Council of the Federation. Photo "faces" The State Duma approved a new procedure for the formation of the Federation Council, RIA Novosti reports. Now, only a deputy of the regional parliament can become a senator from the legislative body, and applicants for senators from the executive branch will be selected along with the governor. Each region in the Federation Council will be represented by two people. One is put forward by the legislative body, the other is executive.

Patriarch Cyril. Photo from the website of the Russian Orthodox Church 35 percent of Russians do not know the name of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the All -Russian Center for the study of public opinion. The survey was conducted in 138 settlements in 46 regions, edges and republics of Russia. As Interfax reports, 62 percent of the respondents were able to name the name of the patriarch without a hint.

Pussy Riot in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow refused to attract a participant in the Pussy Riot punk band Ekaterina Samutsevich to consider the prosecutor’s application for recognition of an extremist video with a punk-spring recording in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, RIA Novosti reports.

Irakli Distribvili. Photo from the site rin.ru Former Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Distribvili crossed the Georgian border on Tuesday and was detained as wanted by the prosecutor's office, Interfax reports with reference to the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Teyu Tsulukiani. "Immediately after crossing the border, Irakli Distribvili, as looking for the prosecutor’s office, was detained and placed in the Gldanian prison in Tbilisi.

The police operate at the scene of the explosion. Photo of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tatarstan In Kazan, a homemade explosive device worked in the courtyard of the house on Sarah Sadykova Street, Interfax-Volga region reports. One person died who supposedly manufactured the IEV. At the scene of the incident, an investigative-operational group, explosives, dog handlers, employees of the Ministry of Emergencies and the FSB are working.

Farit Temirgaliev and Mikhail Kulikov. Photo Life News Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Grin filed an idea to the Supreme Court for the illegality of decisions on the arrest of former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Oleg Sudakov, Mikhail Kulikov and Farit Temirgaliev, Rosbalt reports . If the performance is satisfied, then the loud "gambling" faces the final collapse.

Residents of Ashkelon are waiting for a missile shelling. Photo: AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov Israel and Khamas conduct indirect negotiations in Cairo on the ceasefire, reports Ar. Egyptian intelligence officers are intermediaries between the Israeli envoy and representative of Hamas Haled Mashal. Sources report a certain progress of negotiations. Israel demands to stop the shelling of its territory and smuggling weapons into the Gaza sector through the tunnels under the border with Egypt.

Andrey Piontkovsky and Ksenia Sobchak. Grani.ru collage The discussion of “irreconcilable” and “moderate” or, according to Lilia Shevtsova, “revolutionaries” and “adaptants” has never reached such a glow. The CS of the opposition split on the issue of the goals and format of the December action.

Ekaterina Samutsevich, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina in the courtroom. Photo from Twitter Lawyer Violetta Volkova Panchens of Pussy Riot Punch Riot, Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikov, serving a sentence for punk-graben in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, in recent weeks were dissatisfied with the work of their lawyers and therefore wrote statements about the abandonment of lawyers' services.

The adoption of the "Law of Magnitsky", which will enter into force until the end of the year, opens a new stage in the relations of Russia and the West. The Antiputine opposition welcomes the decision of the congressmen, in the Kremlin they tear and bay. Russian and American responses to a historical event. " Voice of America " ​​- especially for faces.ru

Boris Strugatsky. Photo from News.llr.ru Relatives of Boris Strugatsky decided to follow the will of the writer: to cremate his body and dispel the ashes. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the director of the writer's house Vladimir Malyshev. "Following the example of his brother, he bequeathed to bury himself so. The family will make the final decision in the near future. But the fact that there will be cremation is already known for sure," Malyshev said.

Svetlana Alliluyeva with her father. Photo from the site www.kp.ru The Federal Bureau of Investigations declassified the dossier of the daughter of Stalin Svetlana Alliluyeva, in which there are documents indicating that the American special services followed her after she left the USSR and moved to the United States in 1967, AR reports.

VTB sign. Frame of the TV channel '' Russia '' Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs began large-scale investigative-operational measures in the criminal case of the theft of $ 200 million from VTB Bank. According to Kommersant, searches are held at the Marshall Capital’s office Konstantin Malofeev, the largest minority of Rostelecom, as well as at the place of residence of Malofeev and the head of Rostelecom, Alexander Streetorov.

Constitutional Court. Photo: Russian look The Constitutional Court began consideration of the request of the Failed Russia factions and the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the powers of the State Duma deputies, RIA Novosti reports. The COP at the first meeting refused to expand the subject of verification.

Stadium "Luzhniki". Photo from the website of FC "Spartak" The authorities of Moscow decide on the project of the restructuring of the Luzhniki stadium. According to RBC Daily on the territory of the Olympic complex, the Moscow authorities plan to build and reconstruct about 850 thousand square meters of real estate. At the same time, the area of ​​a large sports arena will increase by one and a half times.