The Ethics Commission operating in the Latvian Seimas stated that opposition deputy Nikolai Kabanov violated his parliamentary oath by signing for giving the Russian language state status. Mixnews reports this. The “punishment” for this parliamentarian was given a rather mild one. Kabanov will receive a warning, which will be announced at a meeting of the Seimas, and also published in the official publication Latvijas Vestnesis.

RIA Novosti employees Yana Makarova and Grigory Nazarenko, detained by police on the morning of December 7 in the center of Moscow, were released from the Kitay-Gorod police station. As the agency itself reports, the journalists' documents were only checked - passports and editorial IDs of the correspondents.

Chilean President Sebastian Piñera has been harshly criticized at home for making a sexist joke, EFE reports. Many Chilean female politicians considered the statement of Piñera, who explained the difference between politicians and women at the summit in Mexico, inappropriate and offensive to the country. Speaking at the summit on December 6, Piñera said: "Do you know the difference between a politician and a woman?

The American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers announced a concert in Moscow. As reported on the band's website, on July 22, 2012, the musicians will perform at the Luzhniki Stadium. Tickets for the show will go on sale on the website kassir.ru from December 9. Red Hot Chili Peppers previously announced that they would also visit St. Petersburg with a concert for the first time. The group's performance will take place on July 20 at the Petrovsky Stadium as part of the Tuborg Greenfest festival.

Fans of the Moscow hockey club "Spartak" turned for help to the leadership of the football team "Spartak" - head coach and general director Valery Karpin and president Leonid Fedun . The request is contained in an open letter written in connection with the team’s recent failures, reports the online publication AllHockey.Ru. The fans called on not only Karpin and Fedun to help hockey Spartak, but also all people who were ready and able to help the club.

The Russian Technologies holding plans to sell half of its Moscow assets. Of the nearly two hundred capital enterprises, about 100 facilities will be included in the investment program, which provides for modernization. The Vedomosti newspaper wrote about this on December 7, citing materials from the corporation.

Canadian hockey player Tyler Seguin, who won the Stanley Cup in the 2010/11 season as a member of the Boston Bruins club, was not included in the team’s lineup for the match with the Winnipeg Jets, which took place on the night of December 7 and ended in Winnipeg’s victory with the score is 2:1. Seguin was punished for missing a mandatory breakfast with the team, writes the Boston Herald. According to the publication, in addition to breakfast, 19-year-old Seguin also missed the team meeting.

Grigory Yavlinsky party faction will head the Yabloko in the St. Petersburg parliament, Interfax reports , citing the politician’s statement. In the parliamentary elections in this city, Yabloko received 12.85 percent of the votes and received six parliamentary seats. Yabloko's results in St.

The leader of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin , who was detained on Triumfalnaya Square on Tuesday, December 6, was released from the Tverskoye police station. reports this Interfax with reference to the politician himself. “This is a very original event: I was kept in the police department for more than three hours, without bringing any charges, without explaining any reasons for the detention. This is a gross violation of the law,” Mitrokhin said.

Emergency with drums Protests against election fraud continued in Moscow On December 5, the day after the parliamentary elections, the Russian “non-systemic” opposition brought from 5 to 7 thousand people to a rally on Chistye Prudy (the estimate of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate - about 2 thousand - is clearly greatly underestimated).

The publication of an obscene entry on the official microblog of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev occurred “during a planned password change,” according to the Kremlin website. “Tonight, an incorrect retweet of one of the posts appeared on Dmitry Medvedev’s Twitter account.

07.12.2011, 18:48:32 version Print | PDA/PDA Non/fiction fair visitor. Photo by RIA Novosti, Alexey Kudenko Another card Why small book publishers unite into the Alliance The past fair of intellectual literature Non/fiction, as usual, left an ambivalent impression of the domestic book market.

In Zaporozhye, unknown persons removed a poster depicting Adolf Hitler, which was hung on the main street. reports this Interfax . Presumably, this was done by utility workers. The poster was previously placed on the wall of a house in the city center on the initiative of local journalists, thus expressing their protest against the installation of a monument to Joseph Stalin in Zaporozhye. The initiators of hanging the poster were journalists from the Saturday Plus weekly.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev submitted a candidacy for the post of head of the region to the legislative assembly of Adygea. This was reported in a message received by Lenta.Ru from the press service of the President of the Russian Federation. The head of state proposed appointing Aslan Tkhakushinov, the current head of Adygea, for a new term. Tkhakushinov was chosen by Medvedev from three candidates previously presented to the president by the region's legislative assembly.

The order book of the first foreign issuer of the Russian MICEX - Canadian Uranium One - was completely filled. As Vedomosti writes in its issue dated December 7, the placement of the company's shares will be technical - in fact, investors will simply transfer money and receive securities in exchange for them. The Uranium One order book was open from December 1 to December 5, with an offering scheduled for December 7.