Tuanhe Labor camps near Beijing, 1986. Photo CNN The Standing Committee of the All -Chinese Assembly of People's Representatives (the Supreme Legislative body of the PRC) adopted a resolution on the abolition of the labor re -education camp (Laozzyao) on Saturday, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Sinhua agency. The police had the right to place and maintain citizens up to four years without a trial for a period of up to four years without a trial camps in the PRC.

At the site of the explosion in Pyatigorsk. Frame of Channel One The capacity of the explosion, which thundered the day before near the traffic police building in Pyatigorsk, was about 50 kilograms in Tractor equivalent, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti. “At the scene of the explosion, a funnel was formed in size one meter in length and a depth of about 30 centimeters,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

For us, 2013 is the year of political prisoners. The "Faces" section of the same name, which has existed since the early 2000s, was constantly updated with news - mostly bad. It was a year of arrests, searches, political trials, betrayals, forced departures, hunger strikes, protests and great moral victories.

Sergey Kapkov at the house of Leonid Brezhnev. Photo by Yu. Timofeeva/Grani.ru The screening of the film about Pussy Riot and the meeting with the group members are canceled at the request of the Moscow authorities planned at the Gogol Center on December 29. This was reported on the website of the Gogol Center.

Drawers. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The Magadan Regional Duma introduced a bill to the State Duma, offering to prohibit departure to conscripts that deviate from military service, RIA Novosti reports. Magadan lawmakers propose to introduce a temporary restriction on departure from Russia of citizens who are not in the reserve subject to military service and evading its passage.

On the anniversary of the adoption of the "Law of Dima Yakovlev" on December 28 at 15:30, in the Great Hall of the Cinema "Artistic" in Moscow, the premiere of the film about life in orphanages "Blef, or Happy New Year" will be held. The premiere was supposed to take place in the RIA Novosti hall, but was canceled due to the sudden departure of all film equipment at the Sochi Olympics .

In Moscow on Tver Boulevard, a picket was held by the anniversary of the "anti -Sirot" law. The participants in the action stood at the monument to Timiryazev with portraits of children who were not allowed to adopt the Americans. The picket was agreed with the authorities.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Collage "faces" The Russian Pen-Center made a New Year's appeal against repression, for the release of political prisoners. “We are glad that in recent days Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina, several defendants in the“ swamp business ”, environmental activists from Greenpeace have been released in the last days.

The emblem of Roskomnadzor The IP address of the largest Russian torrent tracker Rutracker.org was included in Roskomnadzor in the register of sites that distribute illegal content, reports Lenta.ru. According to the register, the address was entered on December 27 by decision of the Moscow City Court. The date of this decision, as well as the base number for entering the register, is absent. At the same time, the domain Rutracker.org is not listed in the list.

On December 28, from 14 to 15 hours on Tver Boulevard, a coordinated picket will be held at the monument to Timiryazev’s monument in support of Russian orphans and American parents who did not have time to adopt them. A year ago, December 28, 2012, Vladimir Putin signed a law banning the adoption of Russian children by Americans. The Law of Dima Yakovlev was adopted in response to the "Law of Magnitsky".

130 years ago, on December 28, 1883, a 33-year-old gendarme lieutenant colonel Georgy Porfiryevich Sudeikin, an inspector of the secret police who widely used the provocation method in the fight against the revolutionary movement, was killed in St. Petersburg. He was killed by his former agent Sergei Degayev, the head of the Central Group of the People’s Volya party.

Counter -terrorist operation. Photo: nac.gov.ru In Dagestan, a militant was destroyed, a part of Doku Umarov, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the information center of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee. “Today, when trying to break through the blocked house, one bandit was neutralized. As a result of a preliminary identification, it was established that this is Islam Atiev, born in 1990.

Tatyana Chornovol in the hospital. Photo: Pravda.com.ua The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv arrested for two months four suspects of involvement in the beating of journalist and activist of Euromaidan Tatyana Chernovol, Ukrainian Pravda reports. The hearing ended on the night of Saturday. Among the arrested - Alexander Khramtsov - a car was registered on him, in which the attackers went to the girl. Sergey Kotenko was also arrested.

40 years ago, on December 28, 1973, the first volume of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, a fictional study of the Soviet prison-camp system of 1918-1956, was published in Paris. On August 23, 1973, the KGB arrested Solzhenitsyn's assistant Yelizaveta Voronyanskaya, who gave away the cache with the manuscript of The Archipelago, and after returning home she hanged herself.