Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the partial decriminalization of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity), the document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

Among the laureates of the A. D. Sakharov competition “For journalism as an act” in 2018 there were three journalists from Novaya Gazeta at once: Elena Masyuk , Irina Tumakova and Vera Chelishcheva , and also the author of Novaya Gazeta in Petersburg Tatyana Likhanova and Anastasia Kirilenko from The Insider. This was announced on the Facebook page of the award.

The acquittal in the “poppying cause” is a victory for common sense and civil society. But first of all, this story is about fidelity and love Olga Nikolaevna and Igor Nikolaevich On September 15, 2012, I was sitting on the editorial planner when I received a message from one of the lawyers: Olga Nikolaevna Zelenina, the head of the chemical and analytical laboratory of the Penza Research Institute of Agriculture, was arrested.

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Yaguba Vagif Ogly Suleymanova 70,000 rubles for failing to report plans to commit a terrorist act in the Kazan Cathedral. This was reported by the joint press service of the courts of the city. The man was found guilty of committing a crime under Art. 205.6 of the Criminal Code (“Failure to report a crime”). According to investigators, Yevgeny Yefimov, another firuant of the case, told Suleimanov many times about his plans.

In Moscow, Islambeck Kamalov, who was detained in mid -December, was abducted from special designer No. 1 after he flew to Moscow from Istanbul, first for disobedience to police officers, and then beyond the mat on the street. This was written by the head of the movement "For Human Rights" Lev Ponomarev.

In Tatarstan, five employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs came with a search to Ildar Sharifullin immediately after the court passed a guilty verdict on the policemen who had beaten him. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by lawyer Andrey Suchkov, who cooperates with the Kazan Human Rights Center and the human rights organization Zone of Law.

In Vienna, two unidentified men attacked the parishioners of the Catholic Church at the monastery and robbed them. This is reported by the newspaper Kronen Zeitung. According to preliminary data, from 8 to 15 people were seriously injured. The incident occurred in the Floridsdorf area in the north of the Austrian capital. According to the Vienna police, the attack occurred at about 13:30 local time (15:30 Moscow time). The police said they are not considering the version of the attack.

The company of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin "Concord M" for the first time since 2013 will not serve the New Year's reception in the Kremlin. It is reported by RBC with reference to the public procurement website. The contract for servicing the New Year's reception in the Kremlin in 2018 went to MSK LLC, registered in May this year. RBC did not find any mention of her activities in open sources, except for three contracts with the presidential administration and the Kremlin food plant.

In Kazan, the activist of Open Russia Dmitry Egorov was detained for a repeated violation of public events (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), according to the telegram channel of movement. He was drawn up for the protocol for the action “Stop putting a bolt on our constitution”, which he and another activist Gulnaz Ravilov held on the Constitution day of December 12.

ICQ messenger will no longer support old versions of the official application from December 28 and unofficial clients, according to TJournal , this was not publicly announced, users received messages about this from the ICQ Official account.

The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia refused New Year's gifts because of the case of the ex-head of the department Alexei Ulyukaev. This was told to The Bell by an employee of one of the government agencies, which sent gifts to the leadership to the Ministry of Economic Development. According to him, only a postcard was left in the department from the entire set, and the rest was returned back.

Sberbank apologized to Alexei Chernov, the brother of Andrey Chernov arrested in the Network case, for restricting access to accounts. about this . He himself told OVD-Info An employee of the bank called Chernov and said that the incident occurred due to the mistake of another employee. As an apology, Sberbank returned to him the money for servicing the card, which he paid for the entire time of use.

The East Siberian and Moscow Interregional Transport Investigation Departments of the Investigative Committee opened criminal and administrative cases against the IrAero airline, which refused to take Russian tourists out of the Chinese island of Hainan. This is reported by Interfax. As Alexander Kurennoy, the official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office, said on the air of the departmental Internet channel, a criminal case was initiated under Part 6 of Art.

The Druzhba Narodov meat processing plant remained the sole supplier of food for the National Guard for another two years. The authenticity of the relevant order for 2019-2020 was confirmed to RBC in the press service of the government and the National Guard.

Against the head of the Sverdlovsk railway, Alexei Mironov, another criminal case was opened on abuse of office (part 1 of article 285 of the Criminal Code). It is reported by Znak.com, citing two sources familiar with the situation. “The plot of the accusation according to Mironov, to put it mildly, is so-so. It seems that they started a new episode, only to leave him in a pre-trial detention center.