The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, criticized the heads of the agency's regional departments due to the growing number of acquittals in criminal cases in the country. This was reported on the Investigative Committee's website. The work of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Republic of Tatarstan has been subjected to serious criticism, where an increase in the number of acquittals has been noted.

Putin and Biden discuss Ukraine, bilateral relations in virtual talks Amid tensions over Moscow massing troops on the border with Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden held virtual talks on Tuesday, December 7. The discussion took place behind closed doors and lasted about two hours.

A look back at the Moscow protests of December 2011 and what’s become of their leaders, 10 years later Evgeny Feldman Pushkin Square protest on March 5, 2012 Roughly 10 years ago, on December 4, 2011, elections were held for Russia’s State Duma. The official results had United Russia, the ruling party, winning 49% of the vote. The mass voter fraud that led to this result, however, sparked protests across the country — the largest since the early 1990s.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation faction in the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad Region left the meeting room in full force during the consideration of the government bill on mandatory QR codes in public places. This is reported by the publication 47news.

76% of Russian residents have a negative or rather negative attitude towards the introduction of QR codes in public transport, according to a survey by the Levada Center . 21% of respondents perceive this initiative positively or rather positively. The proposal to introduce QR codes for visiting public places is supported by 30% of respondents. 67% are against. 51% of survey participants consider mass protests against the introduction of QR codes in their locality unlikely.

The Higher School of Economics (HSE) has sent a letter to undergraduate students majoring in Journalism and Media Communications prohibiting them from doing internships in organizations declared "foreign agents," Novaya Gazeta and former DOXA editor Tatyana Kolobakina reported.

In the event of a Russian military invasion of Ukraine, the United States is considering the possibility of introducing sanctions that would mean the complete isolation of Russia from the global financial system. This was stated by US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland at a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress.

The German prosecutor's office has demanded a life sentence for 56-year-old Russian Vadim Sokolov, accused of murdering former Chechen field commander and Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin. This was reported by Die Zeit and the German Russian-language TV channel OstWest . The prosecutor's office asked to find the suspect guilty of murder and illegal possession of weapons.

How the first video negotiations between the presidents of the two countries went Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden held talks via video link. They lasted about two hours. Putin was at his residence in Sochi, Biden was at the White House in Washington. A closed video link, which had never been used before, was used for communication between the leaders of the two countries. Journalists were not present at the talks.

Russia’s censorship agency (Roskomnadzor) has sent a notice to Tor, threatening to block the web browser unless it removes “prohibited information” from its landing page, reported digital rights group Roskomsvoboda on Tuesday, December 7. The letter from Roskomnadzor was published on GitLab on December 6, a few days after Russian Tor users first reported problems accessing the browser.

Photos United States Office of War Information / Library of Congress entering the torpedo in the California battleship. As a result of the attack, 98 members of his crew died, the ship itself, which received holes, sank three days later. In 1944, he was raised to the surface, repaired and entered into the fleet again. On December 7, 1941, Japan, without a formal declaration of war, attacked the US Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

Roskomnadzor sent a letter to administrators of the Tor browser demanding to remove links to "forbidden information", threatening to block the browser otherwise. The department's letter was published on GitLab project drew attention to it , the Roskomsvoboda . The letter from Roskomnadzor said that Tor administrators should remove "forbidden information" from the torproject.org page, which talks about the browser and contains a link to download it.

In Moscow, a visitor to the MFC refused to wear a mask and opened shooting. Two weeks before the explosion, the ventilation flooded the “foliage” - but the leadership did nothing.

Belarus will introduce a six-month ban on imports of a number of goods from countries that “implement discriminatory policies and carry out unfriendly actions against the country” from January 1, 2022. This was reported to the Belta agency by the press service of the Belarusian government.

The Russian government has allowed all citizens to freely travel to Finland by train. The corresponding document has been published on the official Internet portal of legal information. This decision was made against the backdrop of the upcoming resumption of rail service between St. Petersburg and Helsinki. Allegro trains will begin running on this route on December 12.