Veteran Communist Party (KPRF) lawmaker Valery Rashkin has filed a lawsuit against the Russian State Duma and Otari Arshba, the chairman of the State Duma Commission on Issues of Parliamentary Ethics.

Moscow's Izmailovsky District Court has sentenced former Schema-Hegumen Sergii (Nikolai) Romanov to three and a half years in prison, finding him guilty of arbitrariness, violating the right to freedom of conscience and religion, and incitement to suicide, TASS reported on Tuesday, November 30.

During a home game on Sunday, November 28, CSKA Moscow fans set off pyrotechnics inside the VEB Arena after their team suffered a 2-0 loss to Zenit St. Petersburg. Upon discovering that the stadium's surveillance cameras were down, Moscow police kept spectators in the stands for three hours, while carrying out hundreds of arrests. On Monday morning, the police reported that they had detained 408 soccer fans in total and filed 51 administrative offense protocols. In response, the Russian Premier League decried the actions of the police, but CSKA Moscow drew even more backlash by condemning fans for committing "unlawful acts." Meanwhile, State Duma lawmakers have seized upon the incident to argue in favor of introducing a "Fan ID" system for sporting events.

Prosecutors have asked the court to sentence former Schema-Hegumen Sergii (Nikolai) Romanov to four years in prison, Interfax reported on Monday, November 29.

Of the 38 coordinators who led Alexey Navalny's regional campaign offices, 14 have left Russia, according to the business newspaper Kommersant. The whereabouts of three more are currently unknown.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin held trilateral talks with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Sochi on Friday, November 26.

A Moscow district court has handed a 14-year maximum-security prison sentence to Alexander Ustinov, a Yekaterinburg political strategist accused of blackmailing politicians and businessmen.

A district court in Saratov has jailed the former head of a local prison hospital as a suspect in a criminal case concerning violence against inmates, RIA Novosti reported on Friday, November 26, citing the court's press service.

University rector Sergey Zuyev has been indicted on new charges for large-scale fraud, Interfax reported on Thursday, November 25.