Shares in Brazil demanding to provide Edward Snowden Political asylum Weights of a fugitive American in Moscow: lack of alcohol, chips, Chinese noodles and a desire to leave Russia A federal judge in Washington a week ago decided that the collection by the National Security Agency for the so -called metadata about telephone and electronic communications of private citizens is anti -constitutional.

Tatyana Chornovil Under Kyiv, the Ukrainian opposition journalist Tatyana Chornovil was beaten. According to Ukrainian Pravda, on the pages of which it was published by Chornovil, doctors diagnosed her with a traumatic brain injury, hematomas and facial damage. As the journalist herself said, in the area of the village of Gora, located between Kiev and Borispol, she noticed the persecution. Unknown people pressed her car to the side of the road and hit the body several times.

The Pope Francis last night served his first Christmas mass in the Vatican. Turning to believers, the 77-year-old pontiff called on the Catholics "open their hearts." “If our hearts are closed, if pride, deception and pride are ruled by us, then darkness falls between people,” Francis said.

More than half of the crew of the Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sanraise, got acquainted with decisions on the termination of their criminal prosecution in Russia. On the day of the celebration of Catholic Christmas, all the Greenpeace activists under investigation were summoned to the Office of the Investigative Committee in the North-Western District.

Mayor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Roizman The prosecutor's office of Yekaterinburg demanded that the head of the city of Evgeny Roizman eliminate violations related to the illegal raising funds for the activities of the city without drugs, RAPSI reports. Earlier, Roizman, as the founder of the Fund, turned through social networks to all sympathetic with a request for financial assistance to a “city without drugs”, which had the end of the money. “Now it all depends on you.

View of the Baikal cellulose-paper plant From today, production was officially closed at the Baikal Pulp and Light Plant, which for almost half a century drained industrial drains in Lake Baikal. Next week, more than five hundred employees of the enterprise will be left without work. In two months, another 150 BCC employees will be dismissed, Radio Liberty correspondent reports.

Demonstration near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kyiv in protest against an attack on Tatyana Chornovil (December 25, 2013) Ukrainian movement "Stop Censorship!" He called on all journalists on Wednesday to devote news and political programs, tomorrow's publications tomorrow only one topic - persecution and repressions against Euromaidan activists. This should be a response to the brutal beating of the journalist of Ukrainian Pravda Tatyana Chornovil.

Irina Kabanova, killed on the night of January 3, 2013 In the Golovinsky Court of Moscow, the prosecutor asked to be sentenced to 14 years in prison Alexei Kabanov, accused of the murder of Irina Kabanova’s wife, a blogger and an editor of one of the radio stations. According to investigators, on the night of January 3 of this year, Kabanov inflicted multiple stab wounds to his wife.

The design and educational laboratory “Development of universities” by the NRU HSE conducted a study in the city of Tomsk, which is rightfully called the “city of students”, since every fifth resident is a student of one of the Tomsk universities. One of the areas of the study was devoted to the study of the life of foreign students and the problems they face. Here are a few of the most important. 1.

In the evening on weekdays, the results of the day in Russia and in the world are summed up by Andrei Shari. This is proven information, accurate examination, unexpected opinions. The program offers a variety of facts - students make conclusions themselves.

Edward Snowden made an alternative Christmas message on British television Edward Snowden, who published the secret data of the US intelligence services on electronic tracking, announced the danger of the disappearance of the concept of inviolability of a human private life.

In Turkey, according to local media reports, today the Minister of Internal Affairs Muammmer Guler and Minister of Economy Zafafa Chaglayan left the occupied posts. The sons of both ministers were among the corruption arrested in the framework of the high -profile case , according to which the police have been detenting from December 17.

Pope Francis performed his first Christmas message The Pope Francis in his first Christmas Epistle called for putting an end to all armed conflicts, including in South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Syria, Nigeria and Iraq. Speaking in front of tens of thousands of believers from the balcony of the Cathedral of St. Peter in the Vatican, Francis said that he was trusting in God's help in saving children involved in armed conflicts.

Russian and international environmental organizations appealed to the International Olympic Committee demanding to promote the immediate exemption of an activist of the ecological shift in the North Caucasus Evgeny Vitishko . Under the appeal are the signatures of a dozen organizations, including those known as Greenpeace , Bellona , WWF .

At a press conference in Berlin, Mikhail Khodorkovsky said about his former employee Vasily Aleksanyan, sent to prison in a seriously ill condition and died shortly after his liberation: "This is my cross until the end of my life." Until the end of his life, another former Yukos employee, Alexei Pichugin, found guilty of custom -made murders, who, as his lawyers and human rights activists, did not perform Pichugin, will be in prison. We’ll talk about this in the program.