Mikhail Benyash. Source: Memohrc.org The Krasnodar Kraisud canceled the decision of the district court on the 14-day administrative arrest of the Sochi lawyer Mikhail Benyash on the protocol on the disobedience of the police (part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code). It is reported by "Mediazona". The case, fabricated against a lawyer, is terminated. The decision was made in the order of supervision.

100 years ago, on December 19, 1918, a resolution was adopted by the Council of People's Commissars on the creation of Special Branches (military counterintelligence) in units of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. On the same day, a decision was made by the Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) to merge the departments of military control with the army and front-line Cheka into Special departments of the Cheka.

State Duma. Photos of faces The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading a package of two bills, which provides for partial decriminalization of the "extremist" of the 282nd article of the Criminal Code. Such information is contained in documents on the website of the lower house. The package was made by Vladimir Putin on October 3. A month and a half later, on November 15, he passed the first reading , and on December 18 - the second.

Donald Trump. Frame CBS News US President Donald Trump ordered to withdraw an American contingent from Syria, Bloomberg reports with reference to an unnamed American official. According to the agency’s source, the Pentagon is working on a speedy return of the two thousandth American contingent. At the same time, the terms in which Trump's order will be fulfilled are unclear.

Teresa May in the House of Commons. Short of broadcasting The Scottish National Party Infected vote about distrust of the government of Teresa May in the parliament of Britain, according to the party Twitter. “It means enough. As long as the Labor is hesitating and putting it off, we will not,” the party says.

The death of a sawing rod in the first lanes of British newspapers The death of a key witness in the "Magnitsky case" businessman Alexander Perepylichnaya was more natural than that occurred as a result of intentional poisoning. According to Reuters, Nicholas Hilliard, the coroner of the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, came to this conclusion.

Emblem of the IMF The Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund approved a new 14-month program for assistance to Ukraine by $ 3.9 billion, according to the website of the Ministry of Finance of the country. The first tranche per 1.4 billion dollars should be sent to Ukraine until December 25. Decisions on further tranches will be made in May and November after assessing the successes of Ukraine in the implementation of the Memorandum of the IMF.

Prison in Balashov. Photo: 64.fsin.su The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading a package of three bills who tighten the conditions for serving the deadlines convicted of “terrorist” articles, as well as other prisoners who are only suspected by the FSINCIVSITS in terrorism. This was reported in the cards of documents on the website of the lower house.

"Jihadist", killed in Stavropol. Photo by FSB The FSB announced that jihadists - members of the Islamic State were killed in Stavropol. The message is published on the special services website. Neither the names of the dead, nor their number are specified. In the photo of the FSB, which was published by Ren-TV, two killed in the frame. According to the channel, the dead were not residents of Stavropol.

The defendants of the Ufa "case 12". Photo: idelreal.org The collegium of the Volga District Military Court (Samara), chaired by Yuri Clubkovo, refused to allow relatives of the defendants in the Ufa "case 12" - the next case of the Hizb Ut -Tairer case - in the process as public defenders of the defendants. This was reported by "Idel. Reals" in the publication about the hearings held on Tuesday.

Island Iturup (Kuril ridge). Photo from the site www.psdp.ru Japan protested Russia in connection with the construction of the barracks for the military on the islands of Iturup and the Kunashir of the Kuril ridge, reports The Mainichi with reference to the main secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan Yoshihide Suga. According to Suga, the protest was declared through diplomatic channels on Tuesday.

Oleg Deripaska. Photo: Wikipedia The United States will abolish sanctions against Oleg Deripaska’s structures - Rusal and Eurosibenergo, as well as the EN+group. As reported on the website of the US Treasury, the department sent the corresponding notification to Congress. The abolition of sanctions will enter into force if the decision is not blocked by the congress, Bloomberg notes .

Donald Trump. Photo: Cbsnews.com US President Donald Trump in 2015 signed a letter of intention to build a Trump Tower skyscraper in Moscow. The document with the signature of Trump was published by CNN. On December 16, Trump’s lawyer Rudolf Juliani told CNN that a letter about the intention to build Trump Tower existed in Moscow, but supposedly never signed anyone.

Pavel Mushroom in court. Photo: kavkaz-uzel.eu The ECHR struggled Russia's information about the health status of the Ukrainian prisoner of the Kremlin Pavel Grib and the medical care provided to him. The Kiev lawyer Yevgeny Zakrevskaya announced the request sent on Tuesday at the Tuesday, then at her FB page. The request was sent in accordance with Article 39 of the Rules of the Court (adoption of urgent measures before considering a complaint on the merits).

Alexey Navalny. Photo from the site iphones.ru Judge of the Tagansky District Court of Moscow Olga Sinelnikova satisfied the lawsuit of Roskomnadzor about blocking the site Alexei Navalny "Smart Voting". This is reported by Interfax. Sinelnikova supported the arguments of the RKN that the site allows violations when collecting personal data of users.