An armed attack was made on the journalist of the "Caucasian Knot" Vyacheslav Prudnikov in the city of Krasny Sulin, Rostov region. He received gunshot wounds, the newspaper reports . The journalist himself connects the attack with his activities in the "Caucasian Knot". “I took out my camera to take some pictures. Suddenly a gray foreign car drove up. A young man jumped out of it, demanding to know what I was doing. There was a conflict, the man tried to hit me, and then pulled out a gun.

The Moscow City Court reduced by two months the terms of imprisonment of Kirill Barabash and Valery Parfenov, convicted in the case of the ZOV IGPR (Initiative Group for the Preparation of the Referendum “For Responsible Power”). about it Writes "Mediazona". The court considered as a mitigating circumstance that Barabash was recognized as a participant in hostilities. His sentence was reduced from 4 years to 3 years and 10 months.

In the Sverdlovsk District Court of Kostroma, a trial began in the case of Major Eduard Volkov of the Center for Combating Extremism, who hit Aleksei Navalny's headquarters activist Alexander Zykov. This was reported by the Public Verdict Foundation.

The Supreme Court of Crimea rejected the appeal and upheld the arrest of Seyran Saliyev, Memet Belyalov and Timur Ibragimov, who were detained on October 11 in Bakhchisarai, Krym . Realities". They are accused of participating in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, recognized as extremist in Russia. Lawyer Edem Semedlyaev requested that the materials of the decision to extend the arrest be sent back to the Kyiv District Court.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow assigned 60 hours of community service to photographer Denis Bochkarev, who filmed a rally with a banner "Happy Birthday, Executioners" on the FSB building. It is reported by Mediazona. Bochkarev was found guilty under part 6.1 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (participation in an uncoordinated action that caused interference with citizens' access to transport or social infrastructure).

The Kuntsevsky District Court sentenced Olga Nikitova, a supporter of the banned Volya party, to a year of suspended imprisonment for sending letters by e-mail. This was reported on Facebook Grads TV. Nikitova was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 (inciting hatred or enmity against a social group) due to the fact that she sent the text of a banned party leaflet to several email addresses. Nikitova was put on probation for two years.

In Sochi, a retrial of the case of a local resident Viktor Nochevnov began. He is accused of insulting the feelings of believers because of the reposts of cartoons with Jesus Christ on the Vkontakte social network. Information about this came from the lawyer of the International Human Rights Group "Agora" Alexander Popkov, representing the interests of Nochevnov. The case is being considered by the magistrate of the court district No. 102, Irina Shulepina.

The law on foreign media can only affect those individuals who receive government funding from countries that restrict the work of Russian media, RIA Novosti writes , citing the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Leonid Levin. The deputy is referring to the actions of the United States, which forced the RussiaToday TV channel to register under the law on foreign agents.

A court in St. Petersburg assigned 40 hours of compulsory labor to activist Vladislav Sukhetsky, who was detained on October 8 on Palace Square. This was reported to OVD-Info by human rights activist Dinar Idrisov. Sukhetsky was accused of repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public event (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Earlier, he was fined 250 thousand rubles, but the city court of St. Petersburg overturned this decision.

Maria Alekhina and Olga Borisova for shares in honor of the FSB day / frame from the video Dimitry Kononov The justice of the judicial section No. 411 of the Meshchansky district appointed 40 hours of compulsory work to the Pussy Riot, Maria Alekhina, for the banner with the inscription "Happy Birthday, executioners" on the FSB building. It is reported by "Mediazona." Judge Julia Mordvina found Alekhin guilty of violation of Part 6.1 of Art.

The Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow imposed 100 hours of compulsory labor on one of the applicants of the Russian March 2017, Konstantin Filin. Irina Yatsenko reported this to OVD-Info. Filin was found guilty of repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public rally (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences) due to slogans at the “Russian March”.

The Investigative Committee refuses to show the materials of the verification of the hacking of the Telegram account of civil activist Oleg Kozlovsky. Ilnur Sharapov, a lawyer for the Agora International Human Rights Group, told OVD-Info about this. According to Sharapov, after the Investigative Committee nevertheless carried out an investigation into the hacking of the Telegram account of activist Oleg Kozlovsky in April 2016, the initiation of a criminal case was denied.

The court in Veliky Novgorod fined the participants of the rally against the increase in housing and communal services tariffs Kirill Morozov, Alexey Zagorsky and Ilya Alexandrov 10 thousand rubles each. Rosbalt writes about this. The activists were found guilty of violating the procedure for holding a public event (Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

On December 20, the Council of the Moscow Bar Association issued a warning to the lawyer of the Agora International Human Rights Group, Olga Dinza, for attempting to remove from the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center a notebook containing a position on her client’s case. Mediazona writes about this.

On December 21, the Belogorsk District Court of Crimea fined Crimean Tatar activists Leman Bovbekov and Ravshan Naneishvili 10,000 rubles for participating in solitary pickets. This was reported on the Facebook of "Crimean Solidarity". Companions of the fined claim that the investigation is trying to make an uncoordinated mass event out of single pickets of Crimean Tatar activists. One of them said that many inconsistencies were found in the case file.