Collage: Poster Gorod The Poster Gorod edition prepared large-scale material about what you can do during the New Year holidays. The program is painted by the day: on the first day of the New Year, it is proposed to watch humorous television shows (for example, Mikhail Zadornov), then - arrange Karaoke’s houses, and then sit down for watching cult films.

Oil, Russia, Ukraine and other failure investments: the results of the year from Fortune Photo: John Birdsall / Rex / All Over Press In general, 2014 was successful for investors in the American market - investing in the S&P 500 index again brought profit calculated by two -digit interest, and the dollar reached a seven -year maximum in December. But, as Fortune rightly noted, the business is arranged in such a way that if one buys, the other sells.

Photo: sveto4ek__ / instagram The Bigpicture project, which was marked by a selection of photos from corporate parties, found unusual photos from children's matinees on Instagram. Most of them are devoted to original costumes, although this time there were no outfits of Putin and Stalin . Fully photo gallery (29 pictures) is available on the Bigpicture website. Yes, contrary to the most common misconceptions: being a child is very scared. Bigpicture

Vladimir Putin signed the law amending the Federal Law "On Insolvency (Bankruptcy)" and the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. The document was published on the Kremlin website on December 29. Under the new law, an individual whose overdue debt obligations exceed 500,000 rubles will be able to plan payments to creditors based on current or future income. The law will come into force on July 1, 2015.

Novaya Gazeta has edited an article about employees of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, who on December 28 swore allegiance to Vladimir Putin. The mention of 500 police officers who refused to sign illegal reports, even under threat of dismissal, disappeared from the note.

Russian Ambassador to Estonia Yuri Merzlyakov has been summoned to the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with the violation of the country's airspace. An official note of protest in connection with the incident will be handed to Merzlyakov on December 30. The violation of Estonian airspace was reported to the Estonian Defense Forces on the evening of 29 December. The incident happened at 5:25 p.m. Dec.

Photo: Pekka väänänen The programmer Pekka Väänänen created a version of the classic Quake shooter for an oscilloscope. In his blog, he talked about the process of converting the graphics of the game into an audio signal that is fed to the device. As a result, the beam highlights on the screen a simplified schedule from Quake - and allows you to play using the oscilloscope as a screen.

A Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 has successfully made an emergency landing at London's Gatwick Airport. The liner, which took off on a flight from London to Las Vegas, suffered a landing gear failure. The plane turned around off the southwest coast of Great Britain, ran out of fuel and landed at the airport of departure. A picture was posted on Twitter, which shows that the landing gear of the liner is jammed.

Continuation: Boeing 747 with defective landing gear lands at Gatwick Airport A Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 is preparing for an emergency landing at London's Gatwick Airport due to a landing gear problem. The liner, en route from London to Las Vegas, turned off the southwest coast of the UK and is now circling over Sussex, running out of fuel. A picture was posted on Twitter, which shows that the landing gear of the liner is jammed.

Vladimir Putin ordered to increase payments (stipends) to outstanding scientists. This is stated in the list of instructions that the head of state gave after the December meeting of the Council for Science and Education. According to the order, academicians will receive up to 100 thousand rubles a month, corresponding members - up to 50 thousand. The relevant regulatory act must be prepared before June 1, 2015.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that on January 15 in Astana he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande. A Russian diplomatic source said January 15 is a possible date for new talks. The head of the Ukrainian state added that this meeting would not contradict the Minsk format. “We remain committed to the Minsk agreements,” the President of Ukraine said.

Since January 2015, Afisha-Mir and Afisha-Food magazines are moving to digital format. The release of paper versions of magazines is terminated. The texts of the Food journalists will be published at eda.ru, where the magazine's recipes were previously posted. The mir.travel website will soon be relaunched, where the Afisha guidebooks will also be transferred (at the same time, the most popular city guides will continue to be published on paper).

Shaltai-Boltai (Anonymous International) published letters that were allegedly found in the email of the deputy head of the internal policy department of the presidential administration, Timur Prokopenko. The letters are dated 2013-2014.

The date of sentencing Alexei and Oleg Navalny in the Yves Rocher case has been postponed due to the fact that the verdict is already ready. This was announced on December 29 by the press service of the Zamoskvoretsky Court. Previously, the postponement of the sentence from January 15, 2015 to December 30, 2014 was announced on the blog of Alexei Navalny.

All passengers and crew members have been evacuated from the Norman Atlantic ferry in distress in the Adriatic Sea. Only the captain and four officers of the Italian Navy remain on board. The Norman Atlantic ferry, en route from the Greek port of Patras to Ancona, Italy, caught fire on the morning of December 28. On board were 478 passengers and crew members. The victims of the disaster, according to the latest data from the Italian coast guard, were 7 people.