Six fans of the Ulyanovsk football team "Volga" will appear before the trial on charges of inciting interethnic hatred on the eve of the Cup match with the Makhachkala club "Anji". According to Radio Liberty correspondent Sergei Gogin, the Ulyanovsk prosecutor's office approved the accusation against six young people aged 19 to 24 years under article 282 of the Criminal Code of Russia on public inciting hatred or enmity on the grounds of nationality.

More than 50 criminal cases have been instituted in Russia in connection with violations during the election campaign for the election in the State Duma. The largest number of violations - 462 - is registered in Moscow, the report of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee of Russia, which was presented today by President Dmitry Medvedev, is noted. Basically, these are violations during election campaigning.

The statement of the opposition Boris Nemtsov in connection with the publication of his telephone conversations today was sent to the Investigative Committee of Russia and the Prosecutor General. This was done by a member of the Fair Russia faction in the State Duma Ilya Ponomarev, who, together with the statement of Nemtsov, sent to law enforcement agencies and deputy request.

Femen activists after returning from Belarus On the night of December 21, activists of the Ukrainian movement Femen Inna Shevchenko, Oksana Shachko and Alexander Nemchinov returned to Kyiv from Belarus. On December 19, they tried to conduct a topless action near the KGB of Belarus in Minsk - in protest against violation of civil freedoms by Alexander Lukashenko.

State Duma deputies of the sixth convocation, elected in the December 4 elections, gathered today for the first meeting. On the agenda - the election of the leadership of the lower house of the Russian parliament. Four candidates are proposed to the post of chairman of the State Duma.

The verdict on the "second criminal case of Yukos" is a fiction, according to the Presidential Council for Human Rights.

In Kazakhstan, five alleged organizers of the riots in the city of Zhanaozen, which occurred at the end of last week, were detained. This is reported today by Interfax with reference to the commandant of Zhanaozen Amanzhola Kabilov. The names of the detainees are not specified. As Kabilov noted, according to the latest data, 14 people were killed as a result of riots, 99 were injured.

Football. Championship of England. 17th round "Wolverhampton" - "Norvich" 2: 2 "Blackburn" - "Bolton" 1: 2

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel has spread a statement with a sharp criticism of the countries of the European Union, sitting in the Council Safety of the UN and condemned the Israeli government for the construction in Jewish settlements of Judea and Samaria. This is about a statement adopted on December 20 by four countries - Great Britain, France, Germany and Portugal.

The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed today that among the Islamic extremists killed during recent clashes in the north of Yemen, there were at least four Russian citizens. According to the agency, the clashes between supporters of the two directions in Islam - the Salafists and one of the Shiite sects - have been continuing in the Yemenic province of Saad since mid -November.

Femen Promotion in Minsk December 19 The chairman of the State Security Committee of Belarus Vadim Zaitsev called a provocation of the application for the detention of special services by activists of the Ukrainian movement Femen.