A criminal case was opened against 49-year-old Dmitry Simbaev, who has dual citizenship of Russia and Ireland, in August 2025 due to a phone check at the border. His wife Daria Petrenko told the Irish Times , RTE and Connacht Tribune about this; The Agency also provided details with reference to an unnamed relative. Born in Chelyabinsk, 49-year-old Dmitry Simbaev moved to Ireland about 25 years ago, lived in the suburbs of Galway in the west of the country and worked in a spare parts factory.

Фото: «Медиазона» On 19 December, the Liublinsky District Court in Moscow sentenced Alexander Nesterenko, an associate professor in the faculty of philosophy at the Moscow State Technical University, to three years in prison.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow sent Vladimir Prokopenko to a pre-trial detention center on charges of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). Before this, he was given administrative arrests at least eight times, Mediazona drew attention to the data on the websites of courts in the Moscow region and the capital. Prokopenko was first arrested on September 5 in Naro-Fominsk near Moscow.

A 30-year-old resident of Plesetsk was sentenced to 5.5 years in a maximum security colony on charges of extortion and robbery by prior conspiracy (part 2 of articles 161 and 163 of the Criminal Code), the prosecutor’s office of the Arkhangelsk region reported . According to the prosecution, the man, together with an accomplice, extorted 100 thousand rubles from a participant in the war in Ukraine, and also demanded that he take out loans in his name (their amount is not specified).

Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow. Photo: Yandex Maps Prosecutors in Moscow have attempted to penalise a complete stranger for “participating” in the work of the independent news outlet Meduza, banned as an “undesirable organisation”—only for a court to dismiss the case when it was revealed they had charged the wrong man and didn’t think twice. The error was first discovered by Mediazona.

The Leninsky District Court of Kursk recovered about 4.1 billion rubles from former regional Duma deputy Maxim Vasiliev at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, the press service of the regional courts reported . It is clarified that the court decision can be executed jointly with the former general director of the Kursk Region Development Corporation Vladimir Lukin, his deputy Igor Grabin and other persons mentioned in the lawsuit.

21-year-old Aina Mankieva from Ingushetia, who fled from her relatives, disappeared from the search database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mediazona drew attention. Mankieva was wanted in a criminal case of theft, which was initiated at the request of her mother: the woman told the police that her daughter had stolen 20 thousand rubles from her.

The Chertanovsky interdistrict prosecutor drew up a protocol on participation in an “undesirable” organization (20.33 Code of Administrative Offences) for association with the publication Meduza against a person who has nothing to do with the media, Mediazona discovered. This is stated in the ruling of Judge Elena Trushechkina, who returned the case to the prosecutor's office.

Judge of the 2nd Western District Military Court Yuri Massin sentenced Vladimir Golovchenko to 26 years in prison, Ivan Paskar to 24 years in prison on charges of terrorism, illegal production and acquisition of explosive devices, the press services of the Investigative Committee and the capital's prosecutor's office reported. Golovchenko will have to spend the first six years of his sentence in prison, Paskar - the first five.

The 1st Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg sentenced 17-year-old schoolgirl Eva Bagrova to four years in prison for hanging photographs of Denis Kapustin and Alexei Levkin, fighters of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), on a school stand. Nest reports this with reference to her lawyer Dmitry Arevkin. Judging by the case file on the court’s website, Bagrova’s sentence was announced in October 2025. She was found guilty of justifying terrorism and facilitating terrorist activities.

The auction for the sale of Moscow Domodedovo Airport did not take place. Interfax reports this with reference to data from the Torgi system and the RTS-Tender platform. The starting price of the auction is 132.3 billion rubles. Only one application was submitted for the auction - from entrepreneur Evgeniy Bogaty. According to Interfax, it was not accepted because Bogaty did not provide a complete package of documents. Journalist Farida Rustamova writes that IP Bogaty E.V.

The Moscow Garrison Military Court sentenced former deputy director of the Russian Guard Sergei Mileiko to 7 years in a general regime colony in the case of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), TASS reported , citing its correspondent. Despite the guilty verdict, Mileiko was released in the courtroom at the expense of time served, the state agency notes.

The Lomonosovsky District Court of Arkhangelsk received an administrative case on “LGBT propaganda” (Part 1 of Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code) against the director of the House of Books store Ekaterina Trubina, Mediazona noted . The report on Trubina was drawn up after the buyer denounced the police because of the book “We are against you” by the Swedish writer Frederik Backman, the website 29.ru wrote .

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, at a conference dedicated to the results of the department’s work in 2025, commented on the situation around Greenland and compared it with the annexation of Crimea by Russia. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

A 16-year-old teenager died on the territory of the “Russia - My History” park in Yakutsk, the republican prosecutor’s office reported . According to preliminary data from the department, the teenager got inside the tank through the bottom hatch and was injured when “one of the structures” fell. He died on the spot.