Eric Creamer with his son. Photo: courtesy of Eric Creamer American citizen Eric Thomas Creamer spent seven years in Moscow working as an English teacher and translator, including at a language centre associated with the prestigious Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). According to Creamer, he left Russia after being detained, framed with drugs, threatened with a gun, and extorted for half a million rubles under the insinuation that he was a spy.

Vladimir Putin instructed to transfer to Russian companies the assets of foreign firms developing the Achimovskoye and Yuzhno-Russkoye hydrocarbon fields in the Novy Urengoy region. Information about this is published on the legal information website. We are talking about the companies Severneftegazprom and Achim Development , shares in which belong to the German Wintershall and the Austrian OMV . Their assets will be forcibly transferred to the Russian companies Gas Technologies and SOGAZ.

Sanctioned telecommunications technologies and microchips needed for surveillance and weapons development are supplied to Russia through Morocco and Turkey. This is stated in a New York Times investigation . Journalists studied archives of leaked emails of Russian officials and documents of commercial companies. As the publication notes, “Russian traders are confidently ahead of US efforts” to suppress the supply of sanctioned goods.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army proposed to the country's President Vladimir Zelensky to additionally mobilize up to half a million people. this The head of Ukraine announced during his press conference. “They [the military] proposed mobilizing an additional 450-500 thousand people. This is a very serious number. I said that I need more arguments to make this decision,” Zelensky said.

Serviceman Dmitry Setrakov, detained in Armenia, was sent to Russia. This was reported by the “Go through the Forest” project, which helped him leave the country. Now, according to information from “Go Through the Forest,” Setrakov is in the building of the military police department for the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don. The detention of a serviceman in Armenia became known on December 10.

A court in Tatarstan sentenced ten months of correctional labor to a 52-year-old resident of Zelenodolsk, who burned metal wires on the Eternal Flame, reports the department of the Investigative Committee for the republic. The Tatarstan resident was convicted under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism. He was found guilty of desecration of symbols of military glory (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code).

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow sentenced to two years of the colony of general regime the defendant in the “left-wing resistance” case to Alena Krylov, the press service of the capital's courts of general jurisdiction reports . The court found Krylov guilty under the article on participation in the "extremist" community (part 2 of Article 281.1 of the Criminal Code). She was also appointed six months of restriction of freedom.

The oldest human rights organization in the Republic of Mari El, “Man and Law,” announced its closure after the Fourth Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction in Nizhny Novgorod approved the decision to liquidate it. “Man and Law” worked in Mari El for 24 years. The main areas of its activity are protecting the rights of activists, prisoners and citizens from “illegal actions on the part of persons in authority.” The organization was added to the register of “foreign agents” back in 2014.

Ohio resident Eric Thomas Creamer, who worked in Moscow for seven years and taught at MIPT, has not been able to leave Armenia since 2021, as Russia has put him on the interstate wanted list for drug possession. about this . Creamer told Mediazona In April 2017, an American was detained when he went to a store in the center of Moscow. After checking his documents, six people in civilian clothes pushed him into a car.

The general director of two companies of Evgeniy Prigozhin - Concord Management and Consulting and Concord Catering - was 53-year-old St. Petersburg resident Vladislav Pisarenok. The changes appeared yesterday in the State Register of Legal Entities (USRLE), The Bell noted . In the case of these two companies, Prigozhin himself was their general director, although he owned most of his companies that received government orders not directly, but through affiliated persons.

The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow received materials from an administrative case against the 45-year-old founder of the animation studio Toonbox and the author of the TV series Mr. Freeman by Pavel Muntyan. Information about this appeared in the database of the capital’s courts, Mediazona noted. A protocol was drawn up against Muntyan about “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code).

The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced to 11 years and six months in prison of 19-year-old Ilya Mironichev in the case of a fabric of a relay cabinet on the railway. This was reported on the court website. Mironichev will spend the first year in prison, and the rest of the term in a maximum security colony. The case was opened due to damage to the equipment on May 2, 2023 at the village of Agrona near the village of Dinskaya.

Executive Director of Wikimedia RU Stanislav Kozlovsky, together with other members of the non-profit association, decided to close the project. On the forum of Wikimedia RU, an organization that supports the Russian Wikipedia, Kozlovsky wrote that he was fired from Moscow State University after 25 years of work at the psychology department.

Eric Crumer with his son. Photo: Personal Archive Erica Crimmer The 36-year-old linguist from Ohio Eric Thomas Krimmer worked for seven years in Moscow. Then he left Russia forever - according to the expat himself, after people in civilian clothes grabbed him on the street, locked him in the attic, threw drugs, threatened with a gun and demanded half a million rubles, and as a result they took the Tver AFR and released already in the status of the suspect.

Deputies of the State Assembly of the Altai Republic (El Kurultai) adopted a law allowing the killing of stray animals, Siberian Express telegram channel and the Gorno-Altaisk report . The law allows the killing of stray animals if they are not taken from the “temporary holding point” that should appear in the region within 11 days. The document also allows the killing of animals that have shown aggression.