The world court in Moscow fined Google 7.2 billion rubles, that is, about $ 98 million, for the systematic failure of the information banned in Russia. This is the first application of a working fine against the Internet business in the country. Its size is calculated from the turnover in Russia, and does not make a fixed amount. The corporation was found guilty under the article on the re -committing an offense related to the failure of information that the legislation requires to remove.

Dmitry Muratov comments on the answers of Vladimir Putin.

Holy Trinity abode of mercy in Saraktash (archive photo) The court in the Orenburg region sentenced a large priest Nikolai Zapsky by 21 in prison in a maximum security colony. He is found guilty of rape, violent actions and other crimes against children that he committed for a dozen years. Strezky is also deprived of the state award of the Order of Parental Glory. The rector of the Holy Trinity monastery of mercy in Saraktash Nikolai Zapsky was arrested in September 2019.

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.

The letters, meanings and pictures of the designer Logvin. Exhibition at the Zverevsky Center and virtual collecting. Belarusian case.

Voices of Louis Martinese (France), Elena Corty (Italy), Frank Williams (Wales), Donald Reifield (England), Sergey Averintseva and others.

Information digest "Freedom time", December 24 After yesterday's meeting of the Moscow City Court, in a claim for the liquidation of the Memorial human rights center in the media, the phrase of one of the prosecutors was widely dispersed, which expressed the opinion that the Nemark of the Memorial of its materials could lead to someone else's depression. But there is another, much more important detail of the process. The court refused to hear all the declared defense witnesses .

In Astrakhan on Friday morning, a fire occurred in the intensive care unit of the regional infectious diseases hospital, where sick coronaviral infection are treated. According to emergency services, two patients died as a result of fire in the Red Zone. The probable cause of the fire could be the ignition of the Ivl apparatus, Interfax was told in the hospital administration. According to another version, the fire provoked a malfunction in the lighting system.

Is Putin looking for Biden's attention? Is an agreement possible with the Kremlin? Does the Kremlin consider the White House weak? The US willingness to discuss Russia's claims against NATO We discuss with the former special assistant to the US President, a researcher at the New York Council on international relations Thomas Graham and human rights activist Yuri Yarym-Agaev.

Two Hong Kong Universities removed monuments to the victims of student unrest in Tiananman Square in Beijing in 1989. On the night of Friday, December 24, the bronze statue of the "goddess of democracy" with a torch in his hand was dismantled by Chinese University of Hong Kong. The bas -relief with the "goddess of democracy" also deleted the University of Linnan. The university leadership informed Reuters about the dismantling of objects that represent legal risks in the field of safety.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in Chechnya Nurdi Nukhazhiev announced the delivery of 22-year-old daughter of the head of Chechnya Aishat Kadyrova medal "for protecting human rights". The insignia was awarded with the wording "for a great contribution to the defense of the constitutional rights and interests of citizens." This is stated in the message of the Public Commission under the apparatus of the Commissioner for Human Rights in Chechnya.

The coordinator of the Voice movement in the Pskov region, Vladimir Zhilinsky, left Russia with his family (Voilia and Zhilinsky are personally included in the register of "foreign agents"). As the Zhilinsky North. Realities told , a month before leaving he transferred his IT company to Georgia and became its tax resident.

Video recording cameras in Moscow The Moscow authorities plan to allocate 4.2 billion rubles for the intellectual video surveillance system for roads within five years. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to a tender posted by the Center for Roading Organization (DCD) on the public procurement website.

The size of the pensions for most Russians is small. To make ends meet, many pensioners have to work, and here officials begin to remove the allowances from them, fighting for each penny. In Moscow, pensioners are additionally applied to a regional social surcharge to the cost of living: the so -called Luzhkovskaya Uzbavka (it was introduced by the previous mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov).

Ukraine has revealed the content of ten points to unlock the peace process according to the Donbass in all existing formats. Previously, their content was not disclosed. About this writes "Kommersant". Among the steps proposed by Kyiv are the conduct of telephone conversations of the presidents of Russia and Ukraine.