Law enforcement officers detained the former shiigumen Sergiy (Romanov), who a few months ago seized the Sredneuralsky convent. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. “Law enforcement agencies are conducting investigative measures in the Sredneuralsky Monastery. Romanov was detained for interrogation,” the source said.

Restaurants, bars and cafes in Moscow on December 31 will have to close at 23:00, like on other days. This was stated by the head of the department of trade and services of the Moscow City Hall Alexei Nemeryuk. He promised that after that, law enforcement agencies would conduct raids in order to identify violators. The official also noted that there would be no organized events on New Year's Eve.

The Russian authorities want Navalny back in Moscow for a parole hearing first thing tomorrow morning Alexander Shcherbak / TASS Despite the fact that he was poisoned with a chemical nerve agent in Russia, opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been adamant about his plans to return home. But now the Russian authorities have called him back to Moscow earlier than expected.

Nord Stream 2 has completed the installation of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the German Exclusive Economic Zone. Work has been carried out since December 11 on a section of 2.6 kilometers at a depth of about 30 meters. They were led by the Russian pipe-laying vessel Fortuna. Now, to complete the construction of the gas pipeline, it remains to lay 147 kilometers of pipes in the exclusive economic zone of Denmark. Work is expected to start in mid-January.

Eight employees of a nursing home in northern Germany received a five-fold dose of Pfizer/BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine by mistake. The incident took place in the town of Stralsund in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The employees who were given the five-fold dose were born between 1966 and 1982. Four of them developed flu-like symptoms and were hospitalized as a precaution. Initially, the news reported that the age of employees who received five times the dose, from 66 to 82 years.

Bonus: The Federal Service referred to an article in The Lancet about the poisoning "NOVICE" Alexander Shcherbak / TASS The Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Moscow threatened to apply to the court with a request to replace a conditional term by Alexei Navalny in the Yves Rocher case with a real one . The department said that Navalny, who is in Germany, does not act as a conditionally convicted person and is evading the inspection control.

According to the latest data from the Russian Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat), 219,872 people died in Russia in November 2020. Compared to November 2019, the country recorded 78,541 excess deaths — an increase of 56 percent. According to Rosstat, the coronavirus was the main cause of death for 19,626 people. It was also presumed to be the main cause of death in an additional 3,984 cases, though these were never confirmed by laboratory testing.

Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS / Scanpix / LETA On December 25, Russian senators approved a law that allows for ordinary citizens and informal organizations (ones not registered as legal entities) to be deemed “foreign agents” if they are involved in political activity in Russia and receive assistance from abroad. The new law refers to more than just financial assistance and offers a broad interpretation of what constitutes political activity.

The Moscow branch of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) has threatened to go to court with a request to overturn Alexey Navalny’s suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case unless he appears for a parole hearing in Moscow tomorrow. This was reported by Navalny’s lawyer Vadim Kobzev on Twitter . In a statement , the FSIN said that Navalny hasn’t fulfilled the duties assigned to him by the court and has evaded the prison inspectorate’s attempts to monitor his probation.

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The Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Moscow has threatened to go to court with a request to replace the suspended sentence for politician Alexei Navalny in the Yves Rocher case with a real one if he does not appear at the department's branch at 9 a.m. on December 29. This was reported by lawyer Vadim Kobzev.

In November 2020, 219,872 people died in Russia. Such data are provided by Rosstat. Compared to November 2019, the country recorded 56% more deaths (an additional 78,541 deaths). At the same time, according to Rosstat, coronavirus became the main cause of death of 19,626 people. In another 3984 cases, its presence was not laboratory confirmed, but it is also assumed to be the main cause.

Bonus - what and to whom, on the contrary, were allowed The main events of 2020 are an epidemic of coronavirus, and in Russia the adoption of amendments to the Constitution. Both gave the authorities the opportunity to introduce many new prohibitions. Some of them relate to behavior in an emergency, but others, obviously, will be used against opposition in the State Duma elections in 2021. Here is a list of the main new prohibitions and punishments for their violation.

EMERCOM of Russia In the Barents Sea, the fishing vessel “Onega” sank . 19 people were on board trawler, two of them were saved, the rest are officially considered missing.

Lawyer Lyubov Sobol, who works for Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, has been released on her own recognizance after being charged with criminally infringing on the inviolability of the home of Konstantin Kudryavtsev — one of the FSB operatives implicated in Navalny’s poisoning.