The final charge was brought against the employees of the Engels correctional colony No. 13, where prisoner Artem Sotnikov died this spring. Investigators believe that five people were involved in his death - employees of the security department, a detective and a duty officer in the industrial zone. The convict was placed in a punishment cell and tortured, the man died from pain shock. As Novaya Gazeta has already said, the crime took place in April of this year.

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Lithuanian Parliament addressed the City Hall with a corresponding proposal, Ekho Moskvy reports . According to media reports, one of the so far nameless streets of the city may be named after the first president of Russia.

An employee of the Japanese Hitachi company, who went missing in Moscow, was the victim of a brutal murder, his body was found in the Tver region, , told Interfax . Sergey Stukalov, an official representative of the Moscow Department of the ICR “Today, investigators identified an unknown man, whose body with signs of violent death was found on December 12 this year near the roadway leading from the city of Torzhok towards the village of Ostashkovo, Tver Region.

Now there are 10 people in the police department in the Meshchansky district: seven LGBT activists and three Orthodox activists. They were detained 6 and a half hours ago, they have not yet been charged and have not drawn up a protocol. Among the detainees was Yelena Kostyuchenko, a special correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, who participated in the action. “They didn’t explain anything to us, they put us in a monkey house and took away our passports,” Kostyuchenko reports.

After an investigative check in the maternity hospital of Pyatigorsk, criminal cases were opened due to the death of three newborns, told Interfax today. the official representative of the TFR, Vladimir Markin, “Based on the results of the checks, three criminal cases were initiated under Part 2 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing death by negligence due to improper performance of one's professional duties),” Markin said.

As told Ekho Moskvy radio station, the decision will be made only after all the necessary examinations have been carried out. Gulnara Penkova, press secretary of the mayor and government of the capital, Earlier, some media reported that after the World Championships in Athletics were held in the capital in 2013, it is planned to demolish the Luzhniki Grand Sports Arena and build a new stadium in its place.

According to exit polls conducted by the three main broadcasting companies KBS, MBC and SBS, the ruling Saenuri party's presidential candidate Park Geun-hae is narrowly ahead of the opposition United Democratic Party candidate Moon Jae-in, Gazeta.Ru reports . link to KBS World. Park Geun-hye received 50.1 percent of the vote, while Moon Jae-in received 48.9 percent of voters.

On December 19, at the Yeltsin Center, leading constitutional law experts, historians, political scientists and public figures discussed whether the country's fundamental law should be revised. The question on the agenda: is it necessary to modernize the Constitution? And if so, how. Viktor Sheinis, chief researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, noted that now in Russia the Constitution exists separately from everyday life.

Residents of the Voronezh region are ready for any form of protest against nickel mining Photo: SaveKhoper.ru While the governor of the Voronezh region promises to conduct a survey among local residents, and the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company - valuation work, the Public Chamber has initiated its own examination of the environmental, economic and social consequences of nickel mining in the Voronezh region.

US President Barack Obama, elected for a second term, became Time magazine's Person of the Year, Gazeta.Ru reports . “Now we are in the midst of cultural and historical change, and Barack Obama is a symbol and, in a sense, the architect of the new America,” reads the explanatory note to the Editors' Choice.

Firefighters have finished extinguishing a pyrotechnics store. The body of a man was found at the scene of the incident, the identity of the deceased has not yet been established. On the second floor of the building, where the offices of another company were located, three women suffocated with smoke. The message about the fire was received by the Ministry of Emergency Situations around 13.00.

EU countries can use the recent resolution on respect for human rights in Russia to restrict the entry into Europe of persons suspected of human rights violations. This statement was made today at a press conference in Moscow by the head of the Committee on International Affairs of the European Parliament, Elmar Brock. "We believe that we can use the adopted resolution in order to control the issue of issuing visas to certain officials, " Interfax quotes Brock .

The State Duma adopted in the second reading the law on measures to influence persons involved in the violation of the rights of citizens of the Russian Federation (it is also called the draft law on retaliatory measures against the "Magnitsky law"). 401 deputies voted for the adoption of the law, 4 voted against (Ponomarev, Gudkov, Petrov, Zubov - all from A Just Russia), 2 abstained.

Sberbank will buy the Yandex.Money service from the Yandex Internet search engine, RBC reports . The corresponding statement was made today by the chairman of the board and president of Sberbank German Gref at a meeting with media representatives. The details of the deal will be announced later during today's press conference at the Yandex office.

On December 23, the Moscow Club B2 will host an acoustic solo concert of Lusine Gevorkyan-vocalists of alternative rock groups Tracktor Bowling and Louna. This year, a large rise was observed in LounA’s life - a new album was released, the group performed at large festivals and sites. Tracktor Bowling is now on creative vacation.