Appeal of Primorsky partisans: Alexander Kovtun (left) and Andrei Sukhorada. Helper video Alexey Sweet, the older brother of the deceased Primorsky partisan Alexander Sweet, asked for political asylum in the Netherlands. In an interview with Gazeta.ru, a 27-year-old refugee explained his decision by pressure from the authorities. Sweet fled to the Netherlands in December 2012 and lived with a friend for some time, and on January 14, 2013 he turned to a refugee camp.

Alexander Skobov. Courtesy Photo Valeria Ilyinichna Novodvorskaya continues its war. Her war is that civil. The war is white and red. She heroically beats on a skew behind the whites, dreaming of throwing the Reds into the sea. She needs one victory and nothing else. And she is not embarrassed that the fair part of the then whites of her herself would hang her on the same bitch with the Bolsheviks - which she knows about.

John Kerry. Photo Reuters US senators approved their colleague, head of the International Committee John Kerry as a Secretary of State. According to RIA Novosti, 94 members of the upper house supported his candidacy, three voted against. President Barack Obama nominated Kerry to the post of head of the State Department on December 21. The new Secretary of State will take his post on February 1.

The state unfolds a large -scale homophobic campaign. Not everyone in the protest movement is ready to defend the rights of their fellow citizens of the "wrong" orientation. One of the founders of the Christian Democratic Club Oleg Kozyrev offers "not to be led to trolling" of the authorities and protect the rights of Christians. As part of the Kangaroo project, his debate with LGBT activist Elena Kostyuchenko took place.

Ekaterina Samutsevich at the Moscow City Court. Photo by L. Barkova/Grani.ru The Moscow City Court removed the complaint of Ekaterina Samutsevich on the recognition of Pussy Riot punk groups with extremist videos and restrictions on access to them, RIA Novosti reports. According to the representative of the group member, such a decision of the judge was made due to the fact that she was not recognized as an interested person in the case.

Packages with heroin Russia is leaving the US agreement on cooperation in the fight against crime and drug trafficking. The corresponding order initiated by the Foreign Ministry was published on Wednesday on the website of the Russian government. "The agreement was concluded on September 25, 2002. The need to sign it was then caused by insufficient budget financing of the relevant law enforcement programs," the said.

Nikita Belykh. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru Kirov Governor Nikita Belykh was questioned as a witness in the case of embezzlement of shares of the Urzhum alcohol plant. According to RIA Novosti, the interrogation was held in the regional department of economic security and counteracting corruption at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He took two and a half hours - the whites arrived in the department by 11:00, and at 13:37 he left the building.

Vadim Bulavinov. Photo: Er.ru The TFR demands to deprive the inviolability of the State Duma deputy of the unicorn Vadim Bulavinov and institute criminal proceedings against him. As reported on the website of the department, documents were sent to the Prosecutor General to make an appropriate submission to the State Duma. According to the TFR, Bulavinov, being the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, allowed him to abuse their official powers.

Denis Davydov. Photo: minsvyaz.ru From February to April, one of the Russian regions will be introduced in the order of the experiment. This was reported by Izvestia with reference to Denis Davydov, executive director of the safe Internet League, which initiated the experiment. In which the subject of the Federation is the censorship is introduced, Davydov refused to clarify.

Valery Abramkin. Frame from the program "School of Superion" (NTV) The funeral of the human rights activist Valery Fedorovich Abramkin will take place on January 30, on Wednesday, about 14 and 15 hours, at the Troekurovsky cemetery (Ryabinova St., 24). Directions: m. "Kuntsevskaya", author. 612; m. "Warm Stan", aut. 781 to the stop. "Gas station". The funeral service in the Church of the Andreevsky Monastery at 11:00.

Orphanages. Photo by Dm. Borko/Brani.ru The government agreed on a bill that establishes a one-time payment of 100 thousand rubles to families who decided to adopt some categories of orphans. As RIA Novosti reports, Olga Golodets reported this about this. "Several measures have already been agreed, a draft law has been prepared on an increase in one -time compensation, which is paid by adoptive parents.

Boris Nemtsov at a rally in support of the prisoners of Bolotnaya. Novopushkinsky square, 07/26/2012 The co-chair of the RPR-Parnas Boris Nemtsov was called for interrogation in the TFR. As Interfax reports with reference to Nemtsov’s lawyer Vadim Prokhorov, the politician has not yet received the agenda, but the investigator called him and invited him to come for an interrogation on February 5.

Alexander Amelin. Photo: "VKontakte" The nationalist Alexander Amelin, who created the prohibited Russian organization on the VKontakte social network, was charged with public calls for extremist activities. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs without indicating the name of the accused. The maximum sanction under Article 280 of the Criminal Code is five years in prison.

The inscription on the building "Memorial". Photo: Memo.ru The American non -profit organizations of the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute, who closed the departments in Russia at the end of last year, took out Russians working with their families to Lithuania. According to Kommersant with reference to NPO employees, the heads of organizations feared the political persecution of their colleagues.

Leonid Razvoszhaev in the Chelyabinsk pre -trial detention center. Frame of video shooting of Chelyabinsk human rights activists Oppositionist Leonid Razvoszhaev agreed to undergo treatment in the hospital of the pre-trial detention center of Irkutsk. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the press service of the regional GUFSIN.