The deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Nariman Dzhelal, was finally charged in the case of "sabotage on the gas pipeline." This is reported by the publication "Grati" with reference to the lawyer Nikolai Polozov. Dzhelal, along with brothers Asan and Aziz Akhtemov, are accused of blowing up a gas pipeline near the village of Perevalnoe.

Former volunteer of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters in Saratov, Olga Kuznetsova, received political asylum in the Netherlands. Radio Liberty reports this. In June 2019, FSB officers tried to recruit Kuznetsova. When she refused, she was threatened with criminal prosecution. In September 2019, security forces conducted a search in the activist’s apartment. Corrected chronology: recruitment attempts took place before the search, and not after, as previously reported.

The Moscow City Court canceled the fine and dismissed the case of Anastasia Medvedeva, who was detained at a protest against amendments to the Constitution on July 15, 2020. This was announced by lawyer Sergei Telnov, cooperating with OVD-Info. After her arrest, Medvedeva was charged with participating in an action that interfered with the operation of life support facilities (part 6.1, article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Yevgeny Ezerov, a participant in a protest in Moscow against the construction of the metro, was arrested for 10 days under the article on the simultaneous mass stay of citizens (part 1 of article 20.2.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by lawyer Yulia Tregubova from the Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow. Protocols on other detainees on December 14, opponents of the construction of the metro on Dmitry Ulyanov Street, the court will consider in the near future.

The Kuzminsky District Court of Moscow refused the policy of Nikolai Caucasian in a lawsuit against the police department in the Nekrasovka district. He wrote about this in his telegram channel. Caucasian filed a lawsuit against the police due to the fact that during the election campaign in the State Duma a politician, his confidant and two agitators detained .

In relation to Nabi Rakhimov, who was killed by FSB officers during a search, a criminal case was opened on encroachment on the life of law enforcement officers (Article 317 of the Criminal Code). It is reported by "Crimean solidarity". The case was opened in May. It is in the stage of preliminary investigation.

Blogger Konstantin Ishutov, who was convicted on charges of rehabilitating Nazism and distributing child pornography, was refused by the court for the second time to replace the unserved term with a milder sentence. This is reported by Idel.Realii with reference to lawyer Vyacheslav Medvedev. The colony where the blogger is serving his sentence applied for a mitigation of the sentence.

Alexander Larionov, a participant in the protest against QR codes that took place on December 12, was detained in Arkhangelsk. He himself told OVD-Info about this. Larionov was taken to the police department at Loginova, 31. He will be kept there overnight until the trial. On December 12, three people were detained at a protest against QR codes in Arkhangelsk. Journalist Ilya Leshukov was released without protocols.

Mayor of Bratsk Sergey Serebrennikov appealed to the police with a request to bring to justice the participants in the video message to Putin. This was reported in the telegram channel "Irkutsk insider". In November, the townspeople recorded a video message to the president at the observation deck of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station, in which they asked to soften the anti-COVID restrictions.

In Irkutsk, on December 14, activist Amid Rasulov was detained because of his participation in a rally against the introduction of QR codes. This is reported by the telegram channel "Irkutsk insider". Rasulov, against whom a protocol was drawn up under the article on the organization of an uncoordinated action (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), is being held until the trial, which is to be held on December 16.

Yuri Zhdanov / Photo from Instagram Ivan Zhdanov The prosecutor in the debate asked to be sentenced to Yuri Zhdanov, the father of the former director of the Corruption (FBK) Fund, Ivan Zhdanov, to the three years of the colony. This was reported on Twitter by his lawyer Vladimir Voronin. The state prosecutor believes that Yuri Zhdanov’s fault in fraud and official forgery has been fully proved.

The environmental control department for the North-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow fined environmental activist Olga Kuzmina 3.5 thousand rubles, accusing her of breaking several branches of a tree that Kuzmina climbed with a crossbow. This was reported by lawyer Sergei Telnov, who collaborates with OVD-Info. A protocol was issued against Kuzmina on November 19 under the article on damage to green spaces (Part 1 of Article 4.18 of the Moscow Administrative Code).

On December 6, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow refused Stepan Petrov, head of the human rights organization Yakutia - Our Opinion, to satisfy the lawsuit in which he asked that the Ministry of Justice grant him the status of a “foreign agent” media as illegal. Petrov himself informed OVD-Info about this.

The Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow imposed fines on activist Dmitry Yurikov because of a picket in support of Alexei Navalny. The Tverskoy District Court fined two picketers, Aleksey Larchenko and Dmitry Shved, because of a poster in support of political prisoners. This was announced by a lawyer from OVD-Info Alexander Salamov, who defended the picketers in court.

59-year-old Jehovah's Witness from Taganrog Alexander Skvortsov was sent to a pre-trial detention center, reports a portal covering the persecution of believers in Russia. Skvortsov was detained on December 7, when searches were carried out in the homes of local Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog. According to updated data, searches were carried out in 14 homes. The security officer participating in the search sat on the back of one of the believers and put the barrel of a machine gun to his head.