Negotiations with separatists as an election move Vladimir Putin agreed to become an intermediary in the negotiations of Ukraine with the separatist authorities of the DPR and LPR. Why does he need it? Analyst of the Karnegi Foundation Andrei Kolesnikov believes: for the election.

Lithuania’s parliament unanimously voted for the adoption of an analogue of the Magnitsky Act. This law prohibits the entrance to the country to foreigners who are suspected of violating human rights, corruption or money laundering. The decision on who will be included in the "black list" will be made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lithuania. The law states that the defendants of the "Act of Magnitsky" will not specially report that they were banned from entering the country.

Republicans in the US Senate believe that the investigation of the role of the former Secretary of State and the first Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton in the approval of the transaction for the sale of uranium mines in the United States "Rosatom" partially depends on the testimonies of the secret informant in the bribery and extortion scheme. The Senate Committee, investigating the alleged violations Clinton, kept the name of his witness secret.

The American actress Miril Streep during the International Press Freedom Award said she admired the work of women-journalists who are "standing for the truth" and are often subjected to pressure and attacks for their investigative activities. She named several names, including Tatyana Felgenhauer, Julia Ioffe, Maria Hessen, Nora Efron and Miroslav Bich. The broadcast of the award is published on the Facebook award page.

The World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) refused to restore the Russian Anti -Doping Agency (Rusada) in the rights, which jeopardizes Russia's participation in the Winter Olympiad and the Paralympics in South Korea in February 2018. The fact that WADA would make such a decision a few days ago by the German journalist Heyo Zeppelt, the author of the first sensational investigations about the existence of the state -owned doping support of athletes in Russian sports, warned the ARD channel .

December 1985. Robert Mugaba visits Moscow The fate of the dictator Mugaba is discussed by Boris Pilyaskin, Grigory Trofimchuk, Irina Filatova The leader of the opposition in Zimbabwe Morgan Tswangirai said on Thursday that President Robert Mugaba should resign in the interests of the country after the coup carried out by the armed forces. “In the interests of the people, Mr. Robert Mugaba must resign and leave immediately,” the leader of the movement for democratic transformations said.

The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal.

Vladimir Egorov, activist of the Yabloko party In Tver, the head of the local branch of the Yabloko party Vladimir Egorov, who is accused of calls for extremism, was freed from the pre -trial detention center. The activist changed the measure of restraint for a recognizance not to leave. This was reported by the lawyer of the international human rights group "Agora" Svetlana Sidorkina. The reason for the persecution of Egorov was the post on the social network "VKontakte".

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The head of Khakassia, Viktor Zimin, banned the flights of aviation to the old-faith-hermit Agafier Lykova, who lives in complete solitude in the remote area of this Siberian region-on the territory of the reserve in the Western Sayan. This was reported by the Radio Liberty Project "Siberia. Reali" . Lykova periodically receives products from the head of the neighboring Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyev, which is delivered to her with a helicopter.

The Harvey Weinstein case and its consequences for the American and Russian society Why did the society need the exposure of the venerable American producer Harvey Weinstein as a sexual manipulator and rapist? The Hollywood scandal as a public proposal to revise the foundations of the power of the “rich white adult man”. Why is violence constantly played? Closure and irremovability among elites in a postmodern society, Harrasment as a systemic phenomenon in this structure.

In the Middle East, in recent weeks, the main political events unfolded in Saudi Arabia, where dozens of members of the monarch family, large entrepreneurs and even the head of the National Guard Mutaib Bin Abdullah were arrested under the pretext of combating corruption.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, said that he still had not appeared in the court in the case of the former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev due to lack of free time. “I will strive to fulfill the full requirements of Russian legislation in full. But at this stage, my main task is to fulfill my functional duties as the president of Rosneft,” Sechin said.