In Krasnodar, the district court today will begin to re -consider the case of the Kuban human rights activist and political scientist, a professor of State University Mikhail Savva, accused of fraud. The court, which began on November 5 and examined three quarters of the case materials, was returned to the initial stage due to the replacement of the judge due to illness. Mikhail Savva was one of the leaders of the non -profit organization "South Regional Resource Center".

Kurban Berdyev The President of Tatarstan fired the coach of the Rubin football "Kurban Berdyeva - a man who made a modest Kazan club the champion of Russia and the national sports project of the republic President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov dismissed the head coach of the Rubin football “Rubin” Kurbana Berdyev. Together with the coach, the highest management of the team was fired: General Director Andrei Gromov and Vice President Kamil Ishakov. Kurban Berdyev headed Rubin since 2001.

At the Berlin airport, Sheönefeld Mikhail Khodorkovsky was welcomed by the former Foreign Minister Hans-Ditrich Gensher Private Cessna aircraft with Mikhail Khodorkovsky arrived on Friday at Schönefeld from St. Petersburg on 15.08 Berlin time. At the Khodorkovsky airport, the former Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany Hans-Ditrich Gensher, as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the police, met.

The Ministry of Justice in the Amur Region revoked a lawsuit from the court on the liquidation of the Ulukitkan environmental club. This was reported by the Interregional Human Rights Association "Agora", whose lawyers represent the interests of a public organization. Human rights activists welcome the decision of the Ministry of Justice, who did not succumb to politically motivated pressure from the prosecutor’s office, the Agora statement said.

The program "Facing the event" Italian journalist Giuseppe d'Amat, as well as the head of the ICG Lyudmila Alekseeva and the widow of the Soviet dissident Arina Ginzburg

On the day of the Chekist - about the image of Vladimir Putin in the West. Visiting: Italian journalist, historian and publicist Giuseppe d'Amat, author of the book “Divorce in a Soviet language. From superpower to the backyard of globalization”.

The President of Tatarstan fired the coach of the Rubin football "Kurbana Berdyeva - a man who made a modest Kazan club by the champion of Russia and the national sports project of the republic , President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov dismissed the head coach of the football" Rubin "Kurbana Berdyev. Together with the coach, the highest management of the team was fired: General Director Andrei Gromov and Vice President Kamil Ishakov. Kurban Berdyev headed Rubin since 2001.

The City Council of New York, on the last working day of 2013, 43 votes against 8 banned the use of electronic cigarettes in places where smoking is not allowed today: restaurants, bars, city parks. Most experts agree that electronic cigarettes are much less dangerous than tobacco, but at the same time it is believed that they, like cigarettes, cause users dependence on nicotine. The safety of these products is also not confirmed, according to the New York correspondent of Radio Liberty.

A guest is an Italian journalist, historian and publicist Giuseppe d'Amata, the head of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseev and the widow of the Soviet dissident Alexander Ginzburg Arina Ginzburg also take part. Kristina Gorelik is conducting the program.

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The Lublin court of Moscow today sentenced to seven years in a colony of maximum regime of an entrepreneur from Naberezhnye Chelny Pavel Sopot. He was found guilty of incitement to organize an attack on the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Igor Domnikov. The court also partially satisfied the claim for compensation for non -pecuniary damage to the widow of the deceased journalist, collecting one million rubles with a socket.

Euromaidan, December 19 In Ukraine, the leader of the Fatherland faction Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the first chairman of the Batkivshchyna party Alexander Turchinov, the leader of the Freedom faction Oleg Tyagnibok and eight more opposition representatives are held in the case of an attempt to seize state power. This was announced today by Yatsenyuk, the UNIAN agency reports.

Pupils of studios "Birth of a thing" and "Mother School" In this academic year, supporters of the popular family education in Moscow were faced with a new problem - they stopped paying compensation, 63 thousand rubles a year per child who could study in elementary school, and slightly more, depending on the stage of study, in high school and in the senior. In addition, the external system disappeared as a special knowledge gain.

Gazprom began oil production at a pre -ry field. This was reported on Friday by the press service of the company. Gazprom informs that the Prirazlomnoye deposit is located in the Pechora Sea 60 kilometers from the coast. The extracted oil reserves are about 72 million tons, the project level of production is about 6 million tons per year. The shipment of the first tanker with the oil deposit is expected in the first quarter of 2014, Gazprom reports.