The Investigative Committee has dropped charges of participation in mass riots against Sergei Fomin, a defendant in the "Moscow case". His house arrest has been lifted. Who needs the accused Fomin? Opinions / From the editors This decision was made as a result of an assessment of all the materials examined, including witness testimony, and a detailed study of video recordings from surveillance cameras.

On Friday, December 6, “as part of continuing testing of new space technology, an experiment was conducted to separate a small spacecraft from a unified multifunctional space platform,” the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. “The purpose of the experiment is to continue work on assessing the technical condition of domestic satellites.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Paris, where the first Normandy format summit in three years is scheduled to take place on December 9, with a serious attitude, his press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday, December 6. "There is one expectation: to facilitate the settlement of the intra-Ukrainian conflict in the southeast of that country. To ensure once again a common understanding of the lack of alternative to the implementation of the Minsk agreements.

The Russian vessel Sevastopol, which has been under US sanctions since 2018, has been arrested in Singapore, RIA Novosti reports , citing a statement from the Hudson company that owns the vessel. According to the company's deputy general director Oleg Anikin, the auxiliary engines of the Sevastopol broke down when it entered Singapore. "Since the ship is under sanctions, 80% of companies refuse to repair it, and those who agree set an exorbitant price tag," he explained.

The defendant in the "Moscow case" Nikita Chirtsov received one year in prison for using violence against a government official, the press service of the Tverskoy Court of Moscow reported. The prosecutor's office asked to sentence Chirtsov to three and a half years in prison. Yegor Zhukov received a three-year suspended sentence for calls to extremism Society Chirtsov took part in an uncoordinated protest on July 27. A month later, he was put on the wanted list and expelled from Minsk.

Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Russia Partners, which owns 40% of banki.ru, has filed counterclaims in response to accusations by the founder and shareholder of this popular portal, Filipp Ilyin-Adayev, of an attempt to remove him from business. The fund believes that the portal's founder entered into a contract with his firm to supply content at an inflated price.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow fined journalist and municipal deputy Ilya Azar 300,000 rubles for the march on August 31, Novaya Gazeta reported . After participating in the event, police officers drew up a report against Azar for repeated violation of the rules for organizing or holding rallies (Part 8, Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). An uncoordinated march against political repression took place in Moscow on August 31.

The defendant in the "Moscow case" Pavel Novikov was sentenced to a fine of 120,000 rubles on charges of using violence against a government official, the press service of the Tverskoy Court of Moscow reported. Novikov was released during the hearing. He was detained on October 29.

Russian law enforcement agencies helped Washington establish the identity of the leader of the Evil Corp hacker group, Maxim Yakubets, against whom the US authorities had opened a criminal case and imposed sanctions the day before. This was reported by an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), his testimony was published on the website of the US Department of Justice. Interfax was the first to draw attention to the document.

Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti In November, the Ministry of Culture replaced the commissioner of the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale ahead of schedule: the famous art manager Teresa Iarocci Mavica, who heads the VAC contemporary art foundation, founded by the chairman of the board of the Novatek company Leonid Mikhelson, became the new commissioner.

The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow sentenced the director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Ivan Zhdanov to 10 days of administrative arrest for an uncoordinated rally on July 14, Interfax reports. Zhdanov was found guilty of holding a public event without filing a notice (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

December 06, 2019, 17:33 / Finance / News The CEO of Uralkali asked for funds from the National Welfare Fund for an African project undefined Vedomosti General Director of Uralkali Dmitry Osipov proposed to finance the construction of the company's urea and ammonia plant in Angola from the National Welfare Fund (NWF). The plant is valued at $1.2–1.3 billion. The company plans to receive this money through the VEB .RF project financing factory, a Uralkali representative told Vedomosti.

06 December 2019, 20:31 / Economics Bailiffs were denied access to the Rosreestr system for a week The service was disconnected from it due to a large number of requests Ekaterina Mereminskaya A. Gordeev / Vedomosti A representative of Rosreestr announced the disconnection of the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) from the Unified State Register of Real Estate (USRN, which contains data on its location, cadastral value and owners).

Moscow's Kuntsevo Court found Yegor Zhukov guilty of public calls for extremism due to videos he published on YouTube, a Vedomosti correspondent reports. Zhukov did not plead guilty, and his defense insisted on acquittal. The prosecutor had previously requested four years in prison for Zhukov.

In 2019, Sberbank alone received 2.5 million complaints about telephone fraud. This is 15 times more than a year ago, said Sergey Veligodsky, Managing Director and Head of the Cyber ​​Fraud Prevention Department at Sberbank, Kommersant reports . According to him, many cases of fraud are unknown, since clients did not report them to the bank. Over the past three years, social engineering has “effectively squeezed out traditional cyber theft schemes – skimming and malware,” Veligodsky said.