On December 7, a teleconference with Mikhail Khodorkovsky was held at the Holiday Inn hotel in St. Petersburg, organized by his Open Russia project. Khodorkovsky was going to talk to journalists and Petersburgers, to talk about his attitude towards the elections in Russia and plans for 2016. However, at 13:55, exactly five minutes before the start of the event, the 02 console received an anonymous message about an explosive device allegedly planted in the hotel.

In the center of Moscow, on Suvorovskaya Square, a rally was held against the transport policy of the capital's mayor's office, paid parking and forced evacuation. The action was organized by the Just Russia party with the support of the Blue Buckets Society. “The action went smoothly, without conflicts. About 1500 people took part in it. At the end of the rally, we handed over the resolution to the representatives of the city administration, ” told Interfax.

Hollande and Putin: regular peace talks in Donbass give great hope On Saturday afternoon, François Hollande landed at Vnukovo for decisive peace talks. There have already been several such decisive negotiations this year. But this time, as usual, it seems that the cause of the world will get off the ground. On Saturday afternoon, François Hollande landed at Vnukovo for decisive peace talks. There have already been several such decisive negotiations this year.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation summoned writer Viktor Shenderovich and poet Lev Rubinstein for questioning. This was reported by journalist Olga Romanova on Facebook. Shenderovich on his page on the social network told the details of the call. An employee of the Investigative Committee told the writer that the investigators intended to interrogate him about the Books in the Parks project, in which he participated in the summer of 2014.

A rally against the abolition of direct mayoral elections was held today in Yaroslavl. about this on his Twitter . wrote The opposition politician Ilya Yashin According to his estimates, more than 700 people came to the action. The rally began at 14:00 on Peace Square. During the rally, deputy of the Yaroslavl Regional Duma Boris Nemtsov and Sergei Balabayev, and a representative of the Yaroslavl "Yabloko" Vladimir Zubkov spoke.

Well-known Belarusian journalist arrested on suspicion of espionage and treason Well-known Belarusian journalist arrested on suspicion of espionage and treason The fact that the Belarusian journalist, military observer of the newspaper "Belorusy i Rynok" Alexander Alesin was detained by the KGB, journalists of other Belarusian publications learned on Thursday evening. Charter'97 was the first to report on the arrest, then other online media began publishing the information.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia expressed a note of protest against the conduct of exercises of the armed forces of the Russian Federation in South Ossetia, Interfax reports citing the press service of the diplomatic department.

Observers of the monitoring mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) recorded the movement of a large convoy of unmarked military equipment heading towards Donetsk. “On the way to Shakhtyorsk, which is under the control of the DPR, the SMM saw four convoys of 19 unmarked military trucks moving west along the H-21 highway towards Donetsk,” the mission report says .

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Russia is seeking to destabilize the situation in Eastern Europe and prevent former Soviet countries from joining the European Union. This is stated in an interview with Merkel newspaper Der Welt am Sonntag. Thus, the European leader commented on the calls of the former German chancellors Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schroeder to conduct a softer diplomatic policy towards Russia.

In the city of Taganrog, Rostov Region, according to the order of the General Director of OAO Krasny Kotelshchik Alexander Andrianov, at the beginning of next year a new procedure for entering the enterprise will be introduced: turnstiles equipped with stationary automatic breathalyzers will be installed at almost all factory entrances.

The editor of the economy department, Alexei Polukhin and a special correspondent of Novaya, talk about an unrealized international project, and for which Gazprom spent $ 122 million for land in Bulgaria.

Many of us lack cosmism in recent days. For this fault, the day before, the editor-in-chief of the Russian Planet website, Pavel Pryanikov, was dismissed, and the project itself was suspended indefinitely, during which the investor will look for a new edition of strong cosmists, which could also draw up a phrase in Russian ... Many of us lack cosmism in recent days.