The Heinrich Böll Foundation refused to award journalist and writer Masha Gessen the Hannah Arendt Prize for political thought. This was reported on the website of the non-governmental organization. This decision was made by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, which awards the prize together with the Bremen Senate, after the publication of in the New Yorker an essay by a journalist on German Holocaust memory policies magazine. In it, Hessen mentioned the war in Israel and the Gaza Strip.

Deputies of the Novgorod region adopted a regional law on fines for “inducing” abortions. The corresponding decree was published on the website of the regional parliament. According to the law, the draft of which was submitted for consideration by Governor Andrei Nikitin, fines for “inducing” abortions will range from three to five thousand rubles for citizens, from 25 to 50 thousand rubles for officials and from 100 to 200 thousand rubles for legal entities.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, during a live broadcast on his Telegram channel, once again answered the question about the beating of the arrested student Nikita Zhuravel by his 15-year-old son Adam. attention to this . drew The Telegram channel “Caution, News” "Punish? Why punish? Because he beat up agent [Nikita Zhuravel]? It would be good if he killed him there on the spot. I have one wish when I remember people who burn the Koran, so that they are punished,” Kadyrov said.

The Federation Council approved bills that tighten administrative and criminal penalties for the transfer of telephones to colonies. This was reported on the website of the upper house of parliament. The day before, State Duma deputies adopted both documents in the third and final reading.

The Central District Military Court sentenced an 18-year-old Ufa woman to 5.5 years in a correctional colony in the case of involvement in the Columbine “movement.” this with reference to the press service of the republican department of the FSB .

Director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Ivan Zhdanov wrote on Twitter that Alexei Navalny’s team today checked most of the pre-trial detention centers in Moscow - Navalny was not in any of them. “The “Base” version that Alexey is in Moscow and investigative actions are being carried out with him has not been confirmed. Investigative actions are not carried out without lawyers. All investigative actions already took place in Vladimir.

Due to the death of the defendant, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Ivanovo discontinued the criminal case under the “Dada” article and under the article about “discrediting” the army against Olga Nazarenko, a candidate of medical sciences. This was reported by the press service of the regional courts. The court release states that the state prosecutor and Nazarenko’s husband did not object to the termination of the criminal case on non-exonerating grounds.

Two citizens of Russia were deprived of acquired citizenship after prosecution of drugs. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The press release of the security forces says that the migration service during the audit revealed “two visiting men”, one of which had 19 bundles with Mephedron, and the other had 1 bundle with synthetic drug. Both were found guilty in the criminal case of drug trafficking (part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code).

The 2nd Western District Military Court, at an off-site hearing in the Supreme Court of Komi, sentenced Evgeniy Zabolotny, a resident of Usinsk, to 12 years in prison in the case of arson of the FSB building. this from the courtroom . reports A BNK agency correspondent The man will spend the first three years in prison, the rest in a maximum security colony. Zabolotny was tried under the article on a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code).

The Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction upheld the policy of Ilya Yashin in the case of Fakes about the actions of the Russian military in Ukraine - 8.5 years of a general regime colony. This was reported by the correspondent of "Mediazone" from the hall of the meeting. Photo: Alexandra Astakhova / Mediazon The verdict was sentenced a year ago - in December 2022, and in April the Mosgorsud rejected the complaint against it.

A test flight will be held at Krasnodar Pashkovsky Airport, which was closed after the start of the war in Ukraine, on December 15, the SHOT telegram channel reported . Information about this to RBC , Kommersant and RIA Novosti was confirmed by the regional administration. The test flight will be performed by Azimuth Airlines, which “submitted an application to perform a technical flight to check airport systems and equipment,” the press service of the transport operator Aerodinamika clarifies.

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has begun a hearing on Ukraine's claim against Russia, reported . the press service of the Council of Europe Representatives of Russia did not attend them, reports journalist Molly Quell. This is the first time in the history of the ECHR that countries have skipped consideration of interstate cases. Russia has refused to implement ECHR decisions after being expelled from the Council of Europe in March 2022 due to its invasion of Ukraine.

In the Krasnoyaruzhsky district of the Belgorod region, a car of civilians was blown up by a mine, the regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote in his telegram channel. The explosion occurred in the area of ​​the Vysoky village. According to the head of the region, three people were injured. One of them had a closed craniocerebral injury, the second had to partially amputate his lower limbs, they were taken to Belgorod City Hospital No. 2.

The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow imposed a fine of 500 thousand rubles on Left Bloc activist Lev Skoryakin and released him from punishment due to the time spent under arrest during the investigation. This was reported by lawyer from OVD-Info Evgenia Grigorieva. Skoryakin was released from custody in the courtroom. The activist was found guilty of hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) due to the action in December 2021.

The mayor of Troitsk in the Chelyabinsk region was detained on suspicion of taking a bribe, reports the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to open data, the head of the city is called Alexander Vinogradov. According to investigators, in the spring of 2020, the official received a bribe in the form of a treadmill worth 126 thousand rubles.