I'll start with a simple question "Why is the Church?" I ask this question to myself, and I will explain the answer to you. I am thinking about the interaction of society and the church, and I do not engage in comparing religions. How is the church ready to change the priorities of their activities, involving people in new relevant processes of their life structure? Perhaps this is exactly what I am interested in.

The XX International Film Festival of Human Rights has opened in the House of Cinema The stalker festival has its own face and traditions. It does not have glamority and pompinating inherent in other large Russian film festivals. "Stalker" emphasized democratic. Even the entrance to his events is free. Along with the shows of game and documentary films, there is a discussion of acute problems directly related to the fundamental human rights.

In the Radio Radio Liberty, the head of the project Gulag. NOT Vladimir Osechkin. In the video from Chelyabinsk, the mother of one of the prisoners of the pre -trial detention center 1 Galina Olyakueva and the RS correspondent Alexander Valiev.

Unrest in the Chelyabinsk pre -trial detention center - a rebellion or a provocation? On Tuesday night, December 9, in the Chelyabinsk investigative insulator, the prisoners rebelled. For the approval of their relatives, the cause of the rebellion is the struggle for power in the isolator and the change of the "looking".

Unrest in the Chelyabinsk pre -trial detention center - a rebellion or a provocation? The head of the project "Gulag.n" Vladimir Osechkin, the mother of one of the prisoners of the pre-trial detention center-1 Galina Olyakueva and journalist Alexander Valiev are talking.

Anna Sharogradskaya and her lawyer Ivan Pavlov in court The court fined the next Russian NPO for the refusal to voluntarily become a "foreign agent" The Russian authorities continue to exert pressure on independent NGOs. In St. Petersburg, on Tuesday, the magistrate of the judicial section No.

President of the IOC Thomas Bach At an extraordinary session of the IOC, new principles of development of the Olympic movement are approved An extraordinary session of the International Olympic Committee ended in Monaco, at which new principles for the development of the Olympic movement were approved. President of the IOC Thomas Bach sent 40 theses to reform his organization back in November.

In the picture: Mikhail Lesin The US Department of Justice expressed gratitude to the Senator from the state of Mississippi Roger Vickera for attracting attention to the existence of Gazprom-Media head in the United States Mikhail Lesin. This is stated on the website of Alexei Navalny, who published an official response to Vicer, dated December 3, 2014.

Sergey Mokhnatkin Oppositionist Sergei Mokhnatkin was sentenced to four and a half years in a maximum security colony on charges of applying violence against police officers during an inconsistent campaign on a triumphal square on December 31 last year. Mokhnatkin was also put on the wanted list, since he did not appear in the Tver court of Moscow to announce the sentence. Previously, he was released under the recognizance not to leave.

In the picture: Leonid Kuchma The Ukrainian government and pro -Russian separatists could not start a new round of negotiations. However, representatives of the Ukrainian side said they would extend the ceasefire agreement for a day. Ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, representing the interests of Kyiv, said that the new round, planned in Minsk, would not take place, since the separatists violated previous agreements on the ceasefire.

"Siamese Christ." The work of the German artist Julia Frank, made for the exhibition "images of democracy" How globalization allows you to create new forms of democratic structure and society of society Sarah Vegova is the only schoolgirl in the Czech Republic who does not cram the date by heart and does not solve chemical equations. She studies what she wants and likes.

Three years ago, protests began on Bolotnaya and Sakharov. Hopes, disappointments, the results of a "swamp" protest are discussed by public activists Evgenia Chirikov, Mikhail Shneider, Alexey Sakhnin, Daniil Konstantinov

Igor Matveev The Vladivostok garrison court sentenced the former Major Igor Matveev to four years and five months in prison. He will serve his sentence in a general regime colony, RIA Novosti reports. The court found a former officer guilty of extorting money from a soldier, to whom he promised assistance in exemption from criminal liability for desertion. The sentence did not enter into legal force. Matveev has the right to appeal the verdict within ten days.

Malale Yusufzai and Kylash Satyarthi awarded the Nobel Prize of the World The Pakistani girl-lawyer Malale Yusafzai and the Indian fighter for the rights of children Kalysh Satyarthi on Wednesday in Oslo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014.