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What was banned and what they were missing
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Forbidden
Russian flag at the 2018 Winter Olympiad
In December, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruled that Russia at the state level created and supported the doping drug taking system. By decision of the IOC, participation in the OI-2018 under a neutral flag with Olympic rings will be able to accept only those Russian athletes that have no doping violations and which can pass qualifying competitions. The officials of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation were closed to admission to the 2018 Olympics, and the former Minister of Sports, Deputy Prime Minister Vitaliy Mutko and his deputy Yuri Nagornaya were withdrawn from participation in the Olympic Games.
After such a decision, the deputies started talking about the boycott of the Olympics, and the television companies - about the refusal to broadcast it on Russian TV. However, after the call of Vladimir Putin, nevertheless, the State Duma accepted a peace -loving statement in Korean winter games, and most athletes decided to go. One of the personnel consequences of the IOC decision was the departure of Mutko from the post of head of the RFU, so as not to complicate the holding of the World Cup in Russia. In addition, he left the post of chairman of the organizing committee of the 2018 World Cup.
American media - visit both wards of parliament
If many Russian officials in the coming year do not get to Korea, then journalists of the American media - to the Federal Assembly of Russia. In response to the deprivation of RT accreditation in the US Congress, the State Duma urgently adopted the law on the media-foreign agents (they were equated with NKO-foreign agents), and the relevant committees of the State Duma and the Council forbade representatives of American media recognized by foreign agents from December 6. These attributed the Voice of America, Radio Liberty and several more affiliated with the latest publications. Now journalists of the media-foreign agents will not be able to visit the parliament even on one-time passes as private individuals.
The State Duma recommends the regional parliaments the same. The official representative of the Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the decision of the parliament is “mirror retaliatory measures” on the actions of the American side.
Sites financed by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
At the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Roskomnadzor, without a court decision, included sites prohibited in Russia, related to Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “Open Russia”, “Khodorkovsky.ru”, “Open Russia”, “Open University”, the site “Instead of Putin”. The official report of the department explained that the resources are blocked for "the dissemination of information materials of organizations recognized in Russia undesirable." Such, in accordance with the law adopted in 2016, was recognized last year “Open Russia”. True, its representatives argued that sites do not directly relate to this organization.
The authorities tried to work as a advance: literally on the eve of how Khodorkovsky made his announcement, the deputies decided to supplement the law on the media-foreign agents with the norm, according to which such a ministe could declare personal information channels
At the end of the year, Khodorkovsky announced that he was launching a new, personal, MBH Media website , where he would unite the editorial offices of all blocked media resources. In turn, the authorities tried to work as a advance: literally on the eve of how Khodorkovsky made his announcement, the deputies decided to supplement the law on the media-experts with the norm under which the Ministry of Justice can declare personal information channels and they can also be blocked if desired.
Documentary films about Donbass and Crimea
On December 7, the October cinema, without explanation, shot the film “Mustafa” from the most authoritative Russian festival of documentary film “Artdoxfest”. The tape removed by Ukrainian director Ernest Sarykhalilov tells about the life of one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatar National Movement, the chairman of the Mejlis* of the Crimean Tatar people in 1991–2013 Mustafa Dzhemilev. Dzhemilev is a consistent opponent of the Russian authorities in Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea and the war in the Donbass.
On December 10, during the show at the same festival of the film “Flight of the Bullet”, the members of the pro -Kremlin movement of SERB doused the screen with a odorous liquid and began to threaten the audience with physical reprisal. “Flight of bullets” is a one and a half hours shot by one frame from the life of the Ukrainian volunteer battalion “Aidar”, fighting in the east of Ukraine.
The show of “war for the world”, the organizers of “Artdokfest” themselves canceled on the same day. The reason for the cancellation of the show was "anxiety about the safety and comfort of the guests of the festival." This film, after it became known about his participation in the out-of-competition program of the festival, asked to check the extremism of the State Duma vice speaker Petr Tolstoy .
They did not read
19 satellites released from the Vostochny cosmodrome
Vostochny November 28, 2017
Photo: roscosmos.ru
On November 28, the launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome ended in complete failure. The head part of the Soyuz-2.1B missile with the Frigate accelerated block burned down in the atmosphere, the surviving fragments drowned in the Atlantic Ocean. There were 19 satellites on board the launch vehicle-2 Russian and 17 foreign.
On the launch of the rocket was the delegation of Roscosmos of 12 people led by the curator of the industry Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. The Deputy Prime Minister congratulated the launcher of the Vostochny cosmodrome on a successful start, after which he decided to return to Moscow, without waiting for the satellites to withdraw into orbit.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev for the first time publicly reported for this failure of Rogozin, urging him to “radically correct” the situation and punish him guilty. After that, there were rumors in the media and Telegram channels that Rogozin would be dismissed and transferred to governors
According to the preliminary version, errors were made in the flight calculation of the launch vehicle and the accelerated unit. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev for the first time publicly reported for this failure of Rogozin, urging him to “radically correct” the situation and punish him guilty. After that, rumors appeared in the media and Telegram channels that Rogozin would be dismissed and transferred to the governors of the Voronezh region instead of Alexey Gordeev, who went to the leadership of the Central Federal District.
But Rogozin's resignation did not take place. And on the eve of the New Year the next state of emergency happened - the Angolan satellite launched from the "eastern" Angolas did not get in touch.
US Embassy - 755 employees
On July 28, the Russian Foreign Ministry demanded from Washington until September 1 to bring the number of diplomatic and technical employees working at the American embassy in Moscow, in consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok, in the exact compliance with the number of Russian diplomats and technical personnel who are in the United States, up to 455 people. As a result, about 755 people were fired from US diplomitions. From August 1, Russia also suspended the use of the US Embassy of all warehouse premises on the road street in Moscow and a summer residence in Serebryany Bor.
As a result of diplomatic sanctions and counter -sanctions, the tourist flow to the United States from Russia fell more than doubled: in May 14 thousand visas were issued, in October - 6.5 thousand.
This is the Kremlin’s answer to the arrest of real estate owned by the Russian Embassy in the United States, and the expulsion of 30 Russian diplomats from the country in December 2016.
This decision hit the Russians who want to stay or learn in the United States. It became almost impossible to get an American visa even in Moscow: it is now necessary to wait for the interview for at least three months. Those who do not have time to wait are sent for American visas to Belarus or Georgia. As a result, the tourist flow to the United States from Russia has more than doubled: in May 14 thousand visas were issued, in October - 6.5 thousand.
John Teft who left the House in the past year in an interview with NT refused to predict when the problem with visas for Russians will be resolved.
Rostov-on-Don-120 burned buildings
Rostov-on-Don burned more than 120 buildings
Photo: From open sources
On August 21, as a result of arson in the central part of Rostov-on-Don, more than 120 buildings burned. The fire began at once in several places of one of the central quarters of the city and, due to strong winds, quickly spread to neighboring houses.
Local residents suggest that the fire-builders could arrange a fire: the cost of 100 m 2 land in the Proletarsky district of Rostov-on-Don is up to 1.5 million rubles. The version is based on the stories that, shortly before the fire, the quarter was bypassed by unknown people and offered to redeem the land at a cost twice lower.
The Ministry of Emergencies asked the government to allocate 600 million rubles. The Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev eventually ordered the allocation of 80 million rubles from the reserve fund of the government. But in order to get money, 100 residents of destroyed houses (218 families were injured from the fire) had to sue the local authorities. As a result, three quarters of them by November were able to prove that they were really fireworks.
* Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people-an organization banned in the Russian Federation as an extremist