Iskander missile system. Photo www.snariad.ru The decision on the placement of Iskander-M missile systems in the Kaliningrad region has not yet been made, President Vladimir Putin said at a press conference. “We haven’t made such a decision yet. Let them calm down,” Putin said. The President noted that missile systems are a response to European missile defense, and not the most effective and not the only one.

Vladimir Chirkin. Photo by the President of the President of Detzmurtia President The Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, Colonel General Vladimir Chirkin, was dismissed, Kommersant reports. According to the publication, the request for the resignation was written by Chirkin in October, and on December 2, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on his dismissal.

Pussy Riot in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior Pussy Riot participants in their "shocking" in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior humiliated the dignity of women, Vladimir Putin said at a press conference. For this, the head of state added, he regrets the prisoners of activists. The condemnation of them by the real term, the head of state noted, he does not cause pity.

Vladimir Akimenkov after liberation. Photo by Dmitry Zykova/Grani.ru The chairman of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow Natalia Nikishina, who is conducting the process of the Twelve case, freed from the "Swamp prisoners" by Vladimir Akimenkov and Leonid Kovyazin, from the house arrest - Nikolai Caucasian, and also shot a non -residence with Maria Baronova. This was reported from the courtroom of the "faces".

Elections. Photo by Nicky Maksimyuk/Grani.ru The mayors of cities should not be appointed, but elected by residents and remain close to the people. President Vladimir Putin said this at a press conference. "Mayors, of course, only choose. We are members of the European Charter (about local self -government. - Ed.), But the point is not only this. The fact is that the municipal level is the closest level of power to people, to the people.

The layout of the Angara launch vehicle. Photo: khrunichev.ru The head of Roscosmos Oleg Ostapenko called the main space project of Russia for the last two decades - the Angara missile - a dead end decision. This was reported by Izvestia with reference to the transcript of the meeting, which Ostapenko held on October 24, shortly after his appointment. “I believe that Angara is a deadly decision for the subsequent development of our country in this area,” the official said then.

Anders FOG Rasmussen. Photo: NATO.int NATO Secretary General Anders Fogg Rasmussen called a waste of money possible Russian measures to counteract the Europrop missile defense system, which NATO creates in Europe. He told reporters before the EU summit in Brussels, RIA Novosti reports. “I repeat that our missile defense system is exclusively defensive, it provides the protection of the population of our countries from missile strikes. Our system is not directed against Russia.

Sergey Kapkov at the house of Leonid Brezhnev. Photo by Yu. Timofeeva/Grani.ru The head of the Moscow Department of Culture, Sergei Kapkov, denied reports of the intention of the capital's authorities to restore monuments to Soviet leaders, RIA Novosti reports. According to Kapkov, the powers of the Department of Culture are limited to the installation of memorial plaques.

Employees of the 2nd OPP detain a participant in the action on Bolotnaya. Photo by E. Mikheeva/Grani.ru OMON fighters do not apply unlawful violence towards women, says Vladimir Putin. “I do not believe that riot police will beat the girl,” he said at a press conference. The journalist Znak.com Ekaterina Vinokurova asked the president what he would have done "like a man" if the riot police beat a girl before his eyes.

Capture Arctic Sunrise. Frame of the video The Greenpeace promotion from the Oil Providing Platform "Prirazlomnaya" did not pursue the goals of protecting nature, Vladimir Putin said at a press conference. This is "own PR" or "attempt to blackmail and extortion," he said. The head of state also did not exclude that eco -activists acted by order of competitors of Russian oil recorders. Putin noted that the criminal prosecution of the Greenpeace expedition participants will cease by amnesty.

Dmitry Kiselev. Frame of the TV channel "Russia" State information resources should be headed by patriots defending the interests of Russia. This was stated by Vladimir Putin at a press conference. "I want to tell you that state information resources should be headed by patriotically configured people protecting the interests of the Russian Federation. These are state resources. That's how it will be," Putin said at a press conference in Moscow on Thursday.

Elena Mizulina. Photo: spravedlivo.ru The State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children intends to prepare a bill that will settle issues of surrogate motherhood and this sphere. This was announced at a meeting of the Committee by his head Elena Mizulina, RIA Novosti reports. "We propose to entrust our expert group to work out the issue of preparing a bill providing for legal regulation of surrogate motherhood," Mizulina said. According to her, the bill can be adopted at the spring session.

Timing two -hour expectation of the start of the court. Vladimir Akimenkov and Leonid Kovyazin, released during the meeting. Shooting Dmitry Borko.

Beating Alexei Gaskarov. Frame of the video An amnesty under Article 318 of the Criminal Code (the application of violence to a representative of the authorities) would lead to chaos. This was stated at a press conference by President Vladimir Putin. The liberal intelligentsia justifies the attacks on the police, the head of state noted. Meanwhile, it is easy to imagine a situation when the nationalists go out and begin to thresh this liberal intelligentsia.

"Komsomolskaya Pravda in Lithuania." Fragment of the cover. The Lithuanian court was fined by the Komsomolskaya Pravda weekly in Lithuania for the use of Soviet symbols, reports the Delfi Internet portal. The flag of the USSR with a coat of arms, a sickle and a hammer, a five -pointed red star were discovered on the images of the Soviet orders that awarded the Communist Party.