The human rights organization "International Amnesty" urged to withdraw all the accusations from the Indian doctor and civil activist Binaik Seine, sentenced to life imprisonment. The Court in the Indian state of Chhattisharh found him guilty of cooperation with the Maoist rebels and incitement to the rebellion. Human rights activists believe that September was deprived of the right to a fair trial, and that his case was politically motivated.

Flying trees in the Khimkinsky forest Ecologists dressed up a Christmas tree in the Khimkinsky forest near Moscow. About thirty defenders of the forest held a round dance and sang the song “A Christmas tree was born in the forest”, lowering the verse in which the Christmas tree is cut down.

An unexpected denouement ended in Tuva one of the most high -profile anti -corruption affairs. In 2004, the Kyzyl City Court sentenced the former head of the Mergen Anai-oola tariffs to a fine of 50 thousand rubles for receiving a bribe of eight thousand rubles. And six years later, the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of the Tuva Stone on the stone did not leave this decision.

Law enforcement agencies of Kyrgyzstan were transferred to the barracks of service - after an attempt to attack in the capital of the country. This morning, an explosive device with an hour -long mechanism was neutralized in Bishkek, laid in the Land Rover car, parked at the housing office. In the car was a gas cylinder filled with explosives, equivalent to ten kilograms of TNT.

Li Sasovich could not attend the ceremony in Oslo China’s representative office in Hong Kong hosted the action in defense of the Chinese dissident, the Nobel Prize laureate for 2010 Liu Xiaul. The action, in which dozens of people participated, was timed to the first anniversary of the court’s sentence on charges of anti -state activity. The audience demanded that the human rights activist who received 11 years in prison in December last year.

Wounded in an explosion in Bajaur More than 80 people died over the past day in the north-west of Pakistan as a result of terrorist attacks and armed clashes. The number of victims of the explosion in the center of distribution of humanitarian aid in the Bajaur region near the border with Afghanistan increased to 43. More than 100 people were injured. It is still unclear whether the suicide bomber made an explosion, or a man whose face was hidden by a burqa.

In Turkmenistan, law enforcement agencies destroyed more than 700 kilograms of drugs captured as a result of special operations. This was reported by Turkmen media. The authorities do not specify the time of the operation and do not give details regarding the origin and type of captured narcotic substances. There is only evidence that drug burning was carried out in the town of Kazamla near Ashgabat.

In Ulyanovsk and so monuments of a dime a dozen The Government of the Ulyanovsk Region adopted the concept of perpetuating the memory of people who made a special contribution to the history of the region. In the next three years, it is proposed to install more than 100 memorial objects in the region.

Vladimir Toltz : On the Private and Christmas days, it is customary to tell stories filled with mysterious and mysterious. 11 years ago we told one such aired. It concerned the secrets of the internal mechanism of scientific discoveries - one of the most difficult and fascinating topics, not only for the historians of science and those who study the psychology of creativity, but also everyone who is interested in flowing the past into the present.

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Svetlana Aleksievich Dmitry Volchek: I welcome our guests in Minsk: writer Svetlana Aleksievich and film director Yuri Khachevatsky. At the beginning of our program, we talked about what is happening in Belarus after the presidential election, and now we will return to these events, we will talk about the repressions that fell upon the opposition activists, about arrests and searches. Svetlana Aleksandrovna, good evening.

As a result of shelling, a civilian specialist from Germany died in Afghanistan. The car, in which he was and three more, was fired on Friday in the north of the country. According to the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, the deceased worked as a consultant in one of the banks, he was engaged in a road project in Afghanistan. The Taliban took responsibility for the attack.