Roskomnadzor demanded that the American publication Buzzfeed remove an article about the battles in Grozny. Otherwise, the department threatened to block the entire resource. Roskomnadzor contacted the editors at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, which saw in the material calls for participation in mass riots. It is unknown what exactly the Russian supervisory agency did not like.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on awarding the Order of Courage to a paratrooper from Novouralsk, Alexei Zasov, who died at the end of August 2014. This was reported in the administration of Novouralsk. According to the official version, Zasov died in Russia. According to his common-law wife, Yulia Ganiyeva, she was informed about this at the military registration and enlistment office.

Director Cary Fukunaga, who directed the first season of the True Detective series, will next film an adaptation of Stephen King's It. Filming will begin in the summer of 2015, and the film, according to producer Dan Lin, will have two parts. In the first story, the story will be about the growing up of children, to whom It appeared in different guises, and in the second, about how the grown-up heroes united to fight It.

The Investigative Committee of Russia has launched a procedural check in connection with the comments of some Ukrainian politicians about the terrorist attack in Grozny. The UK believes that these statements fall under the article on the public justification of terrorism. The Investigative Committee did not specify what kind of politicians and what kind of statements in question. Since the mass media were used, the sanction of this article provides for punishment of up to 7 years in prison.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, promised to expel relatives of militants from the republic and demolish their houses. “If a militant in Chechnya kills a police officer or another person, the militant’s family will be immediately expelled from Chechnya without the right to return, and the house will be demolished along with the foundation,” Kadyrov said. The head of Chechnya also promised to immediately dismiss the heads of districts whose residents join the militants.

The laureate of the literary prize "Russian Bouquer", which is awarded for the best novel in Russian, in 2014, Vladimir Sharov became. The writer received a reward for the novel “Return to Egypt”. Five more works claimed the prize - “Peter Stepanovich’s biography” by Anatoly Vishnevsky, “Key” by Natalia Gromova, the “monastery” of Zakhara Prilepin, the “free will” of Viktor Remizov and the “marble swan” by Elena Skulskaya.

The Dozhd TV channel will leave the temporary studio in the editorial office of the Snob project. According to Forbes, Dozhd was “politely asked” to leave the premises. It is not specified who the request came from. The channel’s website states that the agreement with “Snob” provided for the opportunity to broadcast from the project’s editorial office until February 2015.

Photo: Petko Momchilov / Impact Press Group / Nurphoto / All Over Press In the city of Varna, Bulgaria, they found a green cat - and every day the color became more saturated. At first, people thought that the animal became a victim of vandals, but it turned out that the cat was painted due to the fact that he liked to lie on a heap of synthetic green paint in the garage.

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to reduce federal budget spending by 5% annually in 2015-2017. Such an item is contained in the list of instructions of the head of state, prepared on the basis of his address to the Federal Assembly. The cuts should not affect defense and security spending. Putin proposes to achieve cost reduction by cutting inefficient costs.

The American spacecraft "Orion" landed in the Pacific Ocean, completing the first test flight. The flight lasted 4.5 hours. During this time, the ship made two turns around the earth. The maximum distance that Orion moved from the planet was about 5800 kilometers. Landing "Orion" in the animation NASA: NASA Orion Parachutes Feature The Orion ship started from Cape Canveral aboard a heavy-launch vehicle Delta IV. The first test flight took place without a crew.

Image: NASA The Orion ship, which started from Cape Canveral on December 5 at 15:05 Moscow time, lands in the Pacific Ocean. When Orion was in the near -Earth orbit, NASA broadcast a computer simulation in Ustream. The landing of the ship is broadcast "live". Boadcast Live Streaming Video on Ustream

The Federal Migration Service fined about 43 thousand Russians who did not manage to inform the agency about their second citizenship in a timely manner. They must pay a fine of 500 to a thousand rubles. No criminal cases have been reported. The State Duma is preparing amendments to the law requiring reporting of second citizenship. In particular, for those who are abroad, a 30-day period may be established for submitting notifications after returning to Russia.

On December 5, 2014, Kommersant reported , citing a source in the State Duma, that the courts had fined 43,000 people under the law on second citizenship. The fine ranged from 500 to 1000 rubles. The Second Citizenship Law came into force on August 4, 2014. It obliges all Russians who have citizenship of other countries or other documents giving the right to permanently live abroad to report this to the state - to the Federal Migration Service.

Galina Yuzefovich-about three fantasmagoria books A weekly literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells at Medusa about the most interesting book novelties. In the new review - “Agafonkin and Time” by Oleg Radzinsky, “Girl with the oar” by Veronica Kungurtseva and “Short Fantastic Life of Oscar Wau” Juno Diaz. "Agafonkin and Time", Oleg Radzinsky, Corpus, 2014 If you like to ride an American hill - real, serious, with dead loops, you should definitely read Oleg Radzinsky’s novel “Agafonkin and Time”.

Who controls billions of Silicon Valley: Forbes Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters / Scanpix The ability to make the necessary acquaintances allowed the head of the IconIQ Capital invest-fund Davesh Makan to become one of the most important people of Silicon Valley. The financial empire of Makan is based on friendship with Mark Zuckerberg. Makan fell into his inner circle long before Facebook became social network No. 1 in the world.