Journalists from the BBC Russian Service have found out that the MSC company, which received the contract to organize the New Year's reception in the Kremlin instead of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin's company Concord M, may also be connected to Prigozhin. Although MSK is not formally connected to Prigozhin's structures, there is potential evidence of the relationship between these companies.

Judge Elena Sergeeva of the Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg removed lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov from the hearing on the administrative protocol regarding the activist of the “Time” movement Timur Rasulov. Cherkasov himself reported this to Mediazona. “The judge rejected all of our numerous motivated requests. In this situation, she offered me the floor to support the position of the client.

21-year-old Moscow resident Islombek Kamalov was kidnapped by unknown persons with the assistance of police officers, his lawyer Timur Idalov told Mediazona. Idalov says that his client has been in the hands of unknown representatives of law enforcement agencies since December 12. Then the young man flew to Vnukovo from Turkey, where, according to the lawyer, he was on vacation.

Activist Shahnaz Shitik was released after two days in the police department, the detainee assistance group told Mediazona. A report was drawn up against the activist for petty hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code) and she was ordered to appear in court. Human rights activist Dinar Idrisov suggested that the judge on duty refused to consider the activist’s case, although the city prosecutor agreed to bring her to administrative responsibility.

The New Year's reception in the Kremlin this year, instead of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin's company "Concord M", which was engaged in this in 2013-2017, is being organized by the company MSK, writes RBC with reference to the state procurement website. In 2014-2017, the Presidential Property Management Department constantly chose Prigozhin's company as the sole supplier for organizing New Year's receptions. Contract amounts ranged from 13.5 million to 16.7 million rubles.

In Tatarstan, five police officers came to search the victim in a case of abuse of power by police officers (clause “a” of part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code), who had previously been found guilty, lawyer Andrei Suchkov, who collaborates with the Kazan Human Rights Center and the human rights organization, told Mediazona.

Warehouses of the Krasnoe and Beloe alcohol supermarket chain across the country will be closed until the completion of the intelligence services’ inspection, reports Interfax , citing an informed source. The company denies this , writes RBC. “While the check is underway, all the network’s warehouses in the country will not work,” the agency’s interlocutor said. At the same time, a company representative insists that the warehouses are operating as normal.

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg set a fine of 70 thousand rubles to Yagubu Vagifa Ogly Suleimanov, accused of the preparation of the attack (Article 205.6 of the Criminal Code), the United press service of the city courts writes . The main for torture. Members of the St.

The coordinator of the “Spring” movement, Bogdan Lytvyn, appealed the blocking of his bank accounts as an interim measure against the prosecutor’s office’s claim for almost 11 million rubles due to the “He is not our king” campaign. Lawyer Viktor Vorobyov reported this to Mediazona. The complaint states that the oppositionist’s defense considers the measures to secure the claim to be “manifestly disproportionate” and unfounded.

A representative of Sberbank told the brother of the defendant in the Penza case, Andrei Chernov, Alexey, that his card was blocked by mistake and apologized. about this . Chernov himself told OVD-Info According to Chernov, a Sberbank representative explained that the card was blocked due to an error by another employee. As compensation, Chernov was refunded money for servicing the card for the entire period of use.

The Leninogorsk City Court of Tatarstan sentenced MVD majors Albert Samigullin and Vitaly Mustafin, accused of beating a worker to obtain a confession. Lawyer Andrei Suchkov, who collaborates with the Kazan Human Rights Center and the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” told Mediazona about this.

The Sovetsky District Court of Krasnodar arrested for five days and fined 10 thousand rubles a resident of the village of Starokorsunskaya, Alexey Nikitin, who participated in protests against increasing the cost of minibus tickets to Krasnodar, local blogger Alexander Savelyev reports on his Telegram channel.

The Russian government left the Friendship of Peoples plant as the only supplier of products for the National Guard for another two years, RBC writes , citing an interlocutor familiar with the document. The publication reports that the press service of the government and the National Guard confirmed the signing of the document.

In St. Petersburg, local authorities did not pay money to all metro builders whose salaries were delayed, Vitaly, one of the protest participants, told Rosbalt. “Salaries were given only to those SMU-11 workers who went on strike in the mine and above yesterday. According to my calculations, only 50-60 people received the money. And in total there are 150-200 people in the team. Some quit, some didn’t know about the strike,” said Vitaly.

The East Siberian and Moscow interregional investigative departments for transport of the Investigative Committee opened two cases due to the refusal of IrAero airline to take Russian tourists out of Chinese Hainan, TASS and Interfax report with reference to the representative of the Prosecutor General's Office Alexander Kurennoy.