Harry Kasparov on the Forum of Free Russia IV forum of free Russia: how to defeat the dictatorship? Is it possible to participate in the 2018 presidential election? Which is better: the struggle in the simulation campaign or the active boycott of the election? Sanctions - the main tool of the struggle against the dictatorship in Russia? For Navalny or against participation in the "elections"?

The fate of Professor Kostitsyn. Conversation with historian Vladimir Genis, ending The first part of the program is here . Ivan Tolstoy: Once in Moscow, the mathematician Vladimir Alexandrovich Kostitsyn jokingly threw a bread ball on a plan of the city, thinking that his fate would happen where the ball would fall. And fate sent him his beloved wife. Professor Kostitsyn was always faithful to the ball of his fate.

In the customs control zone of Dulles International Airport in Washington On Monday, the US Supreme Court authorized the Decree of the President Trump, which provides an almost complete ban on immigration and entry into the United States inhabitants of eight countries, in six of which the overwhelming number of citizens are Muslims.

The International Olympic Committee forbade the Russian Olympic team to perform at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang-in connection with the identified violations in the system of countering doping. This was announced on December 5 at a press conference in Lausanne, the head of the IOC Thomas Bach. The IOC Executive Committee will send an “invitation to individual Russian athletes” who will be able to participate in the Olympiad subject to “strict conditions”.

The coordinator of the Open Russia movement in Yekaterinburg Maxim Vernikov opened an administrative case of participation in the organization’s activities recognized in Russia undesirable. Vernikov wrote about this on Facebook. In April, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office recognized the “undesirable” Otkrytaya Rossiya organization registered in the UK. Then, in the office of the "Open Russia" movement in Moscow, searches were held.

The Rosselkhoznadzor accused the American company Pepsico of a hacker attack due to access to the document marked "for official use". Such a conclusion in the department was made after an internal audit, which showed that none of the employees allegedly "sent a letter to the external information field." The press service of Rosselkhoznadzor called the incident "industrial espionage." Mobile application Radio Liberty. Subscribe!

On December 5, the Ministry of Justice of Russia has published a list of media that has been assigned the status of a "foreign agent". It included several information projects of the Radio Freedom Corporation/Radio Free Europe.

In Kyiv, a former President of Georgia, the leader of the political movement "Rukh of Folk Forces" Mikhail Saakashvili, was detained for several hours. His supporters who blocked the road and blocked the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU).

Felix Svetov, 1981 G. Photo by Igor Kalmin On November 28, the writer and human rights activist Felix Svetov would have turned 90 years old. By this date, the release of the book of unpublished texts of the writer is dedicated to this date.

Radio President Free Europe/Radio Liberty Tom Kent commented on the inclusion of several information projects of the corporation in the list of foreign agents in Russia. Kent emphasized that, as a consequence of this decision, "the activities of our organization in Russia can be subjected to even greater restrictions.

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The supporter of Russia in front of the IOC building in Lausanne at the time of voting. December 5, 2017 The Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) removed the Russian team from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. This was stated by President of the organization Thomas Bach at a press conference, which can be found on the IOC website .

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In Chelyabinsk, the police stopped the criminal prosecution of civil activist Alexei Moroshkin, accused of coloring the bust of Lenin in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. This was announced on December 5 by the lawyer of the international human rights group "Agora" Andrei Lopekhin, who protects the activist. The case was investigated for two years, the prosecutor twice returned him to the investigation.