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73-year-old Pavel Khodorovsky, former general director of the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant (CHEMK), was sentenced to four years of suspended imprisonment in a pedophilia case. The trial took place in a special order and took only one meeting, reports the publication “Caution, News”. Khodorowsky was detained in June 2024. The investigation established that he entered into sexual relations with underage girls, whom Daria Filichkina, also involved in the case, introduced to him for a fee.

The Aleksandrovsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory sentenced seven natives of Dagestan who participated in mass riots with anti-Semitic overtones at the Makhachkala airport in 2023 to terms of 8 to 9 years in prison, reports the press service of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill providing for punishment for carrying out investigative actions on Russian territory by foreign officials or international organizations. It introduces a new article of the Criminal Code (294.1), which is “aimed at protecting the national interests and sovereignty of Russia in the legal field.” Responsibility is introduced for “illegal conduct of investigative, procedural actions and operational-search activities” in Russia.

POLITICS Yuriy Matsarsky 11 December 2024 The organization currently known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which in the past has been both a key faction in al-Qaeda and a fierce opponent of ISIS, gained prominence last week as the driving force behind Syria's latest revolutionary events. In recent years, the group has undergone numerous transformations — including several name changes — in a failed effort to shed its designation as a terrorist organization.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sent a written request for confidence in the government to the Bundestag. DW reports this. The current government, as the publication writes, has lost the support of the majority in the Bundestag, so the parliament will probably refuse to trust the cabinet. In this case, Scholz should propose to German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to dissolve parliament.

The organization currently known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which in the past has been both a key faction in al-Qaeda and a fierce opponent of ISIS, gained prominence last week as the driving force behind Syria's latest revolutionary events. In recent years, the group has undergone numerous transformations — including several name changes — in a failed effort to shed its designation as a terrorist organization.

Elon Musk became the first person in history whose fortune reached $400 billion, Bloomberg writes . Of the latter, the growth of assets was influenced by the sale of shares of his company SpaceX, which in one fell swoop increased Musk’s fortune by about $50 billion to $439.2 billion. However, the greatest impact on Musk's fortune was the victory of Donald Trump in the presidential election.

At a plenary session, the State Duma approved in the second and third readings a law prohibiting the enrollment of migrant children in schools without passing a Russian language test. The bill was introduced by a group of deputies from all five factions under the leadership of State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin and Vice Speaker Irina Yarovaya.

Antifake Kremlin media accused Merkel of lying about her fear of dogs and the incident with Putin's Labrador. But Merkel's attitude towards dogs has long been known The Insider December 11, 2024 The Kremlin media began to catch Angela Merkel lying about her fear of dogs. Channel One even included the following story in its news release: “Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was accused of understatement.

News The Insider December 11, 2024 Chinese manufacturers are reducing sales to Europe and the United States of key components for creating drones, Bloomberg writes , citing sources. Since Ukrainian drones are based on Chinese parts, this could negatively affect the production of cheap and effective weapons, which play an important role in the war, the publication notes. The reduction in supplies of FPV drones from China will also be felt in Russia, say experts interviewed by The Insider.

As a result of the Russian missile attack on Zaporozhye, six people were killed and at least 22 were injured, reports the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations (DSNS). According to the department, the blow fell on a private clinic. “An office building was destroyed, a medical center was damaged, ordinary urban development was damaged,” Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky wrote in his Telegram channel.

The 2nd Eastern District Military Court found defendants Evgeniy Yalovoy and Vitaly Zubkov guilty of preparing a terrorist attack at a gold mining enterprise in the Trans-Baikal Territory and of extortion, the court’s press service reported . Yalovoy was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He will serve the first five years in prison, the remaining term in a maximum security colony. He was prescribed compulsory treatment. Zubkov was sentenced to 17 years in prison.

Bashar al-Assad’s escape from Damascus was organized by Russian intelligence agents who took the ousted Syrian dictator through a Russian air base in Syria, Bloomberg writes , citing its own sources. One of the publication's interlocutors said that the plane's transponder was turned off to avoid surveillance.

The Institute of Forensic Sciences and Criminalistics found that the signature in a military contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense in the name of a 20-year-old conscript from the Sakhalin region, Nikita Molochkovsky, was a forgery. The publication “Sibir.Realii” writes about this with reference to sources familiar with the case. Molochkovsky went to court in December 2023 and stated that the commander signed the contract with the Ministry of Defense for him.