Defenders of the Trinity Forest in New Moscow told RusNews and MSK1.RU that they were beaten by unknown men in balaclavas. Activists reported that a fence had begun to be erected in the forest area and new logging was being prepared. The workers did not put up any information boards and called themselves “passers-by.” As RusNews writes , forest defenders tried to understand what was happening, but they were hindered by unknown masked people.

Michael Scarn / Mediazona At the start of the war, 24-year-old Alexei Rozhkov from Berezovsky, Sverdlovsk region in the Urals, threw a Molotov cocktail into a draft office. He was caught and immediately confessed that he had set the fire to aid military members who were being sent to war against their will. Rozhkov served six months in jail. Mediazona details how Rozhkov managed to escape from custody and flee Russia.

Rosneft filed a claim to the Moscow Arbitration Court for the protection of business reputation against the German publication Spiegel . this . reports The Center for the Protection of Media Rights As human rights activists write, the reason was an interview with politician Gesine Schwan and historian Jan Klaas Berendson. The exact name and content of the material are not specified. This is probably the German text Was würde Willy Brandt jetzt tun?.

Andrey Medvedev. Frame: Gulag-no Official Channel / YouTube The former commander of the Wagner PMC, Andrei Medvedev, went to Norway to ask for political asylum. In the summer, the man went to fight in Ukraine, and a few months later he escaped with the advanced one and told human rights activists about the executions of the mercenaries and prisoners of the Ukrainian military refusing to fight. Mediazon briefly retells the history of Medvedev and his memories of service in PMCs.

Ukrainian Alexander Marchenko, sentenced to ten years in prison on charges of espionage, was fined 30 thousand rubles under the article on “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code) - the reason for this was conversations about the war with his cellmates. This was reported by the First Department. The decision on the fine was made by the Oktyabrsky District Court of Ulan-Ude on December 29.

The Nikolinsky District Court of the Kirov Region found a 21-year-old resident of the village of Kyrchany guilty of damaging a memorial structure perpetuating the memory of those who died defending the Fatherland and its interests during the Second World War (clause “b” of Part 2 of Article 243.4 of the Criminal Code). The man was sentenced to nine months and five days of forced labor with a deduction of 10% of his wages.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined local resident Regina Mishchenko 50 thousand rubles. She was found guilty of “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code) because of a T-shirt with the inscription “Fuck the war.” this with reference to Mishchenko herself . reports Novaya Gazeta Europe The girl was detained on October 28, when she was in the Mayak Cafe bar.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Saratov upheld the claim of the rector of the Saratov State Law Academy Ekaterina Ilgova for the protection of honor and dignity and decided to block access to the post in the telegram channel “Mockingjay” - the publication talked about sending part of the students’ scholarship to the needs of the residents of Donbass. This was reported by Svobodnye Novosti news agency with reference to the court decision.

The Supreme Court satisfied the request of the Prosecutor General's Office and recognized the “international movement “Maniacs Cult of Murder” as terrorist.” this with reference to the press service of the court.

Lawyers began to sign an open letter to Vladimir Putin demanding that they stop deporting Alexei Navalny to the punishment cell and allow civilian doctors to see him. The appeal was published by lawyer Viktor Drozdov on Facebook. “Continuous detention in a punishment cell for an incredibly long time is outright torture and actually causes serious harm to his health and creates a direct threat to his life,” the letter says.

Former prisoner Alexander Bunkin said that security forces forced him to refuse to testify against FSIN officers in the case of brutal torture of Tuvan Takhirjon Bakiev in Irkutsk colony No. 6. This became known from Bunkin’s letter, published in the telegram channel of human rights activist Svyatoslav Khromenkov. The authenticity of the ex-prisoner’s letter was confirmed by his lawyer Yulia Chvanova in a conversation with Taiga.info.

Former coordinators of Alexei Navalny's headquarters in Arkhangelsk, Egor Butakov and Elizaveta Bychkova, were sentenced to a year of restriction of freedom in the case of participation in an NGO that encroaches on the rights of citizens (Part 3 of Article 239 of the Criminal Code). this reports correspondent A Sota from the courtroom. As the publication clarified, oppositionists were prohibited from leaving the city and changing their place of residence.

In the Yelansky garrison of the training center of the Ministry of Defense, located in the Sverdlovsk region, guardhouses are being organized - premises for holding arrested military personnel. This was reported by State Duma deputy Maxim Ivanov with reference to the Ministry of Defense. “Guba is still needed in training centers. Because for every hundred honest and decent mobilized people, there will always be one figure who sows confusion or behaves impudently and inappropriately.

Mobilized entrepreneurs were allowed not to submit statistical reports to Rosstat. They also increased the deadline for submitting tax returns and changed the principle of calculating the insurance period. The corresponding document was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, information about this was published on the website of the Russian government.

The Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala sentenced Gafar Isaev, a participant in the action against “partial” mobilization, to two years probation in the case of using violence against a security officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). OVD-Info drew attention to the court decision of December 15.