The logo of the Olympics in Sochi 2014. The US delegation at the opening of the Olympics in Sochi will be headed by the head of the University of California, ex-Minister of Internal Security Janet Napolitano, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the White House statement. At the opening ceremony on February 7, 2014, US President Robert Neyborx, the famous tennis player Billy Jin King and the Olympic figure skating champion Brian Boytano will also be present.

Nikolai Azarov. Fall "Fifth Channel" The agreements reached with Russia saved Ukraine from bankruptcy and social collapse. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Photo by Yuri Timofeev. The investigation of the third case of Yukos has been conducted since the beginning of 2011, Interfax reports with reference to an unnamed source, "familiar with the situation." According to the interlocutor of the agency, the collection of evidence was started two weeks after Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev was convicted in the second case of Yukos. The verdict was sentenced to them on December 30, 2010.

Man at the computer. Photo: Russian look The Kuzminsky District Court of Moscow sentenced 22-year-old Vyacheslav Shabanov to 3 years 4 months of general regime for posts on social networks. The verdict made on Tuesday is reported on the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office. Shabanov was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 282 (excitement of hatred and enmity) and part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public calls for terrorism).

BZhRK. Photo from the website of the Ministry of Defense Within the framework of the state program of weapons and state defense systems, a sketch design of the combat rocket railway complex will be performed, RIA Novosti reports. This was reported in the report submitted by the Ministry of Defense by the Supreme Commander -in -Chief.

Sergey Lavrov. Photo: Government.rf Russia is currently not ready for the complete cancellation of visas for Georgian citizens. This was stated by Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov at the government hour in the Federation Council, Interfax reports. “We are not yet ready to switch to a visa -free regime,” Lavrov said. On November 28, the special representative of the Georgian Prime Minister in relations with Russia Zurab Abashidze noted that Moscow gradually softens the visa regime.

OTRK '' Iskander ''. Photo from the site '' rocket technique '' Iskander-M missile systems will be placed where the country's leadership will consider it necessary. This was the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu said in Mati at a meeting with students, RIA Novosti reports. “Recently, a big noise rose that we were putting the Iskander somewhere in the wrong place. In the territory of the Russian Federation we want, we put it there,” the Minister of Defense said.

It is published on advertising rights is there life for the Moscow Ring Road? Sometimes this question turns from a joke into a past. Recently, the inhabitants of the small town of the town of Roshal, who was on the border with the Vladimir region, were forced not to live, but to survive. In fact, the heating season began on October 15, but until recently only in some apartments, the temperature rose above 15 degrees.

Promotion in the defense of Gazaryan. The police take the "fence". Frame Grani-TV The Presidium of the Krasnodar Chief of Kraisud rejected the supervisory complaint about the verdict of ecologists Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko in the case of damage to the fence in the country of the Krasnodar governor Alexander Tkachev. This was reported by Gazaryan himself on Facebook.

Service. Recruits. Photo by Dm. Borko/Brani.ru The reservist training system for the Ministry of Defense based on civilian universities can be launched in pilot mode in 2014. In 2015, the system can earn full force. This was stated by Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu in Mati at a meeting with university students, RIA Novosti reports. “We need to hurry here,” the minister said. According to him, the new system will resemble the principles of training lieutenants at military departments.

Gennady Shubin. Photo: rospres.com The investigation charged the former adviser to the ex-governor of the Murmansk region Gennady Shubin, his nephew Alexander Khazov and three more involved cases of theft in the housing sector, the press service of the Investigative Committee. Shubin estimates the total damage caused by the victims of criminal acts at more than two billion rubles.

Collisions on Bolotnaya. Photo by V. Maximyuk/Grani.ru Events on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012 were provoked by the authorities. According to the correspondent of the "faces", this is one of the main conclusions of the international commission, which conducted an independent investigation into the "Swamp case". The commission introduced its report on Wednesday in the Human Rights Center "Memorial".

Strategy Promotion-31. October 2013. Photo: Andrey Novichkov/Grani.ru The Moscow City Hall denied the organizers to agree on the December Strategy-31 campaign on Triumphal Square. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the capital's regional security department Alexei Mayorov. "We do not allow the organizers to hold this action," Mayorov said.

On December 18 at 12:00 at the "International Memorial" a press conference of the international commission of experts "What happened on Bolotnaya Square?" will be held. In parallel with the official investigation and court proceedings, the events of May 6, 2012 on Bolotnaya Square became the subject of an independent international investigation. It was conducted during 2013 by a Commission composed of the world's leading experts in the field of freedom of peaceful assembly and police responses.

Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova listen to the verdict. Photo by Yu. Timofeeva Pussy Riot participants Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina fall under the presidential amnesty and may be released before the New Year. This was stated by their lawyer Irina Khrunova, reports RAPSI. Khrunova noted that she would wait for the official publication in the Rossiya Gazeta a decree on amnesty.