The Southern District Military Court sentenced Crimean resident Pavel Levchenko to 22 years in prison on charges of exploding railway tracks. This was reported by the press service of the court. He will spend the first five years in prison, and the rest of his term in a maximum security colony. In addition, according to the court decision, Levchenko was fined one million rubles.

The Ustinovsky District Court of Izhevsk sentenced five men in the case of clashes in Baymak, Bashkortostan. Information about this appeared on the court's website. According to a support group for one of the defendants in the “Baymak case,” Fangiz Sharifgaleev was sentenced to five years and five months in prison, and Fanur Khazhin was sentenced to six years in prison. Three more men - Ilnar Asylguzhin, Aigiz Ishmurzin and Rafil Utyabaev - were sentenced to eight years and six months in prison.

The Nizhny Novgorod Department of Education announced an inspection after a mock grenade exploded in the hands of a tenth-grader at local lyceum No. 38. NewsNN reports this with reference to officials. The day before, on December 23, a 15-year-old schoolboy pulled the pin from an F-1 training grenade during a lesson on Fundamentals of Security and Defense of the Homeland (OBZD). The young man was taken to the hospital by ambulance, but was released home after examination.

Since December 13, Russians have attacked banks, police cars and other targets at least 50 times under the influence of telephone scammers; This is a new record, Mediazona calculated. We count this wave from December 13, since before that month no such arson occurred. Most of the attacks took place on December 20 and 21. It is difficult to say exactly what this is connected with.

The first Russian feminist publishing house , No Kidding Press, has announced its closure. The No Kidding Press team reports . “The last two years have been difficult. We have encountered serious difficulties: the closure of access to some distribution channels, being included in the stop lists of book fairs, the bankruptcy of Labyrinth and other problems that we cannot talk about openly for security reasons.

The Central District Military Court sentenced Andrei Gilishev, a physician from Tyumen, to 15 years in prison in the case of connections with the Freedom of Russia Legion. This was reported by SOTAvision . Gilishev was found guilty of vandalism (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code) and participation in the activities of a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code).

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don issued a verdict in the case of a “terrorist community” and espionage. Some of his defendants were also accused of preparing an assassination attempt on the self-proclaimed DPR leader Vasily Evdokimov, who is considered the creator of the secret prison “Izolyatsia” in Donetsk. As a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom, there were five defendants in the case.

The Perovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Ivan Tishchenko, a cardiac surgeon with 20 years of experience, to four years in a general regime colony. This was reported by SOTAvision . Tishchenko was found guilty of financing extremism (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). After the verdict was announced, he was taken into custody in the courtroom - the case was heard behind closed doors at the request of the defendant's defense; the doctor admitted guilt.

Pussy Riot member and ex-publisher of Mediazona Pyotr Verzilov was added to the list of “terrorists and extremists” maintained by Rosfinmonitoring. This follows from the list update. In the Rosfinmonitoring register, there is an “asterisk” next to Verzilov’s data - this indicates that he is accused of one of the “terrorist” articles. For what reason is unknown; no new criminal case against him has been reported.

In Krivoy Rog, the entrance to a four-story building collapsed as a result of Russian shelling. Footage from the scene is published by the Insider publication and the city telegram channel SVOI Krivy Rig. According to regional authorities, the city was attacked by a ballistic missile, and so far at least six casualties are known. Three elderly people were taken to hospital in moderate condition.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against journalist Dmitry Kolezev, former editor-in-chief of Republic and founder of the Yekaterinburg publication It's my City . TASS writes about the new case with reference to the security forces. Kolezev is accused of repeatedly evading the duties of a “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code).

Judge Anna Malakhova of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow rejected the claim of relatives of 14 Ukrainians against the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia. The applicants demanded the release of relatives who were kidnapped by the Russians at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom.

In the Tyumen region, two minors were detained in connection with a terrorist attack on the railway in Tobolsk. This was reported by the Central Interregional Transport Administration of the UK. The teenagers are accused of committing a terrorist attack by a group of persons by prior conspiracy (clause “a” of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, at the end of December 2024, they set fire to a snowplow at the Tobolsk station of the Sverdlovsk railway.

The governor of the Omsk region, Vitaly Khotsenko, signed amendments that introduce fines for “inducement” to abortions into the regional Code of Administrative Offences. This is understood as “forcing a pregnant woman to have an artificial termination of pregnancy by persuasion, proposals, bribery, deception or other means,” except in cases of “informing the attending physician <…> about the presence of medical indications” for abortion.

In the Solntsevsky Court of Moscow, the trial of Muscovite Ivan Zhdanov began in the case of defamation of a judge (Part 3 of Article 298.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. Zhdanov is the namesake of the FBK director; at the beginning of the trial, Judge Igor Baraksanov said that because of this, there was even confusion with lawyers who wanted to participate in the case.