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The Moscow City Court granted the complaint about the verdict to the founder of the Smota.ru website Eric Kituashvili, better known as Davidich, and freed him from the guard. Kituashvili himself participated in a meeting on video communication from the pre -trial detention center. The court recognized the deadline for bringing the convict to criminal liability under two episodes of fraud.

On December 6, 1903, a writer, radio journalist ("Freedom") Gaito Gazdanov was born. Igor Pomerantsev made a program about him almost a quarter of a century ago.

The authorities of Canada arrested the financial director and daughter of the founder of the Chinese telecom giant Huawei Meng Vanzhou. It is reported by La Presse. According to Wall Street Journal and New York Times, Vanzhou is suspected of violating US sanctions against Iran. The Ministry of Justice of Canada does not comment on the prosecution presented by the top manager. On Friday, December 7, court hearings were scheduled for the release of Vanzhou on bail.

Alexander Sokurov The Police of St. Petersburg searched the office of the Non-Profit Foundation "An example of intonation", created by director Alexander Sokurov. According to the media, the director of the Foundation Nikolai Yankin is suspected of embezzlement of budget funds "using forged documents on the costs incurred" - we are talking, in particular, the subsidies of the Committee on Culture for the production of the film "Experiments".

Suspects of poisoning of the British intelligence officer Yuri Skripal Russian citizens on the streets of English Salisbury The British counterintelligence Mi5 and the police suspect that Russian diplomats in the country could be mobilized by intelligence to fulfill their tasks. About this writes the tabloid Mirror. According to the publication, British counterintelligence strengthened the observation of Russian diplomats located in the country.

The authorities of Ingushetia and Chechnya agreed to remove posts on the border of the two regions, said the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov. He called the new border between the republics "purely nominal." Evkurov emphasized that he and the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov "want to show an example to all regions of the North Caucasus." “There is no longer a border between people,” added the head of Ingushetia.

The Commissioner of the Council of Europe on Human Rights called on the Russian authorities to release human rights activist Leo Ponomarev, arrested for 25 days for the action in support of the accused in the affairs of the "new greatness" and "network". Many Rossi public activists also advocate for the liberation of Ponomarev.

OTPLICA OF EVERDREMENT OF THE NETIFA EVERITS HARD At the end of November, work on the demolition of German hangars for seaplanes - the main attractions of these places began on the Baltic Kos in the Kaliningrad region. This is all that remains of the German new -nyuh airfield. The object belongs to a private person and has no security status.

The number of Russians who consider it necessary to "definitely establish" relations with the USA and Europe has increased from 24 to 36 percent over the year. This is evidenced by the data from the Levada Center survey. 43 percent of respondents chose the answer “rather yes” and only 16 percent believe that it is not necessary to establish relations with Western countries.

The Constitutional Court of Russia on Thursday recognized the agreement to establish a border between Ingushetia and Chechnya. Representatives of the heads of both republics-Yunus-Bek Evkurov and Ramzan Kadyrov-also stated at the meeting that the agreement is in accordance with the Russian Constitution.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev summed up the year at a press conference for journalists of five television channels , which was broadcast on the air of Russia-24. About what topics turned out to be ignored in an interview with the Prime Minister, writes a telegram channel of the manual : Today's interview with Medvedev Russian television channels is the most depolitized since 2012, i.e. From the moment Putin’s presidency returned.

The American destroyer USS McCampbell went near the Gulf of Peter the Great in the Sea of Japan (in the Korean tradition - the East Sea), located in the south of the Primorsky Territory. Thus, Washington “challenged the excessive demands of Russia and defended the rights of the United States and other countries to the legitimate use of sea spaces,” said the press secretary of the US Pacific Fleet Rachel McMarr, published on the website of the CNN channel.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has not yet publicly congratulated on the victory and did not personally accept the new governors of the regions who won the elections with candidates from United Russia, although several weeks have passed. The Russian BBC service drew attention to this.

Emil Kurbedinov In the Crimea annexed by Russia, employees of the Center for Combating Extremism detained lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, who represents the interests of the Crimean Tatar activists in the courts. This was announced by Radio Liberty correspondent Anton Naumluk. The lawyer was heading for the office from the house when he was detained by the police and taken to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Crimea and Sevastopol.