US citizen Ernest Harry Mitchell was found dead in a temporary detention center for foreign citizens in the Gulkevichsky district of the Krasnodar Territory. This was reported by sources from Kommersant , RIA Novosti telegram channel and the VChK-OGPU . Kommersant and RIA Novosti interlocutors say that the 56-year-old American committed suicide.

Former director of the film magazine “Yeralash” Ilya Belostotsky, who was sentenced to six and a half years in a maximum security colony in the case of sexual abuse of a teenager, went to fight in Ukraine. about this . MSK1.RU told His sister on his VKontakte page In early November, Belostotsky himself announced that he had signed a contract.

The state prosecution, during the debate in the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow, asked for 19.5 years in prison and a fine of 470 million rubles for ex-minister Mikhail Abyzov. this from the courtroom A TASS correspondent reports . Mikhail Abyzov was Minister for Open Government from 2012 to 2018. He has been in pre-trial detention since the spring of 2019.

The management of the 2GIS mapping service asked its employees to compile establishments where LGBT people can gather into a single register. this to the publication “Important Stories” . reported One of the 2GIS employees The letter to service employees says that this is due to the declaration of the “LGBTQ movement” as an extremist organization. “We cannot catch such establishments centrally, so it is important that a review be carried out locally.

Photo: AP In the early hours of December 2, at least three gay clubs in Moscow were reportedly targeted by police raids. The venues involved were Secret, the Mono bar, and the Hunters Party event at Kinky Rouge. Reports also mentioned, without detail, visits by law enforcement to gay saunas in Moscow. An anonymous attendee of the Hunters Party shared their experience of the police raid with Mediazona. When I arrived, everything seemed normal.

The Ministry of Justice included the Academic Network "Eastern Europe" ( AKNO ) from Germany and the "Russian Action Committee" from Lithuania into the list of "undesirable" organizations. attention to changes in the register . drew project The OVD-Info According to the list of the Ministry of Justice, the Prosecutor General's Office recognized both organizations as “undesirable” on November 14. At the same time, the supervisory agency itself did not report this anywhere.

Grigory Skvortsov, arrested on November 29 by the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow, turned out to be a photographer for the AD HOC photo agency and the founder of the Jagath group . Skvortsov’s friends anonymously told Mediazona about this. Mediazona learned about Skvortsov’s arrest today. According to friends, on November 29 Skvortsov was supposed to fly from Perm to St. Petersburg, but disappeared.

Amendments have been made to the State Duma, within the framework of which it is proposed to tighten penalties for the leakage of personal data and introduce criminal liability for their “illegal” use. The relevant bills are published on the website of the lower house of parliament. As part of the amendments to the Criminal Code, it is proposed to supplement it with Article 272.1.

Photo: AP On the night of December 2, at least three gay clubs in Moscow, according to journalists, police raids passed. It was about the Secret club, the Mono bar and the Hunters Party party at the Kinky Rouge club. Without details, journalists also wrote about the visit of security forces to Moscow gay-saunas. One of the visitors to Hunters Party anonymously told Mediazone what this police raid looked like. It was a party from Hunters . When I arrived, everything was fine.

The Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow registered the materials of the administrative case against ex-GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov. Mediazona found information about the protocol in the database of the capital’s courts. According to the card on the court’s website, Kvachkov is accused of “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). A hearing in the case has not yet been scheduled.

Oppositionist Ilya Yashin, who is in Smolensk penal colony No. 3, was sent to a punishment cell. This was reported in the politician’s Telegram channel. “My court appearance last Friday, apparently, hit the mark, because the events after it developed rapidly - and already in the evening of that day I found myself in a cell in a punishment cell,” said Yashin.

On the website of the Bryansk Regional Duma, information appeared about the renaming of one of the city streets in honor of the son of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, Adam. After that, the site stopped working, and the Duma wrote on social networks about a hacker hack. “The attackers made changes to the material about the meeting of the regional parliament that took place on November 29.

During the debate, the state prosecution requested 12 years in prison and a fine of 48 million rubles for the former governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, who is serving a sentence in a colony for taking a bribe. This was reported by the press service of the regional prosecutor's office. In addition, the prosecutor asked to ban Belykh from holding positions in the public service for three years. The requested sentence takes into account the policy's previous sentence.

The leadership of the official community of the Tattoo group in VKontakte blocked users access to the wall and other content on the page. Sota paid attention to this. Now no post is visible on the community wall , and when trying to open photos, audio or video recordings there is an error. At the same time, the section "Products" in the group is still available.

Over the past two years, the number of registered taxi drivers has fallen by 13.6%, leaving a shortage of 72,000 taxi drivers by September 2023. this reports Forbes with reference to a study by the Analytical Center for the Russian Government. Analysts clarified that outside cities with a population of over a million, the reduction in the number of drivers could reach 36-44%. A reduction in the number of valid permits for taxi operations is observed in almost all regions.