Andrey Sakharov and Elena Bonner, Gorky, 1985. On December 14, the 20th anniversary of the death of Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov - Soviet physicist, dissident, Nobel laureate of the World of the World. On the day of the death of a human rights activist in Moscow, a two -day international conference “Sakharov's Ideas Today” opens, the topics of which correspond to the three parts of the Nobel lecture by Andrei Sakharov “Peace, Progress, Human Rights”.

The official results of the presidential election are announced in Abkhazia, ”Sergey Bagapsh won. According to the chairman of the Abkhaz Central Election Commission Batal Tapagua, the current head of the republic gained 59.37 percent of votes. The rivals of Bagapsha in the elections were entrepreneur Beslan Butba and former vice president of Abkhazia Raul Hadimba. Opposition candidates claim numerous violations during the election campaign and voting.

Sergey Udaltsov - one of the leaders of the left opposition On December 13, representatives of various left-wing organizations of Moscow, in particular the Left Front, socialist movements “forward”, “labor Russia”, the Russian Communist Labor Party and others planned to go through the central streets of the city with the march of protest “Anti-capitalism-2009”, however, the metropolitan authorities in conducting the promotion of the left opposition refused that the blocking of traffic on central

Fresh information about the events of the current day and its analysis together with experts.

Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad promised on Sunday and henceforth to support the Palestinian radical group of Hamas. According to Iranian state television, during a meeting in Tehran with the head of Hamas Haled Moshaal, the president of Iran said that he would be next to the Palestinian people - "up to the inevitable collapse of the Zionist regime of Israel" (the end of the quote). Akhmadinejad also said that the Palestinians need to maintain vigilance in relations with Israel.

UK, Portsmout 12.12.2009 On Monday, we went to pick up a small cat, which was found on an ad on the Internet. She lived on a farm, for Chicheter. We left after 6, and it was already dark, therefore, after we moved with Motovay, they got a little wound up (which is uncharacteristic for England), drove into some local forests and unexpectedly saw a huge estate sparkling with lights, the size of not less than a Buckingham palace.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply condemned the attack on the mosque on the western coast of Jordan and ordered to find and punish the perpetrators. The attack was committed on Thursday. The prayer hall and the library were set on fire. The attackers left offensive inscriptions in Hebrew on the walls. Later, in the village of Yasuf, where the mosque is located, there were clashes between local residents and Israeli military who arrived to investigate the incident.

In the west of Iraq near the city of El Falluj, at least 2 people were killed during the explosion, about 10 were injured. According to local authorities, the goal of the attack was the head of the local police officer of quick response. He was not injured. In the El Falluja itself, according to France Press, a policeman died during the explosion, several people were injured. In the north of Iraq near the city of Mosul, a mined car exploded next to the center for recruits.

The issue of restoring apartments destroyed on Saturday as a result of an explosion in a residential building in the city of Dzerzhinsk of the Nizhny Novgorod region will be discussed today at a meeting of a special commission. According to preliminary information, the Ministry of Emergencies, in one of the apartments, installation work was carried out using a gas cylinder. As a result of the explosion, six people were killed, one is seriously wounded. Ceiling ceilings fell in two apartments.

In the Chelyabinsk region, eight people were killed as a result of the collapse of a private aircraft. This was reported to "Interfax" in the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies. The accident occurred in the area of the city of Korkino. Details are not yet known.

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Vitaly Mansky, Director-Documentist, President of the Artdokfest festival Elena Fanailova: Freedom in the cafe of the cinema "Pioneer". The third festival called “Artdokfest” is taking place here - this is the most representative, probably now, now forum for documentary cinema.

The Thai authorities today will charge the crew of the plane detained in Bangkok with a load of North Korean weapons - four citizens of Kazakhstan and a citizen of Belarus. The Thai government said that special services are checking whether it was a terrorist activity. It is reported that on board the IL-76 transport aircraft registered in Georgia there were about 30 tons of weapons, including rockets and reactive shells for grenade launchers. It is not yet clear where the plane was going.

The Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei accused the reformist opposition of violating the law and insulting the founder of the Islamic Republic of Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini. In the television show, Khamenei said that he demanded that the opposition report exactly who was guilty of insulting. Earlier, Iran’s official media reported that Khomeini was torn at the opposition demonstration.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus confirmed that a citizen of the republic was in the crew of the plane detained in Thailand with weapons. This is informed by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus. As previously reported, the Thai authorities detained the IL-76 aircraft with weapons on board on Saturday.