In the Leningrad Regional Covid Hospital, 90-year-old blockade survivor Claudia Petrova died, who performed the operation on herself - the scheduled procedure was postponed due to the discovery of coronavirus in the pensioner. This was reported by 47News and Komsomolskaya Pravda with reference to the woman’s relatives. At the end of November , it became known that Petrova operated on herself to get rid of accumulated fluid in the abdominal cavity - ascites arose due to oncology.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court decided to pay 3 million rubles to former prisoner Ivan Pitko, who suffered from torture in a colony. this with reference to him. reports Novaya Gazeta The publication, citing decisions of “several courts,” writes that in 2014, Pitko was beaten by five prisoners upon arrival at a new colony - IK-54 in the city of Novaya Lyalya, Sverdlovsk region. “They stretched me by my arms and legs and hung me upside down.

In Moscow, the police detained Pussy Riot, Maria Alekhina. She herself told Mediazone about this. The activist was delivered to the police department in the Tver district. Alekhina clarified that she was detained at the exit of the apartment - where the municipal deputy Lucyu Stein was detained several hours early. Before the detention, Alekhina wrote a post on Instagram: “Now I will leave the house, they will detain me, take me to the police department and give 15 days. For what?

The Frunzensky District Court of St. Petersburg fined lawyer Lidiya Golodovich 200 thousand rubles on charges of attacking a bailiff and a National Guardsman in the courthouse. This was reported in the telegram channel of the press service of the city courts. As stated in the release, the bailiff and the policeman demanded that Golodovich leave the court reception room and “legally” used force on her; in response, she began to scratch, push and swing at the security forces.

The Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the founder of the Gazgolder nightclub and record label and the owner of the Kruzhka pub, Evgeny Antimony, to three years in a general regime colony. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. Moskovsky Komsomolets writes that the businessman was found guilty of abuse of power (Article 285 of the Criminal Code). During the investigation, he was under recognizance not to leave the place.

The magistrate of court precinct No. 2 of the Leninsky district of Yaroslavl fined Andrei Palachev, the head of the military-patriotic club “Paratrooper”, five thousand rubles. about this 76.ru was told in court.

The prosecutor's office demanded that the accused in the case of cocaine smuggling from Argentina be sentenced from 15 to 19 years in prison. This was reported to Mediazona by the press service of the Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow. Andrei Kovalchuk was asked to serve 19 years in prison, Ali Abyanov - 18 years, Vladimir Kalmykov - 17 years, and Ishtimir Khudzhamov - 15 years. On December 13, the jury found them guilty but deserving of leniency.

The Second Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction overturned the sentence of blogger Eduard Bil (known under the pseudonym Edward Bil) and sent the case for a new trial. this RBC reports with reference to lawyer Sergei Zhorin. “The prosecutor’s office asked to take him into custody, but the court chose to prohibit certain actions,” the blogger’s lawyer clarified. On July 14, the Presnensky court sentenced Biel to two years of restricted freedom.

Photo: Ivan Vodopyanov / Kommersant The deputies adopted in the second reading a bill on the introduction of FAN ID for fans. This is stated on the website of the State Duma. The government introduced amendments on the “system of identification of spectators” at sporting events in June 2021. To determine what competitions fans will need to receive FAN ID for, the government will be. The second reading in the project clarified the deadline for entry into force - June 1, 2022.

Photo: Irina Buzhor / Kommersant According to Mediazons, excess mortality in Russia since April 2020 exceeded a million people. This became known after the speech of the Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, who during the consideration of the draft law on QR codes announced operational data on mortality in the first half of December 2021. The first to pay attention to this was the publication "Cold".

Magistrate Anastasia Tatarulya summoned state lawyers for Natalya Tyshkevich and Alla Gutnikova, accused in the DOXA case, despite the fact that the girls have defenders by agreement. This was reported by DOXA , which broadcast the meeting. The appointed defense attorney, Andisov, recused himself because Tyshkevich refused his services, the publication writes. Judge Tatarulya refused to remove him.

State Duma deputies adopted the bill on QR codes in public places in the first reading. The document was published on the website of the lower house of parliament. 329 deputies voted “for” the bill, 87 “against”, and one more abstained. The LDPR faction proposed its amendments to the second reading. During the meeting, several deputies spoke against the bill, among them a member of the New People party and the former mayor of Yakutsk Sardana Avksentieva.

Dmitry Popov. Photo: from personal archive On December 14, the Belarusian court sentenced the 29-year-old native of Severodvinsk Dmitry Popov to 16 years in the colony. Little is known about Popov’s case, the process was held closed.

In Moscow, municipal deputy of the Basmanny district Lyusya Stein was detained leaving her house, she said on Twitter. told Mediazona As Pussy Riot , Stein was detained when she was going to the FSIN inspection to register because of the verdict in a “sanitary case.” Stein is being taken to the Tverskoy district police station, activists added.

Blogger from Kabardino-Balkaria Insa Lander (real name Insa Oguz Soltan-Khamidovna) was included in the list of Rosfinmonitoring, which includes persons involved in cases of extremism and terrorism. This was brought to the attention of a telegram channel that monitors list updates. A person included in the Rosfinmonitoring list can withdraw only 10 thousand rubles per month from a bank account for himself and for each family member without independent income.