The Tushinsky District Court of Moscow sent Gennady Buslov, a follower of the Falun Gong religious movement, to a pre-trial detention center on a criminal case of participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Part 1 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). Information about this appeared in the case file on the court’s website, Mediazona noted. TASS wrote about Buslov’s arrest on December 4, citing a source in law enforcement agencies.

Vladimir Putin appointed State Duma deputy and former adviser to the head of the Russian Guard Alexander Khinshtein as acting governor of the Kursk region, according to the Kremlin website. “Alexander Evseevich, all of your, so to speak, a significant part of your work activity is connected with work in the State Duma. However, I would like to draw your attention to two years, from 2016 to 2018, when you worked as an adviser to the director of the Russian Guard <…>.

The Central District Court of Tolyatti in the Samara region sentenced Khalid Ishkuvatov, a defendant in the case of clashes in the Bashkortostan Baymak, to five and a half years in prison. This was reported to the publication “Idel. Realities" his relatives. Ilfat Ishmuratov and Zakir Kulmukhametov were tried together with Ishkuvatov; what punishment the court gave them is still unknown.

Magistrate of the 1st judicial district of the Zelenograd judicial district of the Kaliningrad region Olga Vishnya sentenced local resident Marina Tishchenko to a fine in a criminal case for damaging a box with ballots. Mediazona found the solution in the court database. Tishchenko was found guilty at the end of October of obstructing the work of election commissions (Part 1 of Article 141 of the Criminal Code). According to the verdict, scammers wrote and called the pensioner.

The Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow received materials from an administrative case against anthropologist and former teacher at the Russian State University for the Humanities Alexandra Arkhipova. Mediazona drew attention to the case file in the database of the capital’s courts. A protocol was drawn up against Arkhipova regarding participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). What caused this is still unknown.

The head of the travel company Men Travel, Andrei Kotov, whom a court in Moscow three days ago sent to a pre-trial detention center on charges of organizing travel for gays, was placed in a punishment cell for 15 days. His close friend reported this to the BBC Russian Service. According to her, Kotov has a chronic disease, so he needs to take medications every day, but they were not allowed to give them to him either in the temporary detention center or in the pre-trial detention center.

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Makhachkala refused to initiate a case of causing moderate harm (Article 112 of the Criminal Code) against chess player Amina Abakarova, who treated her opponent’s table with mercury. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a letter from the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. “I was sent for a medical examination, and because there were no consequences, no bodily injuries, [the case] was not opened.

The St. Petersburg City Court sentenced ex-Ministry of Internal Affairs officer Denis Gribkov to 16 years in a maximum security colony in a case of sexual assault against minors. This was reported by the press service of the city courts. The court also banned Gribkov from engaging in activities related to children for 10 years, and also ordered him to pay 650 thousand rubles in compensation for moral damage. The state prosecution requested 19 years in a maximum security colony for Gribkov.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, accused the Minister of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, and the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, of poor quality work. This was reported by Grozny-inform. Kadyrov’s criticism is related to the investigation of a criminal case of hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) against 14-year-old teenager Muslim Murdiev.

In the Nagatinsky Court of Moscow, during the trial of the “participation” of journalists in the activities of the “extremist community” FBK, the interrogation of prosecution witnesses began. A Mediazona correspondent reports this from the court. The trial is being held behind closed doors, but on December 5 four people came to court and took turns entering the courtroom. None of them spoke to journalists or other participants.

29 graduates of the Donetsk Military Higher Combined Arms Command School (DonVOKU) died in the war in Ukraine, “Important Stories” counted . In 2022, 74 cadets graduated from the school, 17 of them died in the war - almost one in four, the publication notes. In total, from 2020 to 2024, 294 officers graduated from DonVOKU. “I can’t even answer how many of the “three hundred” [wounded] graduates there are—almost all of them.

In Moscow, six young people were arrested on charges of participating in a terrorist organization and justifying terrorism. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the Zamoskvoretsky District Court. Under arrest are 17-year-old Vladislava Zagorodneva, 23-year-old Nikita Koreshkov and 20-year-old Ilya Myachin from Samara, as well as 20-year-old Stepan Savelyev from Cheboksary and residents of the Moscow region - 20-year-old Danila Loginov and 38-year-old Ilya Treshchalin.

49-year-old employee of the Kurchatov Institute Dmitry Bogmut, arrested in the case of military “fakes” (clause “e” of part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), lost 20 kilograms in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in St. Petersburg. An anonymous activist from his support group reported this to Mediazona.

At a hearing in the Helsinki District Court, the Finnish prosecutor's office asked to impose life imprisonment on the Russian neo-Nazi and one of the leaders of the DSRG "Rusich" Jan Petrovsky (Vojislav Torden). This is reported by Yle and Helsingin Sanomat . Petrovsky, known as "The Great Slav" or simply "Slavyan", is accused of violating the rules of war.

Director of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM Nailya Allahverdieva will leave her position on December 6. This was reported by Kommersant-Prikamye with reference to the Ministry of Culture of the Perm Territory and Allahverdieva herself. The head of the institution confirmed the information to Mediazona. According to the Ministry of Culture, the head of the museum wrote a letter of resignation of her own free will.