An attempt to storm the Kharkov City Rada, 12/24/2014. Photo: dozor.kharkov.ua In Kharkov, activists tried to storm the city Radu, protesting against the economic policy of local authorities. This was reported by UNIAN. In the morning, at the central entrance to the building on the Constitution Square, about 100 people gathered, including activists of the "Right Sector", Euromaidan and Avtomaydan, as well as zoo defenders.

Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan. Photo: pv-fghan.ucoz.ru The State Duma is offered to revise the decree of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, which was adopted exactly 25 years ago, which called the Afghan warficenth in moral and political terms. The first deputy head of the United Russia faction, the chairman of the Russian Union of Afghanistan Veterans, Franz Klintsevich, made such an initiative, RBC reports .

The machine room of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station after the accident. Photo from the site .pmtf.msiu.ru The Sayanogorsk City Court of Khakassia sentenced to disaster at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in August 2009. This was reported on the court website.

Konstantin Altukhov. Photo: rusnovosti.ru "Parkman" Konstantin Altukhov was sentenced to five days of administrative arrest under Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to the legal request of the police officer). It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow.

LEP in Inkerman. Photo: Dmitry Novoplinov/Io.ua In the captured Crimea from 19:00, the schedule of fan shutdown of electricity has been introduced. This was reported by Kryminform with reference to the "minister" of the fuel and energy of the region Sergey Egorov. The official explained this measure with a shortage of electricity. According to Egorov, the need of Crimea and Sevastopol in electricity is about 1000 megavatts.

Vladimir Putin. Photo of the Kremlin press service It is necessary to get away from various forms of ideologization of history and culture as quickly as possible. This was stated by President Vladimir Putin at a joint meeting of the State Council and the Council for Culture and Art, Intefax reports . He noted that in every stage in the development of the history of the Russian state there were both positive and dark sides.

December 24 at 19:00 in the Sakharov Center (Zemlyanoy Val, 57, building 6) will be held a round table " Religion and freedom of speech: persecution of Portal-Credo.Ru ".

A gas pipeline. Photo: press service "Gazprom" Naftogaz Ukraine transferred to Gazprom 1.65 billion dollars in payment of the previously unpaid gas volumes, reports Lenta.ru with reference to the statement of the Ukrainian company. Gazprom has not yet confirmed the receipt of money. “Thus, according to the agreements reached in Brussels, Naftogaz paid 3.1 billion US dollars for 11.5 billion cubic meters of gas delivered by Gazprom in November-December 2013 and April-June 2014,” the report said.

Power lines Ukraine partially resumed the supply of electricity to the Crimea after an unexpected disconnection. This was stated by the First Deputy Prime Minister of the annexed peninsula Mikhail Sheremet, reports Interfax. "We have negotiated, now the power supply is partially restored, about 650 megawatts are entered in the Crimea," said Sheremet. According to him, the Ukrainian side did not report the reasons for the disconnection. “Maybe it was an accident, perhaps some other reasons.

Rules. Frame NTV The annual inflation in Russia for the first time in five years exceeded 10 percent, Interfax reports with reference to the data of Rosstat. From the beginning of the year to December 22, prices increased by 10.4 percent; An annual inflation rate is expected to be 10.5 percent. For a single month from December 1 to 22, prices rose 1.7 percent, and per week from 16th to 22nd-by 0.9 percent.

Vodka. Photo from the site http://mvdrk.karelia.ru It is pointless to overtake prices for alcohol products in order to combat drunkenness, Vladimir Putin said. In his opinion, this only exacerbates the situation, including increasing the amount of surrogate products. “I am categorically against any alcoholization of the population. It is certainly necessary to fight with this, but you need to fight in sound methods and means.

Yandex logo during the protest campaign against the law on censorship on the Internet The sites included in the black lists of Roskomnadzor should not be shown in the search results of Yandex and Google. This was stated by the project manager of the Media Guard Ilya Ilya Odvatkin, Izvestia reported . Members of the Young Guard of United Russia prepared official requests for the company with a request to exclude sites from black lists from the search results.

The Ministry of Justice of Russia. Photo: minjust.ru The Ministry of Justice rejected the initiative to introduce the new article “illegal enrichment” into the Criminal Code, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the ministry. The department is confident that current legislation allows you to effectively resist theft in state posts. The initiative of the new norm of the Criminal Code was made by the Corruption Fund under the leadership of Alexei Navalny.

Press conference of Viktor Yanukovych. Frame of the video broadcast Ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych said that they tried to kill him after a flight from Kyiv in February. His motorcade was fired several times in the Kharkov region, he said in an interview with the publication "Arguments and Facts". According to Yanukovych, one of his guards was injured. After that, Yanukovych changed the route and went to Crimea.

Dmitry Rogozin. Photo: gov.ru The refusal of the supply of Russia by helicopter carriers of the Mistral class indicates the geopolitical weakness of France. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin in an interview with Russia 24 television channel, RIA Novosti reports . France "today gives in to the pressure of her NATO colleagues, she recently returned to the NATO military organization, here you are, please, the direct consequence of all these dependencies," Rogozin said.