The Chisinau District Court of Moldova imposed a fine on Russian citizen Alexander Kudashev for an action near the Russian embassy on the birthday of President Vladimir Putin. the text of the court decision Kudashev posted on Facebook, drawing the attention of the Idel.Realii project. On the evening of October 7, 2022, Kudashev wrote “Putin is a killer” on the gates of the Russian Embassy using spray cans in the colors of the Ukrainian flag—blue and yellow.

The Estonian Foreign Ministry informed the Russian Ambassador in Tallinn Vladimir Lipaev about the decision to reduce the number of employees at the Russian Embassy. By the beginning of February, eight diplomats, as well as fifteen administrative and technical workers, will work at the Russian Embassy in Tallinn. Currently, the names of seventeen employees are listed on the website of the diplomatic mission .

In Moscow, the magistrate of court district No. 143, Alesya Kotova , imposed eight months of restriction of freedom on local residents Sergei Zvyagin and Alexey Vedeneev in the case of anti-war inscriptions. The verdict was handed down at the end of June, and the OVD-Info project drew attention to it. Muscovites were found guilty of vandalism motivated by political hatred (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code).

In the Novokubansky district of the Krasnodar Territory, a suspect was detained in the arson of the local archive of the Federal Penitentiary Service. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Krasnodar Territory. The identity of the detainee is not specified. It is known that he is a 34-year-old local resident. The man told the security forces that he entered the archive room by breaking the glass.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Crimean Tatars Alim Karimov, Seyran Murtaza, Erfan Osmanov, Dzhemil Gafarov and Servet Gaziyev to 13 years in prison in the case of participation in the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir. this .

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined rapper Miron Fedorov (Oksimiron) 70 thousand rubles in an administrative case about calls for separatism. “Paper” reports this with reference to its correspondent in the courtroom. The protocol against the perpetrator was drawn up by the prosecutor's office of the Admiralteysky district of St. Petersburg.

Alexei Navalny, who developed a fever and started coughing in the punishment cell in Vladimir IK-6, was not admitted to the medical unit. about this on Twitter .

Illustration: Maria Granatkina / Mediazon From the beginning of the war, at least 10.7 thousand Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine. Bodies often remain unprotected; Those that manage to pick up the battlefield are not always suitable for identification. Families of the missing military are trying to find out about their fate from the Ministry of Defense, and not having received intelligible answers, turn to magicians and clairvoyants.

The Pervouralsk City Court fined college teacher Artem Izganin 40 thousand rubles in the case of “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). This is reported by It's My City . Izgagin was charged with posts criticizing the war in Ukraine, which he posted on his networks.

In the village of Magdagachi in the Amur Region, the military commissariat building was set on fire, and the equipment that was on the window was damaged. This was reported by RBC with reference to the military registration and enlistment office, and this information was also confirmed by Sibir. Realities" in the Investigative Committee. As the military registration and enlistment office said, unknown persons threw a Molotov cocktail into the building on the night of January 11.

The Odintsovo garrison military court sentenced mobilized Alexander Leshkov, who pushed an officer during a dispute at the Patriot training center near Moscow, to five and a half years in a maximum security colony. this TASS reports with reference to the court. According to the case file , the man was found guilty of violent acts against his superior during the period of mobilization (Part 3 of Article 334 of the Criminal Code). The verdict was handed down on December 16, 2022.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested businessman and philanthropist Boris Zimin in absentia, who is accused of fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), the press service of the court told Mediazona. On January 9, the Ministry of Internal Affairs put Zimin on the wanted list. As lawyer Alexander Antipov reported to RBC, the charge is related to the alienation of shares in the car sharing company BelkaCar LTD .

The Solombalsky District Court of Arkhangelsk fined activist Yulia Chapurina 130 thousand rubles in the case of repeated “discrediting” of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). to the decision drew attention SOTA ; its details were told to the publication by the assistant judge who considered the case. According to information in the court file, the verdict was handed down the day before, on January 10. The specific reason for initiating the case is unknown.

The Southern Military Court in Rostov-on-Don commuted the sentence of Corporal Aslanbek Baybetiev, convicted in the case of illegally crossing the border with weapons. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to military lawyer Alla Akhmetova.

Destroyed buildings in Soledar, November 20, 2022. Photo: Diego Herrera Carcedo / Anadolu Agency / AFP / East News The Russian forces broke through the defense of Soledar, a small city in the Donetsk region, took control of a significant part of it and are already fighting in its center. Mediazona briefly tells how Soledar is important for Russia and how the militants of the “PMC Wagner” are not considered losses to capture it.