In Altai, the police began checking information that a Chemal district deputy beat a cafe manager, a singer and a 14-year-old teenager, writes Gorny Altai News, without indicating the source of information. According to the publication, on December 22, deputies held a corporate party in one of the cafes. When the event ended, all the deputies went home, but one of them later returned.

In the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg, the state prosecution requested three years in prison for nationalist Vladimir Ryazantsev, accused of public calls for extremism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), reports the joint press service of the city courts. In addition, the prosecutor's office asked to prohibit Ryazantsev from engaging in certain activities for two years. The defense asked to acquit the right-wing blogger.

Deputies from the United Russia faction introduced a bill into the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg that proposes to enroll children of judges, prosecutors and investigators without a waiting list in schools. this to Interfax . reported Deputy Pavel Zelenkov “We know the pressure that members of the judiciary face every day. I am convinced that they need to be provided with social support on an equal basis with other representatives of law enforcement agencies,” Zelenkin said.

The Institute of Globalization and Social Movements (IGSD), created by political scientist Boris Kagarlitsky, was added to the register of “foreign agents”. This is stated on the website of the Ministry of Justice. IGSD was created in 2007.

Aleksey Kasyan, an employee of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has been finally charged under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity), reports the Telegram channel “Pravozashchita Postcards”. The criminal case is based on three posts by Kasyan on LiveJournal, published from 2014 to 2016.

Muhammadyusuf Ashurov. Photo: Christina Kormilitsyna / Kommersant The Moscow District Military Court sentenced four accused in the case of the preparation of a terrorist attack at the Teply Stan metro station, which was supposed to take place during the Confederations Cup in 2017. All four-the employees of the Koka-Cola plant near Moscow-in court denied their guilt and claimed that at first they agreed under torture.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikov in the Mordovian correctional colony IK-14. Photo: Ilya Shablinsky / RIA Novosti The FSIN announced the use of slave labor of convicted in the women's correctional colony No. 14 in Mordovia, where Pussy Riot participant Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was serving a sentence with reference to the deputy director of the department Valery Maksimenko.

The Nagatinsky District Court sentenced activist Denis Bakholdin to three and a half years in a general regime colony in the case of participation in the Right Sector, which is recognized as an extremist organization in Russia. This was reported on Facebook by his public defender Irina Yatsenko, who published a recording of the announcement of the verdict.

In Transbaikalia, the Investigative Committee suspected two employees of correctional colony No. 10 in the city of Krasnokamensk of beating a prisoner, according to the website of the regional department of the department. The case under paragraph “a” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers, committed with the use of violence) was opened after a prosecutor’s inspection.

The defense of Krasnodar lawyer Mikhail Benyash sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights about violations in the selection of a preventive measure in the case of an attack on police officers, lawyer Tatyana Tretyak told Mediazona.

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced the former head of the Russian Consulate General in Aleppo, Vitaly Generalov, his wife Anna and, presumably, relative Evgeniy Generalov, according to the telegram channel of the city’s joint press service. All of them are accused of organizing illegal migration by a group of people by prior conspiracy from Syria (clause “a” of part 2 of article 322.1 of the Criminal Code). The defendants admitted guilt.

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced former judge of the Moscow Arbitration Court, 50-year-old Igor Korogodov, to five and a half years in prison for accepting a bribe of 70 thousand dollars, the reports . Moscow agency 52-year-old lawyer Pavel Mosin, who acted as a mediator, was sentenced to three years in prison.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested the deputy head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Committee for Entrepreneurship in the Housing and Public Utilities Sector, Valery Chernyshov, in the case of theft during the reconstruction of five-story buildings (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), RBC reports with reference to the case materials announced in court.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of Omsk sentenced the pastor of the Protestant Church “Renaissance” Nikolai Kuznetsov to 3.5 years of suspended imprisonment, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. Kuznetsov was found guilty of creating a religious association whose activities involved violence (Part 1 of Article 239 of the Criminal Code) and of causing grievous harm to the health of several people (Part 3 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code).

The Primorsky Regional Court canceled the arrest imposed on killer whales and beluga whales kept in Srednyaya Bay near Nakhodka. about this by the press service of the court. was informed Interfax The appellate instance considered four complaints about the arrest of killer whales and beluga whales, which was imposed by the Leninsky District Court of Vladivostok at the end of November.