In the Mozhaisk district of Moscow, the warehouse of the All-Russian Institute of Light Alloys caught fire. this to TASS . reported Emergency services The agency reports that rescuers have already put out the fire. Its area was 400 square meters. There is no information about casualties. Mash writes that there were 400 propane and acetylene gas cylinders in the warehouse. TASS reports that due to the fire they began to explode. The exact cause of the fire is unknown.

The Vsevolozhsk District Court of the Leningrad Region released the defendant in the case of anti-war drawings, Alexander Kudryashov, from the pre-trial detention center. According to the Network Freedoms project, the preventive measure was changed to a ban on certain actions. The defense motion was supported by the prosecution. Kudryashov has been in custody since October 28.

The Ministry of Science and Higher Education, together with the Ministry of Defense, has developed a military training course for university students. This is reported on the website of the educational department. Among its sections are the combat step, the basics of tactical and medical training, the legal foundations of military service, as well as features of international relations, political, socio-economic and military-technical development of Russia.

The Ministry of Justice included human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina and the legal entity FBK Anti-Corruption Foundation Inc. in the unified register of “foreign agents” . Also on the list were TV presenter Gleb Pyanykh, journalist Anastasia Zhvik, former director of the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions program at the Carnegie Moscow Center Andrei Kolesnikov, the queer organization LGBT Sports Community, Feminist Anti-War Resistance and the Roskomsvoboda project.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow arrested St. Petersburg artist Daniil Krinari for two months in the case of cooperation with Ukraine (Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code). His wife told OVD-Info about this. Krinari was detained in Grodno, Belarus on December 21. Later, as OVD-Info reported, he was extradited to Moscow at the request of the FSB. The activist's wife denies that her husband collaborated with Ukraine.

Activist of the Solidarity movement Mikhail Kriger has had his charges increased, as reported by a telegram channel created in his support. The charge of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) was supplemented with an article on inciting hatred with the threat of violence (clause “a” of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code). According to the prosecution, Krieger encroached on the lives of FSB officers and called for Vladimir Putin to be executed by hanging.

The Chinese company ByteDance , which owns the TikTok application , confirmed that their employees used account data to monitor the movements of American journalists. ByteDance provided Forbes with internal letters about the results of the investigation. We are talking about journalists who wrote about technology, the work of TikTok applications and other ByteDance .

In Simferopol, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against former college teacher Andrei Belozerov for “discrediting” the army due to comments on VKontakte. This was reported by the human rights media project OVD-Info. The case was opened due to a dispute in the comments under a post by 45-year-old teacher Belozerov, which he posted the day after the Crimean Bridge was blown up.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow sentenced 22-year-old Maxim Dmitrienko, who was accused of trying to leave to fight on the side of Ukraine, to four years in prison. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. Dmitrienko will have to spend the first two years in prison, and the remaining two in a maximum security colony. He was also sentenced to a year of restricted freedom after his release.

Illustration: Boris Hmel / Mediazone In recent decades, one of the main words by which politics in Europe, the USA, and especially in Russia describe international relations, has become “geopolitics”.

The Supreme Court of Kalmykia increased the sentence of Elista administration employee Altan Ochirov to five years in a general regime colony in the case of military “fakes.” This was reported by the human rights project “Network Freedoms”. In October, Ochirov was sentenced to three years in prison.

The Chelyabinsk garrison military court sentenced contract soldier Alexey Kirginekov, who did not return to his unit after the start of mobilization, to 5 years and 1 month in a general regime colony, according to the court’s website. On December 16, Judge Igor Rasskazov found the serviceman guilty in the case of unauthorized abandonment of a unit for more than one month during the period of mobilization (Part 5 of Article 337 of the Criminal Code).

The Isaklinsky District Court of the Samara Region sentenced 44-year-old district police officer Gakil Badertdinov to 3 years in a general regime colony. This was reported by the human rights project “Axiom”. In the fall of 2018, in the village of Shentala, the body of Badertdinov’s wife Gulnaz was found in a well near the house, who committed suicide.

The magistrate of court district No. 1 of the Tatar district of the Novosibirsk region dismissed the case of United Russia deputy Sergei Mamontov, who hit a six-year-old boy and fled. this The regional prosecutor's office reported . The case of leaving a child in danger (Article 125 of the Criminal Code) was dropped due to the reconciliation of the parties.

The 2nd Western District Military Court located in Moscow sentenced activist Daria Polyudova to 9 years in a general regime colony in the case of creating the Left Resistance movement. This was reported by the human rights organization Network Freedoms.