Prut Bharara demonstrates a scheme of fraud used by Russian diplomats 49 citizens of Russia, according to the US authorities, illegally used the state medical insurance system On Thursday, the Federal Prosecutor's Office of the Southern District of New York after a month and a half investigation charged 49 citizens of Russia-former or existing diplomats and their wives.

Euromaidan in Kyiv. December 5, 2013 In Kyiv, where from the end of November, the protest of supporters of European integration of Ukraine has been continuing, demonstrators today block the entrances to the building of the Presidential Administration. A column of protesters who chant the anti -government slogans, starting movement from Independence Square , divided into two parts.

The famous fish market is flooded in the port of Hamburg (December 6, 2013) Six people died in Poland, Denmark and Great Britain as a result of the Xavier Atlantic storm - the strongest over the past 30 years. A few more people were injured. Cyclone hit the UK on Thursday, and then reached Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Poland. The power lines were cut off, the work of all transport was broken. The wind speed in the epicenter of the cyclone was 228 kilometers per hour.

In St. Petersburg, the prosecutor’s office has been applying to the court from the summer, demanding that the Anti -Discrimination Center “Memorial” with a foreign agent and punish the organization for violation of the Law on NPOs.

Near the royal castle in Warsaw In Poland, four people died and were somewhat injured as a result of the Xavier storm. This was reported by the correspondent of Radio Liberty in Warsaw Alexander Lemeshevsky. A strong wind and snowfall caused a break in power lines across the country - about 400 thousand Polish families were left without electricity.

The Ukrainian song is told and singing People's Artist of Ukraine Nina Matvienko and her daughter Antonina “Our Contemporaries” with Ralph Dutley, Swiss poet, translator of poems and prose of O. Mandelstam into German “Radio Enormantology of Modern Russian Poetry” Poems Linor Goralik and Sergey Gandlevsky conversation in the studio Viktor Suvorov about the most dramatic Episodes of your life radio exposure about the jamming of "Freedom"

One human rights resource asked me to write a short column on the eve of the 20th anniversary from the date of adoption of the Constitution-on the topic of its 29 article -the same that guarantees freedom of speech and lack of censorship. Is it needed, is it realized, what is missing? And I immediately remembered a note that came to my eye a few hours earlier.

Participants in the protest rally near the Italian Parliament building The Enrico Government of Enrico is not yet able to cope with the problems of the country. Citizens are increasingly entering the streets Italy was overwhelmed by a wave of social protests caused by the crisis. Everyone protests everywhere: from mayors of cities to fishermen, from military personnel to owners of tobacco shops, from builders to firefighters, agricultural producers and even homeless people.

The resignation of the head of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov was the logical end of the next stage of the clan war, which the Kabardian elites in the corridors of the administration of President Vladimir Putin. The evidence of this is the candidacy of the temporarily acting head of the KBR, which became Yuri Kokov. Obviously, he will become the next head of the republic. Three years ago, Arsen Kanokov raised the issue of trust in Russia, confidence was provided to him until 2015.

Chinese yuan was ahead of the euro - in international trade. The first year of the "bad bank" of Spain. "Sunny" duties of the European Union.

Ex-head of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov The head of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov resigned, the Kremlin press service reports today. Kanokov’s statement on dismissal was already signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The temporarily acting head of the region was appointed Yuri Kokov. The reasons for the resignation of Kanokov, who headed Kabardino-Balkaria since 2005, have not been reported.

Nelson Mandela is a politician, human rights activist, a man of an apartheid fighter, we remember with Africanist historians Apollo Davidson and Irina Filatova and journalist Boris Pilyazkin.

A professor from America, a Ukrainian by nationality, recently said that after Saturday and Voskles events in Kyiv, she almost stopped talking with a long-standing friend working in one of the oldest Russian newspapers. Because the-Russian lady showed a frenzied desire to teach the "younger brothers" and in absolute confidence that Russia had pulled out a lost Ukrainian lavel from the tenacious clutches of Western hawks.

Promotion in support of "Prisoners of Bolotnaya" In Moscow, a series of shares will be held today with a demand to amnesty "Swamp prisoners". Activists of the “Committee of May 6”, the Solidarity movement, the Parties of the RPR-Parnas and others intend to hold the so-called “folk gatherings” without slogans, flags and posters near the State Duma building and Manezhnaya Square.