The military garrison court of Penza for the second time rejected the complaint of the defense of the accused in the “Penza case” Dmitry Pchelintsev about the refusal to initiate a criminal case due to torture. Lawyer Irina Biryukova reported this to OVD-Info. The court rejected the complaint for the first time in September, but the Volga District Military Court overturned this decision and sent the case for a new trial.

The prosecutor and lawyers for 29-year-old Russian woman Maria Butina, accused of promoting Russian interests without notifying US authorities, asked the court to schedule a hearing on a plea deal, reports CNN . The publication published a document with the request. Butina was detained on July 16. In Russia, she headed the Right to Arms organization. According to investigators, the accused worked under the leadership of a high-ranking Russian official in 2015-2017.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow did not release the leader of the movement “For Human Rights” Lev Ponomarev from arrest so that he could say goodbye to human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseeva, who died on December 8, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. This time, Ponomarev was represented in court by three lawyers - Timur Idalov, Valery Shukhardin and Dmitry Kornilin.

The Cheryomushkinsky Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Moscow began an inspection after collecting signatures in one of the apartment buildings against the settlement of children with cancer, according to the website of the Prosecutor General's Office. The prosecutor's office will evaluate the actions of the initiators of publicly raising the issue of the inadmissibility of children with cancer living in the home.

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg returned to the coordinator of the headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny in Ufa, Liliya Chanysheva, the claim that she filed against the administration of the social network VKontakte due to the transfer of her personal data to the security forces, reports the joint press service of the city courts. The press service clarified that the court decided to return the claim because it was filed with some violations.

When checking the Panama Papers, Rosfinmonitoring counted more than four thousand offshore companies controlled by Russians. Many of them are associated with “the gubernatorial, deputy and ministerial corps,” the department noted. Rosfinmonitoring, when checking the Panama Papers, found 4,197 offshore companies controlled by Russians, RBC writes with reference to the head of the Rosfinmonitoring anti-money laundering department, Vitaly Andreev.

Senior investigator Kirill Motorny, who several times refused to initiate a criminal case regarding the beating of 33-year-old local resident Roman Gabaev by a police officer on his wedding day, was subject to disciplinary action. this with reference to a letter from the first deputy head of the Krasnodar department of the Investigative Committee, Andrei Maslov.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a law terminating the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership between Ukraine and Russia, which was concluded in 1997. Poroshenko himself wrote about this on Twitter.

Former Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev paid a fine of 130 million rubles imposed by the court in a criminal case of bribery, lawyer Larisa Kashtanova told the Moscow agency. Once the money is received into the budget, the seizure of the former minister’s property will be lifted. At the end of October, the court lifted the seizure of Ulyukaev’s bank account so that he could pay the remaining 125 million rubles of the fine.

Moscow police, after a preventive conversation, released SERB movement member Igor Brumel, who was detained due to threats to disrupt the Artdocfest documentary film festival, TASS reports , citing a police source. On Sunday, December 9, a security guard at the Oktyabr cinema on Novy Arbat, where the festival was taking place, contacted the police.

A resident of Mordovia fired a gun in a church at night, and during the arrest he wounded a policeman with a knife from church utensils, reports Interfax , citing an informed source. Perhaps we are talking about an item such as a copy. As writes Info-RM , the shooter turned out to be a hunter from the village of Kurtashki, Atyuryevsky district. The tracks of a wild boar led him to an unfinished church in the village of Mordovian Parks, Krasnoslobodsky district.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk, at the request of the prosecutor’s office, decided to block two VKontakte public pages for “devaluing the concept of love” and “violating the self-identification of a teenager.” The decision , as reported on the website of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Prosecutor's Office, was made on December 3.

A teenager detained in the Moscow headquarters of the politician Alexei Navalny before the action against raising the retirement age, in an interview with the commission for minors, was threatened to transfer to a specialized school and difficulties in entering the university due to "anti-Soviet propaganda". This follows from the recording of the conversation published by the Moscow headquarters.

The Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg refused to satisfy the claim of the NGO Greenpeace Council (the legal entity of Greenpeace in Russia) for a ban on the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline through the territory of the Kurgalsky nature reserve, reports . the joint press service of the city courts The applicant indicated that due to the construction of the gas pipeline, forests would be cut down along 3.7 kilometers.

In the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the use of harmless violence against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) after an attack on a local police officer in a hospital, during which he shot one of the patients. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the department.