Another criminal case was opened against historian Tamara Eidelman under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (clause “c” of Part 2 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code), RIA Novosti reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. What became the reason for the criminal case is not specified.

The administration of Biysk did not approve the rally of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation against the increase in housing and communal services tariffs. The local branch of the party reported this on December 29 in its group on VKontakte. The post was noticed by the public “Business Biysk”.

Human rights activist from Yekaterinburg Alexei Sokolov, arrested in the case of repeated demonstration of prohibited symbols (Part 1 of Article 282.4 of the Criminal Code), was released from pre-trial detention center No. 1, Vecherniye Vedomosti reports . Sokolov was released from the detention center due to the expiration of his arrest. The investigator did not apply to the court to extend the arrest. The human rights activist has been in pre-trial detention since July 2024.

Jehovah's Witness from Crimea, Yuri Gerashchenko, was taken to correctional colony No. 9 in Volgograd, reports the project “Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia". In July 2024, the Krasnogvardeysky District Court of Crimea sentenced Gerashchenko and another believer, father of six children Sergei Parfenovich, to six years probation. In an appeal, the Supreme Court of Crimea replaced the suspended sentences with real ones - now the convicts must serve six years in a colony.