The United States decided on the poisoning of Navalny MAIN • The US State Department officially blamed the poisoning of Alexei Navalny by Novichok on the FSB and the Russian leadership. “There are no plausible explanations for the poisoning, other than the involvement and responsibility of the Russian government,” the department said .

The protest against today's verdict against Yulia Galyamina will become part of a large protest that will take place in the summer - after the Kremlin's refusal to register opposition candidates in the State Duma elections After all, today the regime has not only deprived Yulia of the right to run for office. He stole the right to political representation from 500,000 voters.

The US State Department officially blamed the FSB and the Russian leadership for the poisoning of Alexei Navalny “The United States believes that members of the Russian Federal Security Service used the Novichok nerve agent to poison Mr. Navalny. There is no plausible explanation for the poisoning, other than the involvement and responsibility of the Russian government, ”the State Department said in response to a request from The Hill .

Yulia Galyamina's sentence reflects the fear of the authorities and Putin personally of independent politics and hatred of free citizens Two years of probation for Yulia Galyamina for participating in civil protests is a ban on the profession of a legal opposition politician.

Schools of political studies are incompatible with an atmosphere of hatred, fanaticism and the imposition of belief in binding values The Association of Schools of Political Studies at the Council of Europe is recognized in Russia as an "undesirable organization". The schools of political studies that exist in many countries (in Russia, this is the Moscow School of Civic Education) teach civilized dialogue and critical thinking without accepting any arguments on faith.

US President Donald Trump has pardoned former campaign chief Paul Manafort and ex-adviser Roger Stone, who were convicted as a result of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. In total, the list of those pardoned on Wednesday included 26 people, according to the White House. “Manafort has already spent two years in prison, including some time in solitary confinement,” the White House said in a release.

The State Duma on December 24, at the end of the autumn session, approved the introduction of new penalties from fines to arrests for the organizers and participants of rallies, journalists and "foreign agents".

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin recommends that the business of the city make December 31 a day off, for budgetary organizations and institutions it will be mandatory.

The Kaliningrad Regional Court found Antonina Zimina, an expert from the Gorchakov Foundation, and her husband, Konstantin Antonets, guilty of high treason. They were sentenced to 13 and 12.5 years in prison, respectively. Director of the Baltic Center for Dialogue of Cultures Zimina was detained in 2018, her husband, who previously worked as a lawyer in the Ministry of Economy of the region, in 2019.

After the change in the Constitution, the State Duma did not adopt a single law based on amendments on social guarantees, the preservation of culture, the support of motherhood and children, or the protection of animals. The deputies do not rule out that this work may be postponed until the next convocation is elected, that is, until the fall of 2021, Open Media writes .

A package of new sanctions against Russia in connection with the poisoning of Alexei Navalny with a military chemical has already been prepared, CNN writes , citing its sources. But, as the channel notes, their announcement and use requires the approval of President Donald Trump, who has never specifically accused Moscow of the assassination attempt.

The UK and the EU have agreed on a future relationship and free trade deal after Brexit, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The parties have yet to ratify it, and the UK Parliament and the European Parliament will put the final point, Euronews reports . Earlier, representatives of the European Parliament said they were ready to meet in an extraordinary plenary session at the end of December to consider the bill if the agreement is concluded before December 20.

Of those who know about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, 30% of Levada Center respondents consider the incident to be a staging of the politician himself, 19% see this as a provocation by Western intelligence services, and 15% speak of an attempt by the authorities to eliminate a political opponent. Most Russians (78%) know about Navalny's poisoning. Of these, 17% are closely following developments. Internet news readers were the most informed.

US President Donald Trump vetoed a defense budget that included new sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project. It is reported by Reuters . Earlier, the draft US defense budget for 2021 was agreed upon by both houses of the US Congress, but Trump promised to veto it, as he does not agree that senators did not include the May changes initiated by the president in the legislation on social networks in the document.

Ten deputies of the Novosibirsk City Council demanded that the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, open a criminal case into the publications about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. Otherwise, the security forces must provide good reasons for refusal, the parliamentarians point out. “On August 20, 2020, a Russian citizen, opposition politician Alexei Navalny was allegedly poisoned in Tomsk, ” Taiga.Info quotes the appeal of the deputies .