On the White House website, the United States collected 25 thousand signatures so that President Barack Obama would consider including Russian State Duma deputies who voted for an amendment against the adoption of orphans by Americans on the “Magnitsky list.” Signatures of Russian citizens can also be seen under the petition.

On December 20, the former FSB director, KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Putin, fought back for more than 4 hours from annoying journalists who tried to get out: with whom, for whom and why this is happening? The gabist was twisted well from questions, however, sometimes covered with a punts. On the same day, the Russian secret police raised toasts for their holiday, for the first leader of the Cheka Felix Dzerzhinsky. Whether Putin raised a toast that day, the author is not known.

Photo: PublicPost Collage PublicPost is publishing a series of letters from Russian children who were once adopted by US citizens and their adoptive parents. Children who have found new families are asking the Russian authorities not to prohibit the adoption of Russian orphans by Americans and are trying to explain by their own example why this is important. “In April 2011, my wife and I flew to Moscow to meet our future daughter Irina. I remember our first date as now.

The topic of transferring oppositionist Leonid Razvozzhaev to Siberia (as part of the investigation of a criminal case about the robbery of an Angarsk businessman in 1997) continues to be discussed in the media. Neither his relatives nor his lawyers have information about his current location. It got to the point that news appeared in LiveJournal (at the level of rumors) that Razvozzhaev was no longer alive.

Too much is now being said about the so-called “Dima Yakovlev’s law.” Our respected leader also expressed his position: “ Do not send Russian children abroad. At all. To anyone .” Following the leader, all and sundry began to speak out. To speak out without delving into the question, without simply looking at the statistics... Eduard Veniaminovich’s words are good and correct, but only on condition that a NORMAL system of adoption and patronage is built in Russia.

Residents of this and other areas, deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Yabloko spoke and adopted the following resolution: “We are categorically against any, including temple, construction on the territory of the natural complex (PC No. 89) “Red Carpet”. According to the General Plan of Moscow, it belongs to specially protected natural areas and has the status of a natural complex with urban planning regime No.

Lately I have been putting my signature on the vast majority of petitions I come across. Even if they do not help solve problems, they once again provide an opportunity to focus and accept all their inevitability. “This is me, this is my name, this is my voice,” is what you generally need to say to yourself and others as often as possible. Therefore, regarding such documents, I am always in favor.

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Your Excellency, US Ambassador to the Russian Federation Michael McFaul. I am one of those thousands of Russians who signed a petition to Barack Obama with a request to include in the “Magnitsky Act” all deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation who voted for a ban on the adoption of Russian orphans by US citizens .

Photo: ITAR-TASS It has been cold in Russia for a week now. More than 100 people died from the frost, and about a thousand were injured. In the central region, the thermometer drops to 20 degrees below zero, in Siberia - to 50. In Kamchatka and the Magadan region, it also drops to -50 degrees. School classes have been cancelled. All forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are on high alert. Rescuers are on duty on main highways.