The State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building on Monday supported the appropriate amendment to the so -called "Law of Dima Yakovlev", the RIA Novosti website reports. The amendments recommend introducing a direct ban on the activities of political NPOs and those non -profit organizations in Russia, whose activities poses a threat to the interests of Russia.

The Moscow City Court softened the punishment from the real criminal term for the conditional Suren Mkrtchyan - the director of the restaurant Il Pittore , where in January 2012 three people were killed as a result of the explosion, Rapcy reports. Recall that, by the decision of the court of first instance, Mkrtchyan was sentenced by the year and eight months in a colony-settlement.

The Moscow Regional Duma provides the “golden parachutes” of regional ministers who risk losing work in connection with the election of the governor in 2013, as well as the deputies themselves, who may not be re -elected in 2016.

The former general director of the “District Material Warehouse of the Moscow Air Force” Maxim Klastutilo refused the deal with the investigation, Interfax reports with reference to Oleg Bessonov’s lawyer. Zakutamilo does not admit his guilt, Bessonov noted. The defense filed a complaint about the extension of the term of the arrest of Zakutatilo, who was left in custody until February 10, 2013.

Iranian revenues from oil production this year were halved compared to last year, Reuters reports with reference to the local newspaper Donya-E-Eqtesad. According to the Minister of Economy Iran Shamseddin Hosseini, the economic sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic by the United States and the European Union led to a reduction in income.

Lawyers Leonid Razvoszhaev , who are suspected of preparing the riots, appealed the decision to extend his arrest, reports RAPSI. Last week, the Moscow Basmanny Court extended the arrest of Razvozhaev until April 1, 2013. Earlier, investigators indicated that Razvozhaev has extensive ties, including abroad, and he could affect the course of the investigation. In turn, Razvozhaev said that he suffered from a “serious illness”, which could lead to disability.

" If a new criminal case against Alexei Navalny will be used as a case -based, usual business practice will become illegal," the Vedomosti newspaper in No. 239 of December 17 writes. Recall that on Friday, the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR), Vladimir Markin, announced the initiation of a new criminal case against Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg under Articles 159 part 4 (fraud) and 174 of the laundering of money (money laundering).

Ekaterina Samutsevich, a member of the Pussi Riot group, who received a conditional term in an interview with Polit.ru spoke about life at large, conclusions and plans for the future. Ekaterina, now, probably, many are asking questions about your conflicts with former lawyers, this topic, of course, is also interested in us, but at first I would like to ask how you feel? Fine. True, a little tired of everything that happens. But in principle, everything is not bad.

The large adron collider was stopped until 2015 for modernization. The big online monitor of the collider says that all operations of 2012 are completed, the RIA Novosti website reports. As reported on December 17, the collider’s work will resume for a while in 2013, then it will be closed again for long-term repairs, which will last at least one and a half years, after which proton-proton clashes of high energies will resume in 2015.

Evgenia Krasavtseva , Alexander Tushkin At the end of last week, one of the most bloody killings in the history of the United States occurred at the American school of Sandy Hook. A 20-year-old resident of Connecticut Adam Peter Lanza shot 26 people, including her mother, who worked at the school as a teacher. 20 victims of the criminal are children aged six to seven years old, 18 of them were killed directly at school, two more children died from wounds in the hospital.

By the second reading to the bill, which should become a Russian response to the Magnitsky Law, will be amended that forbidden the Americans adopt Russian children. The newspaper "Vedomosti" writes about this in the issue of December 17. According to the source of the newspaper, the corresponding amendments for the second reading is prepared by United Russia.

The investigation restores the recording from the video cameras at the club, where on the night of December 16, a teacher of Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was killed in a fight, RIA Novosti reports. The conflict flared up near the night club The Real McCoy on Kudrinskaya Square. According to the sources of the agency, two men quarreled because of the girl, as a result, one of the fighters pushed the other.

Bulgaria appealed to the United States with a request to place a permanent military contingent on its territory, the Bulgarian newspaper " Trud " reports. According to the publication, this proposal was made by the Minister of Defense Angelov and other members of the Bulgarian delegation during a meeting with representatives of the Pentagon and the US State Department in early December.

The Russian military leadership adopts the experience of the army of NATO countries on the use of an outsourcing system for servicing by third parties of the individuals of the life of the troops. Outsourcing has already covered the US Army, Canada, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Bulgaria.

The Moscow authorities denied information about the allocation of plots for the construction of new mosques in Moscow, Interfax reports. On Monday, the chairman of the Moskomstroyinvest (the Moscow Committee to ensure the implementation of investment projects in construction and control in the field of shared construction) wrote a letter stating that no decisions regarding the sites were actually made.