The Volga City Court of Mari El imposed two years of forced labor on a 36-year-old man in the case of disseminating “fakes” about the army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona found information about this on the court’s website. The verdict was announced on December 24. According to information from the court's website, the accused's name is Ivan Petrov.

The Sverdlovsk District Court of Perm placed 18-year-old Yandex courier Andrey Kuptsov under house arrest in the case of arson at an ATM. This was reported by Properm . According to journalists, the young man acted on the instructions of telephone scammers who defrauded him of 90 thousand rubles. Kuptsov is accused of deliberate destruction of property (Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code). It is known that one person was injured from the fire; he is now undergoing outpatient treatment.

The Muravlenkovsky City Court of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug fined the Wildberries marketplace three million rubles under the protocol on “LGBT propaganda” on the Internet (Part 4 of Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code). The decision was published on the court's website. The reason for the administrative case was goods without the “18+” marking and the absence of a special sign in which you must indicate your age to view them. The court hearing took place on November 29.

In Serpukhov, a criminal case for hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) was opened against a pensioner who lit a firecracker in a shopping center building. The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Moscow Region reported this to TASS. A 77-year-old woman lit a pyrotechnic product in a shopping center on Borisovskoe Highway the day before, December 24. Security forces add that no one was injured.

In Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, FSB officers conducted a “premises inspection” in the apartment of the author of the YouTube channel “Bulletin of the Storm” Andrei Rudoy. He said that security forces stopped him on the street during the day and seized equipment from his home - a laptop and a hard drive. According to Rudoy, ​​the security forces mentioned the name of ex-State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev, who lives in Kyiv.

The Prosecutor General's Office recognized the activities of the American organization Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (US Helsinki Commission) as “undesirable” in Russia. The press service of the department reported this.

The body of journalist Maxim Maximov, who was killed in 2004, was found in a forest belt near the village of Beloostrov in St. Petersburg, the Investigative Committee announced . As Fontanka and 47news reported , the search began on December 19, after retired Interior Ministry Colonel Mikhail Smirnov confessed to his murder and another crime. He was arrested in the spring of 2024 in another case of car bombing.

Moscow City Court judge Alexander Rybak sentenced former FSB officer Ramazan Rasulov to 13 years of maximum security on charges of treason. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. 40-year-old Rasulov was also fined 300 thousand rubles. After the verdict was announced, Judge Rybak noted that state prosecutor Milana Digaeva had asked for a slightly longer term, but did not specify which one.

The Russian cargo ship Ursa Major, which sank in the western Mediterranean, suffered from a “targeted terrorist attack” before the crash. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the company that owns the ship, Oboronlogistics. According to the company, the cause of the accident was three explosions that occurred on the afternoon of December 23 from the starboard side of the cargo ship in the stern. After this, the ship received a sharp list to the left side of up to 25 degrees.

The Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow sentenced Dutch national Harry Johannes Van Woerden to three years in a general regime colony for assaulting a policeman. A TASS correspondent reported this from the court. According to investigators , 62-year-old Van Woerden was drunk on October 3 and knocked down a parking sign near the Italian Embassy in Moscow. After that, he hit the police captain in the face, who reprimanded him (Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

The Murmansk Regional Court sentenced local resident M.E. to 12 years in prison. Mazur in the case of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), the press service of the court reports . Mazur will serve his sentence in a maximum security colony. The court's press service does not provide any other details of the case.

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined artist Ellen Sheidlin 30 thousand rubles under a protocol on “discrediting” the Russian army. This was reported by Zaks.ru with reference to the press service of the courts of St. Petersburg. According to the publication, the police drew up a report against Sheidlin because of three telegram posts that were dedicated to the war in Ukraine. The recordings were released between December 31, 2022 and February 18, 2023.

The Administrative Division of the Tbilisi City Court granted the request of the Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia to expel a Russian named Ivan, who was detained in the capital during protests against the suspension of the country's European integration. This is stated in the court ruling, which Mediazona has read. The decision was made on December 24. The Russian citizen was also banned from entering Georgia for a five-year period.

Illustration: Michael Scarn/Mediazona The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow rejected a class action lawsuit against Ukrainian citizens whose relatives were kidnapped by Russian soldiers during the occupation. The problem affects at least hundreds of Ukrainians—some of whom are likely being tortured.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put on the wanted list the politician Ilya Yashin, who was released from prison in August as a result of a large-scale exchange of prisoners between Russia and Western countries. Mediazona found information about this in the department’s search database. According to Mediazona, the card appeared in the Ministry of Internal Affairs search database today, December 25.