A hunger strike next to the reception of "United Russia" At the reception of "United Russia" doctors and teachers are starving. In the Studio of Freedom - victims due to the dishonesty of officials. Maryana Torocheshnikova: Almost a month in the center of Moscow, in a tent camp near the "United Russia" reception, doctors and teachers who invited the authorities to work in the capital in 2004, promising to provide housing.

poet Alexander Kabanov (Kyiv), the poem "Rozhdestvenskoye"

Ecologists Picket in Kazan against the backfill of the Volga In the center of Kazan, the environmental defenders held a picket on Thursday, protesting against the backfill of the Volga in the water area of the Kuibyshev reservoir. According to Radio Liberty correspondent Bulat Mukhamedzhanov, about 10 people took part in the action. Some of the activists were held in their hands in posters, others distributed leaflets.

Five days a week at exactly 12 o’clock - about what happened today and what else should happen. The day is in full swing, we follow the events.

Any negotiating frost, of course, is better than the easiest military conflict, but in the process of reconciliation of the parties, the moments of outstanding meaninglessness, those that replace the process itself. We don’t talk to these, we don’t sit down at one table, we won’t put such hands with such and such a flag ... In Minsk on Wednesday - the beginning of such a process. Andrei Sharogradsky works on the air.

Oleg Kashin Journalist Oleg Kashin demands half a million rubles from the state for too long and unsuccessful investigation in the case of his beating. The lawsuit was filed in the Moscow City Court, the defendant is the Ministry of Finance of Russia.

Employees of the Investigative Committee of Russia questioned the Ukrainian soldier as a witness in the case of the crash of the Boeing-777 Malaysian in eastern Ukraine. According to the head of the department, Vladimir Markin, a military man whose name is not called, came to Russia after "voluntarily left his military unit." In the interrogation, information was received about the possible involvement in the plane crash of the Ukrainian military aircraft, approved on the SK website .

Petersburg In St. Petersburg, a doctor of the Mariinsky Hospital, an expert at the Standing Commission on Military-City Relations of the Council under the President of Russia on the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, the chairman of the first city independent military-medical expert commission, the invited expert of the human rights organization "Soldiers of St. Petersburg" Sergey Strilchenko is beaten.

Frame from the movie "Interview" Sony Pictures has posted on the Internet the American comedy "Interview" about a fictional conspiracy to kill the DPRK leader. The film can be watched using the YouTube video service owned by Google Corporation. Microsoft and Sony itself demonstrate a film in 200 independent cinemas. It will also appear on www.seetheinterview.com, where you can rent it for $ 6 or buy for 15.

The scenery of Christmas New York Every year the tree looks different, and every year it is better than the previous Christmas in America, in essence, is an ecumenical holiday, which was once considered pagan. The Puritan who had established America escaped from him to the New World. But Christmas came after that to become the only religious holiday, when the state and church live in unison, declaring the country a day off.

Having received a mysterious invitation to a personal meeting for “VIP-clients” from its own bank in Russia for the next day after the Black Tuesday, I was worried. The bank assured that the invitation had “nothing to do with the outrage with the currency course”, but this is not easier. “It's not yet about blocking foreign exchange bills, only about the commission when converting into rubles.” What are you saying!

The shooting of the capture of the Jordanian pilot on the Internet The UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon called on the extremist group "Islamic State" humanely handle the Jordanian pilot captured by them in Syria. This was stated by the press secretary of the head of the UN Stefan Duzharrick. For the first time, the jihadists managed to capture the participant in the military operation of the coalition of the opposing countries, led by the United States.

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