Dmitry Demushkin. Photo from the site www.news.bcm.ru The party of nationalists, which is preparing for official registration, intends to open the department in the North Caucasus, which would be headed by representatives of the indigenous peoples of the region. “We have agreements with the Cossacks of the Sunzhensky army and the Russian diaspora in Dagestan.

At the site of the disaster near Smolensk. Frame NTV The case of four Russian troops accused of looting after a plane crash under the Smolensk aircraft of the President of Poland was transferred to court. This was reported by the press service of the Main Military Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee.

Alexander Podrabinek. Courtesy Photo The idea that the king is good, and the boyars are bad with him, lives for a long time and is not going to die. The peak of the popularity of this idea falls on those days when society was very unanimously in a positive assessment of the autocrat and negative - bureaucracy. It was a very simple idea for a very simple society. Times are changing, and society too. The authorities, dreaming of becoming absolute, are forced to take this into account.

Sergey Lavrov. Photo: Government.rf Russia cannot change the position of President of Syria Bashar al -Assad, who intends to remain in power to the end. About this, as RIA Novosti betrays, said the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after negotiations with the special representative of the UN and the LAG on Syria Lahdar Brahimi. Lavrov emphasized that Assad repeatedly publicly and non -publicly announced that he was not going to resign.

Patrick Ventrell. Photo: nation.com.pk The United States will continue to maintain the development of civil society and democracy in Russia, despite the restrictions imposed by the Anti -American sanctions law. This was stated by the official representative of the State Department Patrick Ventrell. He expressed "deep regret" in connection with the adoption of the law and the termination of the adoption of Russian orphans by US citizens.

Ahmed Muaz al-Khatib. Photo by AAP The head of the National Coalition of the Syrian opposition Ahmed Muaz al-Khatib refused to travel to Moscow. He stated this in an interview with al-Jazis. He emphasized that the condition of such negotiations is the refusal of Moscow to support the Syrian authorities. Hatib demanded from Russia a “clear condemnation of crimes committed by the Syrian regime” and refusing to support Syria President Bashar al -Assad.

Gazprom building. Photo '' Independent Gazeta '' The Russian government may sue Lithuania due to Gazprom’s losses as a result of the strict implementation of the norms of the third Energy Packet of the European Union with this country, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the director of the Department of Trade Interior Maxim Medvedkov. The lawsuit will be filed if bilateral consultations in January 2013 do not bring the result.

On Saturday, December 29, at 18:30, the “Post of Liberty” promotion will be held in the Novopushkinsky square - a collection of postcards for sending political prisoners. You can bring your postcard or write wishes on postcards printed by the "Rosusznik". The next day, postcards will be sent to a pre -trial detention center. In the "Rosuznik" they hope that they will be delivered to Orthodox Christmas. The action has been agreed with the Moscow authorities.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Photo: Victor Chernov/Russian Look The ex-head of the "Yukos" Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the New Year's appeal condemned the adoption of the anti-Sirot law. The letter was published on the blog of Boris Akunin. “When this happens, it is difficult to deal with heavy, fierce hatred,” he writes. Khodorkovsky "is not able to find a reasonable explanation" why they are painfully gather "with the world on the thread" money for the treatment of seriously ill children.

Picket at the State Duma in defense of orphans. Photo by Ivan Trefilov The organizers submitted to the metropolitan city hall a notification on the conduct of a procession from the Belarusian station to the Okhotny row in protest against the anti -Sirot law on January 13. This was reported on Twitter by the coordinator of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov. “The marching route of the march - from Kaluga Square to the State Duma building,” Udaltsov writes.

Alexander Kuchma. Shot video interview with newspaper.ru Alexander Kuchma, a former cellmate of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Krasnokamenskaya IK-10, was sentenced to three and a half years of a maximum security. As Interfax reports with reference to the head of the Transbaikal human rights center Vitaly Cherkasov, such a decision made the Central District Court of Chita on Saturday. Kuchma is found guilty of causing serious harm to health.

Disaster Tu-204. Frame "Russia 24" Two people died as a result of the Tu-204 crash at Vnukovo Airport, Russia 24 reports. The aircraft of the Russian airline Red Wings, which made a flight from the pardubic in the Czech Republic, rolled out of the landing strip on the Kiev highway, collapsed and caught fire. According to various sources, there were from 8 to 12 people aboard, there were no passengers among them. The dead are the crew commander and the second pilot.

The Prize of the Year is received by the Group "War". The action held last New Year's Eve with the burning of a car carrier ( Mento-Auto-da-Fe ), perhaps, is not the most "artistic" in the archive of the group. But it was the auto -zak that became one of the main symbols of the year.

Picket at the State Duma in defense of orphans. Photo by Ivan Trefilov Petersburg opposition has applied for a rally for the abolition of anti -Sirot law. As ITAR -TASS was told by the activist of the Young Democrats, Nikolai Artemenko, the event is supposed to be held on January 13 on the Marse Field, beginning at 19:00, the estimated number of participants is up to 1000 people. The organizers expect an answer from Smolny no earlier than January 10.

Vasily Aleksanyan. Frame NTV The prosecutor’s office once again appealed to the Moscow City Court to remove the arrest from the property of the late Vice President of Yukos Vasily Aleksanyan. “There was a decision (Simonovsky court) on the return of Aleksanyan’s property, but, as far as I knew, the prosecutor’s office introduced a cassation resolution, so the decision did not manage to enter into force.