Eston Kokhver in the Lefortovo District Court, 09/07/2014. PEALINN frame The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow extended the stolen FSB officer Estonia Estona Kokhver the term of detention in the pre -trial detention center until April 5, 2015. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press secretary of the court, Julia Scotnikov. The arrest of an officer appointed by the October resolution expired on January 5.

Logo Gmail China authorities completely blocked Gmail, Google’s postal service, on its territory. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the non -profit organization Great Fire. For many years, access to the Gmail website for users in the PRC has been closed. However, the residents of China could work with the Google postal service using customers like iOS Mail, Thunderbird and Outlook by IMAP (Internet Message Protocol) and Pop3 (Post Office Protocol 3).

Dmitry Shipilov. Photo: Newkuzbass.ru Blogger Dmitry Shipilov was released upon departure of the deadline from a pre -trial detention center in Kemerovo. This was reported to the "faces" by the local activists Yegor Pushkarev and Stas Kalinichenko who met him. On April 3, 2012, the magistrate of the 3rd section of Yurga Tatyana Rayle sentenced Shipilova to 11 months of corrections with a deduction of 10 percent of earnings in state revenue.

Leo Rubinstein. Photo by the border.ru Such a tradition has already developed that as many years as I write for this publication, I always compose New Year's speakers. And, of course, each time it is increasingly difficult. What else can be grown in this trampled meadow? And where to get so much vigor of the spirit or at least vigorous intonations, which are necessary in accordance with the law of the genre? This time with vigor is somehow especially tense. But what to do is tradition.

Chechen policemen with duffel bags. Grozny, 12/28/2014. Photo: Novayagazeta.ru About 500 employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya refused to submit illegal reports on their readiness to fulfill any order of Vladimir Putin, the Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev and the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. This was reported by the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Elena Milashina.

Logo "Radio Liberty" Roskomnadzor demanded that Radio Liberty remove the publication from the site about the expected sentence Alexei Navalny. This was reported on his Facebook page by the journalist of the radio station - publicist and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek. In case of non -discovery, RKN threatens to block access to the site in Russia. Earlier, with a similar demand, the department turned to the Ukrainian publication "Gordon".

Rules. Frame NTV Vladimir Putin signed a law that doubles the amount of insurance compensation for bank deposits, TASS reports. Now, in the event of a license from the bank, the depositors will be paid up to 1.4 million rubles. Prior to this, the maximum amount of insurance compensation was 700 thousand rubles. The law on raising insurance compensation for bank deposits was adopted by the State Duma on December 19 and approved by the Federation Council on December 25.

Vodka. Photo from the site http://mvdrk.karelia.ru Rosalkogolregoling issued an order to establish a new minimum retail price for strong alcohol (more than 28 percent of alcohol content) from February 1, 2015. According to RBC, for the first time in history the price will not be increased, but, on the contrary, reduced. A bottle of 40-degree vodka with a capacity of 0.5 liters can be purchased not for 220 rubles, as it is now, but for 185 rubles.

Nikolai Mitrokhin. Photo from the personal archive A few days ago, one of my friends wrote to me on Facebook: "The head is around. And these, or what, the" Time "program have seen enough? Or are useful idiots? Or what?" It was about the appeal "Solidarity with Russia at the hour of Ukrainian tragedy", compiled by the prince and Princess Shakhovsky and signed by more than a hundred descendants of the Russian aristocracy, living mainly in France.

Ilya Milstein Franz Klintsevich - United Herry, exemplary, showcase. We can say that he stood at the origins of that movement, which in our last years affects the minds and hearts of independent observers. Franz Adamovich was, so to speak, the forerunner. After all, he was one of the first to talk about the fifth column and about the hires of the West in Russian politics. Yes, how I spoke!

Ukrainian passport. Photo: vaWepravo.com From January 1, 2015, Russia cancels a preferential migration regime for citizens of Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the Federal Migration Service of Russia Konstantin Romodanovsky in an interview with Rossiy Gazeta. According to Romodanovsky, the most favorable conditions of stay were created for citizens of Ukraine in Russia. Now they will enter on a common basis established for all visa -free migrants.

Ministry of Economic Development. Photo from the site www.greenpeace.org In November, Russia's GDP decreased by 0.5 percent in annual terms in relation to the same month of 2013, the Ministry of Economic Development said about the results of socio-economic monitoring. The reduction in GDP was recorded for the first time since 2009. However, in general, in January-November, GDP grew by 0.6 percent.

The militants of the Islamic State. Frame by Al Arabiya TV channel The Supreme Court recognized the Islamic State and Jebhat-en-Nusra terrorist organizations, Interfax reports with reference to the announced resolution of the Armed Forces. Thus, the court in closed mode satisfied the lawsuit of the General Prosecutor's Office. Thus, the activities of these organizations are prohibited in Russia.

Tents of protesting state employees. Photo: Philip Kireev At the United Russia office, the police with the help of a tractor demolished the tents of state employees requiring the provision of social housing. This was reported on Twitter Philip Kireev. Five protest participants were detained and delivered to the Tver police department. According to the ATS-Info, Daria Kirillova, Firuz Ashurova, Sergey Romashkin and two more were detained. What they are accused of is still unknown.

Rafis Kashapov in Ankara, December 2014. Photo with personal FB page On Sunday, the head of the local branch of the All -Tatar Public Center Rafis Kashapov was detained in Naberezhnye Chelny. This was announced on the same day on Kashapov's page on Facebook. The security forces came to the social activist at 6 a.m. and, without demonstrating the decision to open a criminal case, began a search during which a laptop and all means of communication were seized.