Crimea map American companies must terminate business relations with the Crimean counterparties by February 1, 2015, Lenta.ru reports with reference to the explanations of the US Department of Finance regarding sanctions on December 20 regarding Crimea.

The poster of the film '' stronger than weapons '' In the theater.doc, where on Tuesday the show of the Ukrainian film "Stronger than the Weapon" was torn off, a search was held, police officers seized a projector, computer and screen. This was announced on his Facebook by the art director of the theater Mikhail Ugarov. “Indeed, they took all the residents of our entrance from the apartments. They took them to a nearby school. On half the road, they returned them back to the apartments.

Manezhnaya, December 30. Photo by N. Maksimyuk/Grani.ru Of the 255 detainees in Moscow in the Manezhnaya Square area, about 70 will spend the night at the police. According to the ATS-INFO , 26 people were left at night at the Meshchansky Department of Internal Affairs. All of them are charged with Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to the police officer).

One of the detentions of Mikhail Kriger. Photo by E. Mikheeva/Grani.ru The Tver Court arrested civil activists of Mikhail Kriger and Roman Nevchinsky for 15 days for participating in the Promotion on Manezhnaya. According to the ATS-Info, they are found guilty under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to the police requirement). The remaining trials are scheduled for January 12.

Alexey Navalny in the center of Moscow 12/30/2014. Photo by George Alburov Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow returned the material on the violation of Alexei Navalny to the penalty and executive inspection. "The FSIN represented in relation to Navalny was returned, since the verdict has already been sentenced and the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation are not subject to use in this case," Yulia Petrova spokesman Julia Petrova told Interfax.

Victor Yanukovych and Oliver Stone. Photo from the page of Oliver Stone on Facebook The Hollywood director Oliver Stone interviewed Viktor Yanukovych for the future documentary about the events of the Maidan's events. Photos of Stone and Yanukovych are published on the director's page on Facebook. The interview, I Yanukovych, according to Stone, lasted more than four hours.

Artem Savelov with his father in the colony. Photo by Mary of the Mereda On Wednesday morning, the swamp prisoner Artem Savelov was released from colony No. 6 in the village of Stenkino, Ryazan region. According to New Gazeta, the political prisoner was met by relatives, human rights activists and journalists. Savelov thanked everyone who helped him in prison. In IK -6, two more swamp prisoners are serving time - Andrei Barabanov and Alexei Polikhovich. “We tried to stay together,” said Savelov.

Artem Savelov. Photo by Denis Bochkareva On December 31, Artem Savelov, swamp prisoner, should be freedom. His sentence expires on January 10. According to Part 2 of Article 173 of the Criminal Executive Code, if the sentence ends on a weekend or holiday, the convicted person is released on the election or pre-holiday day. Savelov was arrested on June 9, 2012. In February of this year, he was sentenced to two years and seven months in prison in a general regime colony.

Vitaly Portnikov. Photo from the site www.day.ua 2014 began with the holidays on the Maidan. It was very alarming, we all understood that the authorities at any moment would be ready to interrupt this Christmas lull and begin to deal with the protesters. And indeed, not even a few days had passed - and Kyiv was flooded with a specially laid hooligan, the abductions, beating and killing of activists began - and this whole nightmare continued until the execution of the "heavenly hundreds".

Hall of meetings of the UN Security Council. Frame EURONEWS The United States applied the right of a veto on the UN Security Council resolution on the recognition of Palestine's independence, Reuters reports. The draft resolution on the recognition of the state of Palestine was submitted to the UN Security Council on December 17. The draft resolution provided for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Palestinian territories by 2017.

15 years ago, on December 31, 1999, Boris Yeltsin resigned from the post of president of Russia, appointing the acting President of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin said: "I made a decision. I thought about it for a long time and painfully. Today, on the last day of the outgoing century, I am resigned." On the same day, Putin signed a decree guaranteeing Yeltsin protection against judicial persecution, as well as material support to him and his family.

A gas pipeline. Photo: press service "Gazprom" Gazprom received $ 150 million prepayments from Naftogaz of Ukraine for gas supply in January, TASS reports citing a representative of the Russian gas company. In Gazprom, it found it difficult to name the exact volume of the gas that would be delivered to Ukraine in the first month of 2015. This is due to the fact that the transitional volumes from the December prepayment, as well as the price, which is calculated by the formula, must be clarified.

Nikolai Petrov. Photo from the site www.open-forum.ru 2014 became a turning point. And the scale of the changes that have occurred, and their irreversibility, it seems, has not yet been fully realized by the political elites or citizens. Meanwhile, the regime, and with it, we all found ourselves in a hard corridor, which, thereby changing the country's development path, is no longer capable of the current government.