In Moscow, seven activists were detained near the mayor's office, who handed over the resolution of the rally in Kuntsevo to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, OVD-Info reports , citing one of the detainees, Alexei Sobolev. The activists are charged with holding an uncoordinated protest. The police detained them after handing over documents to the mayor's office, when the activists were giving interviews.

At a meeting with the Council for Culture, President Vladimir Putin, in response to producer Igor Matvienko’s remark about references to drugs in rappers’ songs, said that it was necessary to make sure “that this does not happen.” The meeting will be broadcast by Rossiya 24. The producer said that, in his opinion, rap is based on three components - sex, drugs and protest. He added that he considers it wrong for rappers to appear on radio stations in which drugs are mentioned.

In St. Petersburg, on the Field of Mars, police detained five activists who participated in a performance in defense of the Pulkovo Observatory, one of the detainees, Sergei Lunts, told OVD-Info. In addition to Lunts, Oleg Rusakov, Svetlana Perfilyeva, Natalya Savkina and Olesya Chernyavskaya were detained. This information was confirmed to Mediazona by the Detainees Assistance Group.

A box with an unknown device exploded on the A-108 highway in the Moscow region when a local police officer tried to open it, reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. RIA Novosti According to a representative of the region's emergency services, the victim's hands were torn off and his face was injured. The explosion occurred on the road between Voskresensk and Kurovsky after a man tried to open a found box. A law enforcement source said that the victim was a local police officer.

The Moscow City Court awarded compensation to Nadezhda Podoplelova’s relatives, who were not allowed to see her in intensive care before her death in May 2017, Meduza writes , citing Podoplelova’s daughter Olga, who represented the family’s interests in court. As clarifies , the Pletnev City Clinical Hospital must pay 30 thousand rubles each as compensation to the daughters of the deceased patient, Olga Podoplelova and Yulia Dembich, as well as her husband.

The Ministry of Justice included two editions of the book “Empire of the Kremlin” by writer Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov in the list of extremist materials. According to information on the ministry's website , they were included in the list on December 5. The SOVA Information and Analytical Center was the first to draw attention to the inclusion of books in the Ministry of Justice list.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for an attempt on the life of a law enforcement officer (Article 317 of the Criminal Code) after a young man attacked a police officer in the center of Moscow, according to the department’s website. Late in the evening of December 14, near a residential building on Lesnaya Street, a young man attacked with a knife an operative of the patrol service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Tverskoy district, who was on duty.

The Essentuki City Court of the Stavropol Territory recognized as legitimate the complaint to initiate a criminal case based on information from Novaya Gazeta about the extrajudicial execution of 27 residents of Chechnya and reports from residents of the republic about the disappearance of their relatives after being detained by security forces, reports with reference to the press service of the regional court.

Photo: Egor Aleev / TASS On December 15, a rally was held in Kazan, dedicated to the second anniversary of the introduction of a moratorium in Tatfondbank, from which in 2016 a system banking crisis began in the region. Regina Khisamova (“ Idel. Realities”) tells how the deputy unineros Robert Musin, issuing unsecured loans to the companies of his business partners, destroyed the financial system of the region and deprived thousands of depositors.