The Investigative Committee began an audit due to the post of designer Artemy Lebedev about the relics of the saints, the Moscow Agency reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. “Media information is checked about a possible violation of the right to freedom of conscience and religions in Telegram. According to reports, on Lebedev’s page was published in obscene expressions a statement of holy relics, ”the agency’s interlocutor said.

The Chinese social network Tiktok went around the Google search engine by the number of people who use it monthly. This is reported by Cloudflare referring to the data of his analytical report. According to Cloudflare, Tiktok, owned by the Beijing company by Bytedance Ltd., increased in the ranking for the year - at the end of 2020, the social network was in seventh place, now it took the first line.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus recognized the Internet resources of the Belarusian Service "Radio Liberty" "extremist formation." This was reported in the Telegram channel of the department. In fact, this means that now every journalist of the Belarusian Radio Liberty service may be arrested, they cannot be given an interview. The site, social networks and all journalists of this media are recognized as extremist.

Vladimir Putin, as part of a press conference, answered the question of Ksenia Sobchak about the release of a video archive with the torture of prisoners in prisons. He stated that this is a global problem. “As for the torture and generally unworthy, cruelty to people who are in places of imprisonment - unfortunately, this is not only Russia. If you look at what is happening in appropriate institutions in other countries, you will see that there are no less problems.

During the press conference, Vladimir Putin explained why he awarded the title of Major General, the head of the GUFSIN in the Irkutsk region Leonid Sagalakov, who promised to rape the prisoners of the Angarsk colony No. 15. “I look at any proposal to be awarding the titles> according to information from various sources. And after that I sign it. Whether any mistakes are possible-this also happens, <...> Life is complex and diverse, ”Putin said.

The World Court of the Tagansky district of Moscow fined a web service for the development of GitHub IT projects for 1 million rubles for failure of prohibited information. It is reported by the Telegram channel of Moscow ships. GitHub found guilty under Part 2 of Art. 13.41 Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for restricting access to information) for failure of the lists of “smart voting”.

In the city of Safonovo, the Smolensk region, the FSB officers detained the creator of the public "Safonovsky Vedomosti" Alexei Chervyakov. About this "Kommersant" was told by his brother Andrei. The Office of the SK in the Smolensk region, without naming the name of the blogger, reports that a criminal case was instituted against him about the insult of the veteran of the Great Patriotic War.

News Relatives of famous bloggers were abducted in Chechnya. They are threatened with torture and rape and require an apology to Kadyrov 23 December 2021 In Chechnya, a large -scale action began against critics Ramzan Kadyrov. Over the past day alone, relatives of three famous bloggers were stolen - Tumso Abdurahmanov, Minkail Minkala Mansur Sadulaev. They receive threats that their relatives will be tortured and raped until they stop their activities.

At a meeting to extend the arrest of Lilia Chanysheva, the investigator asked to leave her in a pre -trial detention center for another three months, that is, until April 9, 2022. Sud agreed with this proposal. On the basis of which it is unclear: "The circumstances that were during the election did not change and did not disappear." Khanysheva herself, speaking in court , said that she did not see the point of asking for herself. Instead, she devoted speech to women in Russian prisons.

Excessive mortality in Moscow since the beginning of 2020 exceeds excess mortality in London, Berlin, Madrid, Rome and Paris combined. This was reported by the magazine "Cold", based on the official statistics of mortality. In Moscow, from the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic, 71.9 thousand people died more than expected. In Madrid - 23.5 thousand, in Rome - almost 6.3 thousand, in Berlin - 5.2 thousand.

In the Minsk City Court, consideration of the case against the 21-year-old Russian Yegor Dudnikov continues. The prosecutor requested 11 years in prison for him, the BBC source reports . The court is held closed. Dudnikov voiced videos for the opposition Telegram channel. Close Yegor claim that he did not participate in protests, but only read the texts.

Vladimir Putin said that the criminal case of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny was not opened with chemical weapons, since the Russian side did not provide any materials that she requested from Germany and France. So he answered the question of the journalist of the BBC as part of the press conference. Putin also called for "turning this page." “You said about a man who was allegedly poisoned. We made requests, but representatives of the West did not give a single material.

In the Kirovgrad city district of the Sverdlovsk region, pensioners promised to pay 300 rubles upon presentation of a certificate of full course of vaccination from coronavirus. This was written by the local publication "Regional Gazeta". In a conversation with a correspondent of the publication, the mayor of Kirovgrad, Alexander Oskin, said that the purpose of this payment is not so much to attract pensioners to vaccination, but to express “support” to them on the eve of the New Year.

In Chechnya, the relatives of bloggers who criticize Kadyrov and his environment are massively abducted. The Chechen blogger Minkail Maizalyev said that all his relatives (“before the one”) were kidnapped and tortured. Malizaev told the Telegram channel “Caution, News” that photographs of naked mother and sister were sent from an unknown number. A certain Hassan demanded that he stop criticism of the authorities.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk Region summoned for interrogation the journalist Pavel Pivovarov due to viewing on the Internet with the performances of the former science of Sergius (Nikolai Romanov). The security forces demanded to explain for what purpose he did, Pivovarov said on his Facebook. “But the funny thing is that the investigator already knew that I was a journalist and understood the purpose of viewing.