The leaders of the Customs Union countries and the presidents of countries who plan to join this organization (Armenia and Kyrgyzstan) have been negotiating in Moscow to determine the mechanics of further cooperation.

On Tuesday, the first of Greenpeace activists received a decision to terminate the criminal case for the Promotion of the Prirazloma platform of all 30 Greenpeace activists, journalists and crew members of the Arctic Sunrise vessel, accused of hooliganism for the rally of the Russian oil and Podrazlomnaya Platform, agreed to amnesty.

The Kyiv Maidan has become a wide movement, combining representatives of various layers of Ukrainian society. About the significance of the Maidan for the development of civil society, about how Ukrainian nationalists, representatives of various political parties and Ukrainian national minorities, Radio Liberty are talking with the chairman of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine , in the past - a Soviet Dissent, a participant in the Ukrainian Helsiph Zisels.

Barack Obama In solidarity with fellow citizens, the US President complied with a mandatory requirement of the national insurance system The official message of the American White House on the purchase of Obama insurance, the service of which will cost him about $ 5,000 a year, but which he is unlikely to use, appeared the day before the deadline, to which all Americans are obliged to get the same policy.

Anthony Permret activist stands behind the Kalinin Court in St. Petersburg The British activist of Greenpeace Anthony Perret, against whom the criminal case is terminated on an amnesty, will receive a visa for returning home this week. This was reported to "Interfax" by his lawyer Sergey Golubok. Perret has already handed over all the necessary documents and they promised to give him an answer in the form of a visa on Thursday, the lawyer said. The press service of the St.

Alan Turing British scientist Alan Turing, who helped to win the war with Germany and convicted of homosexuality, is posthumously rehabilitated The Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II posthumously rehabilitated an outstanding scientist who made a huge contribution to the decoding of German military codes during the Second World War, one of the "fathers" of modern computers and founder of computer science Alan Turing, who in 1952 was found guilty of homosexuality (then in the UK this was

Mikhail Kalashnikov. August 2007 The funeral of Mikhail Kalashnikov, who died yesterday at the 95th year of his life, will take place on December 26 at one of the cemeteries of Izhevsk. This was stated by RIA Novosti by the press secretary of the head of Udmurtia Viktor Chulkov. The family of a famous designer wants to wait for the arrival of foreign guests. The authority of the republic is engaged in the organization of the funeral.

Alan Turing The Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II posthumously pardoned the mathematician Alan Turing, who, during the Second World War, helped to hack the codes of the Nazi encryption machine Enigma, but was already convicted of homosexuality in peacetime. The Decree of Elizabeth II, published on Monday, emphasizes that in the modern world, the conviction of Turing would be recognized as unfair and discriminatory. Homosexuality has ceased to be considered a crime in the UK in 1967.

The Foreign Ministry and the Security Service of Ukraine were satisfied with the request of the Verkhovna Rada to ban 36 people to ban the entrance to the country, among them the ex-president of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, Kommersant Ukraine said today.

From the Omsk exhibition "Voice of the streets" the images of Vladimir Putin were removed the exhibition "Voice of the streets", which arrived in Omsk, was left without the image of Vladimir Putin. The image of the president eating the brain was one of the exhibits of the Street Art exhibition. However, claims from some important persons arose to such a manifestation of folk art.

Nadezhda Toloconnikova and Maria Alyokhina after liberation from the colony Panchens of Pussy Riot punk band Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who were released on an amnesty yesterday, will hold a press conference in Moscow on Friday, Interfax reports. On the eve of Maria Alyokhina, freed from the colony in Nizhny Novgorod, flew to Krasnoyarsk to meet her friend Nadezhda Tolokonnikova . According to her husband Tolokonnikova Peter Verzilov, the girls will spend two days in Krasnoyarsk.

The new demographic policy of China, ethnic purges in South Sudan, cruelty and liberalism Kim Jong -un and the murder of women in Afghanistan

The approach of Mikhail Khodorkovsky to the problems of the Caucasus and Unity of Russia is debated by political scientists Daniil Kotsyubinsky, Sergey Markedonov and Evgeny Nilov

Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova intend to fight for the humanization of the system of correcting punishments in Russia. Greenpeace activists, accused of trying to capture the Oil Providing Platform "Prirazlomnaya", explain to the Russians the goals of their action. In Moscow, a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council was held. To prevent a civil war in South Sudan, the UN introduces thousands of peacekeepers into this African country.

Karl Schrantz (left) first visits Sochi, February 2007 Austrian firms received large contracts in the Olympic Sochi. The main lobbyist was a longtime friend of Vladimir Putin-the champion skier Karl Schrantz Austrian firms received large contracts in the Olympic Sochi. The main lobbyist was a longtime friend of Vladimir Putin-the champion skier Karl Schrantz. Together with Gerard Depardieu, he will shoot in the film about Sochi-2014.