The "drawn muscle" of President Putin became a factor in international politics September 9, 2012. Vladivostok, APEC summit At the end of last week, President Putin's health ceased to be the internal affair of Russia. In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, the press secretary of the president Dmitry Peskov assured the Russians: rumors about severe back in the back of Putin are “greatly exaggerated”.

The city councils of Milan and Venice refuse twinning with St. Petersburg because of the law in force in the city banning the propaganda of homosexuality. In St. Petersburg, they say they did not receive official notifications Immediately after the adoption in St. Petersburg in February of this year of the law against propaganda of homosexuality, our party submitted an initiative to the Assembly of Milan to suspend the twinning agreement with St. Petersburg.

The Supreme Court of Russia overturned the verdict in the case of Ilya Farber On November 28, an amazing event took place in the Supreme Court. Three judges in black robes - Nikolai Pelevin, Nikolai Bezugly and Vasily Nesterov, painfully reminiscent of their American colleagues from legal series, showed a master class.

At the disposal of The New Times was a decree on attracting as the accused Evgenia Vasilyeva, the main defendant of the criminal case of Oboronservis On November 23, 2012, Evgenia Vasilieva leaves the Khamovniki Court of Moscow, where she was taken under house arrest for two months “In the period from April 2010 to September 2011, Evgenia Nikolaevna Vasilieva, taking the post of head of the Department of Property Relations of the Russian Ministry of Defense, committed serious crimes under the

Kopeisk, the place in which the prisoners raised a rebellion in response to torture, became known throughout the country over the past week. Roman cargo tells what happened there and why it can be repeated again The prisoners of the IK-6 City of Kopeisk got out onto the roof and hung posters with a request for help The city of Kopeisk is actually not a separate city at all, but a suburb closed with Chelyabinsk.

Russian businessman Alexander Perepilichny, a key witness in an investigation into money laundering by Russian officials linked to the Magnitsky case, has been found dead in his home in the southeast of England. Perepilichny emailed us in the summer of 2010, saying that he had information on money laundering by Russian officials from the Moscow tax office No. 28, which illegally returned most of the 5.4 billion rubles in taxes paid by Russian companies to the Hermitage Foundation.

Russia presented to Europe an ultimatum Russia put an ultimatum to the European Union: either in a year we go to the finish line in the issue of canceling visas, or ...

Daniil Granin became the main laureate of the annual Big Book Prize. 93-year-old front-line writer received an award for the novel "My Lieutenant" about the Great Patriotic War The book, in my opinion, is one of Granin's best, he revealed himself in it not as an epic, but as a lyricist. On the most brutal material, he writes in the first person and with such frankness that few people allowed themselves.

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The UN General Assembly granted Palestine the status of an observer state. So far, Palestine has only been a UN observer entity and a UNESCO member. Of course, Ramallah was very happy about this, telling the Palestinians that this was a huge achievement, which not only brought Palestine to a new level of international diplomacy, but also gave a new impetus to negotiations with Israel. They say that another important step has been taken in recognizing Palestine as a full-fledged state.

New episodes in the history of relations between the authorities and society in Russia A member of the rally "For Home Elections" in St. Petersburg holds a poster with a slogan, which can now be recognized as a call to the forcibly overthrow of power November 26, Monday The uninfront deputy Yevgeny Fedorov again submitted to the State Duma a bill on the media financed abroad.