In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, a share of part of the Kuril Islands took place on Saturday against Japan. According to local media, about 250 people came to the agreed rally. In addition, people opposed the unification of their region with the Primorsky Territory. The press service of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs correspondent Siberia. Real said that there were no detentions and violations of public order. The action was agreed with the authorities.

The court in the self -proclaimed Transnistrian Moldavian Republic sentenced its former head of Yevgeny Shevchuk in absentia to 16 years in prison. The verdict was passed on December 21. Shevchuk was found guilty of five episodes associated with the receipt of bribes and abuse of authority. A fine of 600 million Transnistrian rubles (more than 30 million euros) was imposed on it, deprived of awards of a self -proclaimed republic and forbade government posts within 5 years.

The former head of the economic department of the administration of the Primorsky Territory Oleg Gumenyuk was appointed acting mayor of Vladivostok. The message about this is posted on the official city website. The previous acting head of the city, Sergei Sherstyuk, went on vacation, from which he would return to the first deputy mayor, PrimaMedia said .

Will the association of Ukrainian Orthodox help the world? The Orthodox: Bibleist Andrei Desnitsky and poet Boris Kherson is evidenced in the program “From a Christian point of view”.

Hedliners of the ninety -fifth issue of the program "Music at Free" are funny musicians who publish their works on the production facilities of the frantic Swiss label Voodoo Rhythm . Rock Critic Artemy Troitsky professionally explains how to correctly mix cheerful and frantic. For many centuries, Switzerland remains an oasis of silence and tranquility in seething Europe.

What will a new exacerbation on Azov lead? Could the situation around the crisis in the Kerch Strait be regulated? What are the intentions and goals of the parties? Vitaly Portnikov is talking with political scientists Sergey Solodkim and Alexander Goltz.

In the first festive concert, dedicated to the bright holiday of Christmas on December 25, Sergey Nikitin, Alexei Ivashchenko, Irina Bogushevskaya, Vladimir Minin and the Moscow State Academic Chamber Choir participate. Author and presenter - Leonid Velekhov. Premiere on Radio Liberty - December 22, 2018 at 21 hours. 00 min.

On December 20, 2018, the National Archive of Latvia published part of the previously classified documents of the KGB of the Latvian SSR. Among the KGB agents is an employee of Soyuzorgreklama, Gudanets Nikolai Leonardovich (b. 1957), recruited on April 30, 1982 by an employee of the 5th department (the fight against "ideological sabotage"). The operational pseudonym of the writer - "Fedorov".

The US Supreme Court prohibited the Donald Trump administration to apply new immigration rules, according to which illegal immigrants cannot apply for asylum in the United States. Five of the nine judges rejected the White House appeal. The Trump administration protested the order of the California judge in the highest court. On November 20, Judge John Taigar in San Francisco decided to temporarily prohibit the application of new rules for providing asylum proposed by the White House.

The court in the self -proclaimed Transnistrian Moldavian Republic sentenced its former head of Yevgeny Shevchuk in absentia to 16 years in prison. The verdict was passed on December 21. Shevchuk was found guilty of five episodes associated with the receipt of bribes and abuse of authority. A fine of 600 million Transnistrian rubles (more than 30 million euros) was imposed on it, deprived of awards of a self -proclaimed republic and forbade government posts within 5 years.

In Kaliningrad, several students of the Baltic Federal University named after Immanuel Kant on Saturday reached a rally in support of the philosopher. In their hands they held the posters “no xenophobia and vandalism”, “Kant is our fellow countryman”. Thus, young people came in support of the philosopher, whose monument and grave in Kaliningrad, unknown were doused three weeks ago. Students in the organization of the rally were supported by the local branch of the Yabloko party.

The US President said he was proud The work of about a quarter of government ministries and departments of the United States turned out to be blocked due to the fact that the Senate did not adopt a bill on the federal budget. The deputies of the Congress did not agree to the allocation of five billion dollars for the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico, the Voice of America reports . The construction of the wall is the pre -election promise of President Donald Trump.

Writer Andrei Bitov on Sakhalin. 2002 The ashes of writer Andrei Bitov will be buried on Saturday in St. Petersburg in the Shuvalovsky cemetery. On the same day, the city’s literary community will hold an evening of memory of a writer at the Museum of Vladimir Nabokov on Bolshaya Morskaya, TASS reports with reference to the president of the Living Classic Foundation Marina Smirnova. Andrei Bitov bequeathed to bury him in the Shuvalovsky cemetery, where his parents rest.

What will a new exacerbation on Azov lead? Vitaly Portnikov: How does the crisis affect the relations of Moscow and Kiev on the relations of Russia and the United States? Did the events in the Kerch Strait really not become a reason, but the cause of a new serious cooling in the relationship between Moscow and Washington? Do Moscow calculate the risks that exist for Russian-American interaction when they make certain decisions related to the aggravation of relations with Ukraine?

In the 21st century, we find out what we are ready to believe with the employee of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Zygmon and the observer of the “Independent Newspaper” Pavel Skrylnikov.