A series of sentences in Moscow case provoked violent discussions in the media and social networks: in the authoritarian state, a fine, like Pavel Novikov , or a conditional term, like Yegor Zhukov, is a victory of lawyers and civil society or their defeat? And one year of the colony, like Nikita Chirtsov? And two and a half, like Maxim Martintsov? After all, this is still not six and a half years for a peaceful picket , like Yana Sidorov and Vladislav Mordasov.

Maxim Martintsov in court On December 6, the 26-year-old Maxim Martintsov was sentenced to 2.5 years in a colony in Moscow case. According to investigators, Martintsov, as part of the group, fell on the asphalt of an employee of the Russian Guard and hit him with his foot. The “group of persons” considers the investigation three participants in the rally who did not know each other before the action.

In Moscow, an action was held on the Patriarchal Bridge near the Cathedral of Christ the Savior against domestic violence and in support of the sisters of Krestina, Angelina and Maria Khachaturian, accused of killing his father. The participants hung locks with lilac ribbons on the bridge, and also held single pickets.

Alexander Zeldovich Alexander Zeldovich is one of the most unusual Russian directors. His films come out with unchanged frequency - every ten years. The debut "sunset", shot according to the script of Pavel Finn, was inspired by the prose of Isaac Babel. Having united with Vladimir Sorokin, Zeldovich shifted the "three sisters" to the ambivalence of sunset of the 21st century in "Moscow", then - "Anna Karenina" for the coming 2020 in the "target".

Promotion "Bridge Sisters" in support of the Khachaturian sisters on the Patriarchal Bridge in Moscow On Saturday, the Most Sisters campaign was held on the Patriarchal Bridge in Moscow, whose participants demand the release of sisters Khachaturian. The process of three girls who have recognized in the murder of a father due to many years of bullying has become one of the reasons for an active discussion around the problem of domestic violence in Russia.

In Moscow, on Friday evening, a mass picket organized by the “ Alternative Socialistry ” movement was held on the Yauz gate Square on Friday evening. Participants in the action demand the release of sisters Khachaturian, adopt the adequate law on domestic violence, and also oppose inequality, patriarchy and capitalism. Another requirement of activists is at the expense of the state budget to provide each area with a crisis center for people undergoing domestic violence.

For 10 years, Moscow will take 24 million tons of garbage to landfills to the Kaluga and Vladimir regions, follows from the draft territorial scheme of waste management. Another 11 landfills - waste processing complexes - will work in the suburbs. In the same region, from 2022, four garbage plants will be taken by metropolitan garbage. The newspaper "Kommersant" got acquainted with the plans of the city.

New military tests in the DPRK are aimed at suppressing the nuclear threat from the United States. About this, as local media write, said the head of the General Staff of the country. According to him, "hostile forces", including the United States, should refrain from provocations of North Korea if they want to celebrate the New Year peacefully. Earlier on Saturday it became known that the DPRK conducted new tests at its military training ground. What exactly was tested is unknown.

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The UN World Climate Conference was extended for one day due to the fact that its participants could not agree on the final documents of the event. According to Reuters , negotiations lasted last night, but in the end, Greenpeace Executive Director Jennifer Morgan said that the prepared texts of the agreements were "absolutely unacceptable".

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Freedom between faith and unbelief. Why is freedom -thinking an anti -religious concept? About this in the program "Between Vera and unbelief" a conversation with the religious Revolution, an employee of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Ekaterina Korostichenko.

Only eight of 68 films that received state support paid off at the box office from January to November 2019, RBC agency calculated the open statistics of the Film Fund. Last year, nine out of 54 tapes, the production of which was supported by the state, that is, was commercially successful, for the same period, every sixth turned out to be commercially successful.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his press secretary Dmitry Peskov (left) The Kremlin commented on the Norman Four summit in Paris on December 9. According to the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, the meeting did not lead to a "fateful breakthrough." “Have the Norman format resumed after a fair break? Yes. Were the fateful breakthrough reached? No,” Peskov said on the air of Channel One.

According to the results of early parliamentary elections in Kosovo for the first time in 11 years of existence, an opposition is partially recognized in the Republic of the republic. In the elections, the Social Democratic Party "Self-Definition" led by Albin Kurti won. In Primetin, they talk about the appearance on the political stage of the new generation of statesmen, not so much related to the military heritage of the past.