Oleg Sentsov reads a letter in a pre-trial detention center, 2016. Photo from the FB page Tatyana Schur Dozens of French intellectuals called on Vladimir Putin to the presidential election of 2018 to free the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, sentenced to 20 years of strict regime in a fabricated case of terrorism. The petition published on Change.org reprinted Libération on Sunday.

Five years ago, on November 20, 2012, the US Congress repealed the Jackson-Vanik amendment to Russia, which prohibits granting most favored nation status in trade with the United States to countries that prevent emigration, as well as violate other human rights. This amendment to the law on trade was adopted in 1974 in connection with the existing restrictions on the emigration of Soviet citizens.

Pavel Sharoyko. Source: ukrinform.ua Pavel Sharoyko was arrested on charges of espionage in Belarus. This was reported on Monday by the Belarusian KGB. According to article 356 of the Criminal Code of Belarus, the arrested faces 7 to 15 years in a colony. It is claimed that Sharoyko was detained on October 25 with red -handed during the agent action.

Alexey Politics. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru The college of the Moscow City Court reduced the defendant of the “March 26” to Alexei Politikov from two to a year and a half of the general regime. This was announced on his twitter by the lawyer of the politicalese Sergey Badamshin. The sentence entered into force. The judge of the Tver District Court of Moscow Alexei Krivoruchko, a person involved in the Magnitsky list, appointed two -year term for Politikov on October 18.

Bundestag. Photo from the site withfriendship.com The free Democratic Party of Germany (SDPG) has left the negotiations on the creation of a new government coalition. This was announced by the party leader Christian Lindner, reports Deutsche Welle. The formation of a new cabinet of ministers was interrupted.

Vladimir Putin. Photo: kremlin.ru The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Business Russia and the Rossi of Russia, in a joint letter, complained to President Vladimir Putin of losses from new fees introduced by the government. This was reported by "Vedomosti" with reference to the text of the document. Representatives of the business unification consider new fees to violation of agreements on the invariability of the fiscal load.

Robert Mugabe in the Kremlin, 2015. Photo: Kremlin.ru The 93-year-old President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugaba, actually removed from the authorities after the military coup on November 15, agreed with the military conditions of his resignation. It is reported by CNN with reference to sources familiar with the course of negotiations.

George Soros. Hard video from the YouTube channel Open Society Foundations The American billionaire, a native of Hungary, George Soros accused the Hungarian leadership of inciting hatred against him to keep power. “The fact that the government seeks to maintain power by inciting hatred and misleading the population is a real tragedy for Hungary,” the Financial Times quotes the billionaire.

Aul chime. Photo: serge-novikov.livejournal.com In the village of Himo - the center of the Sharai district of Chechnya - Kadyrovtsy from November 17, hold citizens accused of drinking alcohol in the gym. This was reported by "Caucasus. Realities." The number of detainees in the publication is not specified. As expected, the Grozny GTRK should remove the plot in which citizens apologize for drunkenness.

AUE logo. Source: vsekidki.ru Senator Anton Belyakov introduced a bill to the State Duma on the prohibition of the "propaganda of the criminal subculture" in the media and social networks, TASS reports with reference to the author of the initiative.

Nikolai Napotnichenko in the Bundestag. Hard video The Posoputinsky Yekaterinburg blogger Sergey Kolyasnikov sent to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the FSB and the presidential administration for a student of the gymnasium of the New Urengoy Nikolai Testnichenko and the administration of this educational institution in connection with the speech of the schoolboy in the German Bundestag at the mourning meeting, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Stalingrad battle.

Magomed Dukuzov. Photo from the red card of Interpol A native of Chechnya, on November 17, detained by the SBU in Kyiv in the case of the murder of the chief editor of the Russian version of Forbes Paul Khlebnikov, is 39 -year -old Magomed Dukuzov. Such information on Monday was reported by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the publication of the SBU, which appeared on Saturday, the name of the detainee was not mentioned .

Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo Talk about the secret of the success of the International Cultural Forum, held in St. Petersburg, is an idea, of course, impudent, but it depends on how to arrange a conversation. If, for example, focus on a wild scandal that preceded the forum, and responses to this scandal, then success may not seem obvious.