On Tuesday, December 22, the deputy of the municipal assembly of the Moscow region Sokolniki Larisa Solomatina was attacked. It is reported by Radio Liberty with reference to the wife of Solomatina, political scientist Valery Khomyakov. According to Khomyakov, an unknown man in a mask was waiting for his wife near the house, who sprayed the woman in the face from a gas canister, after which he poured mud over Solomatina.

Civil activist, member of the Krasnodar branch of the Progress Party of Alexei Navalny David Hakim received political asylum in Spain. This is reported by Vedomosti with reference to Khakim's lawyer Alexander Popkov. David Hakim is known for his protests against the Sochi Olympics.

On December 23, it became known that in Simferopol, the day before, law enforcement agencies had searched the house of a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP), Father Sergiy, who had previously taken part in the work of the People’s Movement of Ukraine organization. A criminal case was opened against the priest for participation in the activities of an extremist organization (under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Director of the Institute for Regional Biological Research, 51-year-old ecologist Valery Brinikh, on December 23 received an indictment from the prosecutor in a criminal case initiated against him for aiding extremism (part 5 of article 33, part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code). Now the ecologist's case is going to court. Brinich's lawyer Alexander Popkov reports this.

Moscow's Preobrazhensky Court postponed the announcement of the verdict of 76-year-old civil activist Vladimir Ionov, accused of repeated violation of the rules for holding public events (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code), due to his failure to appear. The next meeting is scheduled to take place on December 29 at 15:00. Judge Leonid Garbar ordered the civil activist to be brought to the next hearing. This was reported by Kasparov. RU" .

Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been put on the international wanted list. This is stated in a message published on the website of the Investigative Committee. According to the Investigative Committee, the court had previously taken Khodorkovsky into custody in absentia at the request of the Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Committee of Russia on charges of organizing the murder and attempted murder of two or more persons.

Vladimir Ionov and Olga Brown near the Basmanny Court on the day of the sentence to Ildar Dadin. Photo: Grani.ru On December 23, a meeting in the Preobrazhensky District Court will be held in the case of Vladimir Ionov on “repeated violations at public events” - perhaps the verdict will be announced on this day. Moreover, there will be no one to speak with the last word - Ionov, whom the prosecutor asked to be sentenced to three years in prison, left Russia and is currently located in Ukraine.