Photo from the website of the progress party The prosecutor's office made a warning to the organizers of the rally and the procession in support of the leader of the progress party, Alexei Navalny, scheduled for December 28. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow prosecutor's office.

95 years ago, on December 26, 1919, the Council of People's Commissars issued a decree "On the elimination of illiteracy in the RSFSR." The entire population of Soviet Russia aged 8 to 50, who could not read or write, was obliged to learn to read and write by choice in their native language or in Russian. For this, a network of "liquidation points" and schools were created at institutions, enterprises, colonies and orphanages.

Ilya Milstein Dissent in the worldly environment is based on the laws of the earth. Therefore, the dissident call addressed to the authorities to "observe its constitution" is logically combined with the toast "for the success of our hopeless work." The rebellion of agnostics against godless power combines hopeless idealism and inconsolable, but quite realistic forecasts. Dissentism among the church is essentially much more optimistic.

Alexander Zakharchenko. Frame of the video The enterprises of the Donbass, which were in the state ownership of Ukraine, are already de facto nationalized. According to RBC, the head of the self -proclaimed "Donetsk People’s Republic" Alexander Zakharchenko told about this.

Dmitry Medvedev. Frame "Russia 1" Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order that provides for a phased increase by 30 percent of salaries of judges by 2017, reports Lenta.ru with reference to the press service of the government. "The signed order provides for a phased increase in the size of the monthly cash incentives of judges of various levels by 0.3 officials of the judge of the corresponding level from 2014 to 2016 inclusive," the explanatory note to the document says.

Andrey Lysenko. Photo: Mediarnbo.org Ukrainians, who have forced to join the ranks of militants of self -proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk "people's republics" and who did not attack the Ukrainian military, may be announced an amnesty. According to Vedomosti, this was stated on the air of the 112 Ukraine television channel, the head of the National Security and Defense Service of Ukraine Andrei Lysenko.

Visa and Mastercard logos Visa and MasterCard international payment systems have stopped working with Russian banks in annexed Crimea in accordance with US sanctions. This was reported by the BBC with reference to the official statements of the companies. "In accordance with the US sanctions, introduced against Crimea on December 19, 2014 by decree number 13685, VISA can not provide services and offer our products in the Crimea at the moment.

The flag of St. Petersburg at the City Hall of Kaliningrad. Photo from the page of Pavel Gogulan On the night of Friday, Rufer Pavel Gogulan hung the flag of St. Petersburg on the building of the City Hall of Kaliningrad. He reported this on his VKontakte page. Thus, Rufer protested against the statement of the mayor of Alexander Yaroshuk on the ban on festivities on the main square on New Year's Eve. “Yaroshuk said that, they say, no festivities?“ We walk where we want!

Alexey Didenko. Photo: ldpr.ru The State Duma deputy from the LDPR Alexei Didenko prepared a draft amendments to the law on the media, according to which the maximum share of songs in foreign languages, with the exception of the languages ​​of the former union republics of the USSR, is limited to 15 percent on the air of radio and television. This was reported by Izvestia.

Oleg Sentsov in court. Photo: A.Nachkov/Grani.ru Judge of the Lefortovo Court of Moscow Elena Galikhanova extended until April 11 the arrest of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov. This was reported by the correspondent of "faces" from the courtroom.

Ksenia Privage (she -wolf). Photo: geroivoli.com The defendant of the case of the autonomous combat terrorist organization Ksenia Privage (she-wolf) was released from the IK-6 general regime in the village of Shipunovo, Altai Territory upon serving the four-year term of imprisonment. This was announced on his Facebook page by activist and former Politsek Vladimir Akimenkov. 23-year-old hazard is included in the Rosfinmonitoring in the list of terrorists and extremists .

The queue for tokens in the metro of St. Petersburg, evening 12/22/2014. Photo: @Artemfairon In the St. Petersburg metro, the sale of tokens is limited to travel - in some hands it is not more than one tokens at a time. This is reported by Interfax. From January 1, the passage in the St. Petersburg subway will rise in price by 3 rubles - one token will cost 31 rubles instead of the current 28. On the eve of the increase in prices, the townspeople began to bury the tokens massively.

Evgeny Urlashov in the courtroom. Photo from the website of the Investigative Committee The Moscow City Court extended the period of detention in the pre -trial detention center to the mayor of Yaroslavl Evgeny Urlashov until April 3, 2015. This was reported on Thursday by "Mediazona". The official petitioned for a change in the preventive measure to any, not related to the detention.

Kristina Poddchik In the house of the former press secretary of the "Our" Christina Pobedchik, a search was searched. This was reported by the publication Znak.com with reference to the leader of the Russian Alliance of Green and Social Democrats Oleg Mitvol. The dug itself refuted the information about the search. According to Mitvol, the search was held the day before. As part of a criminal case, it was carried out is unknown.

The building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya in Grozny. Shot of the TV channel Russia The Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs intends to attract the “face” as a lawsuit by the claim for the protection of a business reputation for the publication “a resident of Grozny accused a senior official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya of torture,” placed in September 2013.