Expertise Anthony William Geer , manager of the Old Customs restaurant, St. Petersburg New Year's Eve outside the home is my job. Since 1995, I have been celebrating it in Russia together with clients in our restaurant. And every time I am amazed at how different the Russian New Year is from the European one. In England, for example, the main family holiday is Christmas: it is celebrated with children, grandparents and gifts.

Over the past 2.5 months, about 3.5 thousand citizens of China and Vietnam independently came to the Federal Migration Service (FMS) of Russia. They have paid fines for illegal stay in the country and are planning to leave the country. “In 2.5 months, 3.5 thousand citizens of China and Vietnam who were in the Russian Federation illegally were brought to justice...

Today, in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk, an armed robbery occurred at a branch of the Credit Agricole bank, as a result of which three visitors were injured. The head of the press service of the Donetsk city police department, Olga Pochkalova, told Kommersant that a call about an armed attack came to the duty station at 14.45 from city residents who saw two masked people running into the bank building. After that, the sounds of shots were heard from the building.

Government experts have taken the initiative to introduce a tax for motorists for road maintenance. The initiative will be met with sharp opposition from car owners, and in addition, it could lead to an increase in gasoline prices, experts say. Road maintenance will be left to motorists. Through taxes and fees, the authorities intend to collect over 1.3 trillion from ordinary participants in the movement. rub. for the repair and construction of transport arteries.

Special agent Ethan Hunt returns to big cinema five years after the release of the third part of the Mission: Impossible franchise. Film number four, according to the latest fashion, does not have a number in the title, but has a subtitle that is equal parts mysterious and espionage. VLADIMIR BOROVOY The production was entrusted to director Brad Bird, who had not worked with real actors before - Bird directed feature-length cartoons at Pixar.

17K 1 min. ... In the Yaroslavl and Kostroma regions, United Russia showed the worst results in the country. It's all because of administrative resources. In the Yaroslavl region, the authorities used it very limitedly, and the campaign turned out to be very liberal by today's standards. After the elections, Yaroslavl residents on the Internet even thanked their governor Sergei Vakhrukov for being democratic and for not putting pressure.

The trial of communist Alexei Bessonov, who was detained on December 10 during an unauthorized protest for a poster with obscene language, will take place on December 23. As Kommersant’s interlocutors say, initially they tried to hold the magistrate’s court hearing on the day of Mr. Bessonov’s arrest. However, during the trial, Alexey Bessonov allegedly demanded a translator into Latvian, saying that he did not understand Russian.

Project 112 1 min. ... On December 15, the Winter Euphoria film festival, a descendant of the MIFF special program, opens at the Moscow Rolan cinema . "Euphoria" is showing world premieres over five days that have not yet appeared in Russian box office.

Maxim Yusin reviewer The Arab Spring continues its victorious march. In Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, power has changed. Things are changing in Yemen. Next up is Syria, where Bashar Assad is still holding out, but the ring around him is tightening. In most cases, foreign powers were involved in revolutions at different stages and to varying degrees.

The development of the electric power industry in the Far East has been planned The program for the development of the electric power industry in the Far East until 2025, after a lengthy discussion, was approved at a coordination meeting with the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District.

The protest against the results of the State Duma elections resulted in the adoption of the budget The detentions of fifty participants in two Saturday protests against the results of the State Duma elections in Khabarovsk have already cost each detainee a fine of 500–1000 rubles, and these amounts may increase. The police believe that they acted according to the law, although the protesters accuse them of the opposite.

Votes cast in presidential elections in unrecognized republic Yesterday presidential elections were held in Transnistria - the most scandalous and unpredictable in the entire history of the unrecognized republic. Since the CEC prohibited the publication of the exit-poll results, the preliminary voting results will be announced only today.

Today, the sale of tickets for Euro 2012 has started on the official UEFA website for fans of the 16 teams that reached the final stage of the competition. UEFA would like to remind you that a certain number of tickets have been reserved for fans of the 16 teams that will play in the final round. They can be purchased only on the basis of the citizenship and/or place of residence of the author of the application.

European banks are getting rid of sovereign bonds Over the past six months, European banks have gotten rid of government bonds of troubled eurozone countries worth €65 billion. Thus, banks are preparing for the entry into force of new Tier 1 capital adequacy requirements, for which they lack a total of €115 billion. Late last week, the European Banking Authority (EBA) presented a new study of the capital structure of the largest European banks.

80 years ago, Ogonyok first decided to write about the traffic collapse on the streets of Moscow. However, traffic jams in Russian cities existed even in the days of horse-drawn transport, and Ogonyok journalists often wrote how it was impossible to push through the flow of omnibuses, phaetons and heavy drays. But in the 20s, Moscow, which received the status of the capital of the USSR, faced a completely new problem - a lack of seats in public transport.