In St. Petersburg, the Korvetny Corvette, which was built for the Ministry of Defense, caught fire on the Northern shipyard, several people were injured. This was reported to TASS in the city department of the Ministry of Emergencies and the United Shipbuilding Corporation . A fire with an area of ​​800 square meters was localized by 22:49 Moscow time, rescuers noted.

A former employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service, who administered the “Police Ombudsman” public page, told the court that the investigator forced her to sign a statement against the creator of the project, Vladimir Vorontsov. Vorontsov’s lawyer Fyodor Aksenenko reported this to Mediazona. “The witness on record [said] that at the stage of the preliminary investigation pressure was put on her,” the lawyer recounted her words at the hearing.

The Ministry of Justice recognized the Mayak center from Primorsky Krai, which helps LGBT people and victims of domestic violence, as an unregistered association - a “foreign agent”. This is stated on the ministry's website. The Lilith organization, led by the head of Mayak, psychologist Regina Dzugkoeva, was included in the register of NGOs - “foreign agents”. Mayak is one of the members of the Russian LGBT Network, which was also included in the register of “foreign agents” in November.

After the summer session, 13 students were expelled from St. Petersburg State University whose exam violations were recorded by the proctoring system. this reported The vice-rector of the university, Marina Lavrikova, drew attention to the publication. , and Rotunda Lavrikova said that a total of 10,829 online exams were scheduled using the Examus system . 78% of the exams were passed on the first attempt, another 82% on the second, and 90% on the third.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov in an interview with Tina Kandelaki on the RTVi commented on the law on “foreign agents” television channel. The broadcast is carried out on the YouTube channel. "Law is law. No matter how talented you are, if you talk about politics with foreign money, please stick a label on it,” Peskov said.

All over Russia, police officers are being fired due to subscriptions to public pages or YouTube channels of politician Alexei Navalny. This is reported with reference to several police officers. According to the TV channel, since the end of October, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been firing employees who subscribed to opposition public pages or liked videos of politician Alexei Navalny. 14 police officers spoke about being forced to write reports of voluntary dismissal.

Roskomnadzor demanded that YouTube unblock the German-language channel RT DE - RT auf Sendung . this . reports The press service of the department The regulator sent a letter to the owner of video hosting Google LLC demanding that the channel be unblocked “as soon as possible” and explain the reason for the blocking.

State Duma deputies adopted in the third reading a bill introducing Fan ID for fans. The document was published on the website of the lower house of parliament. The law comes into force on June 1, 2022. After this, the government will determine which competitions fans will have to obtain a Fan ID for .

Photo: Vadim Bryadov / Kommersant An anonymous “thieves' run” walks on the Internet - it states that thieves in the law decided to no longer lower to the status of “lowered” prisoners whom the security forces or “activists” raped with whines, batons and other objects.

to 15 and 14 days of arrest The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced Pussy Riot members Maria Alekhina and Lyusa Stein under the article on propaganda of Nazi symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). Alekhina herself reported this to Mediazona. She clarified that she and Stein would be taken to serve administrative arrest at the Temporary Detention Center for Foreign Citizens in Sakharovo, near Moscow.

The Central Bank (CB) raised the key rate for the seventh time this year, according to the regulator’s website. The bank raised the rate by 100 basis points, or one percentage point. Now it is 8.5%. The last time such a key rate was in 2017. “ Inflation is higher than the October forecast of the Bank of Russia. In October-November, the monthly seasonally adjusted growth rates of consumer prices were the highest in the last six years.

The FSB reported on the prevention of a “violent action” in Rostov-on-Don against a journalist. this . reports The press service of the department As stated in the release, a Russian born in 1979 was detained in the Rostov region.

Olga Mirimskaya, co-owner of the Corporate Finance Bank (BKF) and the Russian Product company, was detained in Moscow, Novaya Gazeta writes , citing lawyer Alexander Chernov. Unnamed sources of the publication claim that on December 16, Mirimskaya’s country house was searched, then she was taken for questioning to the Investigative Committee, and she is now in a temporary detention center.

The largest Russian companies complained about the weak power of domestic processors. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the results of the meeting of the Ministry of Digital Development on December 9 and CNews . At the meeting there were representatives of Rostelecom, the Department of Information Technologies (DIT) of Moscow, VTB, Rosatom, Rostec, ALROSA, Sberbank and Russian Post.

In Chelyabinsk, police major Yana Kirillova, who led a group of local police officers protesting over eviction from service apartments, was fired. about this .