At least 208 Iranians have died since the protests began in mid-November, has found Amnesty International . These cases did not receive wide coverage, because after the first victims, the authorities turned off the Internet almost throughout the country. The reason for the protests was the increase in fuel prices since November 15: citizens who took to the streets that day in at least 50 cities set fire to gas stations, as was the case in Sirjan, and turned over the cars of special services.

The city’s police on the Neva detained about a hundred Spartak fans who came to the match with Zenit Photo: Alexander Demyanchuk / TASS The departure of red-white fans to the cultural capital is traditionally the most massive and merciless. The weekend in St. Petersburg was also highlighted by a recent incident with an insult to Artem Dziuba at the National team in San Marino.

Two deputies of the Moscow City Duma from Fair Russia removed the third from the post of head of the faction Mikhail Timonov. Photo: RIA Novosti Mikhail Timonov was removed from the post of the head of the Just Russia faction in the Moscow City Duma.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law that would allow individuals to be recognized as foreign agents. The corresponding register will include both citizens and foreigners who cooperate with the media-"foreign agents" and themselves receive money from foreign sources. Cooperation in the law will be understood as the distribution of media materials - "foreign agents" and participation in the creation of content for them.

The Dzerzhinsky Court of St. Petersburg arrested for 15 days three football fans detained before the Zenit-Spartak match on December 1, the reported press service of the city courts . In total, according to media reports , since the evening of November 30, about a hundred fans of the “red-whites” have been preventively in the departments.

How banks earn hundreds of billions of rubles on commissions and imposed products According to the Central Bank, in 2018, Russian credit institutions achieved a profit of almost 2 trillion rubles, while in the same period they did not earn even 800 billion. Such high results were achieved by increasing various commission fees and improving the system for checking borrowers. It is obvious that today the Russian banking system is functioning quite efficiently.

Moscow City Duma deputy from Just Russia Mikhail Timonov left the post of head of the faction - this decision was made by two of his party colleagues Magomet Yandiev, who was elected the new head, and Alexander Solovyov.

Modern History of Russia in the first stripes of Novaya Gazeta Photo: "New Gazeta" "New Gazeta" celebrates the anniversary: ​​December 2, the editors releases the 3000th paper number. Numerology is not quite what can be expected from a socio-political publication.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law that will increase from 1 to 6 million rubles the maximum fines for Internet companies for repeatedly refusing to hand over encryption keys to users' correspondence to the FSB. The relevant law is published on the portal of legal information. We are talking about instant messengers and other Internet services where user correspondence is possible, and which Roskomnadzor entered into the register of information distributors.

The rectors of Moscow State University and St. Petersburg State University can hold their posts for life. The law providing for the president's right to extend their powers without restrictions was signed by Vladimir Putin. The document is posted on the official portal of legal information. By law, the rectors of Moscow State University and St. Petersburg State University could hold this post until they turn 65 years old.

Boris Kupriyanov-about non-fiction -2019, a boom of reprints and the upcoming crisis of chain stores Boris Kupriyanov, member of the Non-Fixh expert council, co-founder of the Falanster bookstore, director of the site about books and reading Gorky -The non-fixshn fair this year forced to change the location: after 20 years at the Central House of Artists, she moved to the guest courtyard at Ilyinka. What changes are coming in this regard? - Purely external.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the mandatory pre-installation of Russian software on electronic devices, including smartphones and computers. The corresponding document is posted on the official portal of legal information. The law will come into force on July 1, 2020.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law allowing the use of Nazi symbols and paraphernalia in works of science, literature and art without promoting Nazism. The document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information. The initiative to allow the use of prohibited symbols “provided that Nazism and extremism are condemned” was made by a group of deputies headed by the chairman of the committee on culture, Elena Yampolskaya.

A wave of Middle Eastern revolutions reached Iraq and Tehran Photo: EPA For the third month, mass protests have been continuing in Iraq, during which several hundred people were killed, tens of thousands were injured. The most bloody clashes between law enforcement officers and protesters took place in the cities of Southern Iraq - Basra, Nasseria, Nezhef, in the port of the CASR and in the capital's Baghdad.

The Investigative Committee detained the owner of the company, which was engaged in bus transportation of passengers who suffered in a large accident in Transbaikalia. The investigation of this case will be engaged in the central apparatus of the UK, reports TASS. Photo: press service of the Government of the Trans-Baikal Territory In the office of the company and at home, a 30-year-old entrepreneur from Chita took searches.