Geopolitical gifts went to us not good Yuri Vrublevsky. Illustration to the epic “About Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale-robber” from the cycle “Russian Heroic Epos”.

What 20-year-old Russians know about the Constitution On December 12, the current Russian Constitution, adopted at the December referendum of 1993, marks 20 years.

On December 11, the Tver Regional Court decided to reduce the sentence to the rural teacher Ilya Farber to 3 years in prison, and the fine - up to 3 million rubles Ilya Farber The decision was made during the consideration of the prosecutor’s appeal, which asked to stop the pursuit of Farber, convicted under the article “Excess of official powers” ​​and reduce the term of imprisonment to 5 years.

Instead of the promised dialogue, the opposition received special forces from power On the night of December 11, the Ukrainian special forces seemed to decided to cleanse the Maidan of Nezalevniy or at least deprive the protesters of the possibility of standing on the roadway and warming up in the administrative buildings they seized. The assault began at one in the morning by local time, but after about two and a half hours the special forces took a “pause”.

Instead of the promised dialogue, the Maidan received special forces from power On the night of December 11, the Ukrainian special forces seemed to decided to cleanse the Maidan of Nezalevniy or at least deprive the protesters of the possibility of standing on the roadway and warming up in the administrative buildings they seized. The assault began at one in the morning by local time, but after about two and a half hours the special forces took a “pause”.

On December 11, the European Parliament adopted a resolution in which he supported the establishment of a single list of Russian officials in the Magnitsky case in the European Union. All included in the list of associations should be prohibited, and their assets are subject to freezing Sergey Magnitsky “The European Parliament ... calls on the Council of the European Union ...

On December 12, 1993, a new constitution was adopted. She replaced the Stalin, which was celebrated on December 5. By its 20th anniversary, the basic law of the state not only de facto ceased to be a direct law, as indicated in its 15th article, but also subjected to significant adjustment of de jure: 84 articles of the Constitution were fully or partially revised.

On the night of December 11, the Ukrainian special forces seemed to decided to cleanse the Maidan of Nezalevniy or at least deprive the protesters of the possibility of standing on the roadway and warming up in the administrative buildings they seized. The assault began at one in the morning by local time, but after about two and a half hours the special forces took a “pause”. Thousands of Kievites began to be pulled into the center of the capital.