Euromaidan December 1. Photo of the press service "Fatherland" The Ukrainian Party "Fatherland" announced the torture of activists of Euromaidan, detained on December 1 and under the escort in the Kyiv ambulance hospital with various injuries. "The conditions for their detention in the hospital indicate torture and inhuman treatment," the organization’s website says .

Nikolai Mitrokhin. Photo: Radio Liberty The other day, the lawyer of the priest of the Russian Orthodox Church Gleb Gromovsky, accused of pedophilia, said that his client is somewhere in Israel-no longer "not as a priest, but as a citizen." The press appeared that a fugitive clergyman was hiding in a convent. Shortly before the start of this loud scandal, it happened to me to somehow drink with one honored priest.

Boris Nemtsov in the Nikulin court. Photo: Dmitry Borko/Grades.ru The co-chair of the RPR-Parnas Boris Nemtsov gave testimonies at the process in the "Swamp case", the correspondent of "faces" reports. Nemtsov was not the applicant of the action, but, according to him, he was well informed about the agreements with the mayor. Like other witnesses, Nemtsov said that the swamp square was supposed to be open, but it was blocked by the police.

The assault on the administration of the President of Ukraine. Frame TSN The Kyiv prosecutor's office announced the wanted leader of the public organization "Brotherhood" by Dmitry Korchinsky. He is accused of organizing the mass riots on December 1 near the building of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine. This was stated at a press conference by the deputy prosecutor of the city Sergey Sofiev, UNIAN reports .

Dismantling of the monument to Dzerzhinsky 08/22/1991. Fragment of photography Dmitry Borco 45 percent of Russian citizens approve the idea of ​​returning the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky to its former place on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow. This is evidenced by the results of the VTsIOM survey . A quarter of the respondents spoke out against. Most Russians (79 percent) know the name Dzerzhinsky. However, half of the surveyed under the age of 24 first heard about him from sociologists.

Sergey Dorenko. Photos of faces Journalist Sergei Dorenko will lead the new radio station "Moscow Says", which will broadcast at the frequency of the current RU.FM station. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source familiar with the situation. The frequency purchase deal will be held in mid -December.

Marina Ionova, wife Daniil Konstantinova. Photo: May-Antiwar.livejournal.com At the next meeting in the case of the leader of the defense League of Moscow Daniil Konstantinov, who took place in the Chertanovsky district court of the capital, the defense witnesses confirmed the innocence of the political prisoner. This is reported by Kasparov.ru.

Fragment of the Soviet poster In early 2014, the Ministry of Defense will open its own news agency. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the military department. As expected, the agency will be focused primarily on the Internet audience. The new structure will be specialized on military topics.

On December 5, at 10:45 a.m., the Moscow Regional Court will consider an appeal against the sentence against Elena Polyakova, a journalist from Klin. Polyakova herself writes that she was not informed about the meeting. On October 18, the Klinsk City Court sentenced Polyakova to 1.5 years of probation in the case of threatening an official on an Internet forum.

Elena Mizulina. Photo: spravedlivo.ru Elena Lukyanova, director of the Public Chamber, director of the OP Institute for the Efficiency of Law Enception, asks to verify the statement of the State Duma deputy Elena Mizulina for the possible extremism of the statement of “Orthodox amendments” to the Constitution. Lukyanova sent an appropriate statement to the prosecutor general Yuri Chaika, the press service of the OP reports .

Anatoly Serdyukov. Photo: Government.rf The accusation to the ex -minister of defense Anatoly Serdyukov on Friday will be presented in the original qualification - under an article on negligence. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a certain source familiar with the situation. The fact that the accusation to Serdyukov is planned to be charged on December 6 was already reported on Tuesday . For this, the ex-minister was summoned for a second interrogation to the investigator.

80 years ago, on December 5, 1933, Prohibition introduced in 1919 was repealed in the United States. After Utah became the 36th state to ratify its repeal, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which provided for a ban on the sale, production, importation and transportation of alcoholic beverages, became invalid (the possession and consumption of alcohol was not limited by federal law).

The building of the Russian Consulate General in New York. Photo: ruscon.org The US authorities accuse a number of Russian diplomats and their relatives of fraud with medical insurance. This is stated in published documents of charges of the prosecutor's office of the Southern District of New York. According to the case file, the suspects illegally received about 500 thousand dollars in the form of insurance compensation.

Fragment of the poster of Vasily Blondov from the series "WelCome! Sochi 2014" The FSB proposed to mitigate the decree of Vladimir Putin on the blockade of Sochi during the Olympics, allowing protests in the city, provided that they are agreed with the authorities. The text of the amendment, developed on behalf of the Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, and the explanatory note to it are published on the portal of "Public Discussion".

Clashes at the monument to Lenin in Kyiv. Frame of the video Ukrainian opposition deputies introduced a bill on the elimination of the Police Special Forces "Berkut" to the Verkhovna Rada. This was reported by "Comments" with reference to the leader of the party "Fatherland" Arsenia Yatsenyuk. The ordinary and bossy composition of the "this shameful police unit" is supposed to be deprived of special and military titles, Yatsenyuk said.