Acceleration of Euromaidan on the night of 11/30/2013. Fall "Fifth Channel" Responsible for the beating of people during the dispersal of the protest in Kyiv on the night of November 30 will be denied entry into the European Union if the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych does not punish them. According to UNIAN, this was stated by the chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs Elmar Brock. "Yanukovych must punish those who are guilty of beating.

The end of Yanukovych: a scene on the Euromaidan. Photo by L. Barkova/Grani.ru The Security Service of Ukraine began an investigation into a criminal case on the fact of "actions aimed at seizing state power," Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the department. The SBU specified that on December 8, the register of pre -trial investigations included data on the fact "performing individual politicians of illegal actions".

The flag of Greece. Photo from the website of the country's government Greek parliamentarians voted in the state budget for 2014, which was developed without the approval of the "three" international creditors (the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund), ITAR-TASS reports.

Arzamas. Photo from the site of the city administration In the city of Arzamas, the Nizhny Novgorod region, a folk gathering was held due to the murder of a 26-year-old local resident. About 50 people participated in the action, reports Lenta.ru with reference to the data of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The rally was held on Cathedral Square on Saturday evening.

Alexander Litvinenko in the hospital. Photo by Wikipedia Most potential experts and witnesses in the death of the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko evaded testimony in court. The representative of the Litvinenko Foundation Alexander Goldfarb reported this on his blog on the Snob.ru website. He referred to the intermediate report of the lawyer of the court Martin Loyd Smith about his efforts to collect the evidence base for the upcoming hearings.

Participants in a protest in Kyiv demolished a monument to Lenin on Bessarabska Square, Interfax reports citing the press service of the Kyiv police. At the time of the demolition of the monument, several thousand people were on the square. As law enforcement officers explained, the monument was surrounded by several unknown people in masks. At first they started to burn fireworks, and then filled up the monument.

Euromaidan in Kyiv, December 8, 2013. Photo @radiosvoboda About half a million participants of the People’s Veck gathered on Independence Square in Kyiv. According to some estimates, up to a million people took to the streets. At the same time, about 50 thousand people took part according to the police estimates in mass shares in Kyiv. The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported this on her Facebook page.

The main building of Moscow State University. Photos of faces The Federal Service for Labor and Employment has discovered numerous violations upon dismissal and accrual of payments to employees of Moscow State University, Interfax reports.

On December 8, from 10:00 to 20:00 in Moscow, at the Strelka Institute (Bersenevskaya Embankment, 14, building 5a), a collective workshop of the Last Address memorial project to perpetuate the memory of victims of political repression will work. Message from the initiative group: The Last Address project was initiated by a group of Moscow and St. Petersburg historians, human rights activists, civil activists, journalists, writers, architects and designers.

Joachim Gauk. Photo from the website of the President of Germany Germany President Joachim Gauk announced his intention to boycott the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the website of the German magazine Spiegel reports. The presidential administration explained that the decision should be understood as criticism of human rights violations and a protest against opposition repressions in Russia.