In the Lithuanian leadership there was a public split on the Russian issue. Prime Minister Saulus Sprinkalis this week spoke out for the resumption of the work of the Lithuanian-Russian intergovernmental commission, the last meeting of which took place in October 2011.

Palace of Kasr al-Khukm. Photo: Qasralhukm.com 11 Saudi princes were detained in the Royal Palace of Kasr al-Hukm in Riyadh for a protest against the new economic policy of the monarch. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the Arab media. The names of the protesters are not specified - only the initials of their leader are given: S. A. S. The drop in oil prices entailed a budget deficit for Saudi Arabia - this year it is 195 billion Riyalov (almost 52 billion dollars).

Ildar Dadin protests in the schizo, 09/12/2016. Frame of video recordings of FSINITS; Source: Vesti.ru The ECHR communicated two complaints of a civil activist, the former political prisoner of Ildar Dadin, to the conditions for transfer to the Karelian IK -7 in Segezh and the contents in this colony. This was reported by TASS with reference to the lawyer Nikolai Zboroshenko, who represents the interests of the activist in Strasbourg.

The body of Hamzat Baimuradov on Avturov Square. Shift video from YouTube channel Movsar Eskerkhanov The body of Khamzat Baimuradov, a resident of the aul Avtures of the Shalinsky district of Chechnya, suspected of the murder of the head of the local police department Abubakar Strokhanov, - the Kadyrovites threw on the central square of the village before the fellow villagers of the deceased.

Oksana Shalygina. Photo with personal FB page Oksana Shalygina, the associate of the artist Peter Pavlensky, was released from prison of Fleuri Merozh under Paris on Friday evening. This was written in the FB support of supporters' support, their lawyer Dominic Bayroiter-Minkov. The lawyer did not report any additional information. There are also no comments on the FB page by the Shalygina itself.

80 years ago, January 6, 1938, Vasil Stus, a Ukrainian poet, a dissident and political prisoner were born. In 1965, before public watching the film "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" in the Kiev cinema "Ukraine", he publicly spoke in a protest against the wave of arrests of the Ukrainian intelligentsia. Stus also reasonably accused the KGB of killing the artist and dissident Alla Gorskaya.

Donatas Banionis in the role of Chris Kelvin in Solyaris Andrei Tarkovsky The outstanding Lithuanian actor Donatas Banionis was an agent of the KGB. It is reported by DELFI.LT with reference to data published by the Center for the study of the genocide and the resistance of the inhabitants of Lithuania. Banionis was recruited in 1970 before a trip to the United States, where he was invited by the Santaros Švies Federation. He was given an agent pseudonym armor.

Alexei Navalny at a meeting of the CEC. Frame "Navalny Live" The Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court as part of Galina Manokhina (presiding), Vladimir Zaitsev (Judge-Speaker) and Yuri Sitnikova confirmed the refusal of Alexei Navalny in a lawsuit against the Central Election Commission, filed in connection with the prevention to participate in the presidential election. It is reported by "Mediazona".

Victor Sokirko on a picket for the police reform. Moscow, 2009. Photo by Evgenia Mikheeva/Grani.ru On January 5, a human rights activist, a former Soviet political prisoner Viktor Sokirko, died in Moscow. This was then announced at his FB page by the son of the deceased Alexei Sokirko. “He was sick for a long time, he didn’t get up in the last year,” the human rights activist remarked. Sokirko was born on January 1, 1939 in Kharkov. In his youth he was an active Komsomol member.