Yandex fired an employee who told The Village about censorship in the Yandex.News service. The publication itself reports this. On Thursday, The Village released an investigation into how the news aggregator creates a “picture of the day” on its home page based on a “white list” of permitted media outlets. According to the publication, citing sources, the company's security service tracked down the employee who spoke with The Village for this material and fired him.

In Moscow, the hangar of the All-Russian Institute of Light Alloys caught fire. The fire area was 400 square meters. m. This is reported by TASS with reference to emergency services. The interlocutor of the news agency said that "the building is on fire throughout the area." Gas cylinders were stored in the hangar - because of the fire, they began to explode.

Moscow activist Mikhail Krieger, who was arrested in a criminal case on justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), was charged with a tougher charge: an article on inciting hatred with the threat of violence was added to it (paragraph “a” of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) . This is reported by the telegram channel in support of the prisoner.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation entered human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina, political scientist Andrei Kolesnikov, the organization Roskomsvoboda and Feminist Anti-War Resistance into the register of “foreign agents”. This was reported on the website of the ministry. The list also includes the former host of the Maximum Program Gleb Pyanykh, journalist Anastasia Zhvik, the LGBT Sports Community and the Anti-Corruption Foundation.

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The Supreme Court of Kalmykia has toughened the sentence of Altan Ochirov, a Kalmyk activist and ex-employee of the Elista mayor’s office, from three years in prison to five years in prison in the case of “fakes” about the Russian army (part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) due to posts in the telegram channel. This is reported by the project "Network Freedom".

And it is sold, but no one takes. What is happening in the real estate market of the Russian capital against the backdrop of war Photo: Era Until February this year, Moscow was a magnet not only for residents of Russia, but also for citizens of other states.

US President Joe Biden signed the 2023 defense budget. This was reported on the website of the White House. “Today, I signed into law <…> the National Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2023,” the American leader said in a statement. In early December, the draft budget was approved by the Armed Services Committees of both houses of the US Congress, and then approved by the House of Representatives (lower house) and the Senate (upper house).

Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigation into the life and fate of Russian draftees Russian authorities have refuted rumours about the second wave of mobilisation taking place in the country in January many times. Nevertheless, Putin never did sign a presidential decree that would mean the end of the mobilisation proceedings. At least 300 Russian mobilised servicemen were killed starting from 21 September. Some of them — without ever making it to the front line.

The rector of the Russian State Humanitarian University (RSU), Alexander Bezborodov, dismissed journalist Nikolai Svanidze from the post of director of the Institute of Mass Media and Advertising. Svanidze told about this to Novaya Gazeta Europe. “Honestly, it was all expected. Because [occurs] the general leveling of all sites ... Of course, they could not help but pay attention to me, ”the journalist said.

Participants in the war in Ukraine will be allocated by land allotments in the suburbs and Crimea. This will close the disloyalty of potentially protest regions Photo: Era On the portal of legal information on December 19, the order of President Vladimir Putin was published on the free transfer of land in the suburbs, Crimea and Sevastopol to the participants of the so -called “special operations” in Ukraine, who received state awards.

A court in Russia’s Samara region has sentenced Gakil Badertdinov, a 44-year-old district police officer, to three years in prison for causing his wife to commit suicide by beating her, Aksioma reports . This is exactly the same punishment the prosecutor was requesting for Badertdinov. The man pleaded not guilty and claimed his wife was provoking him herself.

Bank of Georgia, the largest Georgian bank, has begun blocking the accounts of clients with Russian citizenship, reports , citing five people who received notifications of account closure.

A court in Moscow has sentenced Maxim Dmitrienko, 22, to four years in prison, Mediazona cites the court’s press department. Dmitrienko was charged with attempting to join the Ukrainian army earlier. The verdict says Dmitrienko will spend two out of four years in a maximum security prison. Additionally, he will then spend one more year on a supervised release. Dmitrienko was found guilty of being a member of a militant group, Article 208.2 of Russia’s Criminal Code.

The World Court of the Tatar Judicial District of the Novosibirsk Region has terminated the case against the 67-year-old district deputy from United Russia Sergey Mamontov, who shot down a six-year-old boy and left the scene, leaving the child without help. This was reported by the prosecutor's office of the region.