In Rostov-on-Don, the court rejected the sentences to Yana Sidorov and Vladislav Mordasov, who were convicted for six and a half years on charges of preparing the riots in the city. The lawyers of the convicts said they would appeal the decision in the Supreme Court and intend to reach the European Court of Human Rights.

Last week, the Basmanny Court left under the arrest of a 21-year-old student of MAI Andrei Barny, one of the Moscow Affairs, 21-year-old student of MAI. He was detained in October as part of the so -called second wave of arrests that followed the summer protests in Moscow. A little more than a week after the arrest, the investigation sent barley to a stationary psychiatric examination.

Documentary Radio Liberty project “Signs of Life” is not the first time participating in the Artdokfest festival. This year, the films “Tasia from Tonsino”, “Girl with the Constitution”, “Bastard” were shown.

What will the team of the President of Ukraine do? Vitaly Portnikov: What happens to the recently unprecedented rating of the new Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky? How does the fall of the rating of the head of state will influence the situation in Ukraine, the actions of the Ukrainian authorities, to its position on the world arena in connection with the important decisions that will be made in the late 2019-early 2020? We will talk about this today.

What will the team of the President of Ukraine do? Vitaly Portnikov: What happens to the recently unprecedented rating of the new Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky? How does the fall of the rating of the head of state will influence the situation in Ukraine, the actions of the Ukrainian authorities, to its position on the world arena in connection with the important decisions that will be made in the late 2019-early 2020? We will talk about this today.

Alexander Gabyshev The Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev was again detained by the police in the republic - a few days after he began his second trip to Moscow in order to "expel Putin" from the Kremlin. Three hours before the detention of Gabyshev, the police also detained one of the closest associates of Shaman, Evgeny Rostokin. He was taken to the FSB department in the republic. On what basis the detentions were made is unknown.

Construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline in Serbia The US Senate included in the draft military budget for 2020 sanctions against participants in the construction of the Northern Stream - 2 and Turkish Stream gas pipelines. The document is posted on the website of the committee on armed affairs of the upper house of the American parliament. Restrictions against builders will allow maintaining the energy security of Europe, the authors of the document are sure.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, who was killed in Berlin, was one of the organizers of the explosions in the Moscow metro. Putin said about this at a press conference following the results of the Summit of the leaders of the Norman Four in Paris. What kind of terrorist attacks are we talking about, he did not specify. He called the killed "action movie, a very harsh and bloody man", who was wanted in Russia.

In St. Petersburg, seven unknown men attacked girls because of appearance. Doctors diagnosed a concussion in one of the victims. About this writes the publication "Paper". A friend of the injured Ekaterina Lysykh - Alina - said that on the evening of December 9, she went along with three friends along Ligovsky Prospekt. Several men blocked the road, asking "Are you, lesbians?" Petersburgers ran into a cafe. One of them wanted to get a pepper can, but the man hit her in the face, said Alina.

On January 4, 1960, Albert Kamu, the Nobel Prize for Literature, the author of the famous books "The Plague" and "Narodneal", died in a car accident. The car, which was driven by publisher Michel Gallimar, suddenly crashed into a tree. It seemed strange to many then that the disaster occurred on a long segment of a straight and wide road, on which there was no lively movement. However, the police considered the incident a regular accident through the fault of a faulty wheel.

Peter Handke (right) among other laureates In Stockholm and Oslo, on Tuesday, there were ceremonies of the Nobel Prizes for this year. Laureates were announced in October, awarded prizes according to tradition on December 10. The Nobel Prize of the World received at Oslo the Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abi Ahmed Ali -for the settlement of a border conflict with Eritrea. "For Me, Nurtering Peace is Like Planting and Growing Trees.

The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal.

Alisa Meissner, Elizaveta Mikhailov and Evgeny Shashev at a meeting of the Constitutional Court The Constitutional Court of Russia, having examined the complaints of the victims of the Stalinist repressions, ordered the State Duma and the regional authorities to "immediately" change the federal and regional laws so that the victims of the repressions born in exile could "unconditionally" get housing in the historical homeland.

At the first, for the sixth president of Ukraine, the Norman Summit for the Donbass reached an agreement on the ceasefire, the exchange of prisoners and the expansion of the OSCE mission. The negotiations of the leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia resumed after more than three years in the Norman format were another attempt to bring the establishment of peace in the Donbass.

Another blow to Russian sports - the World Anti -Doping Agency requires to remove Russia from all the largest competitions for the next four years. The main reason was not even violations of individual athletes, but, in fact, the state system of fraud with doping samples. The Olympiad in soils really turned out to be very expensive. All the Olympiads were already paid, and it is not known - is it to the end?