The Ministry of Digital Development has signed a contract for monitoring the media and social networks for employees of the press services of the president and government for 200 million rubles. This was reported on the government procurement website, and drew attention to the document. the Telecom Review telegram channel The contract was signed for six months with the Moscow company M13.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning foreigners from owning large online classifieds services. This is reported on the legal information portal. “The owner of the ad placement service can be citizens of Russia, Russian legal entities or organizations - in this case, foreign participation is allowed, but Russian owners must have the right to make decisions (more than 50% of voting shares),” said the author of the bill, MP Anton Gorelkin.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law that obliges business representatives to transfer to the state the biometric data of Russians, in particular voice samples and facial images. This is reported on the legal information portal. Now biometrics must be stored only in the state Unified Biometric System (UBS), created back in 2018. Private companies that collected such data before the law was passed are required to hand it over to the government “without obtaining the consent” of customers.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law amending the Criminal Code, providing for life sentences for “sabotage activities.” The document was published on the legal information website and has already entered into force.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law that introduces sentences of up to five years in prison for the third violation of the law on “foreign agents” within a year. This is reported on the legal information portal. Changes were made to Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code. Previously, it was called “malicious evasion of duty” by a person declared a “foreign agent.” Now the word “malicious” has been removed. The State Duma adopted this law at the end of December.

A criminal case was opened against Vladislav Sinitsa, who is serving a sentence in Kostroma penal colony No. 1, for calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Network Freedoms project. According to investigators, Sinitsa, while in the medical unit, registered an account on Twitter.

President Vladimir Putin has made changes to state policy in the fight against corruption. Among other things, he allowed officials not to publish their declarations during the war. The decree was published on the website of legal acts; attention was drawn project to it by the Faridaily of journalists Farida Rustamova and Maxim Tovkaylo. This document comes into force from the date of signing.

The Kursk Garrison Military Court sentenced conscientious objectors Yuri Degtyarev and Alexey Selivanov to three years in prison each in a case of group failure to comply with an order (Part 2.2 of Article 332 of the Criminal Code). The Mediazona correspondent discovered the case file and spoke with the chairman of the court, Maxim Smirnov. When exactly the verdict was handed down, Smirnov did not answer. The last court hearing in the case noted on the card took place on December 22.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law classifying the St. George ribbon as a symbol of military glory and introducing a punishment of up to five years in prison for its “public desecration.” The document was published on the legal information website and has already entered into force. According to the law, the St.

The Chinese payment system UnionPay has limited cash withdrawals abroad for users of cards issued by Russian banks. This was reported on the Primorye Bank website. Russians who are abroad can now withdraw no more than 50 thousand yuan per day (just over 500 thousand rubles or 7.2 thousand dollars) and per year - no more than 500 thousand yuan (5.2 million rubles or 72 thousand dollars). Similar rules apply for withdrawing equivalent amounts in other currencies.

The Ministry of Justice included in the register of extremist materials a video about a schoolboy who, during a dispute, recorded an audio message about Ukraine, which “has always been part of Russia” and “has sucked its entire existence from Russia.” The decision to recognize the video “Political scientist <...> on state conflicts” as extremist was made by the Surgut City Court this summer.

The Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee demanded that the publisher of Mediazona, Pyotr Verzilov, be arrested in absentia in a criminal case regarding a Canadian passport. A copy of the investigator’s petition was posted by the head of the human rights group Agora, Pavel Chikov. The hearing in the Basmanny District Court of Moscow was scheduled for January 9.

The Ministry of Digital Development is preparing a bill that will allow Russian companies to illegally use the software of foreign companies that have left Russia due to sanctions. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to a letter from the director of the IT industry development department Dmitry Nikitin to the organization “Public Consumer Initiative”.

Judge of the Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg Yulia Merkulova postponed until April 14 the consideration of the criminal case of the chairman of the regional branch of the Union of Paratroopers Evgeniy Teterin. Kommersant was informed about this by the court’s press service. Teterin is accused of three counts of mediation in bribes (Part 4 of Article 291.1 of the Criminal Code).

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Crimean Tatar Ernes Ametov to 11 years in prison in the case of participation in the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir. This was reported by a correspondent for the publication “Grati”. During the debate, lawyer Dzhemil Temishev argued that the authorities were persecuting Ametov because he refused to testify against his compatriots.