In Kalmykia, the Elista City Court imposed 20 hours of compulsory labor on Nikolai Gilyandikov for participating in a protest against the appointment of the city mayor. about this . The activist himself told MBKh Media Gilyandikov was found guilty of violating the rules of holding the rally (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). According to the case file on the court website, the protocol was considered on December 20.

The Office of the Investigative Committee on Karelia for the second time refused to initiate the case against the journalist of Mediazona Alla Konstantinova and the prisoner Ruben Poghosyan, whom IK-9 chief Ivan Savelyev accused of slander due to an article about torture in the colony. The decision to refuse to initiate the case is at the disposal of "Mediazons".

The Kurgansky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory sentenced the local resident Olga Shvetsova to the seven years of the colony, accused of murder (part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code) of an elderly neighbor, the head of the Kuban branch of the “Committee against torture” Sergey Romanov told Mediazone. Earlier, the prosecutor requested nine years in prison for the accused. The defendant refused to admit guilt.

The Department of the Investigative Committee for Chuvashia published a release in which it called blogger Konstantin Ishutov, sentenced to 3.5 years in the case of pornography and rehabilitation of Nazism, a “sympathizer of fascism”, and his supporters as “pseudo-human rights activists”.

Perm police suspended the investigation into the criminal case of illegal tree felling (Article 260 of the Criminal Code), which led to searches in the office of the local branch of Memorial and its head Robert Latypov. This was reported by the head of Agora, Pavel Chikov. A criminal case was opened in August after the Memorial expedition, whose employees and volunteers improved monuments to repressed Lithuanians and Poles in the village of Galyashor.

The Basmanny District Court arrested two defendants in the case of abuse of power (Article 285 of the Criminal Code) in the Federal Customs Service (FCS), RAPSI reports . The court granted the investigator's request and sent the deputy heads of the Vnukovo and Domodedovo customs offices, Konstantin Mishin and Yuri Cherkashin, to the pre-trial detention center. In addition, the court placed the senior investigator of Domodedovo customs, Andrei Shurygin, under house arrest.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sentenced hackers who hacked the Russian Railways and S7 systems to prison terms ranging from 10 to 13 years . Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. Maxim Matyushev was sentenced to 13 and a half years in a maximum security colony, Andrei Zhdanov to 12 and a half years in a maximum security colony, and Kirill Kulabukhov to 10 years in a general security colony.

President Vladimir Putin dismissed the head of the internal affairs department at the Moscow metro, Nikolai Savchenko. The document was published on the official legal information portal. TASS reported Savchenko's resignation more than a month ago, but there was no confirmation of this information.

The Leninsky District Court of Perm has limited the period of familiarization with the materials of the criminal case about the rally with a dummy of President Vladimir Putin, the lawyer of the accused Alexander Kotov, Anastasia Shardakova, told Mediazona. According to the lawyer, Kotov’s defense began to get acquainted with the five volumes of the criminal case the day before, on December 24. As a result, the court ordered the review to be completed by the evening of December 26.

A series of single pickets began at the building of the General Staff of the Armed Forces in Moscow in support of Anti-Corruption Foundation employee Ruslan Shaveddinov, who was taken to serve in Novaya Zemlya. this . reports Dozhd The action was organized by members of the Libertarian Party. Similar pickets have already taken place in Khabarovsk , Yekaterinburg , Yoshkar-Ola and Novomoskovsk . Other participants in single pickets also took to Tverskaya Street in Moscow.

The Tverskoy District Court fined the Memorial human rights center 300 thousand rubles under the law on “foreign agents.” Mediazona was informed about this by the organization’s press service.

In Novomoskovsk, military registration and enlistment office employees prevented Libertarian Party of Russia activist Natalya Makarova from holding a picket in support of FBK employee Ruslan Shaveddinov, Makarova herself told Mediazona. According to her, at 10 am she went to the picket, but after about half an hour, an employee of the military registration and enlistment office asked to leave the building with the words “How do we know whether you are a terrorist?” Makarova eventually left.

A criminal case has been opened against former Deputy Minister of Communications Alexander Soldatov, reports , citing sources. Meduza According to the publication, the case is related to the transfer of addresses to Soldatov’s company Reliable Communications approximately 490 thousand IPv4 from the Russian Research Institute for the Development of Public Networks (RosNIIROS).

In Obninsk, Kaluga Region, a court arrested a 26-year-old physical education teacher on suspicion of selling drugs, TASS reports . His name is not reported, but Obninsk.name writes that he is an employee of school No. 16. On the school’s website the man is listed as Mikhail Gorelikov. According to the publication, the teacher worked at the school for only a year; before that he taught in Moscow.

The Second Western District Military Court at the Outbound Court of Karelia found the anarchist Yekaterina Muranov guilty of justification of terrorism (part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and appointed her 350 thousand rubles of a fine, the Mediazone correspondent from the courtroom reports. A criminal case against Muranova was opened in March.