Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the liberalization of the export of liquefied natural gas. The law allows for selling gas to other suppliers of this fuel, in addition to Gazprom, which previously had a monopoly on gas export.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed the opinion that the events taking place in Ukraine are more similar to "not to the revolution, but to pogroms." According to him, television personnel demonstrate, "how well -trained and trained groups of militants act." Answering Interfax questions at a press conference in Yerevan, he said that the current actions in Kyiv were preparing for the 2015 presidential campaign and are little related to the relations of Ukraine and the EU.

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Alexey Navalny Oppositionist Alexei Navalny acted today as a witness to the defense in the process in the case of 12 accused of participation in riots in the Moscow Bolotnaya Square in May last year. According to Navalny, the organizers of last year’s procession and a rally in Bolotnaya Square did not prepare riots. “There were no plans or ideas towards the Kremlin,” the opposition said.

On the evening of Monday in Moscow, eleven participants in the Solidarity action in support of pro -European demonstrations in Kyiv were released from the Presnensky police department. The picket was held at the Embassy of Ukraine. According to the ATS-INFO, the protocols in connection with the "violation of the procedure for holding a rally" were drawn up for two participants in the action.

Margaret Thatcher, 1981 Alexander Genis: There are years in human history, which are marked by some kind of events known to all, say, 1776 (the year of the “Declaration of Independence”), or 1945, or 2001, when the twin towers in America were destroyed. Any of those who were an adult in 1989 instantly realized that the fall of the Berlin Wall is an event in history is the highest.

Pupils of the Moscow school are preparing to surrender the exam Since 2014, schoolchildren will pass the Unified State Exam (exam) under the supervision of video cameras, the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov told Interfax. According to the minister, his department will not have to purchase expensive equipment for this, since the examination audiences will install video cameras that were used at polling stations in the presidential election in 2012.

In Kyiv, protests are continuing with a demand for the resignation of the president and government. Direct video broadcast in the center of Kyiv on Monday in the evening of Monday is a new mass manifestation. During the day, thousands of people were on the Maidan.

In Samara, depositors of the Volga Social Bank are concerned that they will not be able to get their savings. People are afraid of bankruptcy and other local financial and credit institutions, Radio Liberty correspondent Sergei Khazov reports. “It was impossible to restore the work of the Volga Social Bank even with the support of the regional government due to the scale of the problems that the bank had,” said the Minister of Economic Development of the Samara Region Alexander Kobenko.

The Pope Francis accepted on Monday in the Vatican of the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and called him to promote the establishment of a fair and durable world in the Middle East. The Vatican press service said that Francis and Netanyahu discussed the "complex political and social" situation, against which Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are resumed.

Promotion participants are trying to hold the poster The picket of solidarity with Ukraine was held in Moscow by activists of the Solidarity movement and the Party of People's Freedom One and a half dozen activists of the Solidarity movement and the Republican Party of People’s Freedom (Parnassus) reached a picket of solidarity with supporters of the integration of Ukraine with the European Union on December 2.

Dovlatov in notebooks said: "Holtura does not exist, there is only, alas, our creative powerlessness." Do you know what is the most unpleasant in the theater? This is that the curtain will still rise and the actors will still go on stage and will still play the performance. This is the "most terrible". I realized that I had ceased to be an actress when I agreed several years ago to an uninteresting but well -paid project.

The cover of the book by Annabella Bukar, December 1949 Hollywood and Stalin: Love without reciprocity (part 35) Continuation of the series, start read here . On February 28, 1948, the American press announced a sensation: the day before, an employee of the US Embassy in Moscow 33-year-old Annabel Bukar filed a petition for a resignation.

In the Pakistani region, Kashmir killed at least ten people during the bus accident, there are wounded. According to information agencies, a bus that followed from the city of Ravalpindi in the north-west of the country to the border city of striker-kayut, fell in a gorge of 150 meters away. There were 20 people on the bus. In Pakistan, car accidents often occur due to the poor state of roads and non-compliance with drivers of road rules.