On December 13, the IV DPR Football Union Conference was held at the Olympysky stadium. The event was attended by Chairman of the People's Council, Honorary President of the Football Union of the DPR Denis Pushilin, MPs Alexander Malkov and Vladimir Chekun, Acting Minister of Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism Alexander Gromakov, President of the Football Union Igor Petrov, 

The UN published the 20th report on the condition of human rights in Ukraine, which covers the period from August to November 2017. The report deals with the situation throughout Ukraine, it raises issues of violation of freedom of speech, judicial arbitrariness and persecution of Ukrainian judges, impunity of the organizers of the fire in the House of Trade Unions on May 2, 2014, in Odessa, and much more.

The book by Gene Sharp “From Dictatorship to Democracy” was written in 1993, it became a workbook on the organization of colour revolutions or, according to the author, ‘non-violent struggle’ with a state. Sharp calls discrediting power by mocking it as one of the methods of struggle, as well as by demonstrating its powerlessness. In Ukraine, this workbook was gone by, and now it is lived by.

In its desire to turn the education system into an organ of the Nazi propaganda, Ukraine has overstepped the mark, which has received a naturally negative reaction from Europe. This time, the law "On Education", adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on September 5, 2017, was criticized by the Venice Commission, approving the expert opinion on the language provisions of the law.

The Chairman of the DPR People’s Council, the permanent plenipotentiary representative of the DPR in the Contact group’s negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin described the status of negotiation process in Minsk to the correspondent of “Union” TV channel.

On December 10, at the Sports Center of the Krasnoselsky district of St. Petersburg, the finals of the XII International Futsal Tournament were held among the teams of pupils of children's centers and boarding schools.

The authorities of the Donetsk People's Republic are ready for the exchange of prisoners with Kiev and expect that it will be held before the end of the year, Permanent Representative of the DPR to the negotiations of the Contact Group in Minsk Denis Pushilin told RIA Novosti.

The struggle of factions within the Ukrainian government, the pressure of American curators, the IMF's threats – this is the informational background of the Ukrainians' life. Another round of scandal was the removal of Sobolev from the post of the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Combating Corruption. 

On December 8, an extended meeting of the Committee for Public Support for the inhabitants of south-eastern Ukraine was held in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. As part of the event, the Chairman of the DPR People’s Council Denis Pushilin made a presentation on “The further development of public interregional cooperation with public organizations of the DPR”.

On December 8, the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation hosted an extended meeting of the Committee for Public Support of the Southeast of Ukraine. The event was devoted to discussing the issues of providing humanitarian assistance to the people of the Donbass, as well as further development of interregional cooperation with public organizations of the DPR and the LPR.