Joseph Stalin. Photo from the site www.rumol.ru The head of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, Mikhail Fedotov, denied the information that the Red Stalinization campaign was being prepared in Russia, reports FINAM FM. According to Fedotov, the council will talk about increasing compensation for the victims of political repression and perpetuating their memory.

Leo Rubinstein. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru Now this date, which during the years of my parents joyfully celebrated all the "progressive humanity", has bashfully forgot. But it was today that the year has been the year 131, as the future genius of all times and peoples, the coriffs of all sciences, Comrade Stalin, was born in the city of Gori.

Ilya Milstein Alexander Grigoryevich is saddened. He was at a perplexity that could be called sincere, if this person had been telling the truth at least once in his life, he looks west. Like, how is it, gentlemen? On demand, he said yesterday at a press conference, our European friends have violated our laws.

Mikhail Beketov in the hospital. Photo: dervishv.livejournal.com The prosecutor's office appealed the acquittal to the relationship of the editor -in -chief of the Khimkinskaya Pravda Mikhail Beketov in the case of slander to the head of the administration of Khimki Vladimir Strelchenko. This was announced on the air of the Echo of Moskvy radio station by Beketov’s lawyer Andrei Stolbunov.

White House. Photo by the Air Force The United States cannot recognize the presidential elections in Belarus by legitimate. According to BBC, Robert Gibbs, official representative of US President, stated this. He criticized the actions of the Belarusian police, which brutally dispersed the mass performances near the Government House, urging the detained opposition politicians to immediately release.

Priest Yakov Krotov. Frame "Grani-TV" I Stalin’s birthday is perceived by Stalinists today, apparently, as the birthday of Russia, for an anti -Stalinist this is the day of the death of Russia. Stalin’s own - his reputation - is closely linked with the fate of Russia and in nomenclature heads, so the government goes around Stalin's rehabilitation as a cat around a bowl with sour cream. And I want, and pricks, and mom does not tell.

Hospital. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru In Moscow, at the age of 69, the head of the first Moscow hospice Vera Millionshchikova died. “She had been sick for a long time, but felt good. Today she died in the presence of her relatives from vast thromboembolism,” the President of the Vera Hospice Fund, Anna Federmeser, the President of the Hospice Help Fund, told RIA Novosti.

Independence Square, December 19, 2010. OMON violently disperses a demonstration of protest against fraud in the presidential election. Filming by Radio Liberty (www.svaboda.org).

Lattice. Photo from Newsru.com Philologists of different countries have defended the Belarusian scientist Alexander Fedut. Under the letter received by the editorial office of the "faces", philologists from Russia, Lithuania, Estonia, the USA made their signatures. The document emphasizes that Federals, arrested on December 20 in Minsk, may not transfer poor health and prison. "The organization of unrest with the use of violence is a completely impossible case for him.

Vladimir Putin with the ball. Photo from the site www.adme.ru Prime Minister Vladimir Putin considers the murder of the Spartak fan Yegor Sviridov with a crime against all football fans. As RIA Novosti reports, he stated this at a meeting with representatives of organizations of fans. "You must perceive this as an attack against you all, regardless of the place of residence, national or religious affiliation. The young man Yegor Sviridov died. This is a great tragedy," Putin said.

Sergey Udaltsov. Photo by the border.ru The condition of the coordinator of the left front Sergey Udaltsov, who declared a hunger strike in protest against illegal arrest, worsened. According to the Franks.ru in the press service of the movement, on Monday, an ambulance was called to the special-reception on Simferopol Boulevard. On the eighth day of the hunger strike, Udaltsov had pain in the stomach and in the heart.

Anatoly Chubais. Collage from the site www.19rus.info The head of the Rusnano Corporation Anatoly Chubais considers it unlikely to return Vladimir Putin to the presidency. He stated this in an interview with the interlocutor magazine. To the question of the journalist Dmitry Bykov, "Is it possible to expect Putin’s return to the presidential chair in 2012, Chubais replied that this scenario seems" less likely.

Memorial of Glory in Kutaisi. Photo http://img1.liveinternet.ru Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took part in the opening of the monument to the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War "in the struggle against fascism, we were together" on Black Mountain in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports. The opening ceremony was also attended by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and the ex-speaker of the Georgian Parliament Nino Burjanadze. "A monument on Poklonnaya Gora is our tribute to the immortal feat of our people.

Metro. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru Until the end of 2015, the Moscow authorities plan to build 79 kilometers of new metro lines and 43 stations. This was in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda by the First Deputy Mayor Vladimir Resin. According to him, the main task of the Moscow government is to bring the subway to all remote areas of the capital. 27 stations will be built in a light metro format. Until the end of 2010, a plan for building a light metro to Zelenograd will be presented.