In the Kremlin Under the guise of care December 19, 2012 Grigory Durnovo The idea to prohibit US citizens with the adoption of Russian children requires detailed consideration in isolation from the Magnitsky Act, asymmetric response to which it appeared.

399 Duma deputies voted for the amendment prohibiting US citizens from adopting Russian children, introduced by deputy Evgeny Fedorov. 17 deputies voted against, one abstained, 30 deputies did not vote. 388 deputies voted for the amendment introduced by Ekaterina Lakhova and Elena Afanasyeva, which included a ban on the activities of intermediary bodies and organizations in Russia and the termination of the agreement between Russia and the United States on cooperation in the field of adoption.

The RIA Novosti press center hosted a presentation of the research project of the independent service “Sreda” - Arena, which presented a picture of the religious life of Russians. 41% of residents of our country agreed with the statement “I profess Orthodoxy and belong to the Russian Orthodox Church” (the study covered 56,900 people in 79 constituent entities of the Russian Federation).

Now, it seems, if you come to the oppositionist, then there can be two options - either in connection with the “Bolotnaya case”, or in connection with the case initiated in the wake of “Anatomy of Protest-2”. The exception is Alexei Navalny - a whole heap of individual cases of economic crimes is reserved for him.

A number of citizens, outraged by the amendment introduced to the Duma banning the adoption of Russian children by US citizens, came out on the morning of December 19 (on this day deputies must vote on this amendment) to the building where the lower chamber is located, with posters. But deputies cannot allow themselves to be put under pressure in this way. They will also rebuff the minister (unless, of course, he is the minister of education and not foreign affairs).

In the Kremlin Egyptian darkness December 19, 2012 Yuli Nisnevich The darkness, which came not from the Mediterranean Sea and not as a result of the machinations of various enemies from near and far abroad, covered so not beloved, in their deeds, the current rulers of Russia. This darkness is generated by the miasm of the ruling regime, which has reached the last stage of its decomposition and, destroying itself, like a cancer tumor, corrodes everything that comes into contact with it.

At about three o'clock, unknown people entered the premises in the House of Human Rights, refused to introduce themselves, locked themselves inside one of the rooms, and still do not let the lawyer in. They locked themselves in the room of the region's leading human rights organization and are trying to conduct a search there. It is unclear what is being confiscated. We called the police, but they don't even open the door to the police.

Students of the Russian State Trade and Economic University on the evening of December 18 seized the building of their university and began an indefinite strike in response to the fact that the Ministry of Education recognized RGTEU as ineffective. Representatives of the opposition had already come to them - the coordinator of the Left Front Sergei Udaltsov, deputies from A Just Russia Dmitry Gudkov and Ilya Ponomarev, and then representatives of the ministry arrived.

The other day, the head of state gathered a commission on military-technical cooperation with foreign states (under this euphemism, weapons trading have been hiding since Soviet times). Since by the end of the year it is supposed to report on successes, Rosoboronexport rolled up joyful numbers to the president, which he immediately voiced: “This year we reaches a record level for export supplies of military products.