Ukrainian politicians criticized Poroshenko for the arrest of Saakashvili. Observers warn of the threat of coupling Maxym Marusenko Zuma Tass On the official website of the Parliamentary Party "Fatherland" appeared the appeal of the leader of this political force, Yulia Tymoshenko. As you know, in September, she took the lively participation in the return of Mikhail Saakashvili to Ukraine across the Polish border.

The decision “we are going to the restrictions with restrictions” is difficult, but it will have to be accepted On December 11, a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Olympic Committee of Russia will be held, which is previously dedicated to Pyeongchang-2018 a meeting of Russian Olympians. The vector is understandable - the permission to declare the games individually in the neutral status is obtained from the very top.

The ballet "Nureyev" of Russia has become a world event, said the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov. On December 9, the first premiere of the ballet took place on the Historical Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. “There are some controversial points, but in general, probably, from the point of view of creative search and such a creative extravaganza, this is an event, a world event,” quotes him. TASS Peskov added that he did not notice "anything provocative" in the production.

Why exactly this US president recognized Jerusalem to the capital of Israel right now Netanyahu, Ivanka and Donald Trump (in the center) / Reuters On December 6, US President Donald Trump announced the recognition of Jerusalem the capital of Israel. He motivated his decision as follows: the step was inevitable, and the long -term delay in such recognition did not contribute to resolving the conflict.

The best Russian documentary festival "Artdokfest" is again at the epicenter of scandals The scandals flare up almost on the daily mode, as if someone is throwing firewood into a campaign aimed at strangling and the ban on one of the last sites for a free statement about the urgent. Massive attacks in a wide variety of forms directed against Artdokfest are gaining momentum.

Volunteers collect gifts for children who live in the combat area Photo: Alexey Smirnov / VKontakte Gray zones ... So the line of contact, neutral territory, the gap between the warring sides are called in the Donbass. This is not a narrow strip of land, but many kilometers, dozens of villages and about 50 thousand people living there from the very beginning of the war. The front -line villages of Kominternovo, Shirokino, Popasnaya, 6/7 many times passed from hand to hand.

Why do news about the arrest of PMC members not surprise those who are familiar with the procedure for their selection by the Public Chamber Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" Until recently, public observation commissions for the places of forced content (PMC) remained the only real and effective lever of public control in the country.

Leonid Broneva left Photo: Semyon Likhodeev / TASS On December 9, in Moscow, at the 89th year of his life, artist Leonid Sergeyevich Broneva left. People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” of all degrees - and many many professional awards. And also - the son of a repressed Trotskyist. 13-year-old student of the baker and worker workshops of the puppet theater in evacuation, in Chimkent.

Boris Vishnevsky explains in one formula Once again, calls to boycott these elections begin to sound passionately before the elections. Since they are a "farce", "imitation", and in general "power will not change in the elections." I don’t know for sure whether certain “candidates” in the presidential elections are “Kremlin projects”. But what is much more like a “Kremlin project” — in substance, not in source — is the idea of ​​boycotting the elections. And it's very easy to prove it.

Mikhail Saakashvili was detained on the second attempt. He is in the SBU isolator EFREM LUKATSKY / AP / TASS Like the last time, the press learned about the arrest of Mikhail Saakashvili not from the lawyers of the latter, but from the former deputy prosecutor general of Ukraine David Sakvarelidze, who on Friday, at 22.21 in Kyiv, posted a corresponding message on Facebook. Half an hour later, the information prosecutor Yuri Lutsenko confirmed the information.

As a motley EU - the "main sponsor of Palestine" - decided to the decision of Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel Photo: EPA Federica Mogherini and Rex Tillerson came to the EU press center with glued smiles, which slightly hidden concern and tension. In any case, they were not in the best mood. Both talked about strategic partnership and allies between Europe and America.

What does the book of Peter Aven demonstrate This book must be read. Well, at least for a purely practical purpose. She offers topics for conversation, even with those with whom there seems to be no common topics. Stretched dinners with dialogues about the weather are guaranteed to turn into noisy feasts with inevitable arguments. Because we don't have people who are indifferent to the nineties - to what happened then, to how it all can be interpreted.

General Nikolai Tkachev, named among those involved in the MH17 disaster, is ready to sue Bellingcat and Insider. Interview "Novaya Gazeta" Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" Journalists of the Bellingcat International Portal and their colleagues from the Russian online publication of Insider published a joint investigation, which, according to, identified the Russian general involved in the tragedy of the Boeing Malaysian.

Photo: Vera Yurchenko / "New Gazeta" The police came to the conference of the Open Russia movement in Moscow. Police officers are several dozen people. According to law enforcement officers, they received an anonymous call that a collection of an unwanted organization was taking place in the building on Maroseyka. They ask the conference participants to disperse. The police blocked the doors of the hall, which continues to discuss the position of Open Russia on the 2018 presidential election.

A sharp unpleasant smell in some areas of Moscow could appear after reclamation work at the Nekrasovka landfill, RBC reports . “There was a version close to the truth. Cleaning works were carried out in Nekrasovka. In addition, yesterday there were three fires in a day, one of them is a large one that could bring cinders, ”said Yury Varakin, head of the Situation Center of Roshydromet.