Mikhail Saakashvili was detained in Kyiv. This was posted on his Facebook page. Later, this was confirmed by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko. “National police officers discovered Saakashvili's whereabouts on Otradnaya Street in Kyiv and detained him. The detainee was placed in a temporary detention center, ”the 112 TV channel quoted Lutsenko as saying.

Television network Zvezda On December 7, the Russian television network Zvezda aired an interview with Yuri Baturin, who claims to be the former commander of a Ukrainian an air defense unit that was stationed outside Kharkiv. Baturin says he has concluded that a Ukrainian “Buk” missile fired from the village of Zaroshchenskoye is what downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on July 17, 2014. Dozens of news outlets in Russia have published stories about Baturin’s claims.

December 8th. Knocked down "Boeing", censorship and lower regiment in the reserved seat Main The Bellingcat research group and the journalists of The Insider found out that a person with the call sign “Dolphin”, who is sought in the case of Boeing’s disaster near Donetsk, is the chief inspector of the Central Military District, Colonel General Nikolai Tkachev.

At the exhibition of Jock Sturges, where on the opening day one of the photographs was doused with an unknown liquid, activists of the SERB movement were detained. According to SERB member Igor Brumel, one of the arrests was Alexander Petrunko, who poured urine over a photo of Sturges at an exhibition in 2016. According to Brumel, a lawyer is coming to see him.

"Star" On December 7, the Zvezda television channel published an interview with Yuri Baturin , who calls himself the former head of the command post of the military unit of the Zenitsky Rocket Forces of Ukraine, located near Kharkov. Baturin talks about how he came to the conclusion that the Boeing Malaysian crashed on July 17, 2014 over Donbass, was shot down from the Ukrainian Buka, and the shot was carried out from the area of ​​the village of Zaroshchensky.

Jaafar ashtiyeh / AFP / Scanpix / Leta in the Palestinian territories on December 8 continues the riots that began after Donald Trump's declaration on the recognition of Jerusalem to the capital of Israel and the calling for the Hamas group for the new intifadade against Israel. In clashes on the border of Israeli territory and gas sector, one person died. In total, according to Palestinian medical services, more than 200 people were injured.

Interview with the lawyer Yuri Lysenko, who defends the General Director of the Seventh Studio Yuri Itina Gleb Shchelkunov / Kommersant Yuri Itin and Yuri Lysenko in the Presnensky district court, May 25, 2017 On December 4, at the appeal, as the Mosgorsud was suppressed, director Kirill Serebrennikov stated that during interrogation, during the arrest in August 2017, the investigators told him that the former general director of the Seventh Studio Yuri Itin had testified against him.

At the end of November, Instagram summed up the results of 2017, calling the most popular photos and accounts (then Olga Buzova was overtaken by Kim Kardashian). And now you can see your best publications on Instagram for a year. The Bestnine web service analyzes the number of posts and likes, and then creates a collage of the nine most popular photos and videos.

The organization "Transparency International - Russia" reported that the deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma Alexei Mazurov and the deputy of the urban district of Lobny Igor Khodin may have citizenship of Malta. People with these names were found by Transparency in a list of people who acquired citizenship of Malta in 2015, which was published in the Gazette of the Government of Malta. The list also contains the names of members of the Mazurov and Khodin families.

He was detained with a package with two million rubles. Video The mayor of Tuapse Alexander Chekhov is suspected of receiving a bribe. Police officers detained Chekhov at the Krasnodar airport. The mayor had a package with him, in which, according to the sources of Interfax in law enforcement agencies, there were two million rubles - a bribe for the recognition of one of the houses in Tuapse emergency.

The Savelovsky Court of Moscow refused to accept the statement of claim of the State Duma deputy Valery Rashkin against the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko.

The Russian government has reportedly drafted a list of 126 companies (primarily enterprises owned or operated by the state) that will be permitted to reach state procurement deals in secret. Beginning on December 15, these companies’ contracts with the government will move to Russia’s platform for defense orders, where they won’t need to disclose their clients. According to Kommersant , the measure is most likely designed to counter future U.S.

The Russian social network Vkontakte has confirmed that it invited Donald Trump to create a page on its website, but claims it never received a response from his representatives. Vkontakte says it welcomes Western public figures on its network and helps them create and operate their accounts. “We’d be thrilled if Mr. Trump and the presidents of other countries became Vkontakte users,” a spokesperson for the website told Meduza .

Moscow’s Cheremushkinsky District Court has sent a criminal case against two former officials at Rusnano back to police for further investigation. The corporation's former director and former financial director, Leonid Melamed and Svyatoslav Ponurov, are charged with embezzling 220 million rubles ($3.7 million). Lawyers for Rusnano welcomed the court’s decision, having argued at the beginning of the proceedings that the case’s “gross violations and contradictions” hindered a fair trial.

Within hours of returning to Moscow’s Lumiere Brothers Art Gallery, Jock Sturges’ controversial nude photographs have already been splashed with an unknown liquid. The attack repeats an incident from September 2016, when a member of a far-right movement splashed urine on some of Sturges work being displayed at the same art gallery. Police detained the man responsible for the most recent act of vandalism.