Deputy director HRW Rachel Denber The Human Rights Watch (HRW) international human rights organization called on Germany to achieve all measures from Kyiv to minimize the number of victims and victims among the civilian population during the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

The first political action of the New Year will be the "regular" pickets in defense of "Prisoners of Bolotnaya." Already few people pay attention to this struggle: they condemned and put, “swamp” - as if from the era before last, “Docraign”. When it seemed that a couple of mass demonstrations could change the Putin regime. We’ll talk about this in the program.

The crisis will change the behavior of Russians: some will go to their senses, others will get into aggressive groups Russia entered the new one, 2015 in a state of economic crisis. It will last more than one year and will affect the life of everyone.

Kim Jong -un during the new speech North Korea increased the number of its "cyber-Voysk" up to 6 thousand people. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of South Korea, thus doubleting its previous assessment given in 2013. The purpose of these troops is to cause "physical and psychological paralysis" in the south, reports Reuters with reference to the South Korean military.

Viktor Shenderovich on the threshold of the building of the Investigative Committee of Russia. December 10 Viktor Shenderovich - about what replaced Chekhov, Balalayka, Glasnost Russia - what is it for the rest of the world? Tolstoy, chekhov? Sputnik, Balalayka? Perstrojka, Glasnost? You have outdated information, by golly. More recently: Arab cafe in Lyon, a morning attempt to ask for coffee ... A rack neighbor, listening to my accent, is interested in: where? “Russia,” I say. - ABOUT!

The dying letters of Elena Chukovskaya. Andrei Gavrilov represents Christmas verses and songs.

The detention of participants in the "people's gathering" in support of the Navalny brothers in Moscow on December 30, 2014 The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow returned the Federal Service for the Penitentiary (FSIN) a notification of violation of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny Home arrest regime. According to the press secretary of the court, the norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure do not provide for the consideration of such documents after the sentence.

Alexander Bednov ("Batman") The Rain television channel said that on January 3, the television and radio company of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) published a special report on how fighters from the field commander Alexander Bednov (Batman) abducted and tortured civilians on its YouTube channel. According to the LPR television company , none of the “Roaders” was engaged in the collection of evidence - there was enough anonymous denunciation.

** New Year as old: pickets in support of "Prisoners of Bolotnaya" ** Wall Street prepares for cheap oil ** Vologda region: without money by train **

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.

Smoke over buildings in the city of Duma after air strikes inflicted by government forces, December 23, 2014 In Syria, last year, at least 160 children were killed as a result of attacks on schools and 343 were injured. This was announced today in Geneva by a representative of the UN children's fund - Unisef Christoph Boulecu. According to him, as a result of an internal armed conflict in this country, more than one and a half million children do not attend school, France-Press reports.

In Moscow, the 77-year-old lieutenant general of the Russian Air Force in retired Anatoly Kudryavtsev. The reason for the suicide of the general was the “unbearable pain” that he experienced, being sick with stomach cancer, Interfax reports with reference to sources in law enforcement agencies. In 2014, several retired generals committed suicide .