The court in Vorkuta sentenced to 15 years in a strict regime of the former head of the administration of the administration Kirill Arabov. He was found guilty of extorting bribes on an especially large scale, storage and sale of drugs on a large scale. This was reported in the regional administration of the Investigative Committee. Arabov was detained in July 2023. In his car, then a large -scale drugs were found.

Five foreign students were expelled from the Northern State Medical University in Arkhangelsk. They turned to Vladimir Putin with a request to deal with the university who continued at the university with paying for training by the university and the deductions of the dissatisfied. They published a video message to Putin on December 18.

Kaliningrad doctors Elina Sushkevich and Elena Belaya In Moscow, the 1st appeal court abolished the sentence of Kaliningrad doctors Elena Bely and Elin Sushkevich, who in 2022 were sentenced to imprisonment in the case of the murder of the baby. This is stated in the card of the case, writes "Mediazona". The materials of the criminal case will be sent for a new consideration to the Moscow Regional Court. Sushkevich and White still remain in custody.

Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 19 held a final press conference combined with a direct line. Most of the questions concern the war, said Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov. The North Realities briefly tell what they asked and talked about on the line. Rising prices Putin considers the main problems in the economy - it is warming up and inflation. He explained the increase in prices by the fact that the proposal does not have time for demand.

Volunteers clean the shore after an oil spill, Krasnodar Territory On December 15, two tankers crashed in the Kerch Strait (one of them, assigned to the port of St. Petersburg, literally broke in half), about 4 thousand tons of oil products spilled into the water. This is twice as much as in 2007, when a similar environmental disaster occurred in the Krasnodar Territory. Zoo defenders are now manually cleaning birds and dogs and collecting the corpses of dead animals from the coast.

Illustrative photo In the summer of 2024, the Supreme Court of Russia allowed the termination of criminal cases at the trial stage against defendants who decided to participate in hostilities in Ukraine. This “bonus” began to be used not only by civilians , but also by the military themselves, who, for example, had previously left their military units.

Helsinki Airport In early December, a private Beechcraft plane flying from Lithuania to Pskov was detained in Finland. He landed at Helsinki Airport to refuel, but was not allowed to take off. The pilot was suspected of violating sanctions, reports the Lithuanian radio company LRT. The plane was registered in Lithuania and, according to LRT, it was being delivered to a new owner. One of the pilots was Lithuanian citizen Robertas Petkus.