Stefan Fuul. Photo @stefanfuleeu The European Union suspended negotiations on a trade agreement with Ukraine. This was announced on Sunday on his Twitter by the European Commissioner for the expansion and good neighborhood policy Stefan Fules. According to him, he discussed the issue of readiness to sign a trade agreement with the First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Sergei Arbuzov, but did not receive a response from the government of Ukraine.

Alexey Simonov awards the award Yulia Suntsova. Photo by D. Zizkova/Grani.ru The laureate of the Andrei Sakharov Prize "For Journalism as an Act" was Julia Suntsova from Udmurtia. According to the correspondent of the "faces", the award ceremony was held in the Moscow House of a journalist. Suntsova was awarded for a series of publications in the Izhevsk newspaper "Day" on violence against children. In January, she wrote about a girl who died in an orphanage due to the negligence of doctors .

The Holocaust memorial in Berlin. Photo from the site "German wave" The prosecutor's office of the Federal Republic of Germany received the materials of the investigation conducted in respect of 30 alleged Nazi criminals, reports Lenta.ru with reference to the Bild newspaper. The collection of materials was carried out by a special department for the investigation of the crimes of the Nazis.

40 years ago, on December 15, 1973, the American Psychiatric Association declared that homosexuality should not be considered a mental disorder and there is no scientific basis for trying to turn gays and lesbians into heterosexuals. It has been noted that some people seek to change their own or someone else's sexual orientation (for example, parents want to change their child's sexual orientation) and that some doctors claim to have succeeded in changing a patient's sexual orientation.

Ilya Ponomarev on the "Million-3 march". Photo by N. Maximyuk/Grani.ru State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev said that he was not going to return 2.7 million rubles, which the Skolkovo Foundation sued him in the Moscow City Court, Interfax reports. "This is not our method. We expect that some changes in this case will happen later, there will be a appeal before the end of the year, and then there will be a consideration, but nothing has happened so far," the deputy said.

Dmitry Korchinsky. Photo from a personal page on Facebook Ukraine put on the international wanted list the leader of the radical movement "Brotherhood" Dmitry Korchinsky, who is suspected of organizing riots in Kyiv on December 1, Interfax reports with reference to the statement of the head of the criminal investigation department of Ukraine Vasily Pascal. "I am sure that in the near future the whereabouts of this person will be established and appropriate measures will be taken," said Pascal.

Francois Hollande. Photo: lemonde.fr France President Francois Hollande will not come to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sochi. According to ITAR-TASS, this was announced on the air of the I-Tele television channel by the head of the Foreign Ministry of France Laurent Fabius.

Gay club "Central Station". Photo from the site lgbtqnation.com Last Saturday, an attempt was made by the raider seizure of the Moscow Gay Club Central Station. This was announced in an open letter to President Vladimir Putin by the general director of the club’s management company Andrei Lishchinsky. The letter was not published by his Facebook page.

On December 15, the ceremony of awarding the laureates of the A. Sakharov Prize "For journalism as an act" will be held at the Moscow House of Journalists. This prize is awarded for materials that become a continuation of the life position of the authors, consistently embodied in their work at a high professional level, and defend the values ​​that A. D. Sakharov defended. The competition was held for the thirteenth time.

Yulia Tymoshenko in a prison hospital. Photo fragment from the site President.lt Participants in the "People’s Veche" in Kyiv adopted a resolution on the liberation of all political prisoners, including the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, UNIAN reports. “We must make Yanukovych hear the slogan“ Yulia - the will ”in the Mezhigorye,” the public activist and journalist Tatyana Chornovil read the resolution.

World Bank. Photo from Leidenuniv.nl The World Bank reduced the forecast for the growth rate of the Russian economy in 2013 from 1.8 to 1.3 percent, ITAR-TASS reports. The organization explained the decrease in the forecast by the underestimated growth of internal demand, as well as the fact that the restoration of investment volumes in the economy is postponed against the backdrop of a slowdown in consumption.

Peter O'Tul. Frame from the film "Lawrence Arabi" The British actor of Irish descent Peter O'Tul died at the 82nd year of his life, the Air Force reports. This was announced by the agent of actor Steve Kenis, who specified that O'Tul died in one of London's hospitals after a long illness. O'Tul began an acting career in the theater, but fame brought him the role of Lawrence of Arabia in the 1962 film of the same name.

OTRK '' Iskander ''. Photo from the site '' rocket technique '' Russia posted in the Kaliningrad region the operational-tactical missile systems "Iskander-M". According to Lenta.ru, the German newspaper Bild writes about this with reference to unnamed sources in law enforcement agencies. There was no official confirmation of this information, as well as commentary on the part of the Russian authorities.

On December 15 at 11:00 in Moscow on Krasnopresnenskaya Zastava Square an action of leftist organizations "We remember Zhanaozen. Rally on the anniversary of the execution" will take place. On the eve of the club "Chinese Pilot Jao-da" was a concert in memory of the victims of the execution in Zhanaozen. It was attended by groups "Arkady Kots", "Politzek", "Echelon-Acoustic", "Punk faction of the Red Brigades".