On the morning of December 9, case cards for “terrorist” and other articles of the Criminal Code, which can only be considered by district courts, disappeared from the website of the 2nd Western District Military Court. The publication “Caution, News” drew attention to this.

From 2015 to 2024, at least 543 Russian military personnel and Wagner PMC mercenaries were killed due to military operations in Syria. The names of the victims were established by the BBC Russian Service. 346 of the dead were Wagnerites, another 197 were members of the FSB special forces and Special Operations Forces, military pilots, GRU intelligence officers and other military personnel from the strongest units. As the publication emphasizes, real losses could be much higher.

Vladimir Putin promoted Deputy Defense Ministers Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and Viktor Goremykin to the rank of army generals. The corresponding decree was published on the portal of legal acts. According to the document, the commander of the Chechen special forces "Akhmat" Apti Alaudinov became a lieutenant general. Previously, military telegram channels, in particular WarGonzo , reported that he would receive a promotion in rank.

A resident of Volgograd, Ekaterina Danilovskaya, told V1.ru journalists that she could not find her son Maxim Chebakov, who had left the colony for the front, for almost two months. The man disappeared in October after receiving a call that he was being taken to “zero.” In 2018, Chebakov was sentenced to 10 years and three months in a maximum security colony for the sale of synthetic drugs. In June 2024, he signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense and went to war in Ukraine.

On July 30, the Central District Court of Komsomolsk-on-Amur sentenced 50-year-old cleaner Elena Degtereva to one and a half years of probation in the case of attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office (part 3 of article 30, part 2 of article 167 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona found the ruling on the court’s website. Degtereva lived with her minor son and worked as a staircase cleaner at the Zhiltsentr company.

On August 26, the Nizhnekamsk City Court of Tatarstan sentenced 20-year-old student Tatyana Davydova to one and a half years of probation in the case of attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office (Part 3 of Article 30, Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona found the ruling on the court’s website. Davydova studies at the Ryazan Agrotechnological University to become a veterinarian, and during the holidays she comes to her parents in Nizhnekamsk.

The Central District Military Court in Samara sentenced 30-year-old electrical fitter Vladimir Bayramov to two years in prison for justifying terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of comments on VKontakte. Mediazona became aware of this. The prosecutor's office asked to sentence Bayramov to six years in prison. He was taken into custody in the courtroom - before the verdict, the man was under recognizance not to leave the place.

Georgian border police did not allow Maria Alekhina, a member of the punk group Pussy Riot, into the country. She announced this on her Instagram story. “While Russian propagandists freely come to the country to film their “protest stories,” those who can write the truth about the endless stream of violence are prohibited from entering the country,” she wrote and published a photo of the document.

The company that bought the former Russian assets of the French Danone came under the control of the former Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Chechnya, Ruslan Alisultanov. RBC reports this with reference to the press service of the Health & Nutrition (H & N) group. In early December, Alisultanov became the owner of 100% of the shares of the Unimil company, which owns 99% of Vamin R, which controls H & N. The latter manages Danone’s assets in Russia.

A car explosion in the center of Donetsk killed the former head of the Yelenovskaya colony in the self-proclaimed DPR, Sergei Evsyukov. This information was confirmed to member of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia Eva Merkacheva at the Federal Penitentiary Service. The explosion of a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado in the center of Donetsk was reported by TASS and RIA Novosti correspondents. According to them, the car exploded from the driver's seat.

A court in Moscow arrested actress Yana Troyanova in absentia. Mediazona became aware of this. Troyanova is accused of inciting hatred or enmity on the basis of nationality (clause “a” of part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code).

The Leninsky District Court of Kursk sent former Deputy General Director of the Kursk Region Development Corporation Igor Grabin to pre-trial detention for two months. This was reported by the press service of the court. A criminal case has been opened against Grabin for abuse of power. He is accused of unjustifiably spending money intended for the construction of fortifications in the region.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the decision to grant political asylum to Bashar al-Assad and his family was made personally by Vladimir Putin. His words are quoted by the telegram channel “You listened to Mayak.” “We have nothing to say about Assad’s whereabouts. Such decisions [on granting political asylum] cannot be made without the head of state. It's his decision. In this case, I have nothing to say,” Peskov said.

Russia handed over to Ukraine the bodies of prisoners killed in the Il-76 plane crash in January. This was announced by the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Tatyana Moskalkova, RIA Novosti reports . “They have been handed over. This happened, and I was present,” the ombudsman said. She did not specify when this happened.

The Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala sentenced former police officer Islam Atavov to seven and a half years in a maximum security colony in the case of torture of a detainee. This is reported by the Dagestan publications “Chernovik” and “Novoye Delo” . At the end of January 2023, security forces detained 35-year-old Kurban Dalgatov in Makhachkala.