Frame: OM Portal / YouTube The minibus driver in Omsk entered the turn in a controlled drift as if he was driving a sports car. Om1.ru Harsh Omsk Drift on a minibus Apparently, the minibus driver is seriously fond of drift. The video with a skid on the channel of the publication OM1.ru appeared on December 22, and a couple of weeks before that was reported by the Omsk Komsomolskaya Pravda . In that video, the skid was not so clean.

On December 26, President Vladimir Putin signed a new military doctrine for Russia. Military doctrine is a system of documents in which authorities assess what external and internal threats threaten Russia and its allies, and what needs to be done to combat these threats.

Participants in the conflict in eastern Ukraine exchanged prisoners. The Ukrainian authorities released 222 people, the separatists - 150 people. The exchange took place on neutral territory. The Security Service of Ukraine confirmed this information. This was reported by an SBU officer who was present during the exchange. Today's operation was the first stage of the exchange of prisoners in the "all for all" format, which was previously announced by the leadership of the DPR.

Anonymous International (Humpty Dumpty) published letters allegedly sent by Kristina Potupchik. The letters were sent from two addresses, one of which was entitled Anna Veduta, named after the former press secretary of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The letters, as a rule, contain reports on the behavior of oppositionists on social networks and critical media publications regarding the government.

The international payment system MasterCard has notified Russian banks of the termination of card service in Crimea. This decision was made in connection with the introduction of new sanctions by the US administration. Earlier on December 26, the Visa payment system announced the termination of card service.

In the first two periods of the KHL match between Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Barys from Astana, hockey players from both teams scored six goals each. There were no goals in the third period and overtime, Metallurg won the shootout (7:6). One of the most productive matches of the season began with four goals scored against Metallurg (Kevin Dallman, Dustin Boyd, Roman Savchenko and Brandon Bochensky scored).

Photo: Valery Melnikov / RIA Novosti / Scanpix The newspaper Vedomosti summed up the voting results for the Person of the Year, which, in particular, was held in the nomination “Victim of the Year”. Since December 11, readers of the publication chose from several candidates for the title of the main victim: both the living (businessmen Evgeny Yevtushenko and Mikhail Tooth) and the dead (former president of Total, Christoph de Margeri, the victim of the accident in the Moscow metro).

Ukrainian Railways and the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine announced the abolition of rail and road links with Crimea. As stated in the statement of the company "Ukrzaliznytsia", from December 27, trains that previously followed to Simferopol and Sevastopol will only go to the border with the peninsula - to the stations "Novoalekseevka" and "Kherson". The company explained this decision by the need to ensure the safety of passengers.

In Moscow, medical workers, teachers and political activists blocked Tverskaya Street for several minutes. A squad of traffic police arrived at the scene of the events, which pushed the protesters off the roadway. Subsequently, police officers arrived at the protesters, who detained about 10 people. One of the activists named Vitaly Paltsev fell during the protest. He called an ambulance.

Whether Ukraine, Georgia, Finland and other Russian neighbors in NATO will come Photo: Mindaugas kulbis / AP / Scanpix In 2014, politicians and world media spoke about the beginning of the Second Cold War. The neighbors of Russia, impressed by the rapid accession of Crimea and the conflict in the east of Ukraine, are discussing the possibility of joining NATO - as a guarantee from "intervention" and "hybrid wars".

Russian Railways has placed responsibility for the abolition of electric trains in the Vologda Oblast on Governor Oleg Kuvshinnikov. As Gennady Verkhovykh, Head of the Department for Management of the Passenger Transportation Business Block of Russian Railways, stated, railways, together with suburban passenger companies, are only service providers. “He orders, we fulfill. So this is just a transfer from a sick head to a healthy one, ”said a representative of Russian Railways.

Moscow authorities refused to approve a rally in support of Alexei Navalny, planned for December 28, 2014. This became known from a message from the Prosecutor General’s Office, which warned Navalny’s associates about the inadmissibility of holding uncoordinated events. The organizers themselves did not announce this action.

The shortest retelling of the main events of the last month of the year Photo: Artem Geodakyan / TASS / Scanpix Formally, on December 29, 30 and 31 - working days, but in fact, Russia goes to two -week New Year holidays today, December 26. For those who forgot what happened in the first winter month, Medusa prepared a brief retelling - after the holidays it will be convenient to return to life.

Frame from the film "Zhmurki" The author of the Russian Planet publication collected a long list of the most ridiculous murders in Russia on his Facebook in Russia in Russia in 2014. The selection included murders because of pets, disrespect for the mother and for excessive sarcasm. All the news that Petrov mentions in the post was published in the time in the “Russian Planet”. Post by Kirill Petrov .

The international payment system Visa has stopped servicing cards issued by Russian banks in Crimea. The company explained this decision by American sanctions. Visa said in a statement that the sanctions “prohibit Visa International Service Association, Visa USA Inc. and Visa Inc. provide services, as well as directly or indirectly facilitate transactions in Crimea.” Messages appeared on social networks and forums that it was impossible to withdraw money from Visa cards in Crimea.