A former prisoner who was recruited to fight in Ukraine as part of the Russian Storm Z unit told Novaya Gazeta Europe that commanders were detaining soldiers in a basement for committing offenses and then demanding bribes for their release. According to the former prisoner, the basement where they are held is a small nine-square-meter (97-square-foot) room with 10 soldiers in it at all times.

The Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation supported the candidacy of State Duma deputy Nikolai Kharitonov as a possible candidate for the presidency of Russia from the party. reported this following the meeting RBC and RIA Novosti , citing sources. Vedomosti writes that the presidium discussed Kharitonov’s nomination for elections.

The Dobrynya hotel in Millerovo, a city in Russia’s Rostov region, has closed, writes newspaper Kommersant. A few days prior to its closure, there were reports that the hotel refused to accommodate soldiers who were returning to fight in Ukraine after military leave. The newspaper wrote that the hotel’s website stopped functioning and no one was answering the hotel’s phone. According to the Telegram channel Don Mash , the door to the hotel is locked.

A drone fell in the city of Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Region, telegram channels “112” , “Caution, Moscow” and Baza report , citing eyewitnesses. According to 112, two drones fell in the area of ​​the Krasnopresnensky pond. According to preliminary data, there were no casualties. Residents of Naro-Fominsk write “Careful, Moscow, we heard a sound like thunder. Shot claims that the roar was heard several kilometers from the scene.

The Armenian Radio Commission suspended for 30 days a Tosppa broadcast license, which broadcasts Sputnik Armenia radio, according to the regulator’s website. The commission made such a decision within the framework of administrative production in relation to Tospp. The regulator said that the protocol for the company was drawn up after the author’s transfer of the Russian propagandist Tigran Keosayan.

The security service has put Russian businessman Mikhail Fridman on the wanted list in the country. Information about this was published on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. According to the card of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Fridman is considered “a person hiding from the pre-trial investigation authorities.” According to the department, the businessman has been “hiding” since October 10, 2023.

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Russia’s Defense Ministry said that mobilized soldiers will only finish their military service when Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a decree that “partial mobilization” has been completed, according to a response to a request from Boris Vishnevsky, a deputy in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly. Vishnevsky suggested limiting mobilized soldiers’ military service to one year.

Independent bookstore All Are Free removed the word "Peace" from its window after police requested it. The store’s Telegram channel published a video of one of the “Everyone is free” employees erasing the inscription from the window. The inscription “Peace to the world!” appeared on a store window after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. In March 2023, the display case with the inscription was damaged by a gunshot .

In the city of Lyubertsy in the Moscow region, a block of ice fell on people who were standing in line at the military registration and enlistment office. Mash reported this. As the telegram channel notes, the incident occurred on the morning of December 20. People gathered in line in front of the building to register at their place of residence.

The new Polish government led by Donald Tusk announced the dismissal of state media heads. The chairmen of the boards of directors of the state news agency PAP, television and radio lost their positions. Reuters writes that the 24-hour news channel TVP has temporarily stopped broadcasting.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined the European University because of books in the library published by “undesirable” organizations. This was reported by the joint press service of the city courts. The university was found guilty under the administrative article of participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization (20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). According to two protocols, the fine totaled 70 thousand rubles.

The Wall Street Journal told how Trevor Reed for Konstantin Yaroshenko exchanged in Ankara, and the defenders of Azovstali were excited for Viktor Medvedchuk LM Otero / AP / Scanpix / Leta Parents of Trevor Reed with a portrait of his son two months before his release from Russian opinion In recent years, the United States has encountered an unprecedented number of arrests of its citizens in Russia and other countries and their use as the goals for the exchange for prisoners contained in

A former prisoner who was recruited to fight in Ukraine from a colony in the Primorsky Territory as part of the Storm Z unit told Novaya Gazeta Europe that commanders imprisoned the military in the basement for violations and extorted money from them. The publication did not disclose the name of the interlocutor for security reasons. According to a former prisoner, the basement is a small room three by three meters, in which ten military personnel are constantly stationed.

Former General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev was stripped of the title of honorary citizen of Dnepr, city mayor Boris Filatov said. “Because we will also complete the decommunization of the city. No matter what anyone says,” Filatov wrote in a report on the results of the last City Council session in 2023.