The Moscow City Court commuted the sentence of one of the founders of Runet, former Deputy Minister of Communications Alexei Soldatov. Instead of two years, he was sentenced to a year and eleven months in prison, reports his son, the founder of the Agentura.ru project, Andrei Soldatov. At the end of July, the then 72-year-old man was found guilty of abuse of power (Part 1 of Article 201 of the Criminal Code).

In the Krasnodar Territory, Rostelecom has stopped blocking prohibited sites. This was reported by subscribers of the telegram channel “Esher II”. Its author, IT specialist Philip Kulin, suggests that this was due to a routing failure. According to subscribers, the blocking was disabled about a week ago. There is information that they are not in the Rostov region either.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has charged Nomma Zarubina, an expert from Siberia who collaborates with decolonial initiatives, with working for Russian intelligence services. The Russian America for Democracy in Russia community and lawyer Igor Slabykh, who lives in America, write about this.

In Poland, Russian woman Irina Rogova (Moseikina) was arrested on charges of complicity in espionage. The Polish prosecutor's office reported this to the “That's So” project. Irina Rogova is the wife of the former coordinator of the Open Russia movement, Igor Rogov. He moved to Poland because he was a Katowice Fellow. As friends of the couple told “That’s So,” Irina Rogova last contacted them on November 12.

Judge Kristina Kostryukova of the Golovinsky District Court of Moscow sent the 48-year-old head of the travel company Men Travel, Andrei Kotov, to pre-trial detention in the case of organizing “travel for members of the LGBT community” (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). Photo: Mediazona Kotov’s lawyer Leysan Mannapova asked to close the meeting: there is correspondence in the case that represents personal secrets, the defense will present information about Kotov’s health.

The Moscow Regional Court announced the verdict in the case of large-scale drug sales - 15 defendants were given actual sentences ranging from 8 to 23 years in prison, and another defendant in the case was given a life sentence. The regional prosecutor's office announced the court's decision.

The Yakut City Court fined prisoner Pyotr Portnyagin under a protocol for demonstrating “extremist symbols” (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). The telegram channel “Torboznoe Radio” drew attention to the court’s decision of November 22.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Alexey Ievsky, a former assistant to TV presenter and psychotherapist Andrei Kurpatov, to six years in a general regime colony for theft. The court's decision was announced by the joint press service of the city courts. The defendant in the case was found guilty of theft and two counts of fraud. The court also upheld the civil claim and ordered Ievsky to pay Kurpatov more than 78 million rubles.

In the Penza region, 21-year-old resident of the city of Kamenka Dmitry Shipunov was released after two weeks of forcible detention at a collection point. This was reported by Sever.Realii with reference to the Conscious Objector Movement. Shipunov was detained on November 18 at a collection point at the military registration and enlistment office of the Penza region, when he came for a control medical examination.

The Lefortovo Court in Moscow ordered administrative arrest for five visitors to the Mutabor club, where security forces had previously conducted a raid to “fight LGBT propaganda.” The press service of the capital's courts reported this, without disclosing the terms of the punishment. Five men were arrested: Lev Lomaev, Anton Levchenko, Mark Neumann, Oleg Komissarov and Maxim Zinchenko.

In Poland, a fuel spill occurred due to damage to the Druzhba oil pipeline. This was reported by Wiadomosci with reference to the press secretary of the state fire service Martin Halas. The leak was discovered on Sunday in a section connecting the Polish city of Plock and oil refineries in Germany. The pipeline operator, PERN , confirmed information about the fuel spill. The operator also turned off one of the pumping stations.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested in absentia 41-year-old volunteer from Great Britain Joseph MacDonald, who is fighting on the side of the Ukrainian army. Mediazona became aware of this. The suppression meeting took place at the end of November. A criminal case has been opened against MacDonald for mercenarism (Part 3 of Article 359 of the Criminal Code). McDonald joined the Ukrainian Army in March 2022.

The Moscow theater center "On Strastnom" announced the cancellation of the tour of the Ural "Kolyada Theater" for "technical reasons." A message about this was published on the center's website. Performances scheduled to take place in January and February 2025 have been cancelled. At the end of November, the head of the Kolyada Theater Nikolai Kolyada reported that the theater center “On Strastnoy” demanded that he remove actor Oleg Yagodin from productions.

In Yaroslavl Rybinsk, the maximum security men's correctional colony No. 2 (IK-2) caught fire. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to emergency services and the SHOT telegram channel. According to preliminary information, the fire started on the roof of the institution building. The area of ​​the outbreak is about a thousand square meters, it is localized, RIA Novosti reports. No casualties were reported.

In Tbilisi, during a protest against the suspension of negotiations on Georgia's accession to the European Union on December 2, police detained 24 people. This was reported to the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs. The total number of people detained during the four days of protests reached 224, the police said. Those detained are charged with administrative charges of disobedience to police orders and petty hooliganism. “Out of 74 completed cases, 36 people were fined.