Interview by the producer Artdokfest and the director of the unusually popular film Putin's Witnesses Vitaly Mansky. Photo from the personal archive - In 2014, the festival was refused state financing, it turns out that you were included in the list of non -proper organizations “For the Anti -Starting Position”. What is this position expressed? - And you know, I probably agree with this formulation. Just define in terms: what is a “state position”.

The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine has canceled the right of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) to use the complex of buildings of the Holy Dormition Pochaev Lavra, according to the website of the ministry. The corresponding order was signed on November 23.

The Investment Council under the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region approved the assignment of the status of a strategic project to the development of the Sobstvenno-Kachkanarskoye field (SKM), owned by Evraz, the says . In December, SCM may be officially included in the register of strategic projects in the region for 2019.

UPDATE The Voronezh club, in & on December 6 & on December 6, the group’s concert was planned, canceled the event due to the check of the Ministry of Emergencies, and the musicians told & “MBH Media”. In Kazan, two sites refused the IC3PEAK musical group to hold a concert. Artists manager Oleg Mitrofanov told Mediazone about pressure from the security forces.

UPDATE 22:20 & A total of 14 people were detained, they write & "OVD-Info" & and the telegram channel & "Indefinite & Protest" . Five people were released , a minor (14 years old) participant of the gathering was taken away from the department by employees of the juvenile department. In Moscow, police detained participants in a gathering against the demolition of the Nightingale cinema center. The correspondent of "MBH-Media" reports seven detainees. "OVD-Info" - about eight.

In Omsk, a man set fire to the door of the mayor's office, employees of the city administration extinguished it, no one was injured, reports NGS55.ru. The man himself was soon detained, as a passport in his name was found on the spot. In the department, he admitted his guilt, writes "SuperOmsk". The incident took place around 19:00 local time (16:00 Moscow time).

During the second round of voting, the Japanese city of Osaka overtook Yekaterinburg in the fight for the right to host the World Expo 2025, according to a tweet from the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE). In the second round, Osaka received 92 votes, while only 61 participants voted for Yekaterinburg. Baku also took part in the first round, but it dropped out after the first vote. Expo 2025 will take place from May 2 to November 2, 2025.

In Moscow, until January 19, the head of the Main Directorate for Work with Personnel of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the former head of CSKA Mikhail Baryshev, was arrested, reports . Interfax According to the agency, he was accused of taking three bribes totaling about 24 million rubles (part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code). The detention of Baryshev became known on the evening of November 22.

The Moscow District Military Court announced the verdict against Adam and Ibragim Gakaev, as well as Focshan Golub, for attempting to commit a terrorist attack during the 2017 Football Confederations Cup. This is reported by Interfax. “Recognize the defendants guilty, sentence Gakaev to seven years, Golub to nine years in prison with a strict regime colony,” the announced verdict says. In addition, Golub was fined 40,000 rubles.

Relatives of 55 victims of the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 crash in Ukraine have filed a lawsuit against Russia with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), reports Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS). According to Veira Meva's lawyer, the applicants accused the Russian authorities of violating their fundamental rights by shooting down the Boeing and obstructing an independent investigation.

The Leninsky District Court of Vladivostok issued four orders to arrest 90 belugas and 11 killer whales in the framework of the case of illegal catching of biological resources by an organized group (Part 3 of Article 256 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on Facebook by the public organization "Council for Marine Mammals".

The Omsk District Court fined 74-year-old Chairman of the Human Rights Committee (HRC) Valentin Kuznetsov 500 rubles for “disobedience to a police officer” (part 3 of article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

In Chelyabinsk, it was proposed to rename the streets named after the participants in the revolution Sofya Kriva and Samuil Zwilling to fight extremism. The initiative was taken by Vadim Bobrovsky, Deputy Minister of Education of the region, who oversees youth policy. “If you look at Wikipedia, you will see that Sonya Krivoy Street is named after a girl who was arrested at the age of 14 in connection with her activities in the RSDLP.

In the Krasnodar Territory, not far from the Molkino training ground, where, according to media reports, the training base of the private military company (PMC) Wagner is located, a chapel appeared in memory of Russian volunteers who died in Syria. According to the BBC Russian Service, companies associated with businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is considered a sponsor of PMCs, are involved in the construction of the chapel.

On the death of the vice-speaker: at first the Siberian regional policy died, and Alexei Kleshko later-he was largely a derivative of it Photo: RIA Novosti On Thursday in Krasnoyarsk, the first vice-speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the region and the famous television journalist Alexei Kleshko was buried. He was 48 years old, passed away of his own free will. Farewell to him can be interpreted as the verdict of the theory of small affairs, indicated with ultimate clarity.