The State Migration Service of Ukraine claims that the State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya still has Ukrainian citizenship. This was stated by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Sergey Leshchenko on the air of the Ukrainian television channel News One. According to the deputy, he sent a request for Poklonskaya citizenship to the State Migration Service and received the answer from it that Poklonskaya was not deprived of citizenship, since there was no reason for this.

Shortly before the New Year, Vladimir Putin solemnly announced that the "task of struggle with armed gangs" in Syria, "which had to be solved using the large -scale use of the Armed Forces, was decided" brilliantly. " In less than three weeks after a “brilliant” victory, the “armed gangs” fired at the Russian air base Khmeimim and destroyed or seriously damaged seven combat aircraft. The Ministry of Defense reassured voters, calling the "reports of the destruction of technology" by Fake.

The procession of veterans of the Latvian Legion Waffen SS in Riga President of Latvia Raymond Weionis approved the law "On the status of a participant in the Second World War." He equalizes in the rights of veterans - citizens of Latvia who took part in the Second World War as part of the Armed Forces of both the USSR and Nazi Germany.

Oksana Shalygin-the comrade-in-arms of the actor-actingist Peter Pavlensky-was released from prison in France. According to Mediazona, lawyer Dominic Bayroiter-Minkov wrote about this on Facebook . “The artist’s place in the world is anywhere, but not in prison. Oksana Shalygina was released on Friday evening,” she wrote, not giving details. About whether Pavlensky himself was also released, is not reported.

Anatoly Polyakov, a volunteer from Russia, spent nine and a half months in the basements of the LPR. In the spring of 2015, he arrived in the Donbass with a humanitarian mission, but after successful negotiations on the evacuation of seriously ill children and prisoners of war were attacked on the street, hitting in handcuffs, put a bag on his head and imprisoned in the basement. In the prison of the Ministry of State Security of the "LPR", he was tortured and miraculously survived.

United States Permanent Representative to the UN Nikki Haley (archive photo) The United States at a specially convened meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday evening announced the unambiguous support of the Iranians participating in protests held in many cities of Iran over the past week. “Civil rights are not for nothing given by the governments, this is inalienable human rights,” said the United States Permanent Representative to the UN Haley.

In the post-Soviet space, 2017 will be remembered by an unprecedented wave of violence and institutional persecution of representatives of the LGBT community. Large -scale campaigns for "cleaning" and "prevention" forcing hundreds of gays to flee to other countries. Nico is gay from Baku. He asked his name to change his name - he is afraid for his life. Now he is 27 years old, he suffers from epilepsy.

Ekovakhta coordinator Andrey Rudomakh Russian environmental organizations demanded that the Russian authorities hold people guilty of attacking the coordinator of the Ecological Watch in the North Caucasus Andrei Rudomakh. This was reported by "Echo of Moscow", quoting the director for environmental policy of the World Nature Fund in Russia, Evgeny Schwartz.

The most popular topic of 600 Prochrevsky accounts on Twitter in December was the discrediting of the work of special prosecutor Robert Muller and the US Department of Justice to investigate the alleged intervention of Russia in the 2016 presidential election. The results of monitoring of the Prochrevsky accounts are published on the Hamilton68 website, which is conducted by the Marshall Foundation, the Union in Defense of Democracy (Alliance for Secocracy).

The accounts of world leaders on Twitter will not be blocked, even if they contain "controversial" statements. This is stated in an official message on behalf of Twitter. "Blocking an account of any of the leaders or the removal of their defiants of tweets will lead to the fact that important information will be hidden from people. People should be able to familiarize themselves with it and discuss it.

Why do many believe that Christmas, as a public holiday, steal their freedom? This program “From a Christian point of view” is indicated by Orthodox, religious scholar Mikhail Sitnikov and atheist Sergey Ivanev, president of the XXI century association for the development of secularism and humanism.

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One of the pioneers of space exploration, astronaut John Young died in the USA at the age of 87. He was the only one who flew into space on the ships "Gemini", "Apollo" and "Space Shattle". He was the first earthling who flew into space six times. John Young on the Moon, April 27, 1972 John Young flew around the moon in the orbital compartment, while the Apollo 10 landing module with two astronauts was on the surface of the Earth's satellite.

In the post-Soviet space, 2017 will be remembered by an unprecedented wave of violence and institutional persecution of representatives of the LGBT community. Large -scale campaigns for "cleaning" and "prevention" forcing hundreds of gays to flee to other countries. Nico is gay from Baku. He asked his name to change his name - he is afraid for his life. Now he is 27 years old, he suffers from epilepsy.

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