Supreme Court. Photo from the official site Russian courts are required to carefully check the degree of training of foreign adoptive parents. In the absence of proper preparation, it is necessary to allow potential adoptive parents to go through it in Russia. This is stated in the decision of the Plenum of the Supreme Court on adoption, reports RAPSI.

Minsk regional court. Photo: svaboda.org In Belarus, the next death sentence was secretly sentenced, reports the human rights center Vasna. On November 26, the Minsk Regional Court sentenced 53-year-old Eduard Lykov to the death penalty. The convicted person is a native of Moscow , but his citizenship is Belarusian. He had no permanent residence. Lykov was found guilty of five murders committed in a drunken form. It has been in custody since 2013. During this time, he changed three lawyers.

Police at the match "Spartak" - "Shinnik". Photo: 76.mvd.ru The government limited the spectators of sports competitions for support for stadiums and sports palaces. The text of the rules of the conduct of spectators , approved by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, was published on the White House website. The rules enter into force on January 20. Now the flags, banners, megaphones, drums and puffs can be carried to the place of competition only by prior coordination with their organizer.

Elena Tkach on the march of millions 06/12/2012. Photo by Maria Perfilieva The coordinator of the coalition in defense of Moscow, the municipal deputy of the Presnya district, Elena Tkach, together with the regional deputies from the Communist Party Maria Bogomolova and Elena Kravchenko, proposed renaming one of Presnya streets in honor of the Ukrainian special forces "Berkut". It is reported by "Moscow Komsomolets".

The child’s house in Khabarovsk. Photo: Sledcom.ru The 62-year-old nurse of the child’s house No. 1 of Khabarovsk is a final charge of committing crimes under paragraph 1 of Article 116 of the Criminal Code (beatings ”and paragraph 2 of Article 111 (intentional infliction of serious harm to health). This was reported by the press service of the regional department of the TFR. Her colleague, a 38-year-old nurse was charged with leaving in danger (Article 125 of the Criminal Code).

Alexander Skobov. Photo by D. Borko He comes to the finish direct trial of the activist of the nationalist opposition by Daniil Konstantinov, accused of murder on the basis of the hostility of the previously unknown to him by A. Temnikov. The murder occurred on December 3, 2011 during a fight at the exit of the metro station "Academician Yangel Street". Since then, the difficult work of the investigation and the court has consisted mainly in evading evidence in the case.

Gennady Zyuganov. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The State Duma adopted in the first reading the law on punishment for the propaganda of separatism, RIA Novosti reports. The project entered in the lower house last week a group of deputies from the Communist Party, headed by the party leader Gennady Zyuganov, was taken as a basis.

Sergey Mikhailov. Frame of the broadcast of ITAR-TASS The general director of ITAR-TASS Sergey Mikhailov believes that Russia does not need two state news agencies with duplicate functions, RIA Novosti reports. In his opinion, it is necessary to create a structure engaged in propaganda in the interests of Russia abroad.

Mititng concert against the "anti-pirate" law. Photo by the border.ru The copyright holders and some Internet companies signed a memorandum of cooperation in the field of protection of exclusive rights when using television and films, Interfax reports. The ceremony took place in Roskomnadzor. From Internet resources, the memorandum was signed by Stream, Mail.ru Group, Rutube video hosting, online cinemas IVI.ru, MeGOGO.NET, TvIGLE MEDIA.

Lev Kuznetsov. Photo: krskstate.ru The governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Leo Kuznetsov was robbed and wounded at his own villa in Kap-D'Antib in France, Russian newspaper reports with reference to his spokeswoman Stella Alekseev. Now the head of the region has already returned to Krasnoyarsk and feels good. The incident occurred on December 14th. Kuznetsov and his wife Inga together spent a short -term vacation in a joint villa in the south of France.

Grigory Dashevsky. Frame of the video The poet, translator, literary critic Grigory Dashevsky died in Moscow at the fiftieth year of his life, reports Lenta.ru. In the fall of 2013, he ended up in a hospital in serious condition. Dashevsky was born in Moscow, graduated from the classical department of the philological faculty of Moscow State University. He taught Latin at school, ancient Roman literature at Moscow State University.

Andrey Lugovoi at the Congress of the LDPR. Frame "Vesti" The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on extra -court blocking of sites with calls for inconsistent protests, RIA Novosti reports.

Elio di Ruopo. Photo: Premier.fgov.be Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Ruopo said he would not come to the Olympics in Sochi. It is reported by Deredactie.be. The spokeswoman Di Rupo explained that the decision of the prime minister should not be regarded as a boycott of games, since visiting the competition was not initially included in his work schedule. Chris Peters, Minister -President of Flanders, one of the three regions of the country, does not intend to come to the Olympics.

Bribe. Photo from the site www.kgat.jnews.co.il The Moscow Regional Court fined the former deputy head of the Leninsky district of the Moscow Region Lev Lvov, found guilty of attempted a bribe, reports Lenta.ru with reference to the statement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The accomplice of Lviv Igor Komarov was fined 500 million rubles. The sentence entered into force.

Koran. Photo from the site www.islamnews.ru The Krasnodar Regional Court canceled the decision of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Novorossiysk on the recognition of the extremist book of the Azerbaijani Theologian Elmira Kuliev "The semantic translation of the Holy Koran into Russian." This was reported on his Facebook page by lawyer Murad Musaev. The court "made a new decision - to refuse the prosecutor in this blasphemy," the lawyer wrote.