In Kemerovo, the activist of the movement “Do not be inert” by Maxim Lavrentiev, arrested in cases of and, sent to the basement of the investigative insulator No. 1. His letter with a story from a pre -trial detention center was published by the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny. “The camera is damp. On an area of ​​4.5 square meters. meters there is a bed, a table, a bathroom (not separated from the camera). There is no radio station in the chamber. The floors are rotten, mosquitoes fly.

Present Time journalist Angelina Kazakova said that United Russia deputy Dmitry Vyatkin, the author of the amendments to return real sentences as punishment under the article on libel (128.1 of the Criminal Code), sent her to hell after asking for a comment. The next day, the TV channel admitted that it had made a mistake and apologized. The recording of the broadcast was published on the channel’s website.

Members of Ivan Safronov’s initiative group and the organizers of a charity auction in support of cancer-stricken journalist Ekaterina Istomina spoke about the bot attack. One of the organizers, Alexandra Djordjevic, reported this to Mediazona. According to her, the auction was supposed to start at 20:00 Moscow time.

In Grozny, 71-year-old lawyer Sergei Marakov was detained on drug possession charges. This was reported by “Advokatskaya Street” and “Kavkaz.Realii” with reference to lawyer Maxim Kravchenko. According to him, Marakov was first accused of petty hooliganism, and then of possession and use of marijuana. “Advokatskaya Street” clarifies that he is charged with possession of drugs on a large scale without the intent to sell (Part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code).

In Moscow, police officers came to the New Year's Eve party for the human rights organization Open Russia at the New Sincerity club. This was reported by the movement’s lawyer Anastasia Burakova. According to her, the police “don’t make any demands, they just walk around and take pictures, it’s as if the officers were gathered from all over the city.” Burakova noted that, “judging by the red uniform,” employees of Rospotrebnadzor also came to the club.

During the debate in the Engels District Court, the prosecutor's office requested sentences of 7.5 to 12 years in prison for three police officers who planted drugs on a local resident. Lawyer Anton Alekseev, who collaborates with the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” told Mediazona about this.

The State Duma in the third reading adopted a bill obliging social networks to block obscene content. This was reported on the website of the lower house of parliament.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested nationalist Semyon Tokmakov on charges of murders, in which neo-Nazi Maxim Martsinkevich (Tesak) previously admitted to involvement. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. Tokmakov is charged with the murder of two or more persons, committed by a group or by prior conspiracy, motivated by political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred (points “a”, “g”, “l” of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code).

Voluntary trial participants for the Russian Sputnik V vaccine will no longer be given a placebo, but only the drug itself. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the director of the Gamaleya Center, Alexander Ginzburg. According to him, many volunteers who received a placebo found out about it after the tests and were vaccinated with the vaccine itself.

Judge of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow Anatoly Belyakov sentenced municipal deputy Yulia Galyamina to two years in prison, finding her guilty of the crime, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. The prosecutor's office demanded that Galyamina be sentenced to three years in prison. The reason for the criminal case was the July protest against amendments to the Constitution and two decisions on fines that came into force.

In the Golovinsky District Court of Moscow, the state prosecution requested six years in a general regime colony for graduate student Azat Miftakhov in the case of a broken window in the United Russia office in Khovrino and a smoke bomb thrown inside. This was reported by the head of the international human rights group "Agora" Pavel Chikov with reference to Miftakhov's lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina.

The Perovsky District Court fined Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer for the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and the producer of Navalny LIVE , a thousand rubles in an administrative case of disobedience to the police (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code), reports MBKh Media. This information was confirmed to Mediazona by the press service of the court. Sobol was detained on December 21 near the house of FSB officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev, the alleged poisoner of Alexei Navalny.

Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin / Kommersant The State Duma significantly tightened the punishment for slander: the term of imprisonment was increased to five years. Legislators allocated accusations of sexual violence - the maximum punishment is provided for them. The Criminal Code introduced the concept of “slander on the Internet”, and they can now judge for information about “several persons, including individually vague”.

The Astrakhan Regional Court sentenced a 56-year-old local resident to 14 years in prison in the case of her 12-year-old son, according to the website of the regional prosecutor's office. We are talking about social activist Galina Morozova, who was a member of the A Just Russia party and was repeatedly nominated for elections, including for regional governor. The child disappeared on March 4, 2020.

In the third reading, the State Duma adopted a bill on fines for hosting companies, as well as owners of websites and information resources for refusing to delete content prohibited in Russia. This was reported on the website of the lower house of parliament. The maximum fine for hosting and website owners for “failure to delete” prohibited information is up to eight million rubles.