The building of the Ministry of Defense. Photo from the official site The Ministry of Defense until December 25 will disband army units engaged in the disposal of outdated weapons and military equipment. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the deputy minister of defense of the Army General Dmitry Bulgakov. Such a decision was made after a few days ago Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu said that his department should defend the country, and not trade scrap metal.

Collection of Jehovah's Witnesses. Photo: JW-russia.org The Constitutional Court recognized the provisions of a number of regulatory acts not relevant to the Basic Law, on the basis of which believers of various faiths were prohibited from conducting public religious events without notifying local authorities. This is being prepared in the court ruling, issued on December 5 and published on Thursday on the official website of the court.

Mikhail Vistitsky. Photo from Facebook In Moscow, they are trying to demolish the building at 19 Novocheremushkinskaya, in which the Liberty landing of the Liberty Liberty Vistitsky Liberty, belonging to the chairman of the All -Russian Movement of Liberty veterans, is located. Violett Volkov’s lawyer on Twitter called it a raider seizure. In the morning, two buses with riot police, workers and construction equipment arrived at the building.

The Ministry of Justice The Ministry of Justice issued the first warning of a non -profit organization for violation of the law on "foreign agents", Kommersant reports .

Vladimir Putin. Photo: Premier.gov.ru President Putin considers the adoption by the US Congress "Act Magnitsky" by the investigation of the domestic political intrigue, RIA Novosti reports. "I, frankly, do not understand. This is some kind of intra-political intrigue. But why, in order to achieve domestic political dividends, I need to sacrifice Russian-American relations, I do not understand," Putin said at the Council of Law.

Nikolai Azarov. Photo from the site www.newzz.in.ua President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych signed a decree on the appointment of Nikolai Azarov as Prime Minister, whose candidacy was previously approved by the Verkhovna Rada, RIA Novosti reports. Yanukovych also congratulated Azarov on the re -election. For his re -election, 252 parliamentarians voted with the required minimum of 226 votes. On December 3, Yanukovych accepted the resignation of Azarov and the entire composition of the government.

The FSB building on Lubyanskaya Square. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The applicants of the “Freedom” scheduled for December 15 received an official refusal of the Moscow City Hall to agree on the action. This was reported on Twitter by the coordinator of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov. “The authorities warn the organizers of“ Marsh of Freedom ”about the inadmissibility of holding an inconsistent action, threaten responsibility.

On December 13, 1797, 215 years ago, the great German poet Henry (Harry) Heine was born. In 1825, before receiving a doctoral diploma, he was forced to move from Judaism to Lutheranism, since only Christians were given a diploma. Heine was a distant relative of Karl Marx on the maternal line and sympathized with the revolutionary movement. He wrote: “I have never attached great importance to the glory of the poet, and it is little worried about whether my songs are praised or condemned.

Gastarbaiters. Frame "Vesti" President Putin supported the idea of ​​legally prohibiting the mention of suspects and convicts in the media of the nationality of the nationality, RIA Novosti reports. The initiative to prohibit the mention of nationality and the religion of criminals Putin was asked to support the speaker of the Moscow City Duma Vladimir Platonov. According to him, the bill provides for sanctions up to the closure of the media.

Natalia Kustinskaya in the film "Ivan Vasilievich changes the profession" The theater and film actress Natalya Kustinskaya died in Moscow after a serious illness at 75 years of life, RIA Novosti reports. On December 5, she was hospitalized in the Botkin hospital in a coma. The actress was diagnosed with pneumonia. On Wednesday, the Moscow Department of Health reported that it left the coma, but is in serious condition for artificial lung ventilation.

Supreme Court. Photo from the official site Violation of the principle of publicity when making a decision on a closed court of the court may lead to the abolition of court decisions. This is stated in the decree of the Plenum of the Supreme Court "On the openness and publicity of legal proceedings" approved on Thursday, RAPSI reports .

The Moscow City Hall is ready to continue negotiations on the coordination of the "Marsh of Freedom" planned on December 15, Interfax reports. At the same time, the authorities do not have new options for shares. The coordinator of the Left Front, Sergei Udaltsov, wrote on Twitter that the city hall was offered to the applicants at 14.00 on Thursday to take an official refusal to agree on the march.

Steve Jobs represents iPad. Photo CNET The Ambassador of Russia to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov presented the 14-year-old Kyiv schoolchild and Cossack of the “faithful Cossacks” Andrei Saveliev iPad and the president’s memorable watches in gratitude for the salvation of the Russian flag from the abuse, RIA Novosti reports.

Vladimir Putin and Boris Yeltsin on the day of Putin's inauguration in 2000. Photo from the Archive of RIA "Novosti", Vladimir Vyatkin The Presidential State Law (GPU) proposed returning to Vladimir Putin the right of direct management of federal property, including his privatization. According to Kommersant, Boris Yeltsin originally possessed similar powers. Now the president has such a right only to strategic enterprises.

Mikhail Yampolsky. Frame Grani-TV The "poorly" written laws from the causes of mass protests in Russia last year - discontent of people with lawlessness and outrageous arbitrariness of the authorities. The authorities in the person of United Russia responded to this discontent in a paradoxical way. The Duma met a pile of laws, which, instead of stopping lawlessness, legalized arbitrariness.