Alexey Polikhovich. Photo provided by the "Committee of May 6" The defendant of the “swamp business” Anti -Fascist Alexei Polikhovich was charged under Article 318 of the Criminal Code (the use of violence against a representative of the authorities), despite the fact that the investigation in this case has already been completed.

State Duma. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru Employees of Novaya Gazeta handed over to the reception of the State Duma more than 100 thousand collected on the website of the publication of signatures against the Anti -Magnitic Law, which deputies on Friday will be considered in the third reading. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the deputy chief editor of the newspaper Sergei Sokolov.

Knife. Photo from Remacle.org The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the fact of the incident in St. Petersburg, when the driver after the accident allegedly inflicted five deadly blows into the chest. As RIA Novosti reports, this was reported in the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the City.

State Duma. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru More than 100 thousand signatures collected by Novaya Gazeta readers against the adoption of an amendment to prohibit Russian children with Americans, were lost along the way from the reception of the State Duma to the lower house of parliament, where the deputies were to consider them. According to New Gazeta, none of the receiving officials can clarify the fate of the signatures. In the State Duma itself, they can’t clarify anything.

Nikolay II. Portrait from the site www.ordenshop.ru The celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Romanov House in 2013 should be of a national character and accompanied by "a serious and impartial study of the role of this dynasty in the history of the country." According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the head of the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Church and the Company Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin.

Suren Gazaryan. Photo: Southguide.ru Member of the Coordinating Council of the opposition Suren Gazaryan, put on the federal wanted list, fled from Russia to Europe. The information received from the organization of Human Rights Watch, about the search for asylum, the ecologist himself confirmed on his Twitter: "I already found, Donets, Dnieper, Danube swam." Gazaryan notified the HRW about leaving Russia and the intention to get asylum in the European country on Wednesday.

The State Duma adopted in the third final reading the "anti-Magnit law", introducing, among other things, a ban on the adoption of Russian children by American citizens. According to RIA Novosti, 420 deputies voted for the adoption of the document, seven voted against, one abstained. In the second reading, 400 deputies voted for the adoption of the law. The "anti-orphan" amendment was approved at the adoption of the law in the second reading.

The law on anti-American measures, adopted on Friday by the State Duma, "puts the fate of orphans dependent on political reasons," said Michael McFol's ambassador to Russia. "The well -being of children is too much value to become a bargaining coin in international politics," the statement published on the embassy’s website said.

Alexey Glukhov. Photo: Openinform.ru The Chuvash human rights organization "Shield and Sword" became the first non -profit organization to voluntarily have a request to the Ministry of Justice with a request to include it in the list of foreign agents. This was reported by an open news agency.

State Duma. Hard of news More than 100 thousand signatures gathered by readers of Novaya Gazeta against the adoption of an amendment to ban Russian children by Americans were found, the publication reports . They are in the Committee on Constitutional Law and State Building. However, deputies will not consider them before the New Year, said the vice speaker of the State Duma Sergey Zheleznyak. “We know that more than 100 thousand signatures entered the reception room.

Photo by Ivan Trefilov On December 21 at 9:00 a new series of single pickets against the ban on the adoption of Russian children by Americans will be held near the State Duma. On this day, the Duma plans to adopt the "Law of Dima Yakovlev" in the third reading. The previous series of pickets on December 19 ended in mass detentions . From the appeal of the organizers: "We invite all the country's free citizens to join us, and all caring journalists - come and light this action.

Alexey Mitrofanov. Photo: Grani.ru State Duma speaker Sergey Naryshkin instructed the media committee to deal with insults of deputies in the media in connection with the amendment on the ban on the adoption of Russian children by Americans, RIA Novosti reports. "Any insult is unacceptable, including insulting State Duma deputies - this means insulting the highest legislative body and insulting our voters," Naryshkin said.

Vladimir Akimenkov. Photo from the website of the left front The "Swamp Prisoner" to Vladimir Akimenkov, who is losing vision in imprisonment, was denied in the appointment of a disability group. According to Interfax, the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Moscow Anatoly Tikhomirov at a briefing on Friday noted that a week ago the activist of the Left Front was an examination in the city hospital, as a result of which he did not find medical contraindications for arrest.

Protesting prisoners in Kopeisk. Photo: vesti.ru After the rebellion in the Kopeysk colony No. 6, 12 employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service were brought to disciplinary liability, the press service of the department reported with reference to the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Gennady Kornienko. Who exactly is punished and how serious is not specified.

Borjomi. Photo from the site waterinfo The question of the admission of agricultural products and wine for the Russian market in the political plan is resolved in Georgia. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Andrei Denisov.