In the Frunzensky District Court of Yaroslavl, at a meeting to extend the preventive measure for ten employees of the FSIN department accused of torturing prisoners in colonies, a relative of one of the defendants in the case attacked Novaya Gazeta journalist Svetlana Vidanova. “Novaya Gazeta photojournalist Svetlana Vidanova said that a relative of the accused Sardor Ziyabov tried to snatch her camera from her at the hearing.

In Kurgan, the investigation into the case of a nurse who is accused of theft on an especially large scale (part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code) has been completed, according to the website of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to investigators, the nurse stole more than 400 packages of medications for patients with HIV, as well as hepatitis B and C. These drugs are available only with a doctor's prescription.

The European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaint of Yevgeny Makarov, Ruslan Vakhapov and Ivan Nepomnyashchy about torture in Yaroslavl IK-1. This is reported on the court's website.

The movement “For Human Rights” received a notification about an unscheduled inspection of the movement by the Ministry of Justice, according to the blog of the organization’s leader, Lev Ponomarev, on the Ekho Moskvy website. According to a copy of the notice, the movement must provide documents for the last three years by January 14. “There are several dozen items relating to accounting, staffing, and grant projects.

Roskomnadzor sent notices to Facebook and Twitter about the need to comply with the law on the localization of user data in Russia, TASS reports . Companies have a month to respond, until January 17. After this, the department will initiate an administrative case, said the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov.

The Moscow City Court received a letter by e-mail containing threats to the judge who was considering an appeal to extend the arrest of football players Pavel Mamaev and Alexander Kokorin, according to the court’s website. The message does not indicate to whom exactly the letter was addressed; the appeal was considered by judge Lyubov Nikolenko. “I want to leave a complaint. Or a warning.

In Syria, former airborne reconnaissance officer Alexander Dudchenko died after coming under mortar fire, Astrakhan 24 reports with reference to Airborne Brotherhood. An acquaintance of Dudchenko, citing his friends and relatives, confirmed to the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) the death of the former intelligence officer. As Astrakhan 24 writes, Dudchenko came under fire on December 17 at approximately 5:00 Moscow time.

The court sentenced a 31-year-old resident of Balashikha to nine years in a maximum security colony for beating his partner’s three-year-old daughter to death, reports the press service of the Moscow region department of the Investigative Committee. The man was found guilty of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm resulting in death through negligence (Part 4 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code). He himself did not deny guilt.

In Moscow, investigators and prosecutors held a meeting with residents of the house who were collecting signatures against the placement of children with cancer, according to the website of the Moscow department of the Investigative Committee. Doctors and employees of the charity foundation spoke to the residents, answering all their questions.

The Yeletsky District Court of the Lipetsk Region fined Open Russia member Alexander Kiselevich 500 rubles, finding him guilty of disobedience to a police officer (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code). Aleksey Pryanishnikov, coordinator of Human Rights Postcard, told Mediazona about this. Kiselevich was detained on the morning of December 18.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow imposed a two-year suspended sentence on 35-year-old Ivan Belyakov, finding him guilty of using violence against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) during a protest against raising the retirement age on September 9, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. The indictment states that the injured police officer was hit when he lost his balance because the defendant grabbed his baton and pulled him towards himself.

Roskomnadzor plans to launch a new technology for blocking prohibited sites and services, including the Telegram messenger , worth up to 20 billion rubles. This was reported by the BBC, citing a source familiar with the details of the development of the project, and an interlocutor close to one of the companies developing such a system. The BBC writes that we are talking about DPI technology.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law that allows the immediate blocking of “death groups” and “Columbine communities” without a court decision. The document was published on the legal information website.

The State Duma approved the bill on the responsible treatment of animals in the second reading, according to the parliament’s website. This bill was adopted in the first reading in March 2011. The bill defines general requirements for keeping animals and rules for organizing shelters. In addition, he proposes the creation of public inspectors who will monitor how people treat animals.

The State Duma in the first reading adopted a bill that limits the share of foreign participation in news aggregators to 20%, TASS reports . A project to amend the federal law “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection” was submitted to the State Duma for consideration in October.