The Kirovsky District Court of Yaroslavl fined local university employee Alexander Dugin 20 thousand rubles 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. Dugin holds the position of head of the department of scientific research and innovation at Yaroslavl State University (YarSU). He is a candidate of economic sciences .

Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets met in Belarus with Russian Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova. The event was also attended by the leaders of the Red Cross mission in Russia and Ukraine. As a result of the meeting, Russian authorities returned 60 people to Ukraine. 15 of them are residents of the occupied territories with limited mobility. 45 Ukrainians who were held in Russian temporary detention centers for foreigners also returned home.

Tolyatti City Duma deputy Alexander Dorozhkin, whose wife spoke about giving birth in Chile, left the United Russia party. This was announced by the executive secretary of the party's ethics commission, Evgeniy Revenko. The day before, on December 15, the Baza telegram channel drew attention to the video of the 42-year-old wife of the deputy Lyubov Marchenko on Instagram .

The Orenburg Regional Court sentenced a local resident accused of sabotage and preparation for it to 13 years in prison. The regional prosecutor's office reports this. According to the security forces, in April 2025, a young man, at the direction of an unknown person, set fire to a battery cabinet on the railway for a reward.

Valentina Zayarnaya. Photo: Mediazona The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 65-year-old Valentina Zayarnaya, a retired English language teacher from Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine, to 12 years in prison and a 500,000-ruble fine after ruling that she had taken part in a plan to monitor a local DPR lawmaker and blow up his car, Mediazona correspondent reports.

A criminal case was opened against the chief editor of the Agentura.ru project, Andrei Soldatov, for evading the duties of a “foreign agent” and participating in the activities of an “undesirable organization.” The Moscow prosecutor's office reports this.

The Supreme Court overturned the decision of lower authorities in the lawsuit of singer Larisa Dolina against the buyer of her apartment in Moscow, Polina Lurie, follows from the video broadcast of the hearing. In the summer of 2024, Dolina sold Lurya a five-room apartment in Khamovniki for 112 million rubles; Later it turned out that Dolina transferred the money received from this transaction to telephone scammers.

State Duma deputies in the second and third readings approved a bill obliging managers of apartment buildings to communicate with their residents in the state messenger Max . The adopted document was published on the website of the lower house of the Russian parliament.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 65-year-old Valentina Zayarnaya to 12 years in prison on charges of participation in a terrorist organization, attempted possession of explosives and preparation of a terrorist attack, a Mediazona correspondent reports. Zayarnaya was also fined 500 thousand rubles.

Prosecutor Ekaterina Frolova requested sentences of up to life for seven defendants in the case of the attempt on the life of propagandist Vladimir Solovyov. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow.

The Verkh-Isetsky court of Yekaterinburg fined a resident of Kirovgrad, Dmitry Rykov, who went on a picket with a quote from the poems of Vladimir Mayakovsky. According to SOTAvision, the man was fined 49 thousand rubles under the article on “discrediting” the army. Rykov went out with a picket in the center of Yekaterinburg on December 7. He stood on the 1905 square and held in his hands a poster with a fragment from the middle of Mayakovsky’s work “Down!

The Ministry of Justice has included the German media corporation Deutsche Welle in the register of “undesirable” organizations. The updated list is presented on the department's website . At the same time as Deutsche Welle , the Bulgarian For Free Russia (For a Free Russia) and the Estonian MTÜ Ingeri Marja (House of Ingria) were included in the register.

The Fokinsky District Court of Bryansk sentenced Bogdan Mityuk, who was found guilty in a criminal case of repeated “discredit” of the Russian army, to two years in a penal colony. This was reported by the press service of the court. The court stated that a resident of Bryansk “disagreed with the policies” of Vladimir Putin and twice - in July and November 2023 - on his personal page on an unnamed social network “expressed a negative attitude” towards the war in Ukraine.

The Verkh-Isetsky Court of Yekaterinburg began consideration of a criminal case against 25-year-old Ivan Koryukov and 24-year-old Alexander Cherepanov in the case of escape from a pre-trial detention center and theft. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. Photo: Mediazona The prosecution believes that throughout August, Koryukov and Cherepanov, who were sitting in neighboring cells, were preparing a plan to escape from pre-trial detention center No.

The Prosecutor General's Office recognized the Dutch foundation Stichting Justice Initiative (SJI , in Russia it worked as the Legal Initiative ) as an “undesirable” organization. This is reported on the department's website.