Promotion on Pushkinskaya Square. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru On Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, a promotion was held in defense of political prisoners, according to the correspondent of "faces". About 40 people took part in it. In Soviet times, at the monument to Pushkin, silent demonstrations were held annually in memory of the dead political prisoners and in support of those who were in the camps and in exile.

SARGUNSK. Photo: vsekolledzhi.ru In the Trans-Baikal village of Sargunsk, 50 high school teachers began a strike due to delays in salaries. This was reported on the website of the regional branch of "United Russia". According to the director of the school Galina Zolotovskaya, the teachers should have received a salary for November on December 1. However, they were not even paid an advance, since the money was not received.

Vladimir Ionov in the Preobrazhensky District Court. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru 76-year-old civil activist Vladimir Ionov was hospitalized in the resuscitation department of one of the Moscow hospitals with a preliminary diagnosis of unstable angina pectoris. This was reported to the "faces" by his friend Olga Brown. “The failure occurred after the trial of Ildar Dadin, after the battle in court. This is a nightmare in court and this period was really affected by him.

Security Service of Ukraine. Photo from the site glavnoe.ua Members of the sabotage and intelligence group detained in Kyiv planned to conduct terrorist attacks in the Ukrainian capital. According to the 112 Ukrainian TV channel, this was stated by the representative of the Security Service of Ukraine Elena Gitlyanskaya. According to her, DRG members are already testified, but they are not disclosed due to the secret of the investigation.

The detention of Peter Pavlensky at the Freedom action. Photo by Vadim Lurie The artist Pyotr Pavlensky was not delivered to the 199th Judicial section of St. Petersburg for the next meeting in the case of the Freedom action, despite the fact that the day before it was reported about its transfer to this process. Such information is transmitted by "Mediazon". The peace judge Yana Nikitin, the host of the trial, postponed the hearing at 15 hours on December 23.

Kim Jong -un. Photo: kcna.kp The DPRK has not only atomic, but also hydrogen bombs. According to the CST agency, this was stated by the country's leader Kim Jong -un during a visit to the updated weapons factory in Pyongyang. "We were able to become a great nuclear power that can protect the independence and national dignity of our homeland by the power of nuclear and hydrogen bombs," the North Korean leader said.

The militants of the Islamic State. Frame of the video The Staropoltavsky District Court of the Volgograd Region sentenced a 32-year-old local resident Arthur Kiskaev to a year and a half of a general regime colony, the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee reports . It is found guilty under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of hatred or enmity).

The “facets” were awarded the awards of the French Republic. The jury of the National Human Rights Prize "Freedom - Equality - Brotherhood" decided to celebrate the contribution of "faces" to the fight against censorship. The jury decision was announced on the evening of December 10, on International Human Rights Day. The diploma and the medal will be awarded to the representative of the "faces" on Friday at a ceremony in the Ministry of Justice of France.

Old age at the trash. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The number of poor in Russia in January-September 2015 amounted to 20.3 million people, increasing by 2.3 million compared to the same period of 2014. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the data of Rosstat. Crimea was not taken into account in statistics. The poverty level in Russia in January-September 2015 amounted to 14.1 percent. In the same period last year, it was at 12.6 percent.

Antalya. Photo from the site www.kroupski.ru The head of the State Duma committee on ownership, Sergei Gavrilov, spoke out against a proposal to ban the purchase and rental of real estate in Turkey by Russians. According to TASS, thus Gavrilov commented on the corresponding bill of the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad Region Vladimir Petrov. "If such a bill is received, we will consider it," Gavrilov said.

Smartphone. Photo from My-addr.org website Basic state regulation of services for messaging is necessary, said the head of the Ministry of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov. According to Interfax, the minister emphasized that the regulator does not set the task of blocking messengers. “There are no tasks for blocking messages to exchange messages. This is a distorting of facts,” Nikiforov said.

Ruslan Zeytullaev. Photo: hromadskeradio.org The FSB Office for the annexed Sevastopol on Wednesday completed the investigation in the case of four local residents who are charged with membership in Hizb Ut-Tahrir. This was reported by "Crimea. Realities" with reference to lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, who defends the main person involved in the case - Ruslan Zeitullaeva. A case with 15 volumes is transferred for familiarization of the accused and their lawyers.

125 years ago, on December 10, 1890, Akhmad-Zaki Validi (Validov), the leader of the Bashkir national liberation movement and a prominent Turkologist, was born. In 1917, he was the initiator of the creation of the Bashkir government (Bashkir Central Shuro), which on November 15 proclaimed in Orenburg the formation of the autonomy of Bashkortostan as part of federal Russia. At the head of the Bashkir regiments, Validi joined the uprising of the Czechoslovak Corps.

Weapon warehouse in the apartment of saboteurs. Photo from Facebook by Elena Gitlyanskaya The Security Service of Ukraine as part of the operation to neutralize the sabotage and intelligence group detained three Russians. This was reported on her Facebook by the SBU representative Elena Gitlyanskaya. "Two citizens of the Russian Federation and three citizens of Ukraine were detained.

Mi-8 helicopter. Photo: avia.pro Russia has violated the airspace of Georgia twice in recent days. This is stated in a statement by the Georgian Foreign Ministry. On Wednesday at 18:48, the Russian unmanned aerial vehicle flew over the checkpoints of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia in two villages of the Gori district. On Thursday at 12:48 a Russian military helicopter Mi-8 flew over the police building in the village of Mereti of the same region.