When independent Moscow artists decided to hold an art exhibition on the outskirts of the Moscow wasteland on September 15, 1974, no one suggested that it would become the most important historical milestone and a symbol of confrontation to the authorities. Nothing separately - neither the artistic level of picturesque work, nor the venue, nor the number of participants and their names - did not promise a loud scandal.

Hockey. NHL. Regular championship "New York Rangers"-"Florida" 6: 1. Artem Anisimov ("New York Rangers") goal and program "Chicago"-"San Jose" 3: 2 (in overtime)

Two high -ranking representatives of the power structures of Belarus are detained. The employees of the State Security Committee were detained by Deputy Minister of the Interior, Yevgeny Poloden, and the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court sentenced Igor Azarenka to 9 years in prison and the air defense forces of the Air Defense of Belarus.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev intends to meet with party leaders on December 13, who passed the State Duma on December 4 following the election. It is expected that the meeting will discuss the principles of the work of the new Duma, including the distribution of posts in its leadership. Earlier it was reported that United Russia is ready to give other parties to other parties by a number of committees.

In Yemen, 16 militants suspected of relations with al-Qaeda fled from prison. According to the Yemenskoye police today, the escape was committed from prison in the city of Aden in the south of the country. The prisoners dug an underground passage leading outside the prison. Yemen is considered the main base of the al-Qaeda group on the Arabian Peninsula. ”

A rally on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, December 10, 2011 Elena Fanailova: Freedom in the cafe "March". Swamp and Maidan. Kyiv Polit Club Vitaly Portnikova visiting the Freedom in Clubs. We were going to discuss relations between Russia and Ukraine. But since our program is recorded against the backdrop of political posture events in Moscow, we cannot leave them unattended.

The leaders of the European Union intend to discuss with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev the question of the recent elections to the State Duma, which the Russian opposition considers falsified. On Wednesday and Thursday in Brussels, an EU-Russia summit will take place, in which Medvedev will take part.

The Russian federal budget in January -November was executed with a surplus that amounted to about 1 trillion 343 billion rubles or 2.8% of GDP - such preliminary data were reported by the Ministry of Finance of the country. According to the official forecast of the government, in the current year, the federal budget revenues will be equal to its income, while the acting Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov predicts a surplus of at least 0.5% of GDP.

The second time in Russia for falsification of elections, the perpetrators suffered criminal punishment. On December 4, the court of the Ponomarevsky district of the Orenburg region examined the case against members of the election commission of the village of Nauruzovo. The village itself, by modern Russian standards, is quite large - about two thousand people officially live here, about one and a half thousand have the right to vote. For each election, two pounds for voting are equipped.

One of the protests against dishonest elections in St. Petersburg Peter Gorizbirk officially summed up the election results to the Legislative Assembly of the 5th convocation. At the same time, deputies from all parties, except for United Russia, are sure that their votes were stolen.

In Syria, in the atmosphere of repressions against participants in anti -government actions on Monday, municipal elections were held. The authorities called them democratic and declared a high explicit of voters. Other details of voting are not mentioned. On Monday - according to Syrian human rights activists - at least 15 people died in clashes with security forces in the provinces of Homs and Idlib.

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In Warsaw, the Belarusian oppositionist Ales Mikhalevich was released earlier on Monday, - Radio Liberty correspondent Alexander Lemeshevsky reports. Mikhalevich intended to fly out into London, but was detained at the Warsaw International Airport named after Frederick Chopin. “I was detained at the airport and said that the police were looking for me in order to deliver me to the prosecutor,” Ales Mikhalevich told Radio Liberty.