Amonullo Khukumov. Photo: Toptj.com The Moscow Regional Court considered the accusations of drug trafficking against Rustam Khukumov, the son of the head of the Tajik railway Amonullo Khukumov. According to Gazeta.ru, the court canceled the previously convicted sentence on December 28, 2011, but Khukumov’s lawyer announced this only on January 7. The daughter of President Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon is married to his brother Rustam Khukumov.

Moscow, January 5, 2011 Sergey Udaltsov was released from the Nagatinsky Zaton police department. Video "Radio Liberty".

Stretching "Justice" of the Law at the Tver Court. Photo: Olga Shorina Judge Krivoruchko recognized the arrest of the coordinator of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov for 10 days for disobedience to the police officer. The appeal of the decision of the judge Olga Borovkova was left unattended, the wife of Anastasia Udaltsova in her microblog reports.

Nikolai Kuzkin. Photo from the Lyceum website: lyceum37.seun.ru Parents of students of the Saratov Lyceum No. 37 are preparing to reach the protest against the dismissal of director Nikolai Kuzkin, Echo of Moscow reports. Parents are confident that Kuzkin was fired due to the fact that in two polling stations in the Lyceum United Russia scored fewer votes than as a whole in the district and the region.

The arson of the police car car "War". Photo: plucer.livejournal.com In St. Petersburg, a criminal case was opened on the fact of arson of the Ural police car car carrier. According to RIA Novosti, the case was opened in part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("hooliganism"). This part of the article provides for the punishment of up to 5 years in prison. The arson was perfect in the territory of the 71st police department of the Petrograd district.

Patriarch Kirill. Frame of the TV channel ''Vesti'' Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill urged the authorities to listen to the protests and adjust the political course. "The task is to ensure that protests, properly expressed, lead to a correction of the political course. This is the most important thing. If the authorities remain insensitive to the expression of protests, this is a very bad sign - a sign of the authorities' inability to self-adjust.

Christian temple in Nigeria. Photo: mnnonline.org As a result of a series of terrorist attacks in Nigeria, more than 20 people died. According to BBC News, six people died on Thursday as a result of an attack by militants on a church in the city of Gomba in the northeast of the country, another 17 people were killed on Friday in a Christian church in the city of Mube in the northeastern state of Adamava. According to CNN, at least 25 Nigerians were killed.

Georgy Satarov. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru This text appeared as an explanation that I and my colleagues consider it useful to give in connection with the new year that appeared before the new year about possible contacts between A. Kudrin and several representatives of the round table on December 12. Our two sides are in the same position. There are three of us - Lyudmila Mikhailovna Alekseeva, Mikhail Mikhailovich Kasyanova and me - no one officially authorized, we act on our own initiative.