In the city of Krasny Sulin in the Rostov region, Vyacheslav Prudnikov, a correspondent of the “Caucasian Knot”, received gunshot wounds during an armed attack. According to the publication, the journalist underwent surgery and connects the attack with his professional activities. According to Prudnikov, the armed attack occurred this afternoon in the area of ​​the cemetery in the city of Krasny Sulin, where he was on work unrelated to journalism. “I took out my camera to take some pictures.

In Gudermes, four hundred armed masked fighters did not storm the houses of the Yamadayev family, Novaya Gazeta writes , citing 20 sources, 17 of whom live on Gorky Street, where the houses of the Chechen clan are located. The newspaper's interlocutor at the Gudermes police said that the city is undergoing a check of the passport regime, as previously mentioned by the press secretary of the head of Chechnya, Alvi Karimov.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow stopped the criminal prosecution of the ex-director of the Zemlyane group Sergei Cherenkov and businessman Sergei Pokhilyuk, who were accused of attempted fraud (Article 30 and part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) due to an attempt to sell a seat in the highest political council of the United Russia party. . about this RBC writes with reference to Pokhilyuk’s lawyer Maria Gabrilovich.

The Judicial Collegium of the Moscow City Court reduced the prison term of activists Kirill Barabash and Valery Parfenov, convicted together with RBC journalist Alexander Sokolov in the IGRP “ZOV” case, by two months, court press secretary Ulyana Solopova told Mediazona. The court recognized the fact that Barabash was recognized as a participant in hostilities as a mitigating circumstance and reduced his sentence from 4 to 3 years 10 months.

The United States has expanded restrictions under the “global Magnitsky Act” and imposed sanctions against Artem Chaika, the son of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. The corresponding document was published on the website of the American Ministry of Finance. “The President issued a new executive order to block the property of individuals involved in serious human rights violations and corruption,” the department’s website said.

The judge of the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow imposed 60 hours of compulsory labor on photographer Denis Bochkarev, who photographed Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina and activist Olga Borisova with the banner “Happy Birthday, Executioners,” a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom.

President Vladimir Putin commented on the speech of literary critic Alexander Arkhangelsky, who spoke about the criminal case of the artistic director of the Gogol Center Kirill Serebrennikov and other artists who, in his opinion, are being persecuted, TASS reports .

In Sochi, the second trial began in the case of insulting the feelings of believers (Article 148 of the Criminal Code) against engineer Viktor Nochevnov, who reposted cartoons of Jesus Christ to his VKontakte page. Lawyer of the international human rights group "Agora" Alexander Popkov told "Mediazona" that the trial is being conducted by Irina Shulepina, the magistrate of court district No. 102 of the Central District of Sochi.

In Gudermes, four hundred armed masked fighters stormed the houses of the Yamadayev family, Rosbalt reports , citing a source familiar with the situation. According to the agency's interlocutor, several hundred masked armed men arrived in the city in the afternoon. The source claims that this unit is controlled by the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. Later they cordoned off the block in the area of ​​Gorky Street, where members of the Yamadayev family live.

The Astrakhan regional court upheld the sentence of the leader of the “Russians of Astrakhan” Igor Stenin, accused of calling for extremism for reposting (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), writes “Caucasian Knot”. At the end of May 2017, the Astrakhan Regional Court dismissed the case against Stenin due to the lack of evidence of a crime. In November, the Supreme Court sent the case of the Russian Astrakhan leader back to the regional court for a new trial.

The Ministry of Justice has published a draft order on the responsibilities of media outlets granted the status of “foreign agent.” The corresponding document was published on the portal of draft regulations. According to the draft, the status of “foreign agent” is assigned to a media outlet or a legal entity registered in a foreign state, or a foreign structure without the formation of a legal entity that distributes texts, audio or video to a wide range of people.

In Moscow, the Basmanny Court extended the arrest of former deputy of the Kaliningrad Regional Duma and editor-in-chief of the newspaper “New Wheels” Igor Rudnikov, accused of extortion (Article 163 of the Criminal Code), until April 1, 2018, reports a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. FSB officers detained Rudnikov on November 1 in Kaliningrad. On November 3, the Central District Court of the city arrested him .

In Moscow, the Magistrate in the Meshchansky district imposed 40 hours of compulsory labor on Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina, who unfurled the banner “Happy Birthday, Executioners” near the FSB building on Lubyanka, reports a Mediazona correspondent. Alyokhina was found guilty under Part 6.1 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (participation in an unauthorized demonstration that resulted in obstruction of citizens' access to residential premises or transport or social infrastructure).

Employees of the Victory airline, which announced in November about the possibility of transporting athletic weights in a hand luggage, did not allow bloggers on board the aircraft who tried to get aboard with the gyer. Video recording with a story published in Yetyub-channel Vkobzev.

For the first time in Russian history, the Moscow Regional Court sentenced a defendant in a drug case to life imprisonment, the court’s press service told Meduza. The State Prosecution asked Tajikistan citizen Sherali Tabarov to be sentenced to this punishment. He will serve his sentence in a special regime colony. The case involves another 14 citizens of Tajikistan who were sentenced to terms ranging from 6 to 25 years in a maximum security colony.