389 journalists and other media workers are in places of imprisonment because of their professional activities. This is 12 percent more than last year. This was reported in the annual report of the international organization "Reporters without borders" about the situation with freedom of speech in the world, published on December 17. Most of all the journalists in China (130 people) who were behind bars, then Egypt (36) and Saudi Arabia follow (32).

Former President of Pakistan Perevez Musharraf The court of Pakistan in absentia sentenced the former president of the country of the Musharraf Perevoz to the death penalty in the case of state treason. The case has been under consideration since 2013. The former Pakistani leader was found guilty of the introduction of a state of emergency in the country during riots in 2007 and the suspension of the constitution. The politician himself was not present at the announcement of the sentence.

US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump curled that he would be “disappointed” if something is “developed” in North Korea. Washington carefully monitors Pyongyang’s actions, the president added. It is noted that the US special representative in North Korea Stephen Bigun arrived in Seoul on Sunday against the backdrop of assumptions that he could try to save negotiations on denuclearization.

An illustrative photo The head of the United Russia faction in the City Duma of Pereslavl-Zalessky Vladimir Kornilov was detained on suspicion of murder. This was announced today by the chairman of the city parliament Sergey Kornienko. The press service of the Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the Yaroslavl Region refused to comment. On the eve of Kornilov wrote a petition for early resolution of the deputy’s powers.

The proportion of Russians who are well related to the United States and the European Union since May 2018 has increased more than doubled. According to the Levada Center survey , which was held in November, 47 percent of Russian citizens are positively related to the United States, and 52 percent of the European Union. A year and a half ago, there were 20 and 28 percent - respectively.

How will the situation change after the meeting of the leaders of the Norman Four in the French capital? Vitaly Portnikov asks for political scientists Taras Berezovtsa and Andrei Okar.

The participant in the Moscow Affairs Sergei Surovtsev is accused of applying violence to representatives of the authorities during an inconsistent campaign in Moscow on July 27 for honest elections. According to investigators, Surovtsev hit the Rosgvarde fighter with a metal fence. On December 17, the consideration of his case began. In addition, the court extended the arrest of Surovtsev until June 2020.

The US Senate approved the country's defense budget draft for 2020. The document includes sanctions against the builders of two Russian gas pipelines, military assistance to Ukraine and 12-week paid holidays at the birth of a child for federal employees. The budget with a volume of $ 738 billion is approved by a majority vote - 86 members of the upper house of Congress spoke out for adoption, against 8 people, Politico reports .

Spain discusses the scandal that arose on December 15 at the match between the Madrid team "Valkano" and football players from the city of Albaset. During the meeting, the Madrid fans began to insult the striker Albaset, the Ukrainian Roman Zosuli, and the referee interrupted the game. This-the stop of the match due to the insulting the player-happened in the history of Spanish football for the first time . "Valkano district" is based in the metropolitan work of Valekas.

Political scientists Taras Berezovets and Andrey Okara in the program of Vitaly Portnikov Vitaliy Portnikov: A summit was held in Paris - an event that was talked about before it and which remains one of the most important political plots in Russian -Ukrainian relations after the summit took place, and the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky met President Vladimir Putin. We will talk about the consequences of this summit today.

The US presidential administration Donald Trump refrained from supporting the resolution adopted by the Congress, in which the mass murder of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire is called genocide. The State Department said that they continue to consider historical events as "mass atrocities." “The position of the administration has not changed,” Morgan Ortagus Voice quotes the official representative of the State Department.

Russian submarines in the Syrian port of Tartus, September 2019 Russia will spend $ 500 million on the modernization of the Syrian port of Tartus, Yuri Borisov, Deputy Prime Minister on the defense industry complex, said . Over the next four years, another port will also be built with this money. Two years ago, Russia and Syria signed an agreement that stipulates that for 49 years the material and technical support of the Russian Navy will be in Tartus.

Participants in the rally "Sardin" in the city of Revio Emilia in northern Italy "Salvini is a fascist! I do not want fascism in my country and I do not want me to be ashamed to be called an Italian!" - An elderly man who came to a rally in the center of Rome last Saturday with a sardine with a Sardina image was getting excited in an interview with Reuters reporters .

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Wage workers during the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi How in Russia they treat labor migrants Maryana Torocheshnikova: The International Migration Organization includes Russia in the first five acceptance countries in the number of labor migrants. The vast majority of foreigners who come here to work are CIS citizens. In 2019, the leadership of this part belongs to Uzbekistan, from where almost a million labor migrants came.