Exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya accuses Lukashenko of ‘taking revenge’ after Belarus sentences her husband to 18 years in prison Sergei Grits / AP / Scanpix / LETA A Belarusian court has handed an 18-year prison sentence to opposition blogger and politician Sergey Tikhanovsky — the husband of exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. The closed-door trial took place at a remand prison in the city of Gomel on Tuesday, December 14.

Alexander Lukashenko signed a law criminalizing calls for sanctions against Belarus, its citizens and organizations. If these calls are addressed to ordinary people, the punishment will be up to six years in prison, for calls to foreign states - up to ten years. If the appeals led to the inclusion of enterprises in the sanctions lists or if they are made by an official, the punishment can reach 12 years in prison.

In Moscow, from December 24, the cost of paid parking will change on several dozen streets. This is reported by the city Department of Transportation. On the most popular streets in the city center - for example, on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, Petrovka, Ilyinka, Povarskaya - the parking rate will increase to 450 rubles per hour during the day (from 8 am to 9 pm) and up to 200 rubles per hour at night, including on Sunday.

In South Sudan, 89 people have died from an unknown disease. It is reported by BBC News. The victims were residents of Jonglei state in the east of the country. They lived in areas that were recently hit by flooding, the worst in the region in 60 years. Authorities initially assumed that the cause of death was cholera, but research has shown that this is not the case.

A draft bill on introducing vaccine proof on public transport was removed from the Russian State Duma’s agenda. Here’s why. Anton Novoderzhkin / TASS Draft legislation on introducing QR-code vaccine proof for accessing planes and trains in Russia will not go to the floor of the State Duma, parliamentary speaker Vyacheslav Volodin wrote on Telegram late in the evening on December 12.

The human rights project Gulagu.net received at its disposal a new archive with the torture of prisoners in the system of the Federal Penitentiary Service. The founder of the project, Vladimir Osechkin, told about this to the telegram channel “Caution, news”. According to Osechkin, the 200 gigabyte archive contains evidence of torture from Krasnoyarsk, Transbaikalia and Primorsky Krai, committed between 2016 and 2019.

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From January 2, 2022, travel in Moscow public transport will rise in price. The Department of Transport of the city announced this in its telegram channel. Thus, the price of a single trip on a “Single” ticket and the price of a ticket for two trips will increase by one ruble - up to 61 and 122 rubles, respectively. A one-time trip in ground transport, metro, MCC, MCD in the Central zone using the Troika card will rise in price by four rubles - from 42 to 46 rubles.

software library A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the Log4j , which is used by many Java programs, that could allow attackers to gain remote control over servers around the world. The vulnerability has been identified as CVE-2021-44228 . The Log4j library collects information about errors and other events that occurred during application operation and saves it in logs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin opposed the introduction of QR codes in transport on the eve of the New Year. He stated this at a meeting with government members, Interfax reports. “Now, on New Year’s Eve, it seems to me that introducing restrictions of this kind is a rather complicated story. We will create a lot of problems for people,” the president said after the report of the head of the Ministry of Transport, Vitaly Savelyev, on the relevant legislative initiative.

A district court in Moscow has fined the investigative news outlet The Insider for refusing to add “foreign agent” disclaimers to its materials, reports the official Telegram channel of the Moscow courts. On Tuesday, December 14, the Moscow courts’ press service announced that the Tagansky District Court had ordered The Insider to pay a total of 1 million rubles ($13,600) in fines for administrative violations of Russia’s “foreign agent” legislation.

The court in Minsk appointed two years in prison to Nadezhda and Vladimir Kalach-the founders of the Belarusian fantasy-filter group Irdorath, who played on protest in 2020. This was written by the Belarusian human rights center "Spring". The spouses were accused of organizing actions grossly violating public order, the material support of such actions and the preparation of participants for them.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Russia is to pay compensation to several domestic violence victims over the authorities’ failure to respond to their cases. One of the applicants, Margarita Gracheva, whose ex-husband was sentenced to fourteen years in prison for cutting off her hands in 2017, was awarded more than $400,000 in compensation.

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Russian authorities to pay a total of 887 thousand euros in compensation for cases of torture in Moscow and the North Caucasus republics, as well as extrajudicial executions in Chechnya. In the first case, the court considered the statements of 11 Russians who were detained in Chechnya, Dagestan, Moscow and Ingushetia in 2009-2017.

Lionsgate studio released the trailer for the comedy “Unbearable Heaviness of Huge Talent”, in which Nicholas Cage performed one of the most complex roles in his entire career - who found himself in the occasion of Nicholas Cage. Yes, you read everything correctly! Lionsgate Movies According to the plot, a ruined Cage accepts the proposal of a rich fan who is looking for meetings with a star of militants and offers a million dollars for this.