Sergey Serditov. Photo by Yuri Kabantsev from the website BNKOMI.RU Syktyvkar City Court issued a decision on the arrest of the chairman of the Board of the Northern People's Bank of Sergey Serditov, RIA Novosti reports. He was detained on December 8 on suspicion of fraud.

Maksharip Aushev. Photo by Ingushetia.ru The representative of the Ingush opposition Maksharip Aushev became one of the 2009 winners of the Human Rights Defenders Award Human Rights Prize. As stated in the press release of the US State Department, the names of the laureates were announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the eve of World Human Rights Day, which is celebrated on December 10.

Paratroopers, NTV frame, archive Three senior Airborne Forces officers died in an accident near Ryazan, ITAR-TASS reports. Three more paratroopers were injured. The victims are in a military hospital near Ryazan, doctors evaluate their condition as moderate. According to the press service of the Ministry of Defense, the paratroopers crashed due to a collision with Lincoln.

Military unit 02511. Photo from the site Lenoblzaks.ru For the beating of the soldiers, the commander of the 138th motorized rifle brigade, located in the village of Kamenka in the Leningrad Region, was dismissed. As the chairman of the “Committee of Soldier’s Mothers of St.

Paul Khlebnikov. Photo from the site '' Bibli-Globus '' From Marat Valeev, who previously passed the person involved in the case of the murder of the editor -in -chief of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine Paul Khlebnikov, the charges of membership in a criminal group were removed. According to Rosbalt, he was released from custody. His guilt could not be confirmed either by witness indications or evidence, a source in the special services told the agency ..

Direct line with Vladimir Putin. Frame of the TV channel ''Vesti'' The press service of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin handed out pre-prepared questions to the viewers for a "straight line", writes Time. This was reported to the publication by Andrey Kryukov, a student at St. Petersburg Mining University, who asked Putin if he would participate in the 2012 presidential election. According to the student, he was trained for two days before the "straight line".

Robert Amsterdam. Photo by ar The lawyer of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky Robert Amsterdam accused Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of lies and inappropriate for the head of the government of the country of behavior. “The Prime Minister of the Great Country publicly tells the lie, attacking a Russian citizen, and the world calmly watches his“ big lie, ”wrote Amsterdam in an open letter published on the website of The Mark.

Member of the scientific council of the Carnegie Moscow Center, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Pro et Contra" - on freedom of the press. V Khodorkovsky Readings , Moscow, December 8, 2009. Photographed by Dmitry Borko

Moscow, Rechnik settlement, December 9, 2009. Shooting by Dmitry Zykov for Grani-TV. Details

Director of the Analytical Center Yuri Levada - about the mood of the Russians. V Khodorkovsky Readings , Moscow, December 8, 2009. Photographed by Dmitry Borko. The nature of "Putinism". Report by Lev Gudkov at the 5th Khodorkovsky Readings

Sergey Magnitsky The official examination found that the lawyer of the Hermitage Capital Management Foundation Sergei Magnitsky died of cardiovascular failure. This was reported to Interfax by a source in law enforcement. Previously, prison doctors indicated the same diagnosis. "The results of the autopsy are ready and will soon be sent to the appropriate authorities," the agency’s interlocutor said.

Traffic police. Photo Borko/Grani.ru The traffic police inspector, detained on suspicion of a series of rape, was appointed to his position without a medical board: a psychiatrist rejected him. It is reported by gzt.ru. As a result, he was arranged by an inspector of the 8th special battalion of the second special regiment of the traffic police of the Moscow Region to call one of the deputy heads of the traffic police of Russia Viktor Kiryanov.

Edurad Rossel with metropolitan intercourse. Photo from the official website of the governor The deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk region supported the proposal of the governor Alexander Misharin on the appointment of the former head of the Eduard Rossel region as a member of the Federation Council from the apparatus of the head of the region, RIA Novosti reports.

Vladimir Bukovsky. Frame of the faces-TV The human rights activist and former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky is not going to abandon the Order of Merit to Poland, which requires the consent of the leaders of Russia and the UK, the Bukovsky press center reports. A human rights activist who has dual citizenship intends to wait for the reaction of President Poland Lech Kachinsky. “I want to see what Kaczynsky will do,” Bukovsky said.

Andrey Piontkovsky The growing foci of anxious excitement has recently violated the dream of a collective mind of an organized community, calling itself a "Russian political elite." The first, spreading as a forest fire, is an understanding of exhaustion, futility, dead end, doom, stupidity, the tragicity vulgarity of the Putin economic and political system.