Cover of the magazine "Kommersant Power" Employees of the Kommersant Publishing House are protesting against the dismissal of the editor -in -chief of the magazine "Kommersant Power" Maxim Kovalsky. He was fired for the publication of a photograph of a ballot with an obscene message to the Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin.

One of the largest companies in the Tomsk region Tomskneft is no longer intended to sponsor the Tom football club.

He has been cooperating with RS since 1991. The editor and host of the Road to Freedom Program Vitaly Portnikov on Facebook , Twitter Portnikovv@rferl.org

OPEC countries, which have a third of all oil produced in the world, agreed to increase the total quota of production for them, which has not changed for three consecutive years, since December 2008, and amounted to about 25 million barrels per day. According to expert estimates, which the OPEC countries themselves use, they really get more than 30 million barrels daily - with a global production of about 90 million barrels.

In the Kostroma region, when a passenger bus collided with a truck, six people were killed. According to preliminary data, at the time of the accident there were 25 people on the bus, there were no children among them, - Interfax told in the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies. According to the department, four men and two women died on the spot, four more people were hospitalized. About whose fault the accident occurred has not yet been reported.

The mayor of Krasnoyarsk Peter Pimashkov was resigned. This decision was made today by a majority vote of the city council. This was done at the request of Pimashkov himself. It is assumed that he will go to work in the State Duma, where he was elected according to the lists of the United Russia party. The acting mayor of Krasnoyarsk was appointed Edham Akbulatov, who had previously headed the government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Protest rally in Moscow on Bolotnaya Square on December 10 The organizers of the rally “For honest elections” managed to agree with the Moscow authorities holding the action on December 24. According to Radio Liberty, one of the organizers of the action, journalist Sergei Parkhomenko, a rally of up to 50 thousand people will take place on Sakharov Avenue. Earlier, nationalist organizations announced the intention to hold shares on the same sites. However, they were refused.

The Investigative Committee of Russia denied a message about the initiation of a criminal case against the head of the Yekaterinburg Foundation "City without drugs" Evgeny Roizman. Previously, this information was also refuted by the FSB Office in the Sverdlovsk Region. The fact that the criminal case was stated against him by Evgeny Roizman himself. According to him, it concerns the events in the village of Sagra, where a mass fight occurred this summer.

Return to Sarajevo. Continuation of the cycle. Strange Balkan economy. Economic environment 12/14/2011

Barack Obama and Prime Minister Iraq Nuri al-Maliki US President Barack Obama greeted military personnel who recently returned from Iraq, which American troops should leave until the end of this year. Speaking to the military personnel on the basis of special forces in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Obama called the return of American troops from Iraq to his homeland "a historical moment in the life of the country and its army." For more than 8 years of the war, about 4,500 US troops died in Iraq.

In the Baksansky district of Kabardino-Balkaria, four militants were killed during the special operation. According to the regional department of the Investigative Committee of Russia today, extremists were discovered on the outskirts of the village of Zhanhoteco. During the detention, they showed armed resistance and were killed by return fire. Nobody was injured among law enforcement officers. Investigators work at the scene. A criminal case has been opened.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin today on the air of state television and radio companies will answer questions from Russian citizens. A number of direct inclusions from large cities are expected. In addition, Putin will answer the questions of the people gathered in the studio and the questions that came through the call center and the program website. The so-called "direct line" of Vladimir Putin will be held for the 10th time.

Governor of the Irkutsk region Dmitry Mezentsev In Irkutsk, an initiative group of citizens nominates the president of Russia by the governor of the Irkutsk region Dmitry Mezentsev. This was reported today by regional media. According to the law, the stage of self -nomination of candidates ends on December 15 - until this date, the initiative groups should be held and confirming the documents in the Central Election Commission should be submitted to the Central Election Commission.

The alignment of forces in the new State Duma has changed: now instead of lawmakers in parliament there will be more and more miners and pensioners In the State Duma of the sixth convocation, as in the fifth Duma, four fractions: "United Russia", which received 238 seats in the elections, is in second place by the Communist Party, which has 92 chairs, in the third "Fair Russia" with 64 places, and in the fourth LPDR, which got 56 seats in parliament.

In the south of Yemen, at least 20 people suspected of espionage in favor of the United States were executed by al-al-Qaeda militants. This was announced today by the AS-Sayassa newspaper, the elder of one of the local tribes, who did not name his name. More than 16 people accused of theft, hands were amputated. The executions and cutting of the hands were carried out in the province of Abyan. Other details are not reported.