In the store. Photo: Fas.gov.ru President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed the law on amendments to the Law "On Foreign Economic Activities", according to which the government can "apply adequate measures to the aggressor state." As reported on the website of the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament adopted the corresponding bill on December 24.

Khrushchev. Photo from the site www.fashionista.ru Vladimir Putin signed a law exempting pensioners over 80 years old from the obligation to pay for overhaul. As TASS reports , for people who have reached 70 years, the size of the contributions will be reduced by 50 percent, disabled people of the first and second groups will receive the same benefit.

Ruslan Kutaev. Photo: radiomarsho.com In Chechnya, the convicted president of the Assembly of the peoples of the Caucasus Ruslan Kutaev was placed for 15 days in the penalty area. This was reported on the page of the consolidated mobile group of human rights activists with reference to members of the Public Supervisory Commission. The reason for the punishment of Kutaev was an allegedly discovered cell phone. On February 20, 2014, Kutaev was detained by the police in the house of his relative.

On the Oktyabrskaya Square of Moscow, opposite the nearby buildings of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice (in the last of them there is the central headquarters of the FSIN), the action "Memorial meal instead of the New Year's table" dedicated to the memory of the dead in conclusion was held.

Euro and dollar The dollar exchange rate for the first time in a year exceeded the level of 73 rubles. As RIA Novosti reports , the national currency continues to get cheaper against the backdrop of a resumed reduction in oil prices. The dollar exchange rate “Tomorrow” at 11:20 Wednesday increased by 0.93 rubles - to 73.13 rubles, the euro exchange rate by 1.01 rubles, to 80.01 rubles. This follows from the data of the Moscow Exchange.

Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo It is established, according to Markin, the customer of the murder of Boris Nemtsov. Returns, according to Bloomberg, Alexei Kudrin in big politics. The year ends with familiar boring news, but they contain a lot of what you wanted to know about the past, present and future. It was customary, escorting the outgoing year, to take stock and guess that the future is preparing the day. Well, let's let us down and guess.

Gagarinsky district court. Photo: gagarinsky.msk.sudrf.ru Ostankinsky and Gagarinsky district courts of Moscow refused to accept claims to protect the honor and dignity of the Corruption Fund and its founder Alexei Navalny to the prosecutor general Yuri Chaika and the media. This was reported by RAPSI.

US aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman. Photo: Wikimedia.org Iran’s boats carried out training firing missiles in the immediate vicinity of the American aircraft carrier Harry Truman. As TASS reports , referring to the message of the NBC television company, the incident occurred on December 26.

Vladimir Putin. Photo: Er.ru Vladimir Putin signed a law expanding a list of situations in which the FSB officers are allowed to use weapons. The document is published on the official portal of legal information. The document was entered in the State Duma in early June by a group of senators, headed by the chairman of the Upper Chamber of Defense, Viktor Ozerov. Later, the head of the Duma Security Committee Irina Yarovaya joined the authors.

The bodies of the dead at the raid on the village of Talbis near Homs, 09/30/2015. Hard video from the YouTube channel Talbisa H For three months that have passed since the open intervention of Moscow in the Syrian war, at least 792 civilians were killed from Russian airstrikes in this country. Such a number of victims is documented by the Syrian supervisory board of human rights. At the same time, 116 of this number is women, and another 180 are children.

Rais Suleimanov. Photo: Kazanweek.ru The judge of the Volga Region Court of Kazan Tagir Rakhiev sentenced the Islamic scholar Raisa Suleimanov to seven days of administrative arrest for two posts on a personal page on VKontakte. It is reported by Eurasia Daily. Suleimanov was found guilty under part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of extremist symbols).

110 years ago, on December 30, 1905, Daniil Harms (Yuvachev), a writer and poet, a participant in the association of Oberiu, one of the founders of absurdism in Russian literature, was born. In December 1931, he was first arrested on charges of participating in the "anti -Soviet group of writers" and received three years of exile.

OP "Danilovsky". Photo: petrovka38.ru In Moscow, a 14-year-old teenager from Tajikistan Nasim Rakhmanov was detained for two days due to suspicion of police officers. This was reported by the director of the Center for Adaptation and Education of Refugees of refugees Olga Nikolaenko. The young man was threatened with sending to a shelter where he could spend the New Year holidays. Nevertheless, human rights activists achieved the liberation of the detainee.

Vadim Tyumensev. Photo: TV2.tomsk.ru Judge of the Kirovsky District Court of Tomsk, Ekaterina Galyautdinova, sentenced Blogger Vadim Tyumentsev to five years in a general regime colony, reports TV-2. He is found guilty of arousing hatred and enmity to refugees from eastern Ukraine, as well as in public calls for extremism. The court also deprived Tyumentsev for the right to publish anything on the Internet and assigned him to paying the services of a lawyer and legal costs.

Sergey Lavrov, John Kerry (with his back) and Vladimir Putin at a meeting in the Kremlin. Photo: kremlin.ru Vladimir Putin, during negotiations with US Secretary of State John Kerry, announced the need for the participation of the Syrian President Bashar al -Assad in the 2017 elections. Bloomberg writes about this, referring to the information of two sources familiar with the situation.