Law enforcement officers found a weapons cache in a private house in the city of Gatchina, Leningrad Region, Interfax reports citing an informed source. According to the source, a large family lives in the house. The local edition 47news.ru clarifies that eight children were evacuated from the house, a man living in the house - presumably their father - was detained. He introduced himself as a “Colonel of the GRU” and refused to talk to law enforcement officers.

In Berlin, unknown people unearthed the grave of one of the leaders of Nazi Germany, Reinhard Heydrich. Why exactly the grave was excavated is unclear - Heydrich's remains remained intact. The police believe that the criminals acted on a tip, since the name of Heydrich is not indicated on the grave. Heydrich was one of the most influential figures in the leadership of Nazi Germany.

Top executives at Rambler say they will ask Russian law enforcement to close their criminal case against the web-server Nginx, based on a decision by Rambler’s board of directors, according to a press release issued to Meduza . Rambler also says it is cutting ties to the “Lynwood” law firm, which filed the police report on the company’s behalf that prompted an investigation into Nginx.

revers / Shutterstock.com St. Petersburg State University (SPbGU) has submitted a complaint to the Internal Affairs Ministry after an incident involving Alexandra Elbakyan, the founder of the major scientific database Sci-Hub. Yelena Sharygina, the university’s vice rector for security, said Elbakyan behaved aggressively during an ethics commission hearing on December 10. Specifically, she spit at mulcommission’s members.

Rambler management will appeal to law enforcement agencies with a request to terminate the criminal case initiated due to the conflict with Nginx. This decision was made following an extraordinary meeting of the Rambler board of directors, according to a press release received by Meduza. Rambler also noted that it was terminating its contract with Lynwood Investments , which had contacted law enforcement agencies.

The commission for organizing the work of the Moscow City Duma refused to agree on the question of the "Moscow case", which the deputies from Yabloko were going to ask Mayor Sergei Sobyanin during his report to the Moscow City Duma on December 18. This was announced by the deputy Daria Besedina. As Besedina wrote, according to the regulations, deputies can only ask the mayor 15 questions - three from each faction, and all these questions must be agreed in advance with the commission.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has introduced a new bill for consideration in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament. The bill, which was published on the Rada’s website on December 16, includes a new scheme for territorial designations in the country. In the document, Zelensky proposed a three-tier local and regional governance system with a separate Autonomous Republic status available to Crimea.

Former fighter collected Deutsche Welle about political murders in Belarus In 1999, the former Minister of Internal Affairs Yuri Zakharenko, the former head of the Central Election Commission Viktor Gonchar and the businessman Anatoly Krasovsky, disappeared in Belarus. The investigation of their disappearance did not give results, their bodies were never found.

Vincent Kessler / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has accepted a case on the parental rights of a transgender individual for the very first time, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported . The case follows from a complaint submitted by a Russian citizen who was completely barred from seeing or contacting her children following her surgical transition. The ECHR’s decision in the case will set a precedent for all Council of Europe member states.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky submitted to the Parliament a bill on the decentralization of power, which, among other things, provides for a new administrative-territorial division of the country. The text of the draft law "On Amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine (regarding the decentralization of power)" was published on December 16 on the website of the Verkhovna Rada.

Russian Railways allowed employees to take up to three days off at the end of December, including the 31st, at their own expense. It is reported by RIA Novosti. The second condition under which the employee of the corporation will be given this weekend, Russian Railways called "ensuring a continuous production process" and the safety of train traffic. Russian Railways employs 730,000 people and is the largest employer in Russia.

The Moscow Helsinki Group ( MHG ) has announced a fundraiser to continue its work. The organization's executive director Svetlana Astrakhantseva spoke about this on Ekho Moskvy. According to her, the Moscow Helsinki Group has “no confidence” that the organization will continue to receive grants from the state. They have remained the only source of funding since the adoption of the law on “foreign agents” in 2012.

The Moscow City Court granted Rambler's demand for a preliminary blocking for 15 days as an interim measure of English Premier League broadcasts on the website of the Match TV channel due to copyright infringement. Within the next two weeks, Rambler will have to go to court with a statement of claim. As noted by The Bell, what kind of content in question is unclear.

The International Football Federation (FIFA) has filed a lawsuit against the former president of the organization, Joseph Blatter, as well as the former president of UEFA, Michel Platini. This was reported on the FIFA website. The reason for the claim was the transfer of two million Swiss francs. The money was transferred at Blatter's direction from FIFA's account to Platini's in February 2011.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law temporarily restricting the exit of former FSB officers from Russia. The document is published on the official portal of legal information.