On the air of the ex-head of the Lugansk Regional City Administration Irina Verigina Vitaly Portnikov: Lugansk region - What happens in the region, which remains, as it were, in the shadow of the Donetsk region? So it was until 2014, this is how it is now. The problems of this region, which are on both sides of the so -called distinction line, are the problems of hundreds of thousands of people.

The "state awards" of the Russian regions, the republican "citizenship", its own regional armies, ethnic battalions ... The Kremlin pretends not noticing these strange "fun" national autonomy. When a referendum on the independence of Scotland was held in 2014, it was difficult to hide in Moscow that they would welcome the Scotland department from the UK. The situation was similar recently in connection with the referendum in Catalonia.

On the buildings of state institutions, enterprises and organizations, flags are lowered, and commemorative services are held in the temples. In the morning, candles and spikelets of wheat are carried to the foot of the memorial to the victims of the Holodomor on Mikhailovskaya Square in Kiev in Kyiv. Even before the mourning ceremony, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, together with his wife Marina, came here to honor the victims of the dead.

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 President Vladimir Putin signed the law on the media - "foreign agents". Law, Placed on the official portal of legal information enters into force. Now the media that receive funding from abroad can be recognized as "foreign agents." State Duma deputies unanimously approved the bill on November 15, a week later he was adopted by the Federation Council with one abstent voice .

Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov on the day of the murder, December 19, 2016 In Turkey in the case of the murder of the Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov, the head of the production company Guru Medya was detained. This was reported by the newspaper Hurriyet. Close to Turkish President Recep Erdogan, the publication Sabah calls the full name of the detainee - Hayreddin Aydinbash. There is no official confirmation of this information.

Alexey Navalny at a meeting with voters Oppositionist Alexei Navalny on Saturday met with the inhabitants of Vladimir as part of his election campaign. The action was agreed with the city authorities, police officers guarded the entrance to it. On the direct broadcast, it was clear that several hundred people were present at the meeting.

Courtroom, archive photo The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) satisfied the complaint of the newspaper "Countrymen" published in the Kstovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region. For violating the media right to freedom of expression of opinions, journalists from the district newspaper will receive 7.5 thousand euros, Radio Liberty correspondent reports citing representatives of the publication.

The Investigative Committee searched for relatives of a witness in the case of an attack on Oleg Kashin. According to the journalist himself, law enforcement officers came to the parents of his wife Alexander Meshkov. The basis for the search was his search. Meshkov passes the accused in the case of the abduction of Alexander Gorbunov, the alleged organizer of the attack on the journalist. Kashin said that the witness does not live in Russia.

The Executive Director of the American Council of Broadcasting Management (BBG) John Lance made a statement in connection with the entry into force of the new Russian law regulating the activities of foreign media in Russia. BBG is the advice of the trustees of the entire foreign broadcasting of the United States, including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

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Listen to the report of a Russian woman who married an American. “Slaves are Americans. They do not see white light! They have free four weeks a year - Christmas holidays and a vacation for another two weeks - that's it! The rest of the time they are in a frantic endless race for the dollar! More, more, more, more! Half of America sits on antidepressants with such a race! The Americans from the state cannot go to the state! Because on Christmas the prices for everything will fly away!

Week in social networks: Kolya from the new Urengoy, the release of ruthenia, a coup in the "LPR" and Putin's military rails

Historian Irina Karatsuba: Why did many Orthodox chosen Lubyanka between the renewal and Lubyanka? Yakov Krotov: Relations between Orthodoxy and the Cheka (GPU, the NKVD, and so on) attract attention, because in the center of Moscow, the Cathedral in the name of the Resurrection and New Martyrs, the Cathedral of the Resurrection on the Blood, was built in the territory of the Sretensky Monastery.