Andrey hair at the award ceremony Writer Andrei Hair became the laureate of the Russian Bucher Award for the novel about the great Tajik poet Rudaki The best novel of 2013, according to the Buker Jury, was recognized as the book “Return to Panjrud” by Andrei Hales. This is a fictional biography of the great Persian-Tajik poet of the X century Rudaki, blinded by order of the Bukhara Emir.

Alexey Navalny The Supreme Court of Russia will today consider the complaint of Alexei Navalny to the results of the mayor’s election in Moscow. The opposition and a former candidate for the capital's mayor believes that the election campaign and voting were accompanied by serious violations. Among them, Navalny gives unequal access to the media, falsification when organizing home voting and distribution at the expense of the city budget of grocery sets for pensioners.

In the Tula region, a hunger strike was announced by a 78-year-old pensioner Galina Germanenko from the city of Uzlovaya, as well as her friend Emma Tkach. Women demand a visit to the city and public apologies from the vice-governor of the region Yulia Maryasova.

Today in Paris, Natalya Evgenievna Gorbanevskaya, a large friend of a huge number of people on this earth, was buried in Paris. Natasha - that was the name of her everything: both young and peers - was a very large, real, big Russian poet, and Akhmatova was marked from his youth. The 25-year-old Natasha has such lines: Like the Army Army Soldiers, Like an Andersen soldier, I'm not in business. I am a poetry, Sadly unable to lie.

In Ukraine, the opposition intends to expand the scale of protest shares in Kyiv and picket the buildings of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and ships. This was stated on Wednesday by the leader of the Fatherland faction in the Verkhovna Rada Arseniy Yatsenyuk. From Sunday, the Kyiv City Hall and the House of Trade Unions remain under the control of the manifestants. On Independence Square, several thousand people rally.

"Sparrow Atom" by Alexander Delfinov Berlin and Moscow read the magical poetic book of Alexander Delphin "Sparrow Atom." The All-Russian presentation was held at the Moscow Borodach Bar, the All-German Pandal Berlin Panda-Theater is being prepared. The Dolphin poet-analyzist, who lives in the capitals of two defeated empires, wears a pirate tunic strengthened by silver skulls, and believes that life is still able to defeat the death in an unknown science in a way.

A rating of the effectiveness of the Kirov deputies of the State Duma of Russia has been published in Kirov 2 years ago, in December 2011, residents of the Kirov region elected 5 State Duma deputies - Vyacheslav Timchenko and Oleg Valenchuk from United Russia, Sergey Doronin from Just Russia, Sergey Mamaev from the Communist Party and Kirill Cherkasov from the LDPR.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) did not find violations in the Mordovian correctional colony No. 14, which contained a convicted participant in Pussy Riot Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikov. Members of the Presidential Council for Human Rights also did not find any violations of the law.

In the vicinity of the capital, Mali Bamako found a mass burial. As sources in the Mali law enforcement agencies told France Press, on Tuesday evening, the remains of 21 people were found in the village of Diago. It is believed that these were soldiers of the units, the loyal Amadu Tumani Tour - the president, overthrown as a result of the coup in April 2012.

US Vice President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (Tokyo, December 3, 2013) US Vice President Joe Biden arrived today on a visit to Beijing, where he will negotiate with the leadership of China. The main topic is a scandal in connection with the recent introduction of China by a special zone of recognition of aircraft in the area of the East China Sea - where there are disputed islands, which are claimed by China and Japan.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova in the penalty insulator of the Mordovian colony No. 14 The Federal Penitentiary Service did not find violations in the Mordovian colony, where Pussy Riot Pussy Riot Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikov, was serving, Interfax reports. In September, Tolokonnikova announced a hunger strike in connection with threats to murder against her from the deputy head of the colony Yuri Kupriyanov and demanded to transfer it to another correctional institution.

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Human rights activists, politicians, economists, figures of science and culture, concerned about the state of human rights in Russia, as well as citizens who suffered from the arbitrariness of the authorities, speak of rights and freedoms.

Why didn't the Swamp Square become a Maidan? In the program, 2 years after the protests of 2011, the co-chair of the Party of People's Freedom (RPR-Parnas) Boris Nemtsov performs. We compare the activities of the opposition in Ukraine and in Russia.