On the very eve of the New Year, December 31, Roskomnadzor unlocked the website mbk.media. True, a few hours before, he demanded to block the MBH Media channel in Yandex.Zen, and the service obeyed the requirement. For the first time, the portal was blocked back in February at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office “to limit access to information calling for riots” and the materials of “undesirable organization”.

Evgenia Albats in 2019 will leave the post of editor -in -chief of The New Times. She reported this on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station. “I will definitely do this this year, in the near future. And I think that this is absolutely necessary. I have been looking for the editor -in -chief for a long time. Because I perfectly understand that a person with less blinded brains is needed, a person is much more young, ”Albats said.

Updated (10:20) Rescuers discovered the body of the eighth who died as a result of an explosion in a residential building in Magnitogorsk, TASS reports . “They found the body of the eighth deceased, but has not yet been removed. It is not known who it is, but an adult, not a child, ”said the operational headquarters. It is also reported that search and rescue work in Magnitogorsk was discontinued due to the threat of collapse of the entrance wall.

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin instructed to dismiss the head of Gorky Park Marina Lulchuk due to the collapse of the pedestrian bridge, as a result of which 13 people were injured. This was announced by the head of the city on Twitter. We will carefully investigate the incident, the perpetrators will be punished. But it is already obvious that the administration of the park has allowed a serious shortage. He instructed the Department of Culture to dismiss the director of the park.

A resident of Ufa Andrei Tyanyakov died on the evening of December 31 due to injuries received in the police department. This was reported by the human rights employee postcards Valentina Dekhtyarenko with reference to the brother of the deceased Yegor Ignatiev. According to him, on December 29, Tyunakov left his house to the store. He was detained by the police and delivered him to department No. 9.

In Kemerovo, unknown people beat the organizer of the local rally against pension reform, a member of the Libertarian Party of the 18-year-old Valery Kazantsev. About this “MBH Media” was told by the coordinator of the “Protest Kuzbass” movement Lev Gimmer. “In the morning, Valery escorted friends from the house when he was returning, two men attacked him. It was at 7:30 in the morning. They strangled him, his neck does not turn, there is a suspicion of a concussion.

Updated (23:57) Explosion equipment did not find traces of explosives in the studied blocks of houses in Magnitogorsk. This was announced by the official representative of the Investigative Committee Svetlana Petrenko, reports TASS.

Updated (16:14) A child found under rubble in Magnitogorsk in serious condition, RIA Novosti reports citing the press service of the Ministry of Health. “The boy found in Magnitogorsk, who was found in Magnitogorsk, was taken to the children's city hospital N3. Doctors conduct an examination in the conditions of the resuscitation department. The condition of the child is evaluated by doctors as serious: he has serious frostbite, as well as a closed traumatic brain injury, ”the report said.

Since the beginning of the new presidential term of Vladimir Putin, the government has gone to implement new May decrees - twelve national projects. Why are their parameters still not agreed on what effect they should expect from them next year and why Vladimir Putin is the main obstacle to the implementation of his own projects - in an interview with economist Andrei Movchan.

In Russia, from January 1, 2019, value added tax increased from 18 to 20%, and an increase in the retirement age began, in accordance with the laws signed by Vladimir Putin. The retirement age in Russia from January 1, 2019 began to increase gradually to 60 years for women and to 65 years for men. Initially, an increase in the retirement age for men was supposed to stretch for 10 years and end in 2028, for women the transition period was to be 15 years and end by 2034.

The fact that inflation in the coming year will be even more than in the past, it became known in mid-2018, when the authorities announced an increase in VAT. Despite the promises that the increase in tax will not affect the most important goods, almost everything from bread to gasoline - for various reasons, a sharp jump in prices awaits. An even greater uncertainty is added by a ruble exchange rate, which can adversely affect prices for imported goods.

Activists of “unlimited protest” in the Naberezhnye Chelny Vasily Tarasov and Ayrat Panteleev were fined 20 thousand rubles per flash mob against pension reform, during which they distributed balloons and leaflets. It is reported by IDEL. Realiy. According to investigators, on November 18, Tarasov and Panteleev “distributed balloons and leaflets with the inscription“ Okrofnochka ”. After the audit, it was decided to initiate an administrative case for organizing an event without notice.

In the Chelyabinsk region on January 2, 2019, it was declared the day of mourning for the dead during the collapse of a residential building in Magnitogorsk. The corresponding order was signed by Governor Boris Dubrovsky, his press service reports . Throughout the region, the state flags of Russia and the flags of the Chelyabinsk region will be visible. Institutions, organizations and television and radio companies are recommended to abolish entertainment measures and transfer.