The politician Alexei Navalny was put on the federal wanted list on December 29, 2020, follows from the resolution of the Moscow department of the Federal Penitentiary Service, which was published by Mash . The oppositionist's lawyer Vadim Kobzev confirmed this information to Mediazona. According to the documents, the “convict is evading the control” of the Federal Penitentiary Service, and therefore, on November 27, 2020, “initial search actions” began against him.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested local resident Yuri Otopkov in the case of the theft of archaeological finds from the archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This was reported by the press service of the city courts. The man was accused of theft on an especially large scale (clause “b” of Part 4 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code).

The driver of Mediazona publisher Pyotr Verzilov and blogger Ilya Varlamov, Isaac Lotwal, said that after being detained in South Sudan, security forces tortured him with electric shocks and beat him. Verzilov reported this to Mediazona. “The national security service beat him and demanded that he confess where the drone was,” added Pussy Riot member Verzilov. Security officials claimed that the Russians “bought” the driver.

The artist from Ufa Alena Savelyeva began to receive threats due to the publication in the personal account of drawings of half-naked people in Bashkir national clothes. She told about this "rain." “They write to me that they will find me, that they will find my relatives, that even if I hide, I’ll leave somewhere, my loved ones will suffer. Also, people are presented to journalists and want to make an appointment.

The governor of the Eastern Equatoria province in South Sudan, Louis Lobong Lohor, apologized to Mediazona publisher Peter Verzilov and blogger Ilya Varlamov for the detention. Verzilov told Mediazona about this. “One of the heads of the national security service arrived, gave me a phone number and said that the governor of the province would now speak to me, who would bring an official apology from the province and the president of South Sudan,” the publisher said.

Roskomnadzor asked the media not to write foreign names, surnames and city names in Cyrillic, “consonant with obscene words.” This was reported in the telegram channel of the service.

In South Sudan , Pussy Riot member , blogger Ilya Varlamov, his wife Lyubov Varlamova and the director of the European Gymnasium Ivan Bogantsev were released. Verzilov himself told Mediazona about this. RIA Novosti reported , citing Russian Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova, that “issues related to their departure” from the country are now being resolved.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the North Caucasus Federal District refused to initiate a case of police attacking lawyers from Kabardino-Balkaria. This was reported by Advokatskaya Gazeta with reference to the text of the resolution dated December 23. In May 2020, police detained lawyer Ratmir Zhilokov in Nartkal during an inspection of the trustee’s premises.

Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, added the domain of the Dropmail service to the register of prohibited sites, which allows you to anonymously create a temporary email. Roskomsvoboda drew attention to this. The authors of the service indicated on the main page that they were blocked without warning, and created a mirror of the Russian-language version of the project.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Voronezh Region opened a case of negligence due to the demolition of the complex of buildings of bakery No. 1, built on the basis of a steam mill of the late 19th century. This is reported on the department's website. The case was opened against unidentified employees of the department for the protection of cultural heritage sites of the Voronezh region, who “untimely” included the buildings in the list of cultural heritage sites.

President Vladimir Putin ordered the start of “mass vaccination of all Russians” from January 18. He announced this during a speech on Rossiya 24. His words are reported by RIA Novosti. Putin instructed to “prepare the appropriate infrastructure” for mass vaccination of Russians. Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova reported that the authorities are ready to begin vaccination.

Information security specialist Alexey Sopov discovered a vulnerability in the Russian Railways network that allows access to the company’s cameras and electronic displays. about this He spoke on the Habr portal. Sopov claims that he found an open proxy server on the Internet and decided to check where it was installed. The author points out that usually an open router is either a hacked device, or the owner forgot to disable this function.

The Public Relations Department of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly refused accreditation to Echo of Moscow in St. Petersburg correspondent Sergei Kagermazov due to a “large number of applications” from other journalists. about this . wrote The editor-in-chief of the radio station, Valery Nechai, Almost all the seats in the hall for correspondents on the day of the meeting on January 13 were free: in the photo that provided to the radio station, four people were sitting there.

The Department of the Investigative Committee for the Novosibirsk Region opened a criminal case into the torture of wards of a boarding home for mentally retarded children in the village of Oyash. This is reported on the department's website. According to investigators, from December 25 to December 29, 2020, the 17-year-old teenager was in a boarding school hospital. During this time he received multiple bruises and abrasions.

Photo: Peter Verzilov In South Sudan, in the city of Kapoet, Pussy Riot , Blogger Ilya Varlamov, his wife Lyubov Varlamov, as well as the director of the European gymnasium Ivan Bogantsev, was detained. About this "Mediazone" was told by Verzilov himself. The reason for the detention was the remote control from the drone, which was found in the baggage of Varlamov.