Law enforcement agencies detained three people in connection with the murders in Moscow in 2008 and 2012. This was reported by the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, in 2008, the defendants killed a businessman and his driver. In 2012, they attacked a resident of Moscow, who, according to their information, had a large amount of money with him. The man received injuries from which he died at the scene.

We talked to Andrei Petrov, the first gay rapper ever to create a hit music video in Russian Andrei Petrov / YouTube On December 19, the 23-year-old Moscow video blogger Andrei Petrov dropped the music video for his very first hip-hop track. In many ways, it’s a typical rap debut: A pulsing beat barrels forward as a Rolls-Royce surrounded by people in tracksuits appears on-screen, and shots of exclusive Moscow neighborhoods and fashionable hotel rooms follow.

to the FBK office of Alexei Navalny and the Navalny Live studio came On December 26 , the special forces of the Federal Bailiff Service with a search. The search is related to a criminal case on the refusal to remove from the Internet the FBK film “He is not Dimon to you” about Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Lawyers were not allowed into the FBK office during the searches. But lawyer Grigory Chervonny, who works with the international human rights group Agora, still managed to get there.

A group of Moscow programmers has launched a crowdfunded project to bring metropolitan expertise to remote towns Liza Kochergina / Meduza Several times a year, “Kruzhok” programmers from Moscow visit towns and villages to hold free coding workshops for local teenagers. Before finishing these lessons, students create websites where they share videos and photographs of their hometowns, describing life in Russia’s countryside.

In Moscow near the Presidential Administration building, single pickets have been continuing in support of the defendants in criminal cases, which, according to the picketers, were unfairly attracted or trying to bring to criminal liability. The pickets began in September as an action in support of actor Pavel Ustinov, who received three and a half years of the colony on charges of attacking the riot police fighter.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has refused to approve the indictment in the Khachaturyan sisters' case . This was reported by Kommersant and TASS sources. According to Kommersant, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Viktor Grin believed that there were violations in the indictment. It is unknown what exactly.

The city of Tyumen, like many of its counterparts in Russia, marks every holiday season by building a complex of ice sculptures. According to the local outlet 72.ru , this year’s “ice village” features an extra, unintentional decoration: dead fish frozen into the ice.

The artistic director of the contemporary theater Galina Volchek died. This was reported to TASS in the theater. Galina Volchek was 86 years old. A few days ago she went to the hospital with a pulmonary disease. Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS Galina Volchek will be buried on December 29 at the Novodevichy cemetery. Farewell to her will take place on the same day in a “contemporary”. Galina Volchek graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School.

Katerina Tikhonova, whom journalists have said is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s daughters, has joined the Russian executive branch’s Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sport. The BBC Russian Service first reported on Tikhonova’s appointment, which was noted on the executive branch’s website. Also among the new appointees to the council is Ksenia Shoigu, the youngest daughter of Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.

In the Stanovlyansky district of the Lipetsk region, a regular bus overturned into a ditch. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation. According to the agency, as a result of the accident, two people died and 15 were injured (including one child). Eight victims were hospitalized. The bus was traveling from Moscow to Tbilisi. There were 19 people in it, all of them were citizens of Georgia.

Mikhail Bogolyubov, the editor-in-chief of the Veliky Novgorod-based newspaper Novgorod , has resigned from his post and been granted resignation by a majority of the local City Duma. In October, journalist Alina Scheglova of the website Novgorod.ru went public with her account that a local editor-in-chief raped her after a professional event. She said the editor sent her messages the next day saying he would punish himself and asking for a kind of mutual truce.

The head of the Innopraktika Foundation, Katerina Tikhonova, who is called the daughter of Vladimir Putin, has joined the council for the development of physical education and mass sports under the Russian government. The decrees on the creation of the council and its composition were published on the government website. The BBC Russian Service was the first to draw attention to them.

Business jets, on which, according to the FBK, the spouse of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Svetlana Medvedeva and the TV presenter Nail Asker-Zade flew, are still controlled by companies related to the leadership of VTB-contrary to the bank’s statement that VTB has not been relations since 2017. This was told by Alexei Navalny in a new investigation.

Yulia Polukhina, a journalist for the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was detained on the morning of December 26 and released that evening following an interrogation. Officials from the Krasnodar Regional Investigative Committee also searched Polukhina’s home before she was taken in for questioning, according to Novaya Gazeta . The search and interrogation took place under a case involving the United Popular Community Partnerships (abbreviated ENOT, which means raccoon).

Updated . Yulia Polukhina has been granted the status of a witness in the E.N.O.T. PMC case, Novaya Gazeta press secretary Nadezhda Prusenkova told Interfax . Journalist Yulia Polukhina was released from the Investigative Committee after being questioned in the case of creating a gang in the FSB. She is currently at home. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta. On the morning of December 26, law enforcement officers came to search Polukhina.