The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Firuz Kalavurov to 3.5 years in a general regime colony, who was accused of possession of explosives (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code) and failure to report the preparation of a terrorist attack in the Kazan Cathedral (Article 205.6 of the Criminal Code), reports the joint press service of the courts. St. Petersburg.

The Moscow District Military Court sentenced 28-year-old Chernyakhovsk resident Alexei Fedorov, accused of trying to go to fight in Ukraine and join the banned organization “Right Sector,” to eight years in a maximum security colony. New Kaliningrad was told about this by the press service of the local FSB department. FSB officers detained Fedorov in March 2017.

The Committee on Architecture of St. Petersburg reported that there are no legal grounds for installing “Last Address” signs. This is stated in the committee’s response to a request from former assistant to deputy Vitaly Milonov, Alexander Mokhnatkin.

Deputy director of Orenburg Lyceum No. 5 Vasily Gusarenko resigned of his own free will after publishing a recording of a conversation where he scolds students who did not come to a patriotic event organized by the military registration and enlistment office, and hints at them about a gender change. Interfax-Povolzhye about this The director of the license, Elena Ivanova, told . A recording of the conversation was published on YouTube on November 28.

A paramilitary security officer who escaped with a machine gun from a strategic facility in the Vladimir region was found in Gzhel near Moscow with gunshot wounds, the Moscow agency reports , citing the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. “A man was found in a car with two gunshot wounds to the chest. He was hospitalized,” the department said.

Prisoner of the Vladimir Central Prison Mdivanishvili D.V. confirmed to the members of the regional public monitoring commission that he had bitten off his own tongue, the chairman of the Public Monitoring Committee, Vyacheslav Kulikov, told RIA Novosti. According to Kulikov, he and his colleagues visited prisoner Mdivanishvili in the psychiatric ward of the hospital at Colony No. 3. “The convict confirmed that he did it himself, that no one tortured him,” Kulikov said.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow extended for two months, that is, until February 8, the arrest period of football players Pavel Mamaev and Alexander Kokorin, accused of hooliganism and beatings, as well as the latter’s brother Kirill, the reports . Moscow agency The footballers are accused of three counts - two under Article 116 of the Criminal Code (beatings) and one under Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism). Both admit partial guilt. The defense asked to be released on bail.

In Yaroslavl, the organizers of the concert of the group “Friendzone” canceled the event after a call from the prosecutor’s office and several other authorities, according to a group of musicians on VKontakte.

The Presidium of the Supreme Court overturned the sentence of former member of the Federation Council and deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Devletkhan Alikhanov, who was accused of fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the court. “Alikhanov is completely acquitted. He has the right to rehabilitation,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The prosecutor's office of the Omsk region will inspect gymnasium No. 62 after the mother of an eighth-grader, Natalya Graf, reported bullying by teachers, which caused her son to have a nervous breakdown. Graf published the document on her Facebook page. On December 3, Graf wrote that on November 20, the children were sent to clear snow in the school yard, and her son felt ill and went home.

The Tver court of Moscow appointed 25 days the arrest to the leader of the “For Human Rights” movement Lev Ponomarev for a post with an appeal to participate in the action in support of the defendants of the “Penza business” and the case of “New Greatness”, according to Twitter of the light (the United Public Surveillance Group). The court found the 77-year-old Ponomarev guilty under part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the Promotion Procedure).

Dmitry Pchelintsev, arrested in the “Penza case,” who went on a hunger strike after being placed in a punishment cell for violating the regime in a pre-trial detention center, spoke about the harsh conditions for familiarizing himself with the case materials. A copy of Pchelintsev’s written answers to questions from lawyer Oleg Zaitsev is at the disposal of Mediazona. When Pchelintsev left the punishment cell, the lawyer met with him and asked questions about the reasons for what happened.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he does not respond to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s attempts to contact him by phone because he does not want to participate in his election campaign, reports . RIA Novosti “The point is not that I’m just shying away and don’t want to talk to Pyotr Alekseevich, that’s not the point.

Lawyer Sergei Golubok appealed in court against the opening of a parcel containing a book by journalist Masha Gessen about totalitarianism at the customs office of St. Petersburg Pulkovo Airport, reports , citing the complaint. Kommersant Golubok ordered Gessen’s book “The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Returned to Russia” from the Amazon online store . The parcel was supposed to be delivered by DHL Express delivery service .

Slovakia has expelled a Russian diplomat, whom the country's military intelligence suspected of espionage, reports . Reuters Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini said the Russian was informed of his expulsion on November 22, after which he was given 48 hours to leave. The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service refused to comment to Interfax on this message. In October, Dutch authorities announced that they had expelled four GRU officers from the country who had entered on diplomatic passports.