Georgian military in the Pankisian gorge. Photo from the site www.lenta.ru On the territory of Georgia, a sabotage and terrorist group for transfer to Dagestan is undergoing training. This was reported to Interfax in the press service of the Republican Office of the FSB. On operational information of the FSB for Dagestan, In this regard, a set of measures to protect the Russian-Georgian border on its Dagestan site has been strengthened.

Gun. Photo from the site Veeer.com A criminal investigation officer was arrested in Surgut, who shot himself during the interrogation of the suspect of the murder. This is stated in the SCP message posted on the website of the department. He is accused of murder, abuse of authority with the use of weapons and causing serious consequences.

Tiger. Photo from the site www.archives.charleston.net On the way from Khabarovsk to Yakutsk, eight Indian tigers and the African lioness were killed from poisoning, RIA Novosti was told in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Yakutia. Animals of the Mobile Krasnodar Theater "Dream" were supposed to become the main participants in the New Year's show in Sahacyarka. The exact cause of the death of animals will establish the investigation.

Vitaly Ustimenko. Frame of the Moscow Region TV channel from the Polit.ru website The main version of the murder of the mayor of Tuchkov Vladimir Ustimenko is a conflict because of the Earth, Komsomolskaya Pravda reports . The detainee on charges of murder, previously convicted entrepreneur Nikolai Morozov already admitted to the deed, writes the Moscow Komsomolets. According to unofficial data, Morozov provided financial support to Ustimenko during the Ustimenko election campaign.

Frame from the movie '' Russia-88 '' The feature film "Russia-88" can be recognized as extremist and prohibited for showing. The radio station "Echo of Moscow" said the director of the picture Pavel Bardin. According to Bardin, on Wednesday, the Samara Regional Court will consider the claim of the regional prosecutor, which requires the removal of all copies of the film and prohibit its display. The basis for this requirement was the examination conducted by the Samara State University.

The crowd in the subway. Photo from the site radiorus.ru On the Kaluga-Riga line of the Moscow metro, due to the failure of traffic lights, the train went in the morning at intervals for up to 20 minutes. As the head of the press service of the subway, Svetlana Tsareva, told Ekhu Moscow, at 10.00 the movement of trains normalized. According to her, traffic lights worked with failures from 07.47 to 8.08 Moscow time, and then from 08.45 to 08.53 on the Vestan Leninsky Prospekt - Shabolovskaya.

Vitaliy Khripun. Photo from the site JustMedia.ru The military investigative department of the Investigative Committee, deployed in South Ossetia, opened a criminal case on the fact of the desertion of Michman Vitaly Khripun. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the official representative of the SCP Vladimir Markin. The case was opened under part 1 of Article 226 of the Criminal Code ("Theft of firearms and ammunition") and part 2 of Article 338 (desertion with weapons entrusted in the service).

Christmas tree. Photo from the site foundfoto.ru The new instruction of the Ministry of Emergencies prohibits decorating Christmas trees with celluloid toys, gauze and cotton wool, not processed with fire -retaining compounds, as well as dress children in costumes from flammable materials. According to Life News, these instructions were developed in the wake of a fire in the Lame Horse club in Perm.

Andrey Piontkovsky The point of no return for any authoritarian regime becomes inevitably on the moment of Sartre nausea, aversion to itself , covering its top and priestly estate. This psychosomatic phenomenon is not the cause of the death of the regime, but the symptom of it has already overtaken by an incurable disease.

Moscow University. Photos of faces President Dmitry Medvedev signed decrees on the appointment of Viktor Sadovnichi to the post of rector of Moscow State University named after Lomonosov and Nikolai Kropachev-to the post of rector of St. Petersburg State University. This is stated in the message on the Kremlin website. The law that gives the special status of Moscow State University and St. Petersburg State University was adopted in November this year and signed by the President of Russia.

Arrest. Photo psychinaction.files.wordpress.com In Moscow, the deputy head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the investigation of robberies and robberies, Colonel Dmitry Maksimov, was detained. According to City-FM, citing lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky, the reason for the detention is not known, but there is evidence that Maximov is suspected of murder. According to the lawyer, the prosecution of Maksimov has not yet been brought.

Moscow, December 21, 2009. Source - Mikhail Khodorkovsky's press center

Galina Alekseevna Lilich (Honorary Professor of St. Petersburg State University, lecturer at the Slavic Department of the Faculty of Philology) reads out an essay by one of the applicants about Lenin, which received a B in the unified state exam. Source: DamfinoSPb

Policeman. Photo from the site kp.ru An employee of the editorial office of New Izvestia Alexei Samsonov was detained by the police and spent the night in the department. According to the publication, he was detained when he ran to the train after the party in the editorial office. The compiled protocol states that the basis for the detention was the state of intoxication and obscene abuse of law enforcement officers. In fact, a check is carried out, its results will be known in 10 days.

Edward Limonov. Frame Grani-TV On December 16 in the morning, passing by policemen yawning from the frost to the Moscow City Hall, we (Konstantin Kosyakin and I, Lyudmila Mikhailovna Alekseeva at that time flew to Strasbourg to receive the Sakharov Prize) at exactly nine o'clock handed in a notice of a rally of dissenters on December 31 at 18 o'clock on Triumfalnaya area.