Former Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Valery Maksimenko was detained and charged with abuse of power.

First, bloggers-publicists will be paid a small penny for exposing non-systemic oppositionists - and then they will requisition it to the budget for the absence of the note “Navalny is included in the register of individuals-foreign agents” in the old post? Today "Postcard" unearthed something wonderful (no, not even that the deputy from Moscow, Irina Belykh, in principle, seems to be unaware of the content of the new bill she signed in co-authorship on foreign agents).

Federal budget spending on healthcare will be reduced in 2021 by 11%, or 135 billion rubles. They will amount to only 1.1 trillion Putin has no money for medicine. But there is money for "national defense" - 3.1 trillion rubles, almost 15% of all budget expenditures. Is someone going to attack us? No, but the Russian military is operating in Syria (overtly) and what appears to be eastern Ukraine (undercover). And it takes hundreds of billions of rubles.

The Commission of the European Parliament adopted a "Resolution on the ongoing violation of human rights in Belarus, in particular the murder of Roman Bondarenko." The document reiterates the EU's position on non-recognition of the official results of the August 9 vote and calls for new, fair and free elections under the supervision of the OSCE/ODIHR, TUT.BY reports .

Not only the media, but also ordinary users of social networks can be fined under the law, which introduces administrative responsibility for disseminating information about foreign agents and their materials without indicating that they are in the register of the Ministry of Justice. about this The authors of the bill, which was submitted to the State Duma on November 23, told Open Media .

The human rights organization Reporters Without Borders called on the authorities of Belarus to release all the detained journalists and not interfere with the work of the media. According to the statement, according to the Belarusian Journalists Union, a non-governmental organization, 363 media workers have already been detained in the country since the presidential elections on August 9, 78 of them have served administrative arrests, and 12 are in prison, DW reports .

Facebook paid a fine of 4 million rubles, which was imposed on it for refusing to localize the data of Russians. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Tagansky Court of Moscow. In February, 4 million rubles. The court imposed a fine on Facebook and Twitter for refusing to localize the data of Russian users of social networks on the territory of the Russian Federation. Twitter hasn't paid for it yet.

Until January 15, Moscow has extended the self-isolation regime for citizens over 65 and people with chronic diseases, and for enterprises, the requirement to transfer at least 30% of the staff to remote work. In addition, city leisure facilities for children will be closed until mid-January. This was announced by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. These restrictions were previously introduced until November 29.

“Unconvincing” and “not deserving of comments” was called by the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov the investigation of the “Project” about the billionaire Svetlana Krivonogikh, who was familiar with Vladimir Putin. “I actually looked at the material. But, let's just say, it is unconvincing Such, I would say, epistolary genre. I am inclined to attribute it to such materials, such, you know, provocative yellowness, nothing more.

Investor Bill Browder threatened banks Credit Suisse and UBS with legal action for violating US sanctions if they unfreeze the accounts of three Russians accused of major tax fraud against his company Hermitage Capital. Writes about it Financial Times , reports Inopressa . Two Swiss banks have assets worth more than $24 million, which Browder says came from a Russian fraud against Hermitage Capital in 2007.

More than 20 Russian NGOs appealed to the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation and the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe in connection with the submission to the State Duma of draft laws that significantly complicate the activities of social activists. The authors of the appeal called on Tatyana Moskalkova and Dunya Mijatovic to take measures within their mandates to protect Russian civil society, according to the Public Verdict Foundation.

Against the backdrop of a visit to Minsk by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said that all deals and agreements concluded by the regime of Alexander Lukashenko with the Kremlin would be canceled by the new government. “No matter what Alexander Lukashenko agreed on, he lost the support of the Belarusian people. This means that all his transactions and contracts will be reviewed and canceled by the new government.

Defense enterprises increased the volume of hidden public procurement from 9 million to 3.7 billion rubles in two years The number of companies in the military-industrial complex that use the opportunity not to disclose information about their suppliers is growing from year to year. If in 2017 only three companies out of 33 took advantage of this opportunity, then in 2018 - 14, and in 2019 - already 25, according to the report of Transparency International-R.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow fined the international society "Memorial" 500,000 rubles for violating the law on foreign agents. As MBKh Media the press service of the organization explained to , the prosecutor's office opened a case back in September due to the lack of a foreign agent marking on books and other materials that Memorial presented at the Moscow International Book Fair.

US President Donald Trump has pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Flynn's pardon, which may not be the only such action on the part of the president, caused sharp discontent among the Democrats, Voice of America reports .