The US Treasury Department announced sanctions against five individuals and four companies suspected of involvement in an “international network” that helped the “Russian elite” circumvent sanctions. According to US authorities, the Russian company TGR Group, controlled by Ukrainian citizen George Rossi, and its branches abroad helped “Russian elites” circumvent international sanctions and conduct money laundering operations using cryptocurrency.

Roskomnadzor has restricted access to the website Jut.su , which is dedicated to the Naruto anime universe. The censor's registry of banned sites says the site was blocked on December 4. The community of site users on VKontakte numbers about 693 thousand people. Public subscribers also reported problems accessing the site. In addition, the sites AnimeGO , Yummy Anime, Kara.su , Animedia , which contain free libraries with anime series, cannot be opened from a Russian IP address.

The Russian army dropped a controlled aerial bomb (KAB) into a residential area in Kupyansk. A 40-year-old man died, said the head of the Kharkov region administration, Oleg Sinegubov. Two women were also injured and are experiencing an acute stress reaction. Five private residential buildings were damaged, Sinegubov specified. The Kharkov region prosecutor's office claims that the attack on Kupyansk was carried out by Hurricane surface-to-air missiles.

The Petrozavodsk City Court fined 79-year-old Tatyana Savinkina 200 thousand rubles in the case of “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) and released her from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. This was reported by the telegram channel From Karelia with freedom . The prosecutor previously petitioned for a fine and the release of the pensioner. At the same time, the court found Savinkina guilty.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, drew a straight line in Grozny. He arrived at the meeting in a foreign infantry fighting vehicle with 12 captured military personnel from Ukraine. Kadyrov suggested to one of them to take a pistol and shoot himself. “If you are such a warrior. I'll give you a gun now, will you shoot yourself? You came out to kill, to die. I'll give you a gun, you'll shoot yourself, you'll die like a hero. You don't want to, right?

The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced a resident of Yalta to 14 years in prison in a case of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), the joint press service of the regional courts reported . According to the sentence, he will serve his sentence in a maximum security colony. The man was also sentenced to one year of restriction of freedom. The name of the convicted person is not indicated in the court message.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Ukrainian citizen Eduard Cherevan to 14 years in prison in the case of participation in the Azov battalion, the court’s press service reported . The court decided that a Ukrainian living in Rostov-on-Don took part in the activities of a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code).

Telegram channels “112” , “Sapa” and REN TV close to the security forces reported the arrest of four more people in connection with the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall. According to telegram channels and REN TV, 22-year-old Khusen Kulaev, 27-year-old Makhmud Kartoev, 28-year-old Mansur Tochiev and 35-year-old Magomed Santaliev are suspected of helping hide Batyr Kulaev, one of the suspects in the transfer of weapons to direct perpetrators of the terrorist attack.

There are not enough centers for prosthetics in Russia, Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with military personnel who have lost limbs. The recording was published by the Kremlin website and the REN TV channel . The meeting took place at the Moscow Center for Innovative Technologies in Orthopedics.

An explosion occurred in the center of Grozny on the night of December 4. A video from a surveillance camera in a residential courtyard was published by the opposition telegram channel 1ADAT . According to the video, it was filmed on a playground in the courtyard of a house on Staropromyslovskoye Highway. On the opposite side of the highway there are fenced-off buildings of the Kadyrov special police regiment.

The Investigative Committee reported on the completed investigation of the criminal case against a 40-year-old resident of Biysk, accused of financing an extremist organization (Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). A press release from the Investigative Committee for the Altai Territory notes that the case has been sent to court. The department's report does not indicate the name of the accused, but, as Mediazona found out, we are talking about a neurologist from Biysk, Anton Goncharov.

Vladimir Putin’s cousin Anna Tsivileva, whom he appointed Deputy Defense Minister, reported at a round table in the State Duma about 48 thousand applications for DNA tests from relatives of those missing in action during the war.

The St. Petersburg City Court sentenced Vasily Ivanov and Sergei Saratovtsev, accused of arson on the railway, to nine years in prison. As the press service of the city courts reported , they will have to spend the first three years in prison, and the rest in a maximum security colony. The men were found guilty of setting fire to a relay cabinet on a stretch near the Staraya Derevnya station in the north of St. Petersburg on the night of May 4, 2023.

Security forces installed a spy program for Moscow programmer Kirill Parubets, who opposed the war in Ukraine, on the phone they seized from him. He told the human rights project “First Department” about this. Parubets, who works as a systems business analyst, lived with his wife in Kyiv for several years before the start of the war and participated in collecting humanitarian aid for residents of eastern Ukraine.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has registered criminal case materials against three servicemen of the 6th Motorized Rifle Division, who are accused of murdering and torturing their own subordinates. The publication “Kavkaz.Realii” drew attention to this. We are talking about Colonel Evgeniy Malyshko with the call sign Voronezh, warrant officer Evgeniy Chukanov and senior sergeant Roman Timonin .