Dmitry Gudkov. Photo with personal FB page Politician Dmitry Gudkov decided to withdraw an application for a rally in defense of the electoral rights of citizens on Academician Sakharov Avenue on December 24, Rain reports . The reason was the head of the Krasnoselsky District of Moscow Ilya Yashin, who on the same day is going to hold a "day of free elections" in the format of the municipal holiday in the Lermontovsky square. “Nobody offered any spoiler event to do.

Vitaly Portnikov A centenary of security officers is not just a jubilee of some structure that properly serviced and continues to serve the totalitarian and authoritarian regimes of Russia. This is a feast of evil in its purest form. Without impurities, slogans and other unnecessary tinsel. Russia, perhaps, is the first country in which evil triumphed not only over society, but also over ideology, over its creator himself. The victory of the golem.

A hundred years ago, on December 20, 1917, by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars, the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage was formed, which became the main weapon of the "Red Terror". The Cheka was instructed to "pursue and liquidate all counter-revolutionary and sabotage attempts and actions throughout Russia, no matter who they come from" and "pay first of all attention to the press, saboteurs and strikers.

The detained person involved in the Salavat case "Hizb Ut-Tahrir". Field shooting FSB The collegium of the Volga District Military Court (Samara) sentenced Albert Shafiev and Aydar Aidarbekov to 16, Nail Miniakhmetova - to 12, and Maxim Puygin and Radik Imangulova - to 11 years in a strict Bashkir case, Hizb Ut -Tyrir. The verdict made on December 11, only in the current Tuesday reported the GTRK Bashkortostan.

Sergey Ryzhov. Photo: fn-volga.ru The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow extended the Saratov supporter of the “artillery” and the coordinator of the Free People party, Sergei Ryzhov, a person involved in the fabricated case of terrorism, and the detention center in the pre -trial detention center until April 2, 2018. This was reported by the correspondent of "faces". At the beginning of the meeting, the investigator made a petition for the hearing in closed mode.

The evacuation of the station in Yekaterinburg. Photo: E1.ru The State Duma adopted in the third and final reading a law providing for a punishment of up to ten years in prison for "telephone terrorism". This is reported by Interfax. Now the maximum punishment under Article 207 of the Criminal Code (knowingly false message about the act of terrorism) is five years of the colony. Now in the article there will be four parts instead of two.

80 years ago, on December 20, 1937, the Belarusian scientist and public figure Stepan Mikhailovich Nekrashevich, the first chairman of the Belarusian culture, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus and one of the creators of the modern Belarusian language was shot. In 1930, he was arrested in the falsified case of the "Union of Liberation of Belarus" and exiled to Udmurtia.

Ella Pamfilova. Photo: cikrf.ru The Chairman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova sent a statement to the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin to initiate a criminal case on the facts of falsification of voting results in Mytishchi in the elections to the State Duma and the Moscow Regional Duma in 2016. This was stated by a member of the CEC Nikolai Levichv, reports Interfax. "There was a story in Mytishchi.

Promotion near the FSB building 12/20/2017. Photo from FB page Maria Alekhina In Moscow, a former Pussy Riot participant Maria Alekhina was detained by the FSB building on Bolshaya Lubyanka, who launched a banner with the inscription "Happy Birthday, executioners," Mediazona reports . Photographers Andrei Zolotov and Denis Bochkarev, who removed the action, were also detained.

Ruslan Kutaev at large. Frame "Caucasus. Real" The Chechen activist, president of the Assembly of the peoples of the Caucasus Ruslan Kutaev freed himself from the IK-2 general regime in the village of Chernokozovo, Naursky district of Chechnya, completely serving the period of 3 years 10 months, received in the fabricated drug case. This was reported by "Caucasus.

Meeting of the UN General Assembly. Photo from the site cuuna.org The UN General Assembly approved the resolution "The Regulation in the Field of Human Rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine". This was reported by the UN News Center. For the adoption of the document, 70 votes were filed with 76 abstained. 26 countries voted against the resolution.

Olga Dinze. Frame "Crimea. Real" The Council of the Russian Law Chamber, on the proposal of the Ministry of Justice, issued an Agora lawyer Olga Dinze a warning for refusing to provide the Lefortovo metropolitan pre -trial detention center received from the principal, the defendant of the case of the April Tir attack in the metro of St. Petersburg Azram Azimov. This was reported by the "New Lawyer Gazeta" with reference to the vice-president of the chamber Vadim Kluvgan.

Paralympic Winter Games logo in Pyeongchang The International Paralympic Committee upheld the removal of the Paralympic Committee of Russia, the press service of the IPC reports . The final decision on the participation of Russian Paralympians in the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang will accept the committee in January.

Ilya Yashin Picket near the CEC building. Photo: Alexandra Astakhova The Moscow City Court forbade the deputies of the Krasnoselsky district holding the municipal holiday "Day of Free Elections" in the Lermontovsky Square on December 24. This was reported by the head of the district Ilya Yashin.

Asan Chapuh after detention. Frame shooting Russian security forces The Chairman of the Yalta Regional Majlis Asan Chapukh, sent to Simferopol SIZO-1 in the fabricated case of extortion ("Vedzhe Kashka" case), announced a hunger strike with the requirement of hospitalization. This was reported by QHA with reference to the chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Crimean Tatar people Zair Smedlyaev.