In Moscow, the general director of JSC "Voentelecom" Alexander Davydov was detained. He is suspected of embezzling about half a billion rubles during the implementation of state contracts concluded with the Ministry of Defense for the supply of routers, as well as the implementation of field supervision of satellite communications. It is reported by Kommersant .

Called the fire on itself. And she could with one stroke: "This one is not suitable - convicted, next!" Here everyone took up arms against Ella Pamfilova. Well, what could she do? Register Navalny? No, of course, and everyone understands this perfectly. You can, of course, resign, slam the door, say that all these elections are profanity and you would do exactly that in its place, undoubtedly.

The suspension of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko's activities as president of the Russian Football Union (RFU) will not affect the holding of the World Cup, FIFA reported. "Mutko's decision will not have any impact on the successful organization of the World Cup next summer. FIFA, the Russian government, the RFU and the organizing committee continue their fruitful cooperation in preparing for the World Cup as planned," Vedomosti quotes the FIFA press service as saying.

Composer Vladimir Shainsky died, reports on Tuesday, December 26, the Kultura TV channel . The relatives of the composer informed the TV channel about this. Shainsky died at the age of 93. Recently, Vladimir Shainsky was seriously ill. In particular, he was treated for stomach cancer. The composer was the author of many famous songs for children, first of all, for the cartoons Cheburashka, Little Raccoon, 2 × 2 = 4, School Waltz, While the Clock Chimes and others.

The decision of the Russian Central Election Commission that opposition politician Alexei Navalny cannot run in the 2018 presidential election raises serious doubts about political pluralism in Russia and the prospects for democratic elections next year. This is stated in a statement on the EU website . The European Court of Human Rights found that Navalny was denied the right to a fair trial in Russia, the report says.

In 2014, Russian military intelligence used fake social media accounts to misinform the population of Ukraine, writes The Washington Post . “On February 27, when the building of the Crimean parliament was occupied, four groups were created on Facebook and VK to encourage Crimeans to support secession from Ukraine,” the newspaper cites one example, citing a secret report from the main department of the Russian General Staff.

The founder of Open Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, spoke out against the boycott of the vote for the President of Russia, which was called for by opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was not allowed to participate in the elections. “I am still not a supporter of the “boycott on the couch” - 90% of such “boycotters” are just indifferent people. You need to get your ass off the couch and express your position in real life.

Petrozavodsk historian Yuri Dmitriev photographed his adopted daughter without clothes to control her physical development. These are the conclusions of the re-examination of photographs, Novaya Gazeta writes . The first study, conducted a year ago at the Center for Sociocultural Expertise, found 9 out of 140 photographs to be pornographic. The findings of a new study conducted by the Federal Department of Independent Forensic Science were announced in court.

Why the Communist Party nominated the President of the non -partisan director of the state farm named after Lenin ", where they grow strawberries Pavel Grudinin Photo: YouTube.com For the first time about the possible nomination of the director of the state farm named after Lenin ”Pavel Grudinin in the presidential election was spoke at the end of November, when his candidacy was proposed by the Zhigulevsky branch of the Communist Party (this was reported by the Radio Speech Moscow).

The New Times recalls the most loud scandals with Fake-Nous from power and its propagandists Meeting Vladimir Putin with Oliver Stone Photo: Woman.ru Helicopter, but not the same President Putin in the film Oliver Stone, released in the summer of 2017, shows the director of the video from the phone, in which, as the Russian leader says, the work of Russian aviation is visible.

For 2016 and 2017, about 30 million rubles awarded in favor of the applicants of the ECHR. on our affairs For many years we postponed the beginning of work with Strasbourg, focusing on Russian investigators and courts. Almost everything succeeded here, but two trends were gradually identified - (1), things were accumulated by which we did not break the situation within the country, and (2) the system itself crawled into the nonsense of hopelessness.

The results of the main processes of 2017 were formulated by Tatyana Felgenhauer in the question of Putin about two legal realities Photo: Kazanfirst.ru At a large final press conference of President Vladimir Putin on December 14, the journalist of Echo of Moscow, Tatyana Felgenhauer (who survived the attempt shortly before), asked the president the question of the rule of law in Russia. She spoke about two different legal realities existing in the country.

A kindergarten teacher in Voronezh repeatedly insulted children, beat them on the head and body, drove them out into the corridor, put them in a corner and deprived them of their afternoon snack. This became clear during the inspection of the prosecutor's office, where the mother of one of the pupils applied. “These actions on the part of the educator took place regularly in relation to other pupils,” said in a statement .

Appointed on December 25 to the post of plenipotentiary in the North-Western Federal District, Alexander Beglov after March 2018 may take the chair of the governor of St. Petersburg. writes about this Kommersant , citing sources. According to the interlocutors of the publication, the tasks of Alexander Beglov on the eve of the presidential elections include strengthening control over the protest situation in St. Petersburg and ensuring a decent turnout at the polling stations.

The Permanent Mission of Kalmykia under the President of Russia asks the leadership of the TNT television channel to apologize to the Buddhists, the republican news agency Kalmykia reports . In the TV series Streets, the actors in the dialogue used a Buddhist figurine, to which the image of a naked woman is attached. Further in the conversation, the men made an incorrect, according to some, comparison.