The Investigative Committee began a pre-investigation investigation into the fact of “possible abuse of official powers” ​​with the use of violence (points “a” and “b” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code) by special forces during a search in the apartment of the poet Artem Kamardin. The Axiom project reports this and publishes the investigator’s report.

The State Security Service (SSS) of Latvia recommended the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic to ban former Dozhd correspondent Alexey Korostelev from entering the country. This is stated on the department's website.

Vasily Slezkin, a full-time student at the Moscow Polytechnic University, who was detained near the entrance and taken to the military registration and enlistment office, was returned home. His relatives told Mediazona about this. According to them, the student was released the day before.

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Yekaterinburg stopped the criminal prosecution of political scientist Fyodor Krashennikov in the case of defamation of veteran Ignat Artemenko. Krashennikov wrote about this in his telegram channel, the information was confirmed to TASS by his lawyer Alexey Bushmakov.

The Abakan City Court fined the Expert-Media company, which is the founder of the New Focus magazine, 450 thousand rubles under the protocol of inciting hatred or enmity. This was reported by the press service of the court. The court found the organization guilty of inciting hatred or enmity (Article 20.3.1 of the Administrative Code) due to publications on the website of the New Focus magazine. We are talking about five materials published in 2018 - 2021.

The St. Petersburg City Court recognized the “Spring” movement, which organized protests against the war in Ukraine, as an extremist organization. This was reported in the movement’s Telegram channel. As lawyers Anton Golubev and Andrey Chertkov from the First Department note , the activists did not see the text of the claim, since the document was marked “secret”, and the process itself took place behind closed doors.

State Duma deputies adopted in the first reading the bill “On probation” for convicted persons. This was reported on the State Duma website. The document envisages the creation of a probation institution in the country; before this, similar laws were adopted only at the level of several regions. The main instrument of probation, the explanatory note says, will be an “individual program of resocialization, social adaptation and social rehabilitation” for convicts.

In the Jewish Autonomous Region, a case of high treason was opened against a junior researcher at the Bastak Nature Reserve and a former employee of the Birobidzhan mayor's office, Valery Kachin (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). reported by the telegram channel “Caution, News” and the publication MSK1.RU. This was According to Beware News, 35-year-old Kachin was recently transferred to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center.

A court in Nizhny Novgorod sent a policeman accused of selling drugs to a pre-trial detention center. This was reported on the website of the department of the Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod region. According to investigators, the accused sold drugs for the first time on November 26. On December 1, adds the press service of the Investigative Committee, while trying to sell drugs again, a police officer was detained by security forces.

Video hosting YouTube has deleted the account of RT Balkan , a project of the Russian state channel Russia Today in the Serbian language. this reported Representatives of RT Balkan . website The RT Balkan and its pages on social networks were launched on November 15. The YouTube channel, according to the last copy in the Google cache, had a thousand subscribers before the blocking. Google , which owns YouTube , did not comment on the blocking.

The prosecutor's office of the Admiralteysky district of St. Petersburg drew up a report against rapper Miron Fedorov (Oksimiron) because of the song “Oida”. This is stated in the department’s response to the director of the Safe Internet League, daughter of Senator Elena Mizulina Ekaterina. The prosecutor's office found in the song calls for “violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation” (Part 2 of Article 20.3.2 of the Administrative Code).

Photo: Anton Vaganov / Reuters President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the prohibition of “propaganda of LGBT”. Its restrictions concern all Russians, and not just children and adolescents, as before. For violation, multimillion -dollar fines are threatened. Mediazona has compiled a list of projects that help LGBTK+ people. Human rights activists told what they do, how to support them and who will affect new repressive measures.

In Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region, a man in camouflage fired at a group of police officers, at least one of them was wounded, TASS and 161.RU reported in the press service of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The department clarified that the attack occurred around noon on December 6. Local residents told 161.RU that they heard shots in the Novaya Sokolovka area. They are looking for the attacker, the Ministry of Internal Affairs added.

The Tomsk City Duma replaced direct elections of the mayor with a competitive procedure - now the deputies themselves will choose the head of the city. this . reported Taiga.info a law abolishing direct mayoral elections in Tomsk At the end of October, the regional Duma adopted . Tomsk deputies today made these changes to the city charter.

The investigative department of the Investigative Committee for Anapa opened a criminal case on the desecration of the memorial in the park of the 70th anniversary of the Victory after the publication of a video with two underage girls, one of whom lights a cigarette from the Eternal Flame. This was reported in the telegram channel of the Investigative Committee. “Investigators inspected the scene of the incident and identified the girls depicted in the video.