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December 28th. An explosion in St. Petersburg is a terrorist act

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Yesterday, almost immediately after we shipped Evening Meduza, an explosion occurred in the Perekrestok supermarket in St. Petersburg on Kondratievsky Prospekt . In one of the boxes in the storage room of the store, a homemade bomb with a capacity of about 200 grams of TNT went off, injuring 13 people. The Investigative Committee, despite the obvious, opened a criminal case under the article on the attempted murder of two or more persons - and only in the morning, President Vladimir Putin declared the incident in St. Petersburg a terrorist attack .

In Moscow, the police detained the director of the Menshevik factory, Ilya Averyanov, who fired at the enterprise the day before and managed to escape from the cordon of the National Guard. The investigation intends to charge the detainee with the murder of a factory security guard and ask the court for a sanction for his arrest. Averyanov himself claims that he acted in self-defense .

One of the most discussed news of recent days continues to be the blocking of Ramzan Kadyrov's Facebook and Instagram accounts. After that, the head of Chechnya moved to the new social network Mylistory. Firstly, we had questions to Facebook about this strange blocking (by the way, a flight search engine has already settled on Kadyrov's former page ), and secondly, we found out how the developers of Mylistory are connected with Kadyrov himself.

Other important news

Alexei Navalny appealed against his non-admission to the presidential elections in the Supreme Court. The judges decided to consider this issue in an expedited manner, the day before the New Year.

The head of Navalny's campaign headquarters, Leonid Volkov, was released was immediately detained in Moscow. after 30 days of administrative arrest, and municipal deputy Ilya Yashin

Energia Corporation specialists managed to establish contact with the first Angolan satellite Angosat-1, launched on December 26 from Baikonur.

The results of the year, where without them

The main heroes of 2017 in Russia, of course, were teenagers. We tried to understand why this happened , and we also talked with five schoolchildren from different cities of the country and found out how they live.

And we also collected 50 of the best news photos - from the confusion at the Oscars and Trump's inauguration to the Spartak championship and protest rallies in Russia.

We also present one of the most important books written in Russian in 2017 - "In Memory of Memory" by Maria Stepanova .

With coming! Alexander Filimonov