The Andrei Rylkov Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Social Justice ( recognized as a foreign agent) collected 800 thousand rubles to pay a fine under the article on promoting drug use (Part 1 of Article 6.13 of the Administrative Code), the president of the foundation, Anya Sarang, told Mediazona. According to Sarang, the foundation received many donations before the New Year, one of them was large - in the amount of 300 thousand rubles.

In Perm, a criminal case was opened against activist Alexander Shabarchin under Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy), his colleague Sergei Ukhov told Mediazona. According to Ukhov, early in the morning Shabarchin’s house was searched, during which the investigator confiscated equipment, after which the activist was taken away for questioning at the Investigative Committee.

Victor Filinkov. Photo: David Frenkel / Mediazone The next year again promises to be rich in court decisions on high-profile matters-they are waiting for human rights activists, activists, theater figures, colonies and officials-workers. "Mediazona" talks about the main sentences that are waiting for us in 2019. Human rights activist Oyub Titiev Oyub Titiev.

US citizen Paul Whelan, suspected of espionage, was detained in Moscow after receiving a flash card with a list of all employees of one of the classified Russian departments, Rosbalt reports , citing a source in the intelligence services. “We were talking about a list of persons that is not subject to disclosure and has long been the object of close interest of American intelligence services,” writes Rosbalt. This information constitutes a state secret.