Ilya Yashin, one of the leading Russian opposition politicians and the critic of President Vladimir Putin, called on the administration of the elected President of the United States Donald Trump "not to pass Ukraine in exchange for agreements on Syria." This was written by the American publication Politico.

In Moscow, on January 14, civil activists conducted the action in support of political prisoners, in particular for the release of Ildar Dadin, as well as with a demand to coordinate the “anti -crisis rally”. The ATS-Info portal reports that soon after the start of the pickets, the police detained more than 40 people. The event was not agreed with the city authorities.

Mahmoud Abbas The transfer of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem will not help resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, said the head of the Palestinian Autonomy Mahmoud Abbas at the opening of the Palestine embassy in the Vatican. After a meeting with Pope Francis, Abbas said that the Holy See "fully recognized Palestine as an independent state." The leader of Palestine urged the rest of the countries to follow the example of the Vatican.

In the Kyiv studio of Radio Liberty we discuss Ukraine after the Maidan. Will Ukrainians be able to build a democratic European state? How are the relations of Ukraine and Russia developing? Is a full dialogue possible between different regions of the country? We discuss all these and many other issues with politicians, journalists and experts.

Russian anti-aircraft missile system S-400 "Triumph" Ukraine and Russia conducted military exercises four hundred kilometers from each other. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of both countries. Kyiv tested air defense units in the Kherson region - near the administrative border with the Crimea annexed by Russia. A feature of the exercises was the execution of tasks at any time of the day.

Will people who are critical in relation to the Kremlin be at the key posts in the Trump administration? Has CNN a fake, potentially created in Moscow? What are Donald Trump's accusations against American intelligence fraught with? Can Vladimir Putin become an obstacle to improving relations between Washington and Moscow?

Can religion and science find a common language? Yakov Krotov: Today's release of the program is devoted to the relationship between faith, religion and science. Can they find a common language? Our guests are Alexei Kondrashov , a biologist, a professor at the University of Michigan, the head of the laboratory of evolutionary genomes of the faculty of bioenginery and bioinformatics of Moscow State University, a famous personality, a scientist to the brain of bones.

Deir Az-Zur In the east of Syria, the forces of the Islamic State terrorist group (IG) began on Saturday a new major offensive in the position of government troops in the city of Deir Az-Zur. Syrian state television transfers reports on missile shelling and attacks of militants from the northwestern part of the city and from other directions. The battles go right on the streets, as well as in the area of the military airfield, which is controlled by the forces of the Bashar al -Assad regime.

Michael Flynn Michael Flynn, candidate for the post of national security adviser to the elected President of the United States Donald Trump, made five telephone calls to Russia's ambassador in Washington on the day when the United States announced sanctions in response to the intervention of Moscow in the presidential election. According to Reuters sources, the calls were made after the announcement of response measures to cyber attacks, but to the official reaction of the Kremlin.

I had half an hour with Zhou-Shen-Min. My friend, the sovereign of the Middle Kingdom, is concerned about the position of the Chinese in Western Siberia. Given that the Chinese in Western Siberia is 28 million, I well understand the concern of my friend Zhou-shen-min. Vladimir Sorokin, "Oprichnik Day" Two Putinophilian arguments under the common Weed Russians!

Why do people believe in homeopathy? Sergey Medvedev: Today we will talk about homeopathy: in what sense is it a legacy of the past and is that thing that humanity takes in the 21st century? Our guest is Asya Kazantseva , a scientific journalist, laureate of the Enlightener Prize .

In the vicinity of Idlib after the air raid, January 12, 2017 Russia invited representatives of the Donald Trump administration to take part on January 23 in negotiations on Syria in Astana. This was reported by The Washington Post. The representative of the US State Department, Mark Toner, said that the Barack Obama administration, completing his mandate, was ready to support the idea of the presence of representatives of the new president in negotiations in Astana.

In the United States, activists of civil rights began a week of protests against the inauguration of the elected US President Donald Trump. Rallies will continue until he took office on January 20. On Saturday, several thousand people took to the streets of Washington to express disagreement with the future policy of Trump and his statements about women, social minorities and foreigners.

Alexey Knedlyakovsky, a Moscow artist, who has been living in Krasnodar for 3 years, spent in this city, not famous for the wealth of artistic life, the “New Chekist” campaign. On the day of employees of state security services, he attached a cross on the pedestal of the monument to Dzerzhinsky. The monument was not at all injured, but the action infuriated the leadership of the special services.

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