According to Oleg Kozlovsky, an employee of the human rights organization Amnesty International, that he was kidnapped and tortured in Ingushetia in October this year, a criminal case has been opened. According to the "Committee against Torture" , the case is being investigated under paragraphs. "a", "c", and "d" part 2 of Art.

Since the morning of December 26, searches have been going on in the office and warehouses of the Krasnoe & Beloe alcohol network, because of which “the company’s work has been completely paralyzed,” a K&B representative said. The searches were carried out with the participation of representatives of the Federal Tax Service, Rosalkogolregulirovanie, FSB and OMON. Suspicion in the circulation of counterfeit goods and non-payment of taxes was named as the basis, RBC reports .

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announced the end of martial law, introduced earlier in ten regions of the country. He made a statement at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, 112 Ukraine TV channel reports . Martial law was introduced for 30 days after the shelling and detention of three Ukrainian military courts by Russian border guards.

Russian intelligence services are constantly improving: an innovation in 2018 was the creation of "extremist" organizations with the help of embedded agents Political persecution is the reality of modern Russia. For several years, OVD-Info has been monitoring the persecution of opponents of the current government and people exercising the right to freedom of assembly, speech, conscience and association.

The case of student Maria Motuznaya, accused of posting posts on social networks with signs of inciting hatred on racial grounds and degrading people by faith, has been returned for additional investigation. This was reported to TASS in the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Altai Territory. “The Motuznaya court returned the case for additional investigation. She has not been put on the wanted list.

The Security Service of Ukraine stated that it knows the names of Wagner PMC employees who were in the Central African Republic when Russian journalists Orkhan Dzhemal, Alexander Rastorguev and Kirill Radchenko were killed there “According to the available data, PMC mercenaries were sent to the Central African Republic by the leadership of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation at the beginning of 2018.

The International Office of Agora presented the report “Russian revelations - 2018”, dedicated to the Russians who decided to publicize violations of the authorities “The new report used the monitoring results after November 2017, when the first report was released , as well as the results of the work on protecting the exposure,” said the author of the study, lawyer Alexander Popkov. - During this time, we revealed 48 such situations.

Israeli warplanes from Lebanese airspace hit targets in Syria. According to the Syrian news agency Sana , the country's air defenses managed to shoot down most of the missiles before they reached their targets. Three servicemen were wounded, an ammunition depot was also damaged. The Israel Defense Forces said it activated its air defense system in response to a missile launch from Syria.

Makhachkala took the last place in the city management efficiency rating prepared by the Agency for Political and Economic Communications (APEC) under the leadership of Dmitry Orlov. According to RBC , compared with the first rating presented by APEC in the spring, the capital of Dagestan has moved from 90th to 92nd line. The reason for this position was a corruption scandal - on November 7, the former mayor of Makhachkala, Abusupyan Gasanov, was detained on suspicion of abuse of office.

The presidents of Russia and Belarus failed to reach an understanding on the issue of compensation for the tax reform being carried out by Moscow “Some new economic nuances appear after the new year, so the Belarusian side believes that compensation is needed. The Russian side does not agree on everything,” said the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the results of the summit of Presidents Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, held on December 25.

The Security Service of Ukraine stated that it knows the names of Wagner PMC employees who were in the Central African Republic when Russian journalists Orkhan Dzhemal, Alexander Rastorguev and Kirill Radchenko were killed there “According to the available data, PMC mercenaries were sent to the CAR by the leadership of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces at the beginning of 2018.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin instructed to request for analysis all the criminal cases returned by the Moscow courts, as well as control proceedings in cases in which acquittals were issued, including by a jury. This will be done "in connection with the assessment of the investigation, expressed by the judicial community." Earlier, the chairman of the Moscow City Court, Olga Yegorova, said that the jury is delivering acquittals in every second case.

A court in Sochi sentenced Alexander Valov, editor-in-chief of BlogSochi, to six years in a penal colony and a fine of 700,000 rubles for extorting State Duma deputy Yuri Napso. This was reported to Free Media by Yevhen Vitishko, an activist who was present at the announcement of the verdict. Mediazona recalls that the journalist was accused of extorting 300 thousand rubles from State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party Yuri Napso at the beginning of the year.

Structures close to Yevgeny Prigozhin will be involved in the construction of the judicial quarter in St. Petersburg The construction of a judicial quarter in the center of St. Petersburg with the residence of the Supreme Court and the Boris Eifman Dance Palace worth 35.735 billion rubles will be carried out by structures close to the president of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin and his company Concord Management and Consulting, Kommersant writes .

Acting Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov accepted the resignation of Vice Governors Mikhail Mokretsov and Igor Albin. Mokretsov since April 2013 headed the financial unit of the government of St. Petersburg. Since August 2017, he simultaneously headed the St. Petersburg Property Relations Committee. Now the coordination and control over the activities of this block is temporarily entrusted to the vice-governor Sergei Movchan, according to the website of the city administration.