On Saturday, a diplomatic scandal occurred in the Israeli kibbutz Kibbutz Kibbutz: during the conference in which the Eritrea Ambassador to Israel Tesfamariam Teseste took part, erythrea illegal immigrants that supported the opposition party in their country broke into the hall where he performed. They arranged a fight with the ambassador and his accompanying. This was reported by the Radio Liberty correspondent in Israel Ela Kotler.

The ex-head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin and immediately left the country, gave a press conference in Berlin from the Museum "Chek-Punt-Challey". In the first interview, he had already stated that he was not going to engage in politics. The same was discussed at a closed press conference-a few hours before the open, which will be broadcast by Radio Liberty.

Suleiman Abu Gate In the United States, the prosecutors brought new charges against the former son-in-law of the murdered leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden. Yesterday, the District Court of Manhattan brought Suleiman Abu Gate an accusation of assisting terrorists with money and resources and involvement in the conspiracy to provide this assistance. Earlier, he was charged with conspiracy against American citizens. Abu Gate rejects these accusations.

I was a five -year -old baby when my parents brought me from Transbaikalia to Chernivtsi. We arrived with the whole family: mom, dad, older brother Valentine and me. In Chernivtsi at the age of five, remaining a younger brother, I also became the older brother of the gray -haired Hutsul old people and wrinkled Hutsul old women. In the adolescence, it even flattered me.

Personal things of prisoners of the Dead Road camps. Photo by Stepan Chernousyk The network project of civilian activists from the Czech Republic allows you to make an excursion into abandoned Stalinist camps The realities of the Gulag are known from memoirs and memoirs of former prisoners and from rare documents available to the general public. Those who are not afraid of remoteness and harsh climate can visit the former camps themselves scattered throughout the country.

This image appeared on the Silk Road website after the arrest of its owner Ross William Ulbricht In the United States, the prosecutors were charged to three more in cooperation with the Silk Road website, which was engaged in the sale of illegal goods and services. According to Friday, a representative of the New York federal court, these are citizens of the United States, Ireland and Australia. Two of them - the American and the Australian - were arrested.

How does our self -competed king of the Olympics want that His Majesty decided to have mercy on everyone! And pirates, and buffoons, and even a knight with sad eyes, just do not take away my New Year's entertainment. Sensation after this amnesty, as after a booze: an ugly aftertaste in the mouth. The joy for everyone who finally goes to freedom is mixed with anger for all this surrealism. And what? What will happen next, after the Olympics? Will judicial reform?

A refugee girl in the UN camp in South Sudan US President Barack Obama ordered the security of the American military who are in South Sudan and continue to work with the UN to evacuate US citizens from this country. The White House reported on Saturday said that during the following on Hawaii, where President Obama will conduct Christmas, he was still informed on board the state of four American troops wounded when trying to evacuate the US citizens from the city in South Sudan.

Which of the politicians and public figures boycotted the 2008 Olympics in Beijing The calls for the boycott of the Olympiad in Beijing were heard repeatedly. Many influential politicians and public figures abandoned the invitation to attend the opening ceremony on August 8, 2008. China was criticized for politics in Tibet, Sudan, for violations of human rights, freedom of print, and damage to the environment during the construction of Olympic facilities.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Hans-Dietrich Gensher Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was released on Friday , first after a 10-year imprisonment, met with his parents Marina and Boris Khodorkovsky and eldest son Paul. Negotiations on the liberation of the former co-owner of Yukos lasted two and a half years, told the Internet publication of Gazeta.ru Director of the German-Russian forum, political scientist, member of the Valdai Club Alexander RAR.

Vladimir Tolts: December 20 - Chekist's Day. In 1917, on this day, the Council of People's Commissars issued a decree on the formation of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka). Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (“Iron Felix”) was appointed the head of the Cheka at the suggestion of Lenin, whom Vladimir Ilyich considered the Proletarian Jacobin. For a long time there are no advice, no “Iron Felix”, whose cast-iron idol was demolished in August 1991.

Student demonstration against corruption in the largest state bank of Turkey (Istanbul suburbs, December 19, 2013) In the cities of Turkey - Istanbul, Kaiseri, Kars, Izmir and others - there are thousands of anti -government rallies with the participation of opposition, youth, students, trade unions.

A living correspondence with the audience, which has been led by the writer and publicist Anatoly Shot, for many years. He is written by mail - ordinary and electronic - from the most diverse places of Russia and other republics that once constituted the Soviet Union: about the fate of their countries and, most importantly, about their human destinies.

Alexander Pyatigorsk (1929 - 2009) Archive project. Part 42. Historiosophy of the late Vl. Soloviev Vasily Rozanov could not calmly talk about Vladimir Soloviev. Not that he envied him, no, he, in his own expression, “admired”, but did not like. Soloviev annoyed Rozanov, because of Vasily Vasilievich all the time he remembers Vladimir Sergeyevich - not that mockingly or even with mental hatred, like Gogol. No, it is irritation, and nothing more. What was so annoyed by Rozanov in Soloviev?

The letter of our longtime listener. He claims that it is of public and even political interest. I'm not sure, but we'll see. The author is a biologist, works abroad. I read: “Male homosexuality is a genetically predetermined property. It is associated with an unusual distribution of functions between the left and right hemispheres of the cerebral cortex. This feature is determined by a mutation in a single gene, which has not yet been found, but we are looking for.