At a hearing in the Nadezhdinsky District Court of the Primorsky Territory, the prosecutor requested 6.5 years in a general regime colony for 77-year-old follower of Jehovah's Witnesses Vladimir Filippov. This was reported on the website of the religious organization. A former military man from the village of Razdolnoye is accused of organizing the activities of a banned organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). Filippov does not admit guilt.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill on the return of the sobering-up system. The document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information. The resolution will come into force on January 1, 2021.

Alexey Navalny. Photo: Official page on Instagram The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) against the politician Alexei Navalny. This was reported on the website of the department. As stated in the release, the case was also instituted against “other persons”.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that the organization is monitoring the case of his adviser and journalist Ivan Safronov. this He said in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda. “He worked for us for a short time, only a month and a half. However, all the troubles that he had arose while he was working as an adviser. We are monitoring the investigation and how the lawyers work. We are following the questions that are addressed to the president,” Rogozin noted.

The Moscow diocesan court deprived Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev of his rank, according to the website of the Moscow City Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. This decision must be approved by Patriarch Kirill. The reason for defrocking was Kuraev’s statements in LiveJournal, including an “offensive characterization” of the rector of the Moscow Epiphany Cathedral in Elokhov, Alexander Ageikin, who died of coronavirus.

In Moscow, the security forces came to the Uda-Saberik bar, where the Autograph-session of the Pussy Riot participant Maria Alekhina took place. The activist reported this by the Mediazone. Photo: Maria Alekhina According to her, 12 security officials came to the event. They blocked the entrance for visitors, saying that they were conducting an audit. “They forced to remove the entire market and my books,” said Alekhina. We are talking about the book of the activist Riot Days .

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested the former schema-abbot Sergius in cases of, and. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. He was remanded in custody until February 28. Sergius himself did not admit guilt . The assault on the Sredneuralsky convent began on the night of December 29. Security forces cordoned off the building and did not allow anyone inside for several hours. Near the monastery there were clashes between pilgrims and police.

Sberbank will seize half of the pension of the mother of the ex-coordinator of Open Russia in Krasnodar, Yana Antonova, in the case of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the activist reported on Facebook. “Sber notified my mother that now 50% of her pension will be confiscated in order to pay off a debt of 75 million, which the Basmanny court and the investigation impute to FBK.

The head of the VEB state corporation, Igor Shuvalov, was included in the directors of the Skolkovo Foundation and was elected chairman. this . reports The press service of the fund Shuvalov will take the place of billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. This decision was made at the board of directors today, December 29, the release says.

Illustration: Maria Tolstova / Mediazone The Pskov City Court sentenced the ex-teacher of the local branch of the FSIN Academy, an instructor in combat and special training, Major of the internal service of Ivan Mikhailov to 11 years in a maximum security colony. A year ago, he drank vodka with his friend, investigator of the police department of the Pskov district in retirement - and he himself does not understand why he broke her three vertebrae, seven ribs and inflicted 22 stabs with a knife.

The director Vitaly Mansky drew up a protocol for the picket in support of the politician Alexei Navalny. About this "Mediazone" told the lawyer "Human Rights Cards" Alena Borisova. The hidden means political. How single pickets in police protocols turn into collective promotions According to her, the director is charged with violation of the rally rules (part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The Pskov City Court sentenced Ivan Mikhailov, a teacher at the Academy of the Federal Penitentiary Service, to 11 years in a maximum security colony, accused of 54-year-old retired police investigator Lidia Egorova. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court.

Human rights activist Lev Ponomarev was included in the register of “media - foreign agents” for reposting materials from such publications on Facebook, and actionist Daria Apakhonchich was included in the “Current Time” magazine, recognized as a “foreign agent.” This was reported by Kommersant with reference to a “lawyer closely familiar with the situation.” Now, according to the law, “mass media is a foreign agent” can be recognized as an individual who distributes materials from a publication

The Central District Court of Chelyabinsk fined a local resident Raisa Morozov for 500 rubles for a picket in support of the politician Alexei Navalny. This was reported by the human rights organization "Apology of protest". Morozova went to a single picket to the building of the local control of the FSB with a husband’s panties attached to the stick. It drew up a protocol on petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The military court of appeal considered the refusals to investigate the torture of those involved in the case of the “terrorist community “Network”” to be “sufficiently motivated”, since not all the accused complained about them. Excerpts from the motivational part of the decision are provided by “7x7”. In February, the Volga District Military Court sentenced seven defendants to terms ranging from six to 18 years in prison.