The Nizhny Novgorod District Court of Nizhny Novgorod fined journalist Irina Slavina (Murakhtayeva), editor-in-chief of the independent online publication KozaPress, 70,000 rubles under an article on “disrespect for authorities and society”. This is stated in the editorial. A protocol against Slavina was drawn up for a Facebook post about the opening by tenants of an apartment building in Shakhunya of a memorial plaque to Joseph Stalin.

The US Federal Reserve, which acts as a central bank, cut its key rate by 25 basis points for the third time in a row, to a range of 1.5-1.75%. This is stated in the press release of the service. The Fed previously cut rates by 0.25% in September and July for the first time since the 2008 global financial crisis in a 10-year hiatus. Although the Fed's Open Market Committee .

In Russia, basic drugs for the treatment of cancer patients disappear. Due to "patriotism" Photo: RIA Novosti All experts are talking about drug collapse in oncology. Every day, anxiety is more and more tangible: “If a cytosar does not appear, patients can die (...) if the clinic has planned to buy it quarterly, and now for a month now, the life of patients is under a real threat,” says Elena Gracheva, administrative director of the ADVITA charitable foundation.

Brexit is postponed until January 31, Britain is preparing for early elections Photo: EPA On December 12, extraordinary universal parliamentary elections will be held in the UK. According to observers, they may be able to help the country get out of the deepest political crisis since the Second World War, in which it fell as a result of the 2016 referendum on the exit from the European Union. The path to the elections was very not simple.

The mayor of the city of Krasnoturinsk, the Sverdlovsk region, Alexander Ustinov, at a meeting with trade union activists, stated that the municipal budget lost investments from the regional budget for 300 million rubles, because residents did not actively support the candidate from the "United Russia" Anton Shipulin: Krasnoturinsk took the fourth -to -the -end place of place in the State Duma. voted for the former biathlete.

The criminal case of the Ural doctor Oleg Baskakov went in the second circle: investigators came to his 82-year-old father Photo from the archive Police officers of the city of Novy Lyalya of the Sverdlovsk region drove 700 kilometers to the city of the Simlyabinsk region to interrogate the 82-year-old pensioner Vladimir Baskakov. A search was carried out in his apartment.

End of Russian oil — Russia’s return to Africa — Putin & Erdoğan divide up Syria Фото: РИА Новости This Week’s Highlights The Kremlin expands its influence in Africa with a summit in Sochi, Russia and Turkey reach an agreement on north-eastern Syria but overlook the oil fields, an investigation into forced military service in the Russian armed forces, Novaya Gazeta marks the seventeenth anniversary of the Nord-Ost hostage crisis and Russia prepares for an imminent drop in oil and gas prices.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested until December 29, another person involved in Moscow Pavel Novikov, who was detained on the eve of the morning in the case of the use of non -hazardous violence to a police officer on July 27. This was reported by the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta from the courtroom. Pavel Novikov in the Basmanny Court.

Letter of Vladimir Bukovsky Vladimir Bukovsky. Photo: RIA Novosti At the end of the 90s of the last century, I worked on a book about the poet and human rights activist Vadim Delune. In parallel, work was underway on the documentary television film “Duel Vadim Delonya” for the Culture television channel (VGTRK). Certain difficulties were that many of those who needed to be interviewed lived abroad, including the legend of the human rights movement exchanged for Luis Corvana Bukovsky.

Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine detained a local resident in the Cherkasy region on suspicion of spying for the Russian special services. This was reported by the press service of the department. According to them, an FSB officer in Russia offered a Ukrainian to collect information with limited access about the country's defense sector for money. To do this, he recorded conversations with the military on a hidden camera and transmitted them via hidden communication signals.

As the former authorities of Armenia are trying to return to politics after the "velvet revolution." Interview with the deputy chairman of the ex-legal party Photo: Anna Artemyeva / "New Gazeta" Last spring, folk protests broke out in Yerevan, which in less than a month led to the victory of the opposition. The trigger of unrest was the attempt by Serge Sargsyan to maintain power after the expiration of the second presidential term.

Facebook has removed more than 150 pages associated with St. Petersburg businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin for interfering in the affairs of African countries. This was reported by the press service of the social network.

Submarines of the Russian Northern Fleet are conducting the largest special operation in the waters of the North Atlantic since the end of the Cold War, said a source in the Norwegian public channel NRK in the special services. Norwegian Ministry of Defense spokesman Brinjar Stordal confirmed this in a conversation with AFP.

On the 120th birthday of Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam Nadezhda Mandelstam. Photo: Unknown author/Wikipedia 2019 was celebrated by two round dates related to Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (1899–1980): October 30 marks 120th anniversary of her birth, and on May 1 - 100 years from the date of her meeting with Osip Mandelstam. It was love at first sight, inseparable from the history and topography of Kyiv - the city in which this meeting occurred.

Nikolai Kolachevsky, director of the Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was detained in his office in Moscow. this He himself reported to Gazeta.Ru. According to the scientist, employees of the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs broke into his office on Leninsky Prospekt and announced that he was suspected of complicity in the smuggling of optical elements.