The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow granted the investigation's request and arrested the former head of the Russian Authors' Society (RAO) Sergei Fedotov on suspicion of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), RBC reports , citing the court's press service.

The concert of the Friendzone group in Nizhny Novgorod, which was supposed to take place on December 7, did not take place due to a small number of spectators, and not because of pressure on the musicians or organizers, TASS reports , citing a source in the presidential administration. “The group did not come to Nizhny Novgorod,” said a source in the AP.

On December 6, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Ryazan sentenced a husband and wife who treated their child with prayers to a year and nine months of restriction of freedom, according to the court’s website. The spouses were found guilty under Part 1 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code (causing death by negligence). The defendants fully admitted their guilt. The case was considered in a special order.

Counterintelligence officers from the Czech Information Security Service (BIS) exposed the intelligence network of one of the Russian intelligence services at the beginning of 2018, said in a statement . the head of the intelligence service, Michal Koudelka, Koudelka did not specify which Russian intelligence service he was talking about.

Lev Ponomarev. Photo: Maxim Grigoryev/TASS The Moscow City Court reduced the term of arrest to human rights activist Leo Ponomarev for a post about the action “For your children” up to 16 days of arrest, the correspondent of the Mediazones from the courtroom reports. Judge Anna Seliverstova considered the initial punishment excessively harsh.

Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the Smart Voting project, which was launched by politician Alexei Navalny. This information was confirmed to Vedomosti by the press secretary of the supervisory agency Vadim Ampelonsky. The site was included in the register of violators of the rights of personal data subjects by decision of the Tagansky District Court.

The Investigative Committee began a pre-investigation check against lawyers Mikhail and Andrei Zlomnov under the article of insulting an FSB investigator (Article 319 of the Criminal Code). Mikhail Zlomnov told Mediazona about this. Lawyers are defending their relative Pavel Zlomnov, who spoke about torture in the FSB after his arrest in the case of selling weapons. The lawyer says that the investigator of the Investigative Department for the Central District of St.

In Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov’s cousin and head of the Shalinsky district of the republic, Turpal-Ali Ibragimov, was responsible for an accident with two deaths, reports Kavkaz . Realities”, without disclosing their sources. According to the publication, on the night of December 4, at the entrance to Grozny from the city, Argun Ibragimov, who was driving a Mercedes , crashed into a Zhiguli at high speed. As a result of the accident, two passengers of the Zhiguli, a mother and daughter, died.

The Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court canceled the positive environmental assessment for the capture of 13 killer whales in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, according to the group “Club of Friends of Sakhalin Ecowatch.” “The conclusion of the State Environmental Expertise (State Environmental Expertise - Ministry of Health) is the most important permitting document on the basis of which quotas and permission to catch killer whales are issued.

Alexander Averin. Photo: Sergey Smirnov / "Mediazona" The Matveevo-Kurgan District Court of the Rostov Region sentenced to three years in a general regime of the co-chairman of the unregistered party “Another Russia” Alexander Averin, accused of attempted arms smuggling. The reason for the criminal case was a pistol, which was found in Averin’s things after the detention on the border this spring - the National Bolsheviks returned from the territory of the self -proclaimed DPR.

In Moscow, a court sentenced a native of Chelyabinsk to 4.5 years in a general regime colony, accused of trying to sell her minor daughter for “the purpose of her sexual exploitation,” according to the website of the Moscow Interregional Transport Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee. The investigation and the court established that the 35-year-old mother of a girl born in 2004, together with two accomplices, agreed to sell the child for 1 million 500 thousand rubles.

In St. Petersburg, the case of former chemistry and physics teachers accused of producing and selling amphetamine on an especially large scale (part 5 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code) was sent to court, according to the website of the city prosecutor’s office. According to investigators, the former chemistry teacher produced amphetamine in a laboratory in the Vyborg region, and his accomplice looked for customers and transferred the goods.

Tatar activist Rafis Kashapov, the first person convicted in Russia under the article on calls for violation of territorial integrity (Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code), told Idel.Realii that he received political asylum in the UK for five years.

The Kiev District Court of Simferopol arrested lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, who is defending one of the arrested Ukrainian sailors , reports on Facebook. for five days, Crimean Solidarity Kurbedinov was found guilty of demonstrating extremist symbols (Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code) for a video from the Crimean Hizb ut-Tahrir rally published in 2013. In 2003, the Islamic party Hizb-ut-Tahrir was recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia, although its activities are legal in Ukraine.

The prosecutor, during repeated debates in the Matveevo-Kurgan district court of the Rostov region, again asked for four years in prison on charges of attempted weapons smuggling (Article 30, part 1 of Article 226.1 of the Criminal Code) to the co-chairman of the unregistered party “Other Russia” Alexander Averin, the party reports in its telegram -channel.