What are they talking about this morning

- On the eve of the Saturday rally, the opposition to Moscow is pulled by military equipment and trucks with soldiers , eyewitnesses report. Three kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road, a column of trucks and two armored personnel carriers were allegedly noticed. There is no official evidence of this yet. Meanwhile, in the blog of one of the leaders of the Jolidarity movement Denis Bilunov, a list of 19 speaking at a rally against falsifications (Yuri Shevchuk, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mikhail Efremov, Leonid Parfyonov and others) was published . Candidates of 11 more speakers, including Russian nationalists, are discussed.

- The instructions from the Epistle of President Medvedev on Thursday began to be carried out in the morning of Friday. The State Duma has submitted a bill on simplifying the registration of parties : it should be submitted in half of the regions of the Russian Federation and have at least 500 members (now the minimum of 50,000 members). Amendments will enter into force in a year.

- The producer and comedian Mikhail Shatz complained about his Facebook about a denunciation from the TV presenter Tina Kandelaki . According to the showman, Kandelaki informed the leadership of the STS channel about the participation of Shaz and his wife in “dubious” videos, campaigning to come to the rally for honest elections on December 24 . “To his honor, the leadership replied that both Mikhail and his wife, rather adults, and decide for themselves how, whom and where to call,” the comedian wrote.

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-President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev announced the dismissal of his son-in-law-billionaire Timur Kulibaev-from the post of head of the Samruk-Kazyna State Fund after the bloodshed in the city of Zhanaozen, provoked by the dissatisfaction of the oil workers. The leaders of the region and the oil company in which riots occurred have already lost their posts.

- Alfred Koch in an interview with Vedomosti called the Russian protest movement of the Scythian or partisan war , which has no enemy, no leaders, nor decision -making. "And this power infuriates!" - says Koch, who also believes that “the advantage of the current opposition to the Kremlin is that it is everywhere and nowhere. And it is impossible to defeat it, you can only pull out the shtepsel out of the outlet. ”

-Due to the disagreements between the Vnukovo and the Airlines of the Kuban , 8,000 people were under threat of the Kuban on the New Year's Eve. Oleg Deripaska owed the air harbor 400 million rubles. For this, Vnukovo may stop serving the Kuban flights.

-Vasily Anisimov will cease to be a partner of Alisher Usmanov in the Metalloinvest Holding : Anisimova will buy a 20%package of VTB. The shares will be transferred to the State Bank to pay off the debt of Anisimov Coalco - more than $ 1.5 billion.

- Against the backdrop of the growth of capital outflow from Russia, the government is thinking about creating a new agency that will engage in attracting foreign investment .

- Izvestia published a statement by the “chief strategist of the Kremlin” - the deputy head of the presidential administration Vladislav Surkov - about rallies: “People say - we are, we are important, we are the people. You cannot arrog the arrogantly from their opinion. And it is very correct that this opinion is taken into account, that there is a benevolent reaction of power. ”

-Smartphones with cameras displace from the market cameras-"soap dishes" . According to Internet surveys , Americans make 27% of all photos and videos on mobile devices-almost one and a half times more than a year earlier.