Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin appealed to the Higher Qualification Board of Judges (HQJC) with a request to give consent to initiate criminal cases against five judges of the Sovetsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don. Information about this appeared on the authority's website. The board’s website states that Bastrykin’s appeal concerns the current judge Artur Maslov, who is suspected of receiving bribes (Part 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code).

The European Union has included Russia in the list of countries with a high risk of money laundering and terrorist financing. Politico writes about this with reference to documents and two officials. The adopted measure will oblige financial institutions to strengthen the verification of all transactions related to Russia and its citizens, and will force banks to take additional measures to reduce risks. There is no official communication from the European Union about this yet.

A court in Azerbaijan sentenced convicted Wagnerist Ismail Hasanov to three and a half years in prison. As the Azerbaijani publication OXU.az clarifies , Hasanov was found guilty under the article on participation in the activities of armed groups outside Azerbaijan. Hasanov was serving a 12-year sentence in Russia in 2022, of which eight and a half had already passed by that time. In November 2022, a recruiter from the Wagner PMC arrived in his colony.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Dagestani blogger Arslan Mirzaev (Ali Charinsky) in absentia to eight years in a general regime colony and a fine of one million rubles. As the press service of the court clarifies , he was charged with articles about public calls for terrorism and “fakes” about the Russian army.

Roskomnadzor confirmed the blocking of the Roblox platform in Russia. As RBC clarifies with reference to the department, the reason was “justification of extremism and terrorism,” calls for violence and “LGBT propaganda.” Roskomnadzor cited Roblox monitoring data that showed the “inability of the internal moderation system” to ensure the safety of materials uploaded to the platform.

Employees of the Russian FSB Directorate for the Kurgan Region detained a 17-year-old resident of the regional center. He is suspected of high treason, the Kurgan Online publication reports , citing the press service of the regional department of the FSB of Russia. According to investigators, the teenager contacted a representative of the “Ukrainian terrorist movement” by telegram, which is “controlled” by the Security Service of Ukraine.

Magistrate Anna Logua sentenced Boris Akunin (Grigory Chkhartishvili) in absentia to one year in prison on charges of violating the procedures for the activities of a “foreign agent.” This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from world precinct No. 371 in the Tagansky district of Moscow. Together with the previous sentence, he was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment, and the writer must spend the first 4 in prison, and the rest of the term in a maximum security colony.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow detained former State Duma deputy from United Russia Anatoly Voronovsky in a case of bribery on an especially large scale. This was reported by the press service of the capital's courts of general jurisdiction. At a meeting on December 2, the State Duma deprived Voronovsky of his mandate, RBC wrote . The publication's sources claimed that the deputy wrote a letter of resignation at the end of November.

The Krasnoperekopsky District Court of Yaroslavl fined Alexander Novikov, an employee of a local university, under a protocol on participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). The notice of the fine was published on the court's website. The fine amounted to 20 thousand rubles. Novikov himself holds the position of head of the information technology department at Yaroslavl State Technical University (YSTU).

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put on the wanted list a journalist from Krasnodar, publisher of the independent media project “Protocol,” Alexander Savelyev. Mediazona found information about this in the department’s database. The card on the Ministry of Internal Affairs website does not indicate the article under which the criminal case was initiated.

The Kirovsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk fined local resident S. Pushkin 300 thousand rubles due to donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation. A press release about this was published on the court’s website, and Mediazona drew attention to it. Pushkin was found guilty of financing extremist activities (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, a resident of Krasnoyarsk transferred four donations of 877 rubles each to the FBK account.

State Duma deputies adopted amendments to the law on conscription and military service in the second and third readings. The innovations oblige graduates of military universities who studied at the expense of the budget to compensate for expenses if they are recognized as a “foreign agent.” The bill was submitted to the lower house of parliament for consideration on October 31.

Burning of “harmful” books in Nazi Germany. Photo: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe The publishing house Individuum publishes a study by the German historian Jan-Peter Barbian “The Literary Policy of the Third Reich.

The Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal, to 23 years in a maximum security colony in the case of creating a criminal community and seven counts of fraud on an especially large scale. As Furgal’s Headquarters clarifies , in conjunction with the previous sentence, he was sentenced to 25 years in a maximum security colony, as well as a ban on holding public office for 2.5 years. The other nine defendants were also sentenced.

Prosecutor Oleg Amelchakov asked that the writer Boris Akunin (Grigory Chkhartishvili) be sentenced to 1 year in prison in absentia on charges of violating the procedures for the activities of a “foreign agent.” In conjunction with the previous sentence, the state prosecutor asks for 15 years of imprisonment, and the writer must spend the first 4 in prison, and the rest of the term in a maximum security colony.