A regional health minister in Russia is asking clinics to cancel their abortion licenses voluntarily. Here’s what local doctors have to say about it. Alexander Ryumiin / TASS On November 20, Samara Regional Health Minister Mikhail Ratmanov announced that his agency had asked all private clinics in the region to refuse to provide abortions.

The judge of the Meshchansky Court, Irina Akkuratova, sentenced the defendants in the "Moscow case" Yegor Lesnykh, Maxim Martintsov and Alexander Mylnikov. According to Mediazona, Lesnykh received three years in a penal colony, Martintsov - two and a half years in a penal colony, Mylnikov - two years probation. The defendants were found guilty of using violence against a government official.

Five paintings by old masters that were stolen 40 years ago will be returned to the Friedenstein Castle Museum in Thuringia, the museum's administration announced. The paintings in question are by Hans Holbein the Elder, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Anthony van Dyck, Frans Hals and Jan Lievens. They were stolen from the Friedenstein Castle Museum in December 1979. According to Der Spiegel and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , it was the largest art theft in the history of the GDR.

Bellingcat project visiting the Naked Pravda podcast The chief editor of the international version of "Medusa" Kevin Rotrock discusses Russian events in the world context with experts every week. In the second episode, Kevin tells how the Scientific Center under the President’s managers sells services that allow you to deanonymize any resident of the country, and there are merged databases and whether it can be used for journalistic investigations.

The Khamovniki Court of Moscow arrested Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, for 10 days because of a rally that took place on July 14, 2019 near the Moscow City Electoral Committee. It is reported by MBH Media. Zhdanov was detained on the afternoon of 6 December. A protocol was drawn up against him on the organization of an uncoordinated public event.

Jagadeesh NV / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Protest Protest after rape and murder of a 27-year-old woman in Heidrabad. Bangalor, December 3, 2019 In two weeks, two cruel crimes against women took place in India. One victim was killed, the second was in the hospital in critical condition On December 5, a 23-year-old resident of the Indian city of UNNAO, who became a victim of rape, was set on fire on the way to the court, where she was supposed to testify against alleged criminals.

The German Prosecutor General's Office has launched an investigation into alleged GRU agents known under the pseudonyms of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov . This was reported by Spiegel, citing sources. According to German authorities, Petrov and Boshirov spent three days in the Frankfurt area in 2014. According to Spiegel sources, German intelligence services believe that Russian intelligence has connections in Germany.

Trading house Intertorg, which develops supermarkets of the Dutch chain Spar in Russia, will close several stores. Mushvig Abdullayev, co-owner of Intertorg, told RBC about this. The company owes almost three billion rubles to suppliers, several counterparties plan to go to court with bankruptcy petitions, writes RBC. Relevant notifications are published on the Fedresurs portal. Sources of the publication say that from 40 to 100 stores will be closed.

At the US Navy base in Pensacola, Florida, the gunman opened fire. Eleven people were injured, the attacker was killed. No details about the identity of the shooter or the condition of the victims have yet been released. More than 16,000 military and 7,400 civilian specialists serve at the Pensacola base. The base houses the National Museum of Naval Military Aviation, which is popular with tourists.

Evgeny Feldman for Medusa, the accused in the Moscow Case Vladimir Emelyanov was sentenced to two years conditionally. The prosecutor's office asked for four years in a colony. On December 6, four sentences in the “Moscow case” have already been issued , the announcement of three more sentences are scheduled for the evening.

The Coca-Cola Company has launched a limited edition sugar-free soda in Singapore with integrated OLED panels in the bottle label. The release is timed to coincide with the premiere of The Skywalker. Sunrise, the ninth episode of Star Wars, which concludes the space saga. Two versions of the bottle are available: one shows Rey holding a blue lightsaber, the other shows Kylo Ren holding a red lightsaber. When the label is touched, the swords glow for approximately five seconds.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested the former defendants in the “Moscow case” Sergei Abanichev and Daniil Konon for 15 days for a rally on July 27, reports the Apology of Protest. Both were released from punishment, counting their stay in a pre-trial detention center from August to September 2019 (a day in the detention center is equal to two in a special detention center).

A resident of the Krasnodar Territory born in 1993 was charged in the case of stealing the data of 703,000 Russian Railways employees, the Investigative Committee reports. The accused pleaded guilty, the charges were brought under two articles: on illegal access to information protected by law and on illegal receipt and disclosure of trade secrets. According to a young man who works in IT, he did it out of curiosity.

The magazine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mit Technology Review published excerpts from the article of the Chinese biologist He Jiankuya, who in November last year reported the birth of the first children in the history of a purposefully changed genome. An artificially introduced mutation was supposed to make these children immune to HIV infection.

Moscow’s Meshchansky District Court has fined journalist Ilya Azar 300,000 rubles ($4,700) for participating in a demonstration on August 31. In court, Azar rejected allegations that it was an illegal assembly, and his lawyer, Tatyana Molokanova, argued that prosecutors presented no evidence that any disorderly conduct occurred at the rally. “In photographs, you can see Mr. Azar eating ice cream and not chanting any slogans,” Molokanova told the court.