German Gref proposed to abandon insurance compensation for interest on deposits of individuals in order to force risky depositors to choose banks more wisely to invest their savings. According to Interfax , the head of Sberbank made such a proposal on Thursday on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.

The new building from the complex of the Museum of Personal Collections, part of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, will open at the end of February 2014. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to the director of the museum, Marina Loshak. It was previously reported that additional areas of the Museum of Personal Collections on Volkhonka will open at the end of 2013. Apparently, we are talking about the building at Volkhonka, 8, the former main house of the Renkevich city estate.

The cost of ingredients for preparing Olivier salad (if you prepare it with boiled sausage) in 2013 will be 255 rubles compared to 237 rubles last year. This was stated by the head of Rosstat, Alexander Surinov, RIA Novosti reports . Surinov did not specify exactly how much salad can be prepared from the products purchased with this money.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the Yasukuni Shrine on the morning of December 26, where the souls of war criminals convicted by the Tokyo Tribunal are venerated. reports this Agence France-Presse .

In December 2013, the defense in the Bolotnaya case tried to attract a new expert - retired police major Igor Burmistrov. A doctor of philosophical sciences, who worked for 30 years in the special forces system, prepared a conclusion in which he harshly criticized the actions of the police authorities during the dispersal of the rally on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych demanded that head of government Mykola Azarov hold accountable the officials who prepared the text of the association agreement with the European Union. According to RIA Novosti , he announced this on December 26 during the Council of Regions. According to the head of state, the authors of the document should be punished for not agreeing on the text with commodity producers.

Ukrainian police have detained a third suspect in the beating of Ukrayinska Pravda journalist Tatyana Chornovil. this on December 26 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported . The detainee Sergei Kotenko was put on the wanted list the day before. At the same time, the first two suspects in the attack on the journalist were detained. Their names are not reported.

The Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee has denied the murder of three people in a village in Dagestan, RIA Novosti reported on the night of December 26 , citing a representative of the SUSC for the region. According to SUSK, only an 11-year-old girl died as a result of the attack on the family. Two adults were injured.

The editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, Alexey Venediktov, has returned to the board of directors of the radio station. this He announced on his Twitter. A press release from Gazprom-Media, which owns Echo of Moscow, states that, in addition to Venediktov, the new structure includes three representatives of the holding, including its general director Mikhail Lesin, as well as an independent board member - the general director of Svyazinvest. Vadim Semenov.

State order for cocaine Yamal official fined twice for drug use Alexander Gorban. Frame: Channel One On December 24, the head of the municipal institution “Directorate of Municipal Order” of the administration of the city of Noyabrsk, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Alexander Gorban, was fined five thousand rubles for using cocaine. The process was captured on a hidden camera. The police opened a criminal case against a businessman who allegedly supplied drugs to the official.

An international group of researchers, including specialists from several Russian institutes, came to the conclusion that there used to be at least three populations independent of each other in Europe. Details are contained in the article , which is posted in the preprint archive arxiv.org. The work has not yet been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed publication.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine has reclassified the article under which the beating of Ukrayinska Pravda journalist Tatyana Chornovil is being investigated from hooliganism to infliction of grievous bodily harm. Liga reports this with reference to Valery Patskan, a member of parliament from the UDAR faction. “We hope that this will give them (the police) the opportunity to more quickly conduct an investigation and get results,” he said.

The owner of the bankrupt Mezhprombank, former senator from Tuva Sergei Pugachev, was charged in absentia with embezzlement and organizing the misappropriation of funds on an especially large scale ( part 3 of article 33 and part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). reports this Interfax with reference to an unnamed source familiar with the situation.

The Chertanovsky Court of Moscow returned to the prosecutor's office the case of nationalist Daniil Konstantinov, accused of murder. reported this on December 26 RAPSI . The judge came to the conclusion that the accusation did not correspond to the circumstances of the case, the materials were compiled with violations, and the evidence was not fully studied by the investigation. Konstantinov’s arrest period has been extended until March 4.

“They taught me a little bit about hitting with a stick, and even then it was wrong” Interview with a veteran of the special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Burmistrov. Photo: personal page “VKontakte” In December 2013, the defense in the Bolotnaya case tried to attract a new expert - retired police major Igor Burmistrov.