organization said in a statement.

On Thursday morning, security officers detained Akhral Azimov, the father of Abror and Akram Azimov, accused of preparing a terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro. He may be in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kuntsevo district of Moscow, but his exact location is still unknown. this on his Facebook .

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused the Moscow mayor's office of trying to divert attention from the mass event, which was planned by the head of the council of deputies of the Krasnoselsky municipal district, Ilya Yashin. Meduza noticed that a message appeared on the Hyde Park website in Sokolniki that an agreed meeting with Navalny would take place on December 22. The oppositionist denies involvement in this event.

TNT employees recorded a video with an apology from the “multinational staff of the channel” for a joke about an escort service employee from Ingushetia. The video was published on the Instagram page of the Permanent Representation of Ingushetia. On December 8, TNT aired the Comedy Woman program with a story about how the boss of an escort service reprimands her subordinate, originally from Ingushetia. The joke seemed offensive to representatives of the Ingush diaspora.

$2 million in cash, which the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin handed over to the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev as part of an investigative experiment, was provided by Valery Mikhailov. This follows from the testimony of FSB General Oleg Feoktistov, reports RBC . The publication got acquainted with Feoktistov’s testimony, which he gave during the investigation.

Roskomnadzor intends to get social networks to delete Open Russia accounts and for now promises not to block Twitter and YouTube , an unnamed representative of the department told RBC. “Currently, Roskomnadzor expects to achieve compliance with the requirements of Russian legislation through dialogue with foreign social networks and YouTube ,” the publication’s interlocutor said.

The prosecutor's office of the Kurgan region will study the case of farmer Evgeny Vasilyev, accused of illegal trafficking in special technical means for secretly obtaining information (Article 138.1 of the Criminal Code) due to the purchase of a GPS collar for a calf. this The Prosecutor General's Office announced two hours after a Russia Today journalist asked President Vladimir Putin during a press conference about his attitude to such criminal cases.

Roskomnadzor published the department’s position on the dissemination of data from organizations recognized as “undesirable” in Russia. The agency writes that it regards hyperlinks to materials with “illegal content” as “a way of distributing this content if such a hyperlink is an integral part of the context.” “By placing a hyperlink to any material from a third-party resource, the media editors are aware of the content of the material available through this hyperlink.

Activist Alexander Rastorguev, leader of the New Opposition movement and former ally of nationalist Vyacheslav Maltsev, was detained in Gatchina, Leningrad Region. Rastorguev reported this to Rosbalt. “They told me that they detained me because I was organizing the action on October 7. They’re taking me to the 78th police department,” he said. On October 7, rallies by supporters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny took place in dozens of Russian cities.

Administrative punishment for beatings in the family turned out to be more effective than criminal punishment, which was abolished at the beginning of 2017, according to the Institute of Law Enforcement Problems at the European University. They attribute this to police reporting - it has become more profitable for local police officers to accept reports of domestic violence, and it has become easier for judges to punish the perpetrators.

Arrested Crimean Tatar 65-year-old activist Bekir Degermendzhi was hospitalized in intensive care on the night of December 14, lawyer Edem Semedlyaev wrote on Facebook. “According to doctors, his condition is extremely serious. For five days, we demanded that he be transferred to a hospital to provide qualified medical care, but we were assured that they could handle it,” the lawyer writes. He told Crimea.Realities that Degermendzhi is in medicated sleep and on artificial ventilation.

The Meshchansky Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Moscow sent the head of the Krasnoselsky municipal district, Ilya Yashin, a notice about the inadmissibility of holding an “unauthorized rally” in the park of Lermontov Square in the form of the district holiday “Free Election Day.” The message was published on the website of the Moscow prosecutor's office.