President Vladimir Putin allowed gas buyers from “unfriendly” countries to pay debts for fuel supplies in foreign currency. The corresponding decree was published on the official portal of legal information. After the start of the war with Ukraine, European countries began to gradually abandon Russian gas and introduced several packages of sanctions aimed at weakening the Russian economy.

The Perm prosecutor's office conducted an inspection at the Theater for Young Spectators (Youth Theater) and submitted to its director a proposal to eliminate violations of the law, reported . the department The reason for the investigation was “numerous appeals from citizens” regarding the October production, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. “During the supervisory activities, the stated facts were confirmed,” the department explained.

Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the Eyewitnesses project, which tells the stories of people whose life has changed the war in Ukraine. This was announced by its editor -in -chief Viktor Mushnik. The Register of Roskomnadzor confirms the information about the blocking. At the same time, the department did not specify at the request of which organ the site was blocked. According to the Globalcheck service, all operators have already limited access to the Eyewitnesses domain.

Politician Andrei Pivovarov was transported from Krasnodar. His associates report this. “He will spend the New Year in a special carriage for prisoners. A gift from the authorities for the holiday,” writes the oppositionist’s team. The former head of the politician’s campaign headquarters, Tatyana Usmanova, told OVD-Info that he was being taken to Volgograd. On December 22, Pivovarov’s associates reported that he had been transferred from Krasnodar pre-trial detention center No.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin's decree allowing not to publish declarations of income and property during the war applies only to officials working in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine. His words are quoted by TASS. “It is absolutely clear from the decree who this concerns: this applies to those who work in the territory [of the occupied Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as well as the self-proclaimed LPR and DPR].

The Ufa Garrison Military Court sentenced Salavat Mirasov, a resident of Bashkortostan, to three years in prison in the case of unauthorized abandonment of a military unit during the period of mobilization (Part 5 of Article 337 of the Criminal Code). Kommersant was told about this by the court’s press service. Mirasov was also charged 14 thousand rubles as compensation to his public defender. According to the prosecution, the soldier signed a two-year contract in January.

Vladimir Putin will not communicate with journalists at close range, as was the case before the pandemic. This was announced by presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov; his words were quoted by Mayak radio. “It is unlikely that it will be exactly the same as it was before the pandemic in the foreseeable future. There is no need to hide it. You see the processes of virus mutation, strong epidemiological waves of influenza <…> To say that it will soon be the same as before would be wrong.

In Omsk, a man was detained after setting a transformer on fire. told Gorod55 and Baza As law enforcement agencies , he also admitted to setting fire to three cars with the letters Z on the body. The transformer, which a 45-year-old Omsk resident is suspected of setting on fire, caught fire on the night of December 28-29. The fire damaged two cable lines, but the power supply to the tuberculosis dispensary adjacent to the station was not disrupted.

The Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Garrison Court sentenced a serviceman named Sannikov to 3 years in a penal colony, who escaped from his unit so as not to go to war in Ukraine. Information about this is published on the court's website. The refusenik was found guilty in the case of unauthorized leaving his place of service (part 4 of Article 337 of the Criminal Code) in the Belgorod region. Judging by part of the article, after his escape he did not appear there for more than a month.

Co-founder and former CEO of Yandex Arkady Volozh announced his resignation from the company. This was reported by The Bell with reference to a message on the internal Yandex portal. “As you know, I have not managed Russian Yandex for a long time, and this year I had to completely leave all positions in the company.

Kazakhstan deported FSO Major Mikhail Zhilin to Russia, who requested political asylum. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta Europe and ASTRA . “I’m trying to look for [my husband] through human rights activists and lawyers, they told me that they are looking for him.

Illustration: Mari Msukanidze / Mediazone The war in Ukraine is the eleventh month. During this time, thousands of civilians died under Russian shelling, millions became refugees. Ukrainian cities are blocked daily, some are already destroyed to the ground. The protests against the invasion of Russia were quickly suppressed, the word “war” itself was prohibited - for this sites are blocked, and people are fined or sent to prison.

The FSB reported on the detention of a Ukrainian who, “on instructions from the Kyiv special services, was planning a crime of a terrorist nature” in the North Caucasus. this TASS reports with reference to the FSB public relations center.

VK , Yandex, Sber and Rostelecom are going to develop a new operating system for mobile phones based on Android . This was reported by Kommersant with reference to sources in the government and in the electronics market. According to the interlocutor, the Ministry of Digital Development plans to involve an association of developers in the development.

The daughter of pro-Russian politician and Putin’s godfather Viktor Medvedchuk, Daria, was twice unable to be expelled from the Higher School of Economics, despite violations and poor academic performance. This was reported by sources from Meduza and the University Transparency Laboratory. According to investigators, Daria Medvedchuk has been living in Moscow since at least 2021.