Late in the evening of December 23, in the village of Zeleny, Noginsk district, Moscow region, an unknown person attacked with a knife a local environmentalist, 70-year-old deputy Lyudmila Garifulina. The attack took place near her home. Garifulina protected the local forest from development. Previously, she spoke at public hearings, defending the interests of residents, and allowed herself critical remarks about the local administration.

In Moscow, the Mayakovsky Museum is closed. A unique space permeated by the spirit and energy of futurism, which squeezed the FSB itself on Lubyanka, will be eliminated. In the near future, the re -exposure will begin - exporting exhibits and dispersing them at different exhibition sites. The reconstruction of the museum will begin in the summer of 2013 and will last until the end of 2014.

According to the lawyer of Left Front activist Leonid Razvozzhaev, Dmitry Agranovsky, one of the cases brought against his client has been closed. This is a case about a robbery that allegedly took place in 1997 in Angarsk, when Razvozzhaev allegedly took away a batch of fur hats from a local businessman.

In Moscow, on the third attempt, they killed the most influential thief in the post -Soviet space - grandfather Hassan, aka Aslan Usoyan. At least two snipers acted: one worked on security, the other on the object - at the site of the assassination there are bullets from at least two different trunks. They say that a couple of days before his death he was invited to Lubyanka, warned of attempt.

Razvozzhaev’s lawyer Vyacheslav Ivanets, who is located in Irkutsk, received the paper to close the case. We categorically do not want any medical examinations or hospitals. They are trying to keep him in Irkutsk by any means. At first they tried to illegally detain him using this case. His application to dismiss the case due to the expiration of the statute of limitations was dated back to December 15. He shouldn't have been taken out.

The opening ceremony of the XXI International Christmas Educational Readings at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow was led by Patriarch Kirill.

Somehow they are wrong, these Americans. Such a solemn event is the inauguration of the president. No, to block off the whole of Washington, close cafes, shops and restaurants, let people into their homes only with passports with the presentation of registration, or not let them out of the entrances at all, because there is no point in wandering around when the president is going to inaugurate. And so that he would ride in a mighty motorcade through the empty streets to the Capitol.