Shot: Vinay Pulim / YouTube On Saturday in New York and Washington, many thousands of people who protest against the police violence passed. The reason for them was an unfairly cruel, according to the demonstrators, the appeal of the police with blacks in the United States - primarily the murder of Michael Brown and Eric Garner . The police counted in New York 12 thousand protesters, but the participants in the demonstration with such an assessment are disagreeable.

The winner of the Miss World 2014 contest, whose final was held in London, was a 22-year-old student from South Africa Rolin Strauss. Photo: Leon Neal / AFP Rolin stross The second place was taken by Edina Kulchar from Hungary, the third was Miss USA Elizabeth Safrit. “I had to prepare in advance. After all, this is a huge responsibility, ”said Rolin Strauss, receiving the crown of“ Miss World ”(English Yaz.). Yahoo News The beauty contest "Miss World" has been held since 1951.

On December 14, Turkish police conducted a series of searches and arrests in the media associated with the Hizmet movement, whose spiritual leader is Fetullah Gülen, who lives in the United States. Those taken into custody are accused of "creating a terrorist group" and attempting a coup d'état. Among those detained was Ekrem Dumanli, editor-in-chief of the Zaman newspaper, one of Turkey's largest and most influential newspapers. It was possible to arrest Dumanly only from the second time.

On December 14, the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko was hospitalized in one of the hospitals in Rostov-on-Don. Information about the hospitalization of the 81-year-old poet, who arrived in Rostov-on-Don to participate in a creative evening, was confirmed by the Minister of Health of the Rostov Region Tatyana Bykovskaya. “At present, doctors assess the poet’s health as satisfactory, corresponding to his age,” Bykovskaya said, without going into any details.

Finnish air traffic control services recommended that civilian flights change their routes after a group of Russian Air Force aircraft flying with transponders turned off was detected in the sky over the Baltic Sea on December 10. This was stated in an interview with Helsingin Sanomat by Finland's Transport Minister Paula Risikko.

Law enforcement agencies of Moldova conducted searches in the offices of the Patria party, whose leader Renato Usatii was forced to leave the republic in November on the eve of parliamentary elections, fearing arrest. Representatives of "Patria" reported about the search in offices located in three cities. They did not say what the searches, conducted jointly by the police and the prosecutor's office, were connected with.

The NTV channel interviewed an FSB agent who worked for about 20 years in the Estonian security police KAPO and passed on secrets regarding the activities of the Estonian special service, the actions of the special services of the United States and NATO countries. Agent Uno Puuseppe reportedly left the Estonian police force only three years ago.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will not reduce the production quota even if oil prices fall to $40 per barrel. This was stated by the UAE Oil Minister Suhail al-Mazrui, speaking at a press conference in Dubai. Al-Mazuri also said that he sees no reason to call an emergency meeting of OPEC. “We have to wait at least another quarter,” he said, answering a question from journalists about a possible extraordinary meeting of OPEC.

Two employees of the human rights organization Committee Against Torture, detained earlier on December 14 in Grozny by local police, have been released. about this on his Facebook page The head of the Committee against Torture, Igor Kalyapin, wrote without giving any details.

The North Korean authorities have distributed an appeal written by a US citizen who illegally entered the territory of the DPRK.

The Open Lecture project ran into yet another challenge in Yekaterinburg. Before the broadcast of the "Open Lecture" in the room of the gallery "Art Bird" electricity was cut off. The organizers managed to set up a temporary light, according to the official twitter of the project, and the lecture will still take place.

In Tomsk, about two thousand people took part in a picket in support of the independent television company TV2, which is threatened with closure due to non-renewal of the contract with the broadcaster. Those who came to the picket were holding posters demanding not to revoke the TV company's license, calling on the authorities of the region and the city to help save TV2.

In Grozny, the police detained two lawyers from the human rights organization Committee Against Torture. Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora human rights organization, announced this on his Twitter. The lawyers, Chikov wrote, were confiscated all office equipment and taken to the police station. On the evening of December 13, the office of human rights activists from the Committee Against Torture, which is located in an apartment in a residential building, was set on fire in Grozny.

The deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Vitaly Milonov, accompanied by a group of supporters on the night of December 14, tried to break into the Gay Club "Central Station" in St. Petersburg, saying that minors were located there. The fact that the club contains several minor girls, according to Milonov, they were informed by their worried parents.

The upper house of the US Congress passed the federal budget for fiscal year 2015 late in the evening of December 13. 56 senators voted for the draft budget, 40 votes were against. The draft budget, the expenditure part of which is estimated at $1.1 trillion, has been sent for the president's signature. Barack Obama is expected to sign the budget as soon as possible.