Kyiv station in Moscow "Federal Passenger Company" (FPK), a subsidiary of Russian Railways, from December 14 to a year cancels trains to a number of CIS countries - to Ukraine, to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. The unnamed Russian Railways representative told TASS that the decision was made as part of the adjustment of the train movement for 2014-2015 and is associated with the low profitability of transportation along these routes.

In the office of the Voice Association in preparation for parliamentary elections in December 2011 The ban on NPO- “foreign agents” to observe the elections introduced the law on the basic guarantees of electoral rights of citizens, changed at the end of November, according to the media company RBC. The amendment, which was not publicly announced and was not discussed by the deputies, was included in the second reading of the bill that tightens the requirements for financing political parties.

In the studio - eyewitnesses: human rights activists Oleg Orlov, Tatyana Lokshina and journalist Georgy Tikhiy At the front in the Donbass - without change? What is happening on the "truce" line? Is it possible to achieve a ceasefire? Why are fighting at the Donetsk airport? Is there a prisoner of war exchange? How does the civilian population live on both sides of the front of the Russian-Ukrainian war?

As you know, every year on December 31, Muscovite Zhenya Lukashin and friends go to the bathhouse. Why in the bathhouse? Yes, the devil knows why! They have such a tradition. In our Volga region, there is also an interesting tradition: every year, about a month and a half before the bath runs (followed by the irony of fate) Lukashin and the company, the regional mininform distributes budget gifts among journalists.

Viktor Shenderovich at a concert in support of political prisoners Viktor Shenderovich and Leo Rubinstein are called to investigators Viktor Shenderovich and Lev Rubinstein reported on their pages on their pages on the Facebook social network.

The head of the foreign policy of the European Union Federic Mogherini is on a visit to Turkey, where he is negotiating on cooperation in the fight against the Islamic State. Mogherini is also trying to achieve the unity of positions between Brussels and Ankara in compliance with the sanctions of the European Union against Russia. The head of European diplomacy called her visit to Ankara with a confirmation of the "strategic importance" of relations between the European Union and Turkey.

"Symphony"? Freedom quotes 08 December 2014 Liveblog about discussions on the network Fresh from above 18:17 12/18/2014 Bobok-posting. Oil and Russian Zen. What is the success of swamp. In search of Spartans. Hassan, Khariton and Gettaxi Another popular article these days is the text of Mikhail Epstein on the Snob website. Epstein believes that modern Russia has done evolution from the “scoop” to “Bobk”.

Fragments of the Falcon aircraft after the disaster at the Vnukovo Airport The Investigative Committee of Russia refused to release the Neva of Vnukovo Airport, arrested in the crash of the aircraft with the head of the Total Christoph de Margerie. The department believes that there are no sufficient grounds for this. This is written today by Izvestia with reference to the answer received from investigators the head of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov.

Veleemir Khlebnikov “Izbornik” Khlebnikov and “Roads” by Akhmatova. Music to the words of poets. The results of the cycle Alexander Genis: Today: in the December issue of our cultural and historical section “1914 - A century later,” we bring the results of the thoughts of the main shock of the entire twentieth century. This event is the beginning of the World War, which is undoubtedly one of the most gloomy anniversary in all Western history.

Olland and Putin's handshake at Vnukovo International Airport Putin and Hollande talked face to face for the first time since the start of the Ukrainian crisis An unplanned meeting of France President Francois Hollande with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin did not bring significant results in resolving the Ukrainian crisis, but the French media notes that Paris’s mediation can help in fulfilling the Minsk agreement in full.

Alexander Alesin Belarusian journalist Alexander Alesin was charged under two articles of the Criminal Code. This was reported by Belarusian Internet media with reference to relatives of the journalist. According to Interfax, Alesina is accused of treason and establishing cooperation with a special service of security agencies or an intelligence body of a foreign state. According to the relatives of the detainee, they were notified about this in the State Security Committee of Belarus.

Br Seven Russian universities fell into the first hundred best universities in the BRICS countries and other actively developing worlds of the world of one of the most influential academic ratings of the world of Times Higher Education World University . At the solemn ceremony of universities, a joint event of the project 5-100 and Times Higher Education, the editor-in-chief of the rating of The Bate, called the best universities of the BRICS group and other actively developing world economies.

In order to become an "electronic resident" of Estonia, it is not necessary to personally admire the views of old Tallinn Estonia is ready to make everyone with its "electronic resident" to attract investments Since the beginning of December, Estonia provides everyone with their so -called electronic citizenship - although, according to the country's authorities, such a definition is inaccurate.

Canadians from the NATO mission in the US Afghanistan sit in the Chinuk helicopter, March 12, 2014 In Kabul, an official ceremony of completion of the US and NATO military mission was held in Afghanistan, which lasted more than thirteen years. On Monday, the flag was launched on the territory of the base where the United NATO command was located, under the leadership of which a military operation was carried out against the Taliban.

Writer and director Goran Voinovich against the backdrop of graffiti from the migrants in Ljubljana Why not died communism yet? “Chefura - won” - these are inscriptions on the walls of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. The approximate analogue is “Russia for Russians”. In the St.