The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) received funds from the National Welfare Fund (NWF) for the implementation of infrastructure projects: in particular, the first tranche of 4.05 billion rubles to finance Rostelecom’s project to eliminate the “digital divide” and a tranche of 1.08 billion rubles for the construction of “smart networks” together with OJSC Rosseti, reported on Tuesday, December 30.

The decision of the Zamoskvoretsky court in Moscow to sentence Alexei Navalny’s brother Oleg to a real prison term in the Yves Rocher case may be a repetition of “the Soviet-era practice of punishing relatives of inconvenient people,” an Associated Press article indicates .

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order to allocate 150 billion rubles from the National Welfare Fund (NWF) to the Novatek-Yamal LNG project, according to a document published on the official legal information portal on Tuesday, December 30. According to the order, funds will be allocated to the project in exchange for Yamal LNG bonds. The gas production company Yamal LNG is implementing a project to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant.

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The prosecutor's office will most likely appeal the verdict passed by the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow against the brothers Alexei and Oleg Navalny in the Yves Rocher case, "due to its softness," Interfax reported on Tuesday, December 30, citing a source familiar with the situation. The prosecutor's office will make a final decision on appealing the verdict in the coming days, when it receives the full text of the verdict, the agency's interlocutor said.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was detained earlier during an opposition rally on Manezhnaya Square, said that the police took him home. “At first they were taken to the police department, halfway there new instructions were received. They brought me home, they didn’t let me out of the apartment. There were five soldiers of the 2nd operational regiment under the door,” Alexei Navalny stated in a Twitter message (spelling and punctuation preserved).

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The training ship Smolny with the Russian crew of the Mistral helicopter carriers returned from the French port of Saint-Nazaire to Kronstadt, TASS reports on Tuesday, December 30, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense. “The ship with the crews who completed the training course moored in Kronstadt,” the agency’s interlocutor said. A source in the Russian Navy also informed Interfax about the arrival of the crew .

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny called the verdict in the Yves Rocher case “the most vile and disgusting”, in which he was given a suspended sentence, and his younger brother Oleg Navalny received 3.5 years in prison. A video of Navalny’s statement was posted on Youtube. “Now we have seen that the authorities are not even just trying to destroy their political opponents, to imprison them. This is a common situation. We understood what they were doing to these people.

The official representative of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Kristina Belousova said that the agency recorded a violation of the house arrest regime by oppositionist Alexei Navalny and notified the court about it, Interfax reported on Tuesday, December 30 . Earlier on Tuesday, a message appeared on Alexei Navalny’s Twitter account that he was going to Manezhnaya Square, where his supporters were gathering, dissatisfied with the verdict in the Yves Rocher case.

Aeroexpress, which carries passengers by rail from Moscow, Vladivostok and Kazan to local airports, may lose infrastructure benefits, Interfax reported on Tuesday , citing Deputy Transport Minister Alexei Tsydenov. During a video meeting on the situation in the suburban complex, he said that the Russian government had prepared changes to the legislation allowing the provision of benefits for infrastructure payments only in the regulated segment of suburban railway transportation.

reports on Tuesday, December 30 The head of the National Bank of Ukraine, Valeria Gontareva, said that the devaluation of the ruble has a negative impact on the Ukrainian economy, Interfax-Ukraine . “As a person, I am very happy about what is happening with the Russian ruble. But as the head of the National Bank, this cannot make me happy, since Russia remains our important trading partner,” said the head of the Ukrainian National Bank during a press conference in Kyiv.

The low-cost airline Pobeda, part of the Aeroflot group, has received a license from the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation) to operate regular flights, Andrei Kalmykov, CEO of the low-cost airline, announced on his Twitter microblog. “Today we received a license from the Federal Air Transport Agency to operate regular flights,” he wrote. According to Kalmykov, the Pobeda fleet already has 8 new Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Security measures have been strengthened at the Zamoskvoretsky Court in Moscow, where at 09:00 Moscow time on Tuesday, December 30, the sentencing will begin in the so-called “Yves Rocher” case, in which oppositionist Alexey Navalny and his brother Oleg are accused, Interfax reports . Law enforcement officers blocked Bolshoi Tatarsky Lane, directly adjacent to the Zamoskvoretsky Court building, an hour before the start of the meeting, the agency’s correspondent reports. The lane is closed.

The Committee of Civil Initiatives (CCI), headed by former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, has recorded increased pressure on the media in Russia, according to a statement on the committee’s website.