Vladimir Markin. Photo from the SCR website In the nine months of 2013, the Investigative Committee instituted about 30 thousand criminal cases of corruption crimes, according to the official representative of the TFR Vladimir Markin. This is four thousand more than the whole last year. Almost eight thousand cases have already entered the courts, of which 45 cases against organized groups and three against criminal communities. More than 19 thousand officials were prosecuted.

Vitaly Portnikov. Photo from the site www.day.ua The previous reorganization of RIA Novosti came just during the notorious Surkovsky propaganda. Of course, it can be argued that that era was no different from the current one, but I think when in the future we will want to understand the difference, the face of the official agency then will be vivid evidence that the difference was still.

Berkutovites at the headquarters of the "Fatherland". Photo: Pravda.com.ua The special forces from the Berkut unit, armed with machine guns, seized servers from the headquarters of the Opposition Party "Fatherland" on Turovskaya Street in Kyiv. This was reported by "Ukrainian Pravda" with reference to an eyewitness of events. The staff of the headquarters was laid on the floor while the search was and broke the doors of the server room.

Demonstrators are preparing to defend the city hall of Kyiv. Photo: @kyivpost In Kyiv, the security forces began to storm the outskirts of the Euromaidan. About this writes "Ukrainian Pravda" with reference to the leader of the Nationalist Party "Freedom" Oleg Tyagnibok. According to the politician, law enforcement officers are squeezing demonstrators on the streets of Grushevsky and Lutheran. “The picketers were dispersed and beaten,” added Arseniy Yatsenyuk, leader of the Fatherland party.

Foreign Ministry. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru Eleven Russian diplomats and their wives, accused of fraud in the United States, will soon return to Russia, Kommersant reports. An unnamed source in diplomatic circles told the publication that the question of suspicions of Russian diplomats was never raised by the American authorities earlier, despite the widespread practice of preliminary informing the embassies of other countries about emerging disputed moments.

"Folk gathering" in Arzamas. Frame of the user's video YouTube Mrdogma54 In the city of Arzamas, the Nizhny Novgorod region, after the murder of a local resident, anti -migrant pogroms began. According to VKontakte social networks, the entire Arzamas group , residents of the city are smeared with shawarma kiosks and shop windows, riot police on the streets delay "all in a row." Two Armenian cafes were declared the main goal of the pogroms.

Sergey Pugachev. Photo from the site www.compromat.ru The Deposit Insurance Agency presented a claim to the owner of the bankrupt interprombank, ex-Senator Sergei Pugachev for 68.5 billion rubles for withdrawing money from a credit institution, Vedomosti reports. The lawsuit was also filed by three top managers of the institution, the total amount of claims is 75.7 billion rubles.

The special forces "Tiger" in Vasilkov leave blocked buses. Photo: @batkivshchyna The special forces of the Tiger unit, blocked by Euromaidan activists in the military unit in the Kiev suburb of Vasilkov, broke through the cordon of citizens and tried to advance to the Ukrainian capital. This was reported by "Ukrainian Pravda" with reference to activist Sergei Sabov. “They broke through the cordon of people,” said the demonstrator. “They shook the cars into the ditch.

Olga Zelenina in court. Frame "Vesti" The defendant of the criminal case of the import of confectionery poppy, the chemist Olga Zelenina began familiarization with the case file. This was reported by RAPSI with reference to her lawyer Stalin Gurevich. According to Gurevich, Zelenina was the final charge under part 5 of Article 33 of the Criminal Code, part 2 of Article 210 of the Criminal Code (aiding in the participation of the criminal community) and part 1 of Article 286 (abuse of authority).

Frame from the movie "Showing Process: History of Pussy Riot" Maxim Pozdovkin and Michael Lerner's film “Showing process: Pussy Riot History received the British Independent Prize of The Moet British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) as the best documentary movie. It is reported by The Guardian. On Wednesday, it became known that this film entered the short list of the Oscar .

Protests in Thailand. Frame of the Air Force Prime Minister of Thailand, Yinglak Chinavat, in a television show to the nation in connection with the political crisis, announced the dissolution of the country's parliament and the appointment of early elections within 60 days, the Air Force reports . However, opposition leaders said that for them this is “not victory” and continued demonstrations. Opposition protests began on November 24.

State Duma. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru President Vladimir Putin introduced a draft decree on amnesty to the State Duma. This was reported by Izvestia with reference to the publication available a copy of the document that has not yet been published. In the apparatus of the lower house, the publication reported that the amnesty would be announced before the end of the year. The deadline for the implementation of the resolution is six months from the date of signing.

Gennady Zyuganov. Photo drug-naroda.com A group of State Duma deputies from the Communist Party, led by the leader of the party, Gennady Zyuganov, introduced a bill on punishment for the propaganda of separatism to the Lower Chamber. The document is published on the State Duma website. The bill includes in the Criminal Code Article 280.1 (public calls for the implementation of actions aimed at violating the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation).

Mark Feigin. Photo by Lyudmila Barkova/Grani.ru Former Pussy Riot lawyer Mark Feigin accused the St. Petersburg entrepreneur Leonid Kalevsky, representing the interests of the conditionally convicted member of the group Ekaterina Samutsevich, in threats of murder. This was reported by RAPSI with reference to Kalevsky himself. Feigin submitted a statement to the police to the representative of Samutsevich, and on Monday, Kalevsky visited the interrogation.

Yuri Staroverov before considering an administrative arrest. Photo by Ilya Myaskovsky Witnesses of protection at the process of the leader of the Nizhny Novgorod "other Russia" Yuri Staroverov announced the factory of a criminal case against an activist. This was reported by the site "Base for lustration in the Nizhny Novgorod Region". Old Believers are accused of attacking the ensign, riot police Igor Lebedev during the Nizhny Novgorod Civil Store on September 15, 2012.