The inscription "Foreign agent" on the doors of the Moscow Office of the Movement "For Human Rights". Photo by Dmitry Zykova/Grani.ru The State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill on administrative responsibility for violation of the law on "media-foreigners", according to the website of the State Duma. One of the punishments for the "rude" violation of the law for citizens is up to 15 days of arrest.

30 years ago, on December 3, 1989, US President George W. Bush and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of the Cold War at a joint press conference in Malta. This happened 24 days after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Gorbachev declared: "The world is leaving one era and entering a new one. We are at the beginning of a long journey. This is the path to an era of lasting peace.

Blood at the site of protests in Marivan (Iranian Kurdistan), photo Hengaw.net The number of those killed when suppressing protests in Iran increased to 208 people, according to the Amnesty International website. The real number of victims will probably be much higher, human rights activists note. Meanwhile, on December 1, The New York Times wrote that during the protests in Iran were killed, according to various sources, from 180 to 450 people.

Basmanny court. Photos of faces The Basmann District Court of Moscow in absentia arrested a new defendant in Moscow, Sergey Medenkov, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the court. Medenkov put on the international wanted list. As follows from the card of the case on the website of the capital's courts, Medenkova on November 21 was arrested in absentia by Judge Yevgeny Nikolaev.

Vadim Krasikov. Source: Theins.ru The Federal Prosecutor's Office of Germany intends to investigate the murder of a Chechen of Georgian origin, a participant in the Second Chechen War Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, reports Deutsche Welle, citing Spiegel Online and Die Zeit.