Relatives of 55 people who died in the crash of the Malaysian Boeing near Donetsk filed a lawsuit against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights. It is reported by the Broadcasting Association of the Netherlands . The plaintiffs allege that Russia shot down the Malaysian Airlines plane and subsequently interfered with the investigation into the crash.

Hermitage Capital Management founder William Browder called on Canada to help bring Russia's suspension of Interpol's membership. He stated this in an interview with the CBC television channel . Browder recalled that the charter of Interpol spelled out the ability to suspend membership in the organization of countries that abuse their rights. The founder of the Hermitage Capital Management fund noted that this opportunity has never been used.

The Federation Council has appointed ex-Governor of the Vladimir Region Svetlana Orlova as the Auditor of the Accounts Chamber. According to Sergei Ivanov, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Budget and Financial Markets, Orlova's candidacy meets the necessary requirements. She graduated from the Ussuri State University and has a PhD in Economics.

The initiator of Euromaidan - about the results of the first five years of the construction of the new Ukraine and why the paths of civil society and the new government dispersed Euromaidan , who went down in history as a revolution of dignity, began five years ago, after the then President Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign an association agreement with the European Union. On November 21, 2013, the famous journalist Mustafa Nayem published a post on Facebook.

Former head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin filed a lawsuit against Novaya Gazeta for the protection of honor and business reputation. writes about this RBC with reference to the representative of the plaintiff Grigory Levchenko. “According to the conclusion of lawyers, two articles in Novaya Gazeta contain information that is not true and is offensive,” Levchenko said. Yakunin is required to remove unreliable, in his opinion, information and publish a refutation.

Russian mercenaries from the private military company Wagner, after participating in hostilities in eastern Ukraine and Syria since the beginning of 2018, have been performing tasks in Sudan, the Central African Republic, and in the near future they may go to Libya. about this .

The initiator of Euromaidan - about the results of the first five years of the construction of the new Ukraine and why the paths of civil society and the new government dispersed Euromaidan , who went down in history as a revolution of dignity, began five years ago, after the then President Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign an association agreement with the European Union. On November 21, 2013, the famous journalist Mustafa Nayem published a post on Facebook.

The discussion is continued by the publicist Lilia Shevtsova To be honest, I don't know what Putin is counting on. Like Georgy Satarov in a recent publication on the same topic. And I will not guess that Putin is interested in what he thinks and what he suggests. I will leave psychoanalysis to those who are more tempted in it. However, the question itself makes us think about what. We love to think about the fact that Putin’s head and the adequacy of his picture of the world.

British police have released new videos showing suspects in the assassination of ex-GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. The video was taken by surveillance cameras in Salisbury on the day of the assassination, 4 March. On the first recording at 11:48 a.m., men walk through the turnstiles of the railway station. On the second, at 11:58, they walk along Wilton Street, located not far from Skripal's house.

The Russian service of the BBC told about where the fighters of the PMC associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin serve, and how the businessman honors the memory of the dead Russian mercenaries from the private military company Wagner, after participating in hostilities in eastern Ukraine and Syria since the beginning of 2018, have been performing tasks in Sudan, the Central African Republic, and in the near future they may go to Libya. about this .

Oyub Titiev, head of the Grozny representative office of the Memorial Human Rights Center, was awarded the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law. “As we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this year, France and Germany are recognizing the contributions of 15 courageous champions of human rights around the world.

The former general director of the company that owns the Zimnyaya Vishnya shopping center, Vyacheslav Vishnevsky, was put on the international wanted list, his lawyer Nina Revyakina said. “The resolution on the search was written on October 31 <...> Today it comes into force,” TASS quotes Revyakina . On Friday, the Kemerovo Regional Court found justified the decision of the first instance to arrest Vishnevsky in absentia until December 25.

The electoral rating of Russian President Vladimir Putin over the past six months has returned to the level of early February 2014 - before the annexation of Crimea. Such data are provided in the study of the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). According to him, in May 2018, 64% of Russians were ready to vote for the incumbent president, in June this figure was 56%, in September - 46%, and in November - 45%. The last time Putin's rating was at such a low level was in February 2014.

President Vladimir Putin's annual big press conference will take place on December 20 at noon. The Department of Accreditation of the Office of the Press Service and Information of the President began accepting applications for participation in the event. Putin's big press conference in 2018 will be the 14th.

The price of futures for Brent crude for January 2019 delivery on the ICE exchange fell below $61 per barrel. At the peak of the decline, the price fell to $60.32 per barrel, which is 3.64% lower than the closing level of previous trading. The last time a barrel of Brent was cheaper than $61 was at the beginning of November 2017, writes RBC .