An illustrative photo Residents of the city of Vuktyl (Komi) were left without water and heating in the 27-degree frost due to repair work on the pipeline. One of the residents Tatyana Davydova informed the North. Real to the correspondent that heating in the houses disappeared during the day. "The management company does not pick up the phone, the administration is silent, the batteries are ice, and 27 on the street," she said. The deadlines for the end of work are unknown.

Activist Lyudmila Alexandrova on a picket In the Koryazhm of the Arkhangelsk region, the police secretly in the absence of legal representatives interrogated a six-year-old girl because of the single picket of her grandmother, activists of Lyudmila Alexandrova. The police came to kindergarten without the knowledge of the family of a child and asked her questions about her grandmother, reports Sota.

A rally in Pechora against the closure of the River School, December 2022. Photo: Internet magazine "7x7" Before the New Year, in the small city of Pechora (Komi Republic), they learned about the closure of the local river school. It prepares personnel for the civilian fleet, without which the inhabitants of the remote villages of the region will be cut off from the great land. And for the local youth, a river school is almost the only chance to get a demanded profession in their hometown.

The State Duma at a meeting on December 21 adopted in final reading a law providing for punishment up to a life imprisonment for "promoting sabotage activities." The document was developed against the backdrop of a series of technogenic disasters in Russia, which happened after the start of the invasion of Ukraine.

Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg sent an appeal to President of Russia Vladimir Putin demanding to issue a decree on the end of mobilization. The presidential administration replied that they needed to request additional documents and extended the term for consideration of the appeal. About this in the column for "Novaya Gazeta" was written by the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and a member of the "Yabloko" Boris Vishnevskaya.

Evgeny Prigozhin The vice-governor of St. Petersburg Kirill Polyakov accused the businessman and founder of the “PMC Wagner” Evgeny Prigozhin of “inflating a political scandal” because of the situation with the burial of the PMC fighter Dmitry Menshikov, who died during the military invasion of Russia into Ukraine. Polyakov said this in an interview with Fontanka. Dmitry Menshikov was a member of the PMC Wagner.

The Court of Appeal upheld the decision on the case of Jehovah's Witness from Murmansk Vitaly Omelchenko. He was fined 580 thousand rubles in the case of extremism. This was reported in a religious organization. At the end of December 2019, searches were held in the houses of Jehovah's Witnesses in Murmansk. In relation to Omelchenko, a case of an article on the organization of an extremist organization was opened.

Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of Russia Maksut Shadaev (Archive photo) Since the beginning of 2022, 10% of IT specialists have not left Russia. According to Maksut Shadaev, Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications, this is about 100 thousand industry workers.

Intercontinental missile "Sarmat" The Yabloko party faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg proposes to introduce criminal liability for calls for the use of nuclear weapons - the deputies introduced a decree on the legislative initiative in the State Duma. It is proposed to be punished for public calls of persons holding public positions, or the media to use nuclear weapons or for promoting its use - imprisonment for up to five years or a fine of up to one million rubles.

Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Timur Ivanov The team of Alexei Navalny published an investigation about the family of the Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Timur Ivanov, who oversees the department of construction.

Sergey Shoigu Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu proposed increasing the age of drafowing in the army for military service from 18 to 21 years old, and the maximum age of draft is up to 30 years. He stated this at the board of the department on December 21.