The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 31-year-old Mikhail Zhigunov to five and a half years in prison in the case of a terrorist community in Kalmyk colony No. 2. this . reports The Caucasian Knot Zhigunov was found guilty of participating in the terrorist community “Jamaat” (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code), which, according to investigators, the prisoners created on the territory of IK-2.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree reducing the state's share in the authorized capital of Channel One from a controlling stake (51%) to at least 34% of shares. The document was published in the legal reference system “Consultant Plus”. At the same time, state control will be strengthened through , the Ministry of Digital Development told TASS.

Employees of the Investigative Committee searched the house of the mother of a Pussy Riot participant and the publisher of Mediazona in the village of Vidogoshchi, Tver Region. Verzilov himself told Mediazona about this. According to him, about 10 security officials arrived in the village to visit Elena Verzilova from Moscow today at 10 am.

The Leninsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod during a second consideration of the case of an attempt to sell drugs arrested the previously justified police captain Vadim Belov. This was reported to the "Mediazone" by the wife of the accused Ksenia Belov.

Legal Initiative lawyer Olga Gnezdilova filed an application with the Investigative Committee against Ingush investigator Islam Mogushkov with a demand to open a case of pressure on his part on Lidiya Azhigova, the mother of seven-year-old Aisha Azhigova, whose arm was amputated after being bullied by her aunt and uncle, she told Mediazona herself advocate. She demands to initiate a criminal case under Article 309 of the Criminal Code (compulsion to evade testifying).

The Perovsky District Court arrested the head of the election headquarters, Lyubov Sobol, and the producer of Navalny LIVE , Olga Klyuchnikova, for seven days. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. The Navalny LIVE employee was found guilty of disobeying a lawful order of a police officer (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code).

Russia has sent another 300 “instructors to train national army personnel” to the Central African Republic, said . the Russian Foreign Ministry The BBC Russian service, citing a source , wrote that they flew to the capital of the Central African Republic, Bangui, on the morning of December 20.

Activist Pavel Krisevich filed a lawsuit against the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in the Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow because of his expulsion after an action in support of political prisoners. This was reported by the human rights organization Apology of Protest. The activist demanded that the order on his expulsion be declared illegal, that it be reinstated, and that moral compensation be awarded in the amount of 500 thousand rubles.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on the return of imprisonment as a punishment under the article on libel (Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code). This is stated in the initiative card on the website of the lower chamber.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow returned to the police a report against Sota.vision journalist Dmitry Kochanov, which was drawn up due to the broadcast of the picket on Red Square on the publication’s YouTube channel. This is stated in the meeting card.

A 38-year-old lieutenant colonel of the Federal Security Service was found dead in the northeast of Moscow, Moskovsky Komsomolets reported , citing sources. The man, who was the deputy head of one of the FSO departments, was found in the morning under the windows of a house on Tsandera Street in the Ostankino district. He lived there in an apartment on the sixth floor.

The State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill that will allow unregistered associations to be recognized as “foreign agents” and expand the criteria for inclusion in the register of individuals. This is stated in his card on the website of the lower chamber.

State Duma deputies in the third reading adopted a law prohibiting the disclosure of personal data of security forces. The document was published in the State Duma database. As stated in the explanatory note to the bill, previously such a law could only apply to officials whose life and health were threatened due to their service.

The State Duma adopted amendments to the law on rallies in the second reading. The document was published on the website of the lower house of parliament. The changes affected the federal law “On meetings, rallies, demonstrations, processions and pickets.” As stated in the bill, now courts, when considering specific cases, will be able to recognize “the participation of several persons in such acts of picketing in turn” as rallies.

The Directorate of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg considers [Roskomnadzor] one of the possible causes of death of St. Petersburg scientist Alexander Kagansky. this . reported The press service of the department The body of 45-year-old Kagansky in his underwear and with wounds from a knife was found on the afternoon of December 19 near the house 29/3 on Zamshina Street.