The Emkhk company, the main shareholder of which is the former editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow Alexey Venediktov, filed a claim for 1.1 billion rubles against the top managers of the Gazprom-Media holding (GPM), Vedomosti reports with reference to the arbitration file. business According to the case file, the claim was accepted for proceedings on December 14, 2023.

A bill allowing foreigners with a criminal record to sign a contract with Russia’s Defense Ministry has been introduced to the Russian State Duma, according to a document posted on its legislation portal. The bill’s authors mention that in June 2023, the authorities permitted Russian citizens with criminal records to sign contracts to serve in Russia’s Armed Forces, as well as those who committed crimes of minor or medium severity.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has updated the register of “foreign agents”, including the writer Boris Akunin and the publication “Kholod”. Also included in the register were the author of the Moscow Calling Telegram channel Andrey Kurshin, the Novaya Gazeta journalist Alexander Minkin and the former municipal deputy from Mari El Anton Sokolov. The Justice Ministry's statement noted that they all opposed the " SVO ".

Military paramedic Roman Esenov, who reported being beaten by his supervisor, was forcibly taken from a military unit in the village of Mosrentgen in the Moscow region. Relatives of Esenov and a human rights activist believe that he was sent to the front line in order to complicate the investigation into his complaint, reported Novaya Gazeta Europe.

Lev Rubinstein’s daughter and his attending physician denied journalists’ reports about the poet’s death, Dozhd and Izvestia write . Earlier, journalists Victoria Ivleva and Maria Slonim reported Rubinstein’s death. “Someone started some rumor that should not be believed at all. I can tell you that he is now in intensive care, he is fighting for his life there, and the doctors are helping him with this.

The Tula Regional Parliament has submitted to the State Duma a bill allowing foreigners with criminal records to serve under contract in the Russian Armed Forces. The corresponding document has been published on the State Duma's legislative support portal. The authors of the bill recalled that in June 2023, the authorities allowed Russians with a criminal record, as well as those who committed minor or moderate crimes, to sign contracts for service in the Russian Armed Forces.

Military paramedic Roman Esenov, who complained of being beaten by his superior, was taken away from a military unit in the village of Mosrentgen near Moscow. The human rights activist and Esenov’s relatives believe that they decided to send him to the front line in order to complicate the investigation into his statement, Novaya Gazeta Europe reports.

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A Moscow court fined the company Red Media one million rubles (around $11,300) for playing a music video for the song “City” by the group Tantsy Minus, which allegedly contains “LGBT propaganda.” Independent news outlet Mediazona reported that the company was fined in mid-December. Now, the court website has published a ruling with the details of the case, reports independent outlet Verstka.

Belarusian opposition politician Andrei Sannikov on sanctioning Lukashenko’s regime and freeing political prisoners Mihkel Maripuu / Postimees / Scanpix / LETA Andrei Sannikov I met Andrei Sannikov on the sidelines of the Halifax International Security Forum in November 2023.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak signed an agreement on security guarantees, which will be valid until Ukraine joins NATO, reports European Pravda. The G7 countries at the NATO summit in Vilnius adopted a declaration, according to which each of the G7 member countries pledged to provide Ukraine with security guarantees. Thus, the UK became the first of the G7 countries to conclude a corresponding agreement.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put the former vice-president of Gazprombank Igor Volobuev on the wanted list, as follows from the card in the department’s database, which was drawn to the attention of Mediazona. The article of the criminal code for which Volobuev is wanted is not indicated on the card. There was no public information about the initiation of a criminal case against Volobuev.

In recent months, at least five Russians born in 2005 have died in the war. Such data is provided by Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service, which collect information about Russian military personnel killed in Ukraine from open sources. In April 2023, the publications recall, the State Duma approved amendments to the legislation allowing the signing of contracts with the Ministry of Defense from the age of 18, immediately after graduating from school.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The story with the Ivleeva party took a completely strange turn: now the relics of Nicholas the saint appear in it. Well, let's talk about the market of church relics On January 7, it became known that Mikhail Danilov, the owner of the Moscow Club Mutabor, where the “almost naked” party of the TV presenter Nastya Ivleeva passed, presented the Moscow Church with fragments of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

Russian authorities are preparing for legal proceedings in the event that Western countries confiscate the frozen assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the situation. Russian officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the agency that the Central Bank is close to concluding an agreement with international law firms to represent the country's interests in the event of litigation.