Protest rally on Sofia streets Anti -system protest in Eastern Europe gives rise to illusions: they say, it is worth replacing "bad" politicians "good" and everything will work out In one of these three countries, after the parliamentary elections, six months have already passed, in the other - only a couple of weeks, in the third - the elections will come to the next spring.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested the property of the opposition policy Alexei Navalny. Thus, the petition of the Investigative Committee was satisfied. The arrest was imposed on shares and bank deposits of Navalny and to his share in the Kobyakovsky factory by fishing. In his microblog on Twitter, the opposition said that he did not know exactly what his property was arrested. He claims that he was not invited to a court session.

The State Duma today will consider in the first reading a bill on the unification of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Arbitration Court of Russia. The document was submitted to the lower house of the Russian parliament by President Vladimir Putin on October 7. The bill makes amendments to the Constitution of Russia, according to which, within six months, the two courts should reorganize the Supreme Court of the Supreme Court.

There are things that require careful and quiet study, and then a resonant public presentation. Today, the authorities persistently invite everyone to participate in the discussion of the budget of the Chelyabinsk region for 2014, obviously having in mind that no one will really work out to do this, and the hearing will turn, as usual, into the general approval of the main financial document of the region by the mass of officials and pocket “social activists” gathered in the Great Hall.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on the unification of the Supreme and Supreme Arbitration Courts of Russia. The document on the relevant amendments to the Constitution was submitted to the State Duma by President Vladimir Putin on October 7. The bill provides for the abolition of the Supreme Arbitration Court (you) within six months and the transfer of its authority to the jurisdiction of the newly created Supreme Court. After reports of reform, seven judges have resigned you.

Countering Xenophobia Committee - answer to the Russian march In Moscow, the first meeting of the Committee for Combating Xenophobia was held The tenth of December, on the day of the protection of human rights, the recently created committee of the opposition of xenophobia intends to hold actions against national intolerance throughout Russia.

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The queue for gas masks in the Israeli city of Mevasseret Zion, July 24, 2012 The Ministry of Defense of Israel unexpectedly announced the intention to propose a program for stopping the production of gas masks. The distribution of gas masks will also be discontinued, despite the fact that a few months ago, thousands of Israelis came to the distribution points of the gas masks. This was reported by Radio Liberty correspondent Ela Kotler.

The Russian State Duma on Tuesday in the third, final reading adopted a bill that gives the court the right to oblige drug addicts to undergo a course of treatment and rehabilitation. A copy of this kind of court will be sent to the corresponding medical institution. According to the bill, for evasion of treatment in connection with drug addiction, a penalty of up to five thousand rubles or arrest of up to 30 days is introduced.

This publication completes the series of interviews with the authors of popular science books included in the 2013 Educator short list. The Enlightener prize is held by the Dynasty Foundation, a jury consisting of scientists, journalists and laureates of past years, annually chooses the best non-fiction books written in Russian. This year, three books were included in the final list of nominees in the “Natural Sciences” category. This is "stand, who leads?

Vladimir Kara-Murza: Today, the Communist Party faction came up with the initiative of the Duma appeal to President Vladimir Putin calling for the events of the fall of 1993 again. Here they included perpetuating the memory of the dead defenders of the Constitution, rehabilitation of the victim of these two dramatic days, the social support of relatives of the dead, and so on. This initiative did not find the support of the lower house of parliament, the necessary 226 votes.

The special train of the train, in which 30 arrested activists of Greenpeace were brought from Murmansk to Petersburg (Ladoga Station, November 12, 2013) The arrested Greenpeace activists delivered from Murmansk to St. Petersburg were placed in three city investigative insulators, including in crosses. This is reported by agencies and activists on Twitter. The Federal Penitentiary Service said that no complaints were received from these citizens.

Two American sailors, captured by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Nigeria, are liberated. This was announced on Tuesday by the State Department of the United States. The representative of the State Department Jen Psaki refused to report the details, saying only that the United States welcomes the release of its citizens. However, the ABC television company quotes the words of unexplored American officials who said, a ransom was paid for the sailors.

The intercontinental missile "Topol" starts from the Plesetsk cosmodrome At the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region, two officers died during rocket fuel containers. This was reported on Tuesday by the Russian Ministry of Defense, clarifying that the incident occurred on Saturday. According to the agency, three more military personnel received toxic poisoning in pairs of nitrogen and were placed in the hospital.