The Tushinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced 19-year-old Arseny Shchetinin to 3.5 years in a general regime colony on charges of participation in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code) and calls for extremist activity (Part 1 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), the capital’s prosecutor’s office reported .

The Baltic Fleet Military Court convicted conscript Vyacheslav Korzhevin and his colleague Maxim Krishtofor in a criminal case about the rehabilitation of Nazism on the Internet (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code), the court’s press service reported . Krishtofor was additionally found guilty of desecration of the Russian flag (Article 329 of the Criminal Code) and calls for extremism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code).

The Barnaul Garrison Military Court sentenced 39-year-old contract soldier Alexander Badakin to 7.5 years in a maximum security colony in the case of causing grievous bodily harm that led to death (Part 4 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona drew attention to the published text of the verdict dated September 29. On December 14, 2024, Badakin arrived in the village of Ust-Kan in the Altai Republic and discovered that his partner was heavily intoxicated.

The Ministry of Education of the Penza Region commented on complaints about the exclusion of students from multidisciplinary gymnasium No. 13 from the disco without the Max messenger installed. The NeMoskva publication drew attention to the comment from the department’s VKontakte account. The regional Ministry of Education emphasized that the use of the Max messenger is entirely voluntary.

The Moscow garrison military court put on the wanted list and arrested in absentia the former deputy head of the “K” department of the economic security service of the FSB of Russia, reserve colonel Dmitry Frolov. Kommersant writes about this. The court made this decision because Frolov did not appear at the retrial. As a result, the prosecution's request to arrest him in absentia and put him on the wanted list was granted.

The Prosecutor General's Office decided to include George Washington University in the register of “undesirable” organizations. The website of the supervisory agency claims that the university provides a platform “for anti-Russian speeches and reports aimed at discrediting Russia,” including regarding the war in Ukraine.

According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, on the night of December 29, the Ukrainian Armed Forces sent 91 drones to Vladimir Putin’s residence in Valdai, all of them were shot down, there were no casualties or destruction. Lavrov’s statement is quoted by the Zvezda TV channel. “Please note that this action was carried out during intensive negotiations between Russia and the United States on resolving the Ukrainian conflict. Such reckless actions will not go unanswered,” Lavrov said.

The Tomsk garrison military court sentenced serviceman Alexei Maslov to 15 years in prison for beating his acquaintance to death. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. Maslov’s case came to court in July 2025, and he was sentenced in December.

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow terminated proceedings on an administrative claim against Roskomnadzor and the Ministry of Digital Development to recognize “partial restrictions” on calls in the Telegram and WhatsApp messengers as illegal and unfounded. This was reported by the press service of the courts of general jurisdiction of Moscow.

FSB officers detained a teenager in Kemerovo suspected of trying to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office. NGS42.ru reports this with reference to the regional department of the department. Security officials claim that the teenager came with a Molotov cocktail to the military commissariat of the Leninsky, Zavodsky and Central districts of Kemerovo, where he was detained.

During the debate in the Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg, prosecutor Artem Terentyev asks to sentence Eduard Markov, a 47-year-old resident of the city of Balashov in the Saratov region, to 12 years in a maximum security colony in the case of a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona became aware of this. Markov is accused of throwing three Molotov cocktails at the MTS communications tower on the night of December 23, 2024.

The 1st Western District Military Court sentenced a resident of the Vologda region, accused of high treason and justifying terrorism, to 13 years in a general regime colony and a fine of 100 thousand rubles. TASS reports this with reference to the regional department of the FSB.

Singer Naoko (Diana Loginova) said in an interview with Yuri Dudu that she was wiretapped two days before her arrest on October 15. According to her, on October 13, a neighbor called Stoptime guitarist Alexander Orlov to inform him that the criminal investigation department was looking for him. Then Naoko decided to leave home to visit a friend whom she called on the phone. “I didn’t expect everything to be so controlled. I didn’t know that I had been bugged for two days already.

Vladimir Putin signed a law toughening the punishment for desertion for former prisoners - they will now face up to 20 years in prison. The corresponding document was published on the official website of legal acts. The law amends Articles 337, 338 and 339 of the Criminal Code - they relate to unauthorized abandonment of a unit, desertion and evasion from service.

Vladimir Putin signed an amendment to the law on military courts, which allows them to consider cases of stateless persons (stateless persons). Stateless people were allowed to be recruited into the Russian army in the summer of 2025, in the explanatory note this was explained by “replenishment of the armed forces.” The contract allows you to obtain Russian citizenship in a simplified manner.