Natalia and Pavel Zelensky. Photo: Natalia's personal page on Facebook The operator Pavel Zelensky was sent to the pre-trial detention center in the case of calls for extremism, excited due to two tweets that he wrote after the self-immolation of the Nizhny Novgorod journalist Irina Slavina. His wife Natalia Zelenskaya told Mediazone how the security forces came to her and three her children in the early morning (Pavel spent the night with his mother and detained him there).

In Krasnogorsk, senior investigator Preobrazhenskaya demanded that the head of the criminal investigation department of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs detain 43 thousand viewers of the video of Army Colonel Mikhail Shendakov, who is being investigated in a case of extremism. This was reported by Grani.ru with reference to the document. The investigator notes that the video “Surkov promised war to Donbass!” At least 43,386 YouTube users watched on the “Soviet Television” channel.

Omsk resident Anton Belyaev said that an employee of the sociological service of VTsIOM conducted a survey about the return of politician Alexei Navalny to Russia. about this He wrote on Twitter; the recording of the conversation is at the disposal of Mediazona. At the beginning of the dialogue, the man introduces himself as VTsIOM employee Andrey and utters standard phrases about recording the conversation, participating in the survey and anonymity.

The Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the Irkutsk Region opened a criminal case of sexual violence against prisoner Kezhik Ondar in pre-trial detention center-1 of Irkutsk. this with reference to the document Vladimir Osechkin, reports The founder of the human rights organization Gulagu.net, .

The Moscow prosecutor's office warned about the “inconsistency of the mass event” at Vnukovo airport, where politician Alexei Navalny is arriving on January 17. This is reported on the department's website. The prosecutor's office sent warnings to 15 people "calling for participation in a public event." “We clarify that both the organization of an unapproved public event and participation in it entail liability established by law,” the release says.

Academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences spoke out in support of graduate student Azat Miftakhov, accused in the case of a broken window in the United Russia office. this on Facebook . reported Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Belavin The appeal was signed by 54 people. “The trial of Azat Miftakhov causes the most serious concern of his colleagues,” the publication says.

The Pervorechensky District Court of Vladivostok fined activist Gia Kakabadze 40 thousand rubles for pictures he published on Instagram in 2019 depicting President Vladimir Putin, reports MBKH Media. Kakabidze's lawyer Polina Sidelnikova confirmed this information to Mediazona. As stated on the court’s website, judge Oleg Khrenkov fined Kakbadze under article. The reason for the protocol was posts with Putin with the captions: “Robin Put.

The Ministry of Health of the Sverdlovsk Region filed a lawsuit to protect the business reputation due to the news of the publication 66.ru to investigate the Mediazones on mortality from Covid-19 . This was reported to the Mediazone by representatives of the portal. The lawsuit claims that the facts from the material “are not true and defeat the business reputation [of the ministry]”. What kind of information is defeated by the honor of the Ministry of Health, the document does not say.

The Yenisei Department of Rostechnadzor fined the Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company, part of Nornickel, for 1 million rubles, at whose thermal power plant there was a diesel leak in May last year. this . reported The press service of the department The company was imposed the maximum possible fine under the article on gross violation of industrial safety requirements (Part 3 of Article 9.1 of the Administrative Code).

In Perm, the prosecutor's office demanded a harsher sentence for three local activists in the case of an action with a dummy of President Vladimir Putin. This is reported by “Apology of Protest”. Danil Vasiliev was previously sentenced to a year's probation, Alexander Etkin was acquitted. Alexander Shabarchin was initially sentenced to two years in prison, but on appeal the sentence was changed to a suspended sentence. The prosecutor considered the sentence too lenient.

The Presidential Grants Fund allocated 2.998 million rubles to the Russian Union of Martial Arts, whose presidium includes First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko. to this . drew attention Open Media Kiriyenko, according to the decree of Vladimir Putin, also heads the coordinating committee for the allocation of presidential grants.

The Moscow City Court rejected Roskomsvoboda's claim against the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, over a decree obliging employers to send weekly data on employees working remotely to the mayor's office. This was reported by RBC with reference to the human rights project and the press service of the court. The Moscow government was also a defendant in the lawsuit.

The Ordzhonikidze District Court of Ufa arrested four participants in the November conflict in the village of Karamaskali, Bashinform reported , citing a source in law enforcement agencies, and Interfax, citing an “informed” interlocutor. According to Bashinform, all four are members of an organization recognized as extremist in Russia. 43-year-old Rail Abkadirov, 42-year-old Rustam Amanov, 42-year-old Ilnur Kinisarov and 30-year-old Marat Sharafutdinov were taken into custody.

Russia has begun to withdraw from the regime, which allows inspection flights over the territories of other states. This was announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. its withdrawal announced In May 2020 , the United States, which had previously also left the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, . Six months later, in November, they stopped fulfilling their obligations under the contract.

In Kamchatka, the 35th Garrison Military Court sentenced to eight years in a general regime colony a military man who stole money from his unit and went abroad, according to the court’s website. From the case file it follows that the convicted person’s name is Alexey Morgunov. The court found that while serving in the financial department of a military unit, Morgunov stole 8 million rubles and embezzled 1 million rubles.