Four and a half years

Four and a half years. Continuing the tradition of the Samizdat balloon of the “Chronicle of current events”, published in Soviet times, every week The New Times chooses from the stream of news of the message, more precisely explaining the current relations of the authorities and society

Maxim Luzyanin, sentenced to 4.5 years in prison in the "swamp case"

November 5, 2012

• Employees of the police department No. 3 of the city of Saratov were released on the non -place of the activist of the Antifa movement, Alexei Sheremetyev. He faces the accusation of "illegal penetration into the dwelling" and "public calls for a change in the constitutional system in the Russian Federation."
• Vladimir Putin met with the head of the Solzhenitsyn Foundation Natalia Solzhenitsyna. The President of the Russian Federation promised Solzhenitsyna to talk with the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Dmitry Livanov about changes in the school curriculum, in particular, on an increase in the number of literature lessons from two to five per week.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the new head of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov at a meeting in the Kremlin on November 9

November 6, 2012

• Employees of the Center "E" was detained by Anti -Fascist Alain Volikov. He became the third person involved in the criminal case of a clash with the guards of the air club. The other two - Alexey Olesinov and Alexei Sugut - have been contained in jail for several months. According to eyewitnesses, the fight began after the guards declared their nationalist views.
• Vladimir Putin dismissed the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov - “In order to create conditions for an objective investigation of all issues” regarding the corruption scandal around the “Oboronservis”. Sergey Shoigu, who had previously held the post of governor of the Moscow region, was appointed to the place of Serdyukov.

November 7, 2012

• In Ingushetia, the first verdict in the case of torture in the police was issued. The deputy head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Karabulak Ilez Nalgiev was sentenced to 8 years in a maximum security colony. The head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Karabulak Nazir Guliev was justified by the court, although the prosecutor asked for 10 years in prison. In April 2010, 20-year-old Chitigov was tortured for three days, demanding to confess to involvement in terrorism.
• The head of the Russian Federation met with the main rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar and the President of the Federation of Jewish communities Alexander Borod. Berl Lazar and Alexander Borod informed Vladimir Putin about the upcoming opening of the Russian Jewish Museum of Tolerance in Moscow.

November 9, 2012

• In the Moscow City Court, the process continues on charges of former GRU Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov in preparing a military coup. Kvachkov told the court: "I am judged for thoughts, not for a crime."
• President Putin dismissed the head of the General Staff and the first deputy minister of defense - Army Generals Nikolai Makarov and Alexander Sukhorukov.
• Zamoskvoretsky District Court sentenced the entrepreneur Maxim Luzyanin to 4.5 years in prison. This is the first sentence in the so -called “swamp business”. Maxim Luzyanin pleaded guilty and agreed to a special procedure for considering the case without witnesses.
• US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for efforts to save the tigers. The US Secretary of State called him "an unshakable, ardent and vowel defender of wildlife in Russia." Clinton was impressed by a visit to the APEC summit in Vladivostok. She happily said that the whole city was hung with tigers with tigers.

Photos: ITAR-TASS