A professional historian, Arseny Roginsky studied the Russian liberation movement and learned his best and noblest features Arseny Roginsky, 1990. Photo: Denisov Roman / TASS In the dark seventies of the Soviet years, he was engaged in the most important, perhaps a matter - historical education. Together with several associates, he collected in the USSR, and published abroad collections of archival historical materials on domestic history - “Memory”.

Politician Dmitry Gudkov decided to withdraw the application for holding a rally in defense of citizens' electoral rights on Academician Sakharov Avenue on December 24. It is reported by "Rain". According to him, the decision to withdraw the application was made after the request of politician Ilya Yashin, who is going to hold the “Day of Free Elections” in the format of a local holiday in Lermontov Square.

The detainees in the case of the preparation of terrorist attacks in St. Petersburg declare: they were tortured, weapons and explosives were thrown away YouTube.com Seven people detained the FSB special forces in St. Petersburg on suspicion of preparing a series of terrorist attacks. Five of them were arrested.

Binbank filed a lawsuit against Peresvet Bank for 1.36 billion rubles. Attention to the statement in the file of cases of the Arbitration Court of the city of Moscow was drawn by the RNS agency. The lawsuit was filed on December 18, 2017. The file does not specify what the lawsuit was filed about. Yarkonta LLC was involved in the case as a third party. According to SPARK, Yarkonta provides real estate agency services on a contractual basis.

The departure of Arseny Roginsky is really irreparable loss Photo: Kirill Zykov / Agency "Moscow" It is very difficult to imagine a “memorial” without Arseny Roginsky. Almost impossible. He determined the whole strategy and tactics of our human rights society, stood at its origins.

The US Department of Commerce has included two Russian defense companies in its sanctions list - Novator Experimental Design Bureau JSC and Titan-Barricades Federal Research and Production Center JSC. This was reported in the official journal of the US federal government (Federal Register). The department believes that the activities of these companies “contradict the interests of national security or foreign policy” of the United States.

Respond to Moscow and Kyiv Photo: Mikhail Sokolov / TASS Russia announced that he was leaving the joint center for control and coordination of the ceasefire (SCCC), which has been operating since 2014 in the city of Soledar Donetsk region. The CCCs included 75 officers from Russia and representatives of Ukraine.

A draft law on amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure was submitted to the State Duma, which gives the FSB the right to take over any criminal case. attention to the document . drew Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora international human rights organization, “The bill proposes to give the Prosecutor General or his deputies the right to seize and transfer for investigation to the FSB any criminal case or verification material identified by the service,” writes Chikov.

The creative evening of the writer Mikhail Mishin will be held on December 21 at the Theater "At the Nikitsky Gate" Photo: ru.wikipedia.org It's nice when something that is worth attention happens. It is doubly nice when this is connected with friends. Through the threefold, when you can tell readers about it. With this triple pleasantness, we report that the friend of our newspaper writer Mikhail Mishin spends his creative evening on December 21 at the Theater “At the Nikitsky Gate”.

The Church of Sweden recognizes the need to abandon the name of God in a masculine. Why is this unacceptable for Russian Orthodox culture? Photo: Anatoly Sedelnikov/Photokhronika TASS Gender’s problems, as you know, were at the center of the agenda of modern Western liberalism.

The rarity is not that the CIA gave the FSB information about the terrorists, but that they told about it on TV On Sunday, December 17, our president thanked the American: the CIA, through partner channels, reported to our operatives information that made it possible to detain three suspects on the day of the call - a Dagestani, an Ingush and a Tajik. Center "E" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (countering extremism) believes that they were at least preparing terrorist attacks.

Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky proposed to charge a fee of 3% on each ticket sold, reports . Vedomosti The fee will be imposed on tickets for both foreign and Russian films. According to the minister, this will provide an additional 1.5 billion rubles for the production of domestic films. Therefore, an additional fee will be charged to cinemas. According to the minister, all cinema networks supported his idea.

The correspondent of "New" follows the trail of the Ruthenium cloud and discovers a grandiose experiment in the South Urals The river is a cloud. Photo: Ekaterina Fomina / "New Gazeta" On November 9, the Institute of Nuclear and Radiation Safety of France announced the radioactive Ruthenium cloud of Europe on September 29. According to French scientists, the cloud came from Russia, from the Southern Urals.

In 2017, 65 journalists died worldwide in connection with their work, reports the international human rights organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF). It is noted that 58 journalists were killed in their countries, the rest - abroad. At the same time, 35 died in zones of military conflicts. According to RSF, in 2017 two journalists disappeared, 326 were detained, and 54 journalists were taken hostage.

The former head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, wrote an open letter to the head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, in which he urged not to register Vladimir Putin as a candidate for the presidency of Russia.