The Barack Obama administration responded to the petition against the deputies. There were three petitions in total: in two of them the authors asked to include deputies who voted for the anti -Sirot law in the Magnitsky List. The authors of the third asked to impose the same sanctions against Vladimir Putin, if he signed the law. The White House is obliged to consider the petition if it is signed by more than 25 thousand people. Three petitions in total scored 75 196 signatures.

We are finally publishing a detailed photo report from the St. Petersburg exhibition of political street art "Voice of the Streets", which took place in "Etazhi" from mid-November to mid-December and in which our Slava PTRK participated. There was also one work by Ilya Mozga, several photographs of Yekaterinburg works and much more. The exhibition was organized by the PublicPost portal represented by two wonderful curators - Stas and Sasha, special thanks to them for the great work they did!

Today, a boarding school for blind and visually impaired children was a big holiday. Santa Claus with a large bag of gifts came to the guys! Passers -by on the street were very fun when they saw grandfather, smiled, everyone congratulated each other on the upcoming New Year! When the wizard went into the classroom and began to give out gifts, the guys were delighted! They obviously did not expect that besides sweet gifts, MP3 players would also receive! Six -grades hugged grandfather.

Deputies of the Voronezh City Duma on Tuesday approved in the second, final reading the draft budget of the regional center for 2013, reported an Interfax correspondent who was present at the meeting. The total revenues of the city budget will be 12 billion 393 million 608.8 thousand rubles, expenses - 13 billion 208 million 226.8 thousand rubles, the projected deficit is 814.618 million rubles, or 6.2% of expenses. The maximum amount of municipal debt is set for 2013 at 9.5 billion rubles.

Legendary weapons designer Mikhail Kalashnikov was hospitalized, but he is fine, his assistant Nikolai Shklyaev told the Interfax news agency on Tuesday. “(Kalashnikov’s) son said that he was in intensive care,” Shklyaev said. According to Shklyaev, who refers to the designer’s son, this is not due to problems with Mikhail Kalashnikov’s heart, but to swelling of the limbs. “I contacted the driver (Kalashnikov - editor’s note), he says: everything is fine with us,” Shklyaev said.

Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina was sentenced to prison for the fourth time for inappropriate behavior, according to the website of the group’s supporters. “Failure to rise at 5:30 was considered at a special meeting of the disciplinary commission of IK-28. Maria was given a separate reprimand for her behavior at this commission. These facts were reported in a statement by Maria Alekhina addressed to the head of the colony, M.A. Martynova, but no action was taken was not," the message says.

An unauthorized protest was held on December 24 in Nalchik by minibus drivers. More than 120 people protested against the requirements of the technical regulations on equipping vehicles with GLONASS satellite navigation equipment, the Caucasian Knot reports with reference to the Kabardino-Balkarian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Ministry of Internal Affairs tried to disperse the protest, but the drivers dispersed on their own. 15 protesters were taken to the police.

In this case, I will not talk about all of Russia. I’ll tell you about Moscow, the city where I’ve lived since birth. This city has long been uncomfortable, and now it’s becoming even more dangerous. The level of rudeness in public places is off the charts. Public spaces start right from the front door of the house. Amid the rather loud discussion about authoritarian restrictions on freedoms, no one feels bound by anything. Everyone is evil, no one knows the edges.

Deputies Oleg Mikheev (A Just Russia faction) and Konstantin Shirshov (Communist Party faction) may be deprived of parliamentary immunity. The Investigative Committee has already sent relevant materials to the Prosecutor General's Office.

The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is actively “firing” with the help of lawyers and the media against President Obama’s attempts to tighten gun laws in the country. After heated debate on television over the horrific shooting of junior schoolchildren in the town of Newtown, thousands of American weapons lawyers sent a petition to the White House demanding the removal from the air of British CNN anchor Piers Morgan. 28,500 signatures were collected extremely quickly for this demand.

PublicPost has collected the most striking statements by Russian politicians speaking for or against the “anti-Magnitsky law,” which the State Duma adopted in the third reading on December 21 .

The prosecutor's office of the Orenburg region organized an inspection of messages from OJSC Orenburg Heat Generating Company (Orenburg TGC) about the upcoming restriction of the supply of thermal energy to facilities of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation located in the region.

Today in Nalchik, the rector of the Kabardino-Balkarian State Agricultural Academy, Professor Boris Zherukov, was killed in his office. This is reported by a number of media outlets, including http://kommersant.ru/doc/2098051 . Boris Zherukov was a member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party. In addition, the rector was the head of the United Russia faction in the Kabardino-Balkarian parliament. Even if the so-called crime is not related to this crime.

For more than a week now, Russia has been in the grip of unrelenting frosts - from minus 18 in Moscow to minus 50 in Siberia. Meteorologists claim that such anomalies have not been observed since 1938. Moving around in such cold weather is really not a pleasant task. But, going out into such cold weather, probably each of us is warmed by the thought that, having reached home, we will find ourselves in warmth and comfort.

The first year of work of the State Duma of the sixth convocation has ended. My long-time acquaintance, Tula deputy Oleg Lebedev, has been working in the Duma for the first year, who was given the mandate of the legendary “red” politician Vasily Aleksandrovich Starodubtsev, who passed away exactly a year ago and was respected by many. I’m talking with Oleg Lebedev, a member of the Committee on Natural Resources, Environmental Management and Ecology.