President Vladimir Putin signed a law that allows individuals to be granted the status of “foreign agent.” The document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

President Vladimir Putin signed a bill allowing the use of Nazi and extremist symbols, subject to the condemnation of Nazism and extremism. The corresponding document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

The Liskinsky District Court of the Voronezh Region sentenced a married couple to up to 2.5 years for child abuse. this . reports TASS The agency does not name them, but in the case file on the court’s website they are listed as Irina and Alexander Lyapin. According to TASS, criminal cases were opened against the couple in July 2019, when a seven-year-old child was able to escape from the barn, where his mother and stepfather kept him chained.

State news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS removed news stories about the investigation by Alexei Navalny and the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) about TV presenter Naila Asker-zade. FBK employee Georgy Alburov drew attention to this. As stated in the investigation, Asker-Zade regularly flies on a business jet worth $60 million and travels on a yacht worth $62 million.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law requiring manufacturers of smartphones, computers and TVs with Smart TV functions to install Russian applications on their equipment. The document was published on the official legal information portal. According to the law, from July 1, 2020, the sale of equipment that does not have Russian software will be prohibited. While there is no list of software that should be installed on gadgets, it will be determined by the government.

Two former defendants in Moscow business Vladislav Barabanov and Alexei Minyailo were fined 10 thousand rubles each for single pickets near the building of the Moscow City Court. This was reported by Barabanov himself and MBH Media .

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested for 15 days three football fans detained before the match between Zenit and Spartak. This was reported by the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg. They were charged with petty hooliganism (Part 1 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). Fans allegedly swore on Kirochnaya Street on the day of the match.

The Central District Court of Sochi fined Yulia Volkova, the leader of the Kuban branch of the Doctors' Alliance, 20 thousand rubles. This was reported on the union's Twitter account. Volkova and doctor Yulia Frelikh were detained on November 30. Earlier, the union said that Frelich was fired from Hospital No.

On Sakhalin, a 23-year-old resident of the village of Novotroitskoye burned down his ex-wife’s house and then took a selfie of it in the background. This was reported by the press service of the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. As written in the release, the suspect is the woman’s ex-husband, “as a result of which conflicts constantly arise between them.” He came to his ex-wife “to clarify personal relationships,” but she refused to meet.

The Dutch prosecutor's office accused the Russian authorities of deliberately taking a long time to respond to the request for the extradition of the ex-commander of the air defense of the self-proclaimed DPR, Vladimir Tsemakh, and allowing him to leave for another country. The military man is considered one of the main witnesses in the case of the crash of flight MH17 over the Donbass. On September 7, Ukraine handed over Tsemakh to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange.

Illustration: Maria Tolstova / Mediazone The jury invisibly changes the Russian court landscape-since the summer of 2018, a collegium of six people appeared in district courts, and the list of crimes has expanded significantly. To understand the work of the modern jury, the Mediazon proposes to recall its history-a series of liberal reforms and protective counter-reforms with a 70-year break.

In Novosibirsk, a local resident killed his friend’s five-year-old child. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the UK. According to investigators, the unnamed man lived with his girlfriend and her two children. On December 1, when the woman was in the hospital, he hit the five-year-old girl several times “for educational purposes,” causing her to die.

A court in the Rostov region found a former policeman guilty of exceeding his powers (clause “a” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code) who beat a local resident for the sake of confessing to theft. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the UK. According to investigators, in March an unnamed police officer from the Kashar police department tried to force a local resident to confess to stealing a mobile phone.

Illustration: Maria Tolstova / Mediazone The jury institution has been experiencing a second birth in Russia-since the summer of 2018, a collegium of six people appeared in district courts. The list of crimes has expanded significantly.

In Onega, Arkhangelsk region, a local resident killed his girlfriend and burned her body in a trash can. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the UK. According to investigators, on November 30, an unnamed local resident was drinking with his girlfriend. They quarreled because the woman refused to explain where she had been absent for several days.