President Vladimir Putin invited writer Zakhar Prilepin, pianist Denis Matsuev, Olympic champion Elena Isinbaeva, senators Andrei Klishas and Alexei Pushkov, as well as the first cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova to the working group on changing the Constitution. This was reported on the Kremlin website.

The Novgorod regional court released Vladimir Lonsky, head of the regional traffic police department, accused of taking a bribe, from a pre-trial detention center, TASS and Idel.Realii report , citing the court’s press service. According to the agency, the court granted the defense's request and released the policeman under house arrest. In July 2019, Lonsky was detained on suspicion of receiving a large bribe (clause “c” of Part 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code).

At a meeting in the Polyarny District Court of the Murmansk Region, the prosecutor's office asked Jehovah's Witnesses Viktor Trofimov and Roman Markin to serve time in the case of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. Trofimov was asked to be sentenced to six and a half years in prison, Markin to six years.

The Cheryomushkinsky court recovered 2.3 million rubles at the request of the Moscow prosecutor from eight oppositionists because of the summer protests. This was reported by the press secretary of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Kira Yarmysh. Among the defendants were Alexey Navalny, Ilya Yashin, Lyubov Sobol, Ivan Zhdanov, Georgy Alburov, Vladimir Milov, Alexander Solovyov and Oleg Stepanov.

The head of the Primorsky district of the Arkhangelsk region, Valentina Rudkina, scolded Vladimir Anisimov, a journalist from the local publication Severnye Novosti, for writing about problems with the road in a local village, the publication itself reports . On December 31, Northern News published material about problems with road repairs in the village of Panteevka.

Photo: Donat Sorokin / TASS In his message to the Federal Assembly, President Vladimir Putin announced large -scale changes in the Constitution, which, as expected, will be enshrined in the “vote of citizens of the country”. The first of Putin’s proposals is to add to the text of the Basic Law a indication of the Championship of the Constitution to “the requirements of international law and contracts, as well as decisions of international bodies”.

In Samara, a policeman was involved in an accident during which his companion died, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. The Investigative Committee does not name the policeman, but writes that he is a district police officer in one of the city districts and for juvenile affairs in Samara.

Vasily Kuksov, a defendant in the Penza case, was diagnosed with an open form of tuberculosis. His lawyer Alexander Fedulov spoke about this in a conversation with Mediazona. The tests were carried out by doctors from pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Penza, where the accused is being held. With this form of the disease, infection can be transmitted through airborne droplets.

The Krasnokamsk City Court of Perm canceled the fine and dismissed the administrative case against the Perm branch of Memorial, reports the Public Verdict Foundation. According to the fund, the court canceled the fine of 200 thousand rubles, which the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Perm Territory imposed on the organization in October 2019. Soon the court overturned the fine of 50 thousand rubles to the head of the organization, Robert Latypov.

A resident of the village of Nikel in the Murmansk region was sentenced to seven and a half years in a maximum security colony for beating and forcibly holding his ex-girlfriend in the apartment. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. As the court found, in January 2019, the man was drinking with his ex-lover, and when she decided to go home, he beat the woman with a hammer, a metal pipe and his hands and threatened to kill her.

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan arrested for 10 days environmental activist Anatoly Malov, who came to the police department to support his detained ally Elena Izotova. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to activist Irina Nikiforova. The girl claims that Malov was denied a defense lawyer, and the meeting was held behind closed doors. for five days Later, Izotova herself was arrested .

During President Vladimir Putin's address to the Federal Assembly, security forces detained pensioner Tatyana Pankina from Asbest, who was standing in the Alexander Garden with a poster against corruption. about this writes MBH Media . Ural" with reference to Natalia Krylova, a deputy of the Asbest City Duma, who saw the detention. According to Krylova, at first the woman wanted to hold a picket on Red Square, but it was blocked.

President Vladimir Putin, during his annual address to the Federal Assembly, proposed making several changes to the Constitution and holding a “vote of the country’s citizens” for this purpose. The speech of the head of state was broadcast on the Rossiya-1 TV channel.

One of the prisoners at the Moscow pre-trial detention center No. 2 “Butyrka” tried to commit, the Moscow news agency reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. According to the agency, the day before, the arrestee “Butyrka”, an unnamed native of Chechnya born in 1992, who attempted to commit [Roskomnadzor] with the help of [Roskomnadzor], was taken to one of the Moscow hospitals. “At the moment, the citizen is receiving the necessary assistance,” the source added.

The Central District Court of Komsomolsk-on-Amur extended for three months a domestic arrest activist and artist Julia Tsvetkova, accused of distributing pornography, and allowed her to walk for an hour a day. About this writes "OVD-Info" with reference to the mother of the girl Anna Khodareva. Previously, Tsvetkova could not go out. Now she can walk from 12 to one in the afternoon 500 meters from the house.