The police, who disrupted the screening of the film “Stronger Than Guns” about the events on the Maidan at Teatr.Doc on December 30, conducted a search in the theater. Artistic director Mikhail Ugarov said that everything in the building was destroyed and the theater needed lawyers.

The National Welfare Fund (NWF) allocated 150 billion rubles for the Yamal LNG project, which is being implemented by Novatek. The corresponding order, as it became known on December 30, was signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on December 27. Funds from the NWF are allocated in exchange for the bonds of OAO Yamal LNG. As part of the project, it is planned to build a plant for the production of liquefied gas at the Yuzhno-Tambeyskoye field on the Yamal Peninsula.

In Moscow, at least 245 people who had gathered for a rally in support of Alexei and Oleg Navalny were detained on and near Manezhnaya Square. The list of detainees was published on the OVD-Info website. Moscow police previously reported 100 detainees. In total, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about 1.5 thousand people took part in the action. Among those detained was Alexei Navalny, who, in violation of the house arrest regime, went to the center of Moscow.

The US State Department is concerned about the decision of the Zamoskvoretsky court in the case of the Navalny brothers. This was during a daily briefing for journalists, said the official representative of the department, Jeff Rathke. According to the State Department, the court decision was another example of "harassment of independent media, civil society, minorities and the opposition." “We are concerned about the guilty verdict against Alexei and Oleg Navalny,” said Jeff Rathke.

The Firechat technical domain was included in the register of banned sites at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office. search Registry confirms that https://firechat.s3.amazonaws.com was added to the banned content list on December 30th. Stanislav Shalunov, co-founder and CTO of Firechat, told Meduza that the effect of adding the service's addresses to the registry would be minimal. “This will not affect communication in the local network at all,” Shalunov explained.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has counted the number of participants in the uncoordinated action in the center of Moscow. According to the police, one and a half thousand people came to support the brothers Alexei and Oleg Navalny, convicted on the morning of December 30. Police said about 100 people were detained. According to OVD-Info, at least 171 people were detained. At the same time, the last update of information on the site was an hour ago.

Former US President George W. Bush was discharged on December 30 from a hospital in Houston, Texas, where he spent about a week. The reason for the hospitalization of the 90-year-old Bush Sr. was breathing problems, which the doctors managed to overcome, said a spokesman for the ex-US president. “Now he [Bush Sr.] is resting at home, grateful to the doctors and nurses for the excellent care,” a spokesman for the former US president said. Yahoo News George Bush Sr.

Continuation: The theater.Doc was searched On the evening of December 30, law enforcement officers came to Teatr.Doc, where a documentary film about the Maidan, Stronger Than Weapons, was to be shown. The screening of the film was canceled due to reports of a planted bomb. The police announced the evacuation of people. Theater director Elena Gremina wrote about this on her Facebook page.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has included six more non-profit organizations in the federal register of NPO-foreign agents, including the Moscow-based Press Freedom Foundation. Three non-profit organizations from St. Petersburg were also recognized as foreign agents: the public human rights organization "Civil Control", the autonomous non-profit organization of information and legal services "Resource Human Rights Center" and the human rights public organization "League of Voters".

The electronic bracelet, with the help of which the location of the person placed under house arrest is recorded, was not removed from Alexei Navalny, according to the Federal Penitentiary Service. Earlier, an Interfax source familiar with the situation claimed that Navalny was able to leave his apartment and come to the center of Moscow, because the electronic bracelet was removed from him for a while. “This information is not true.

Federica Mogherini, EU spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy, said the conviction of Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg looks politically motivated. According to her, the accusations against Navalny were not proven during the trial. The verdict was also criticized by the German Commissioner for Human Rights, Christoph Streser, who stressed that this was another blow to civil society in Russia. Mogherini emphasized that judicial decisions should not depend on politics (English).

The police officers who detained Alexei Navalny on Tverskaya Street in central Moscow took him home. As reported on Navalny's twitter, he is not allowed out of the apartment, 5 police officers are on duty under the door. Navalny noted that at first they were going to take him to the police department, but “new instructions were received along the way.” Alexei Navalny went to the center of Moscow in violation of the house arrest regime.

More than 100 people were detained in the center of Moscow, according to the OVD-Info website, which monitors political events. At the moment, it is known about 171 detainees on Manezhnaya Square and its environs, where a rally is taking place in support of the brothers Alexei and Oleg Navalny. People gathered on Manezhnaya Square and Tverskaya Street. There are, according to various estimates, from several hundred to several thousand people on Manezhnaya Square.

RF budget revenues in 2015 will decrease by 2.6 trillion rubles, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in an interview with Russia 24 TV channel. The budget, recalled the head of the RF Ministry of Finance, was calculated based on the oil price of $100 per barrel, and the forecast of economic growth of 1.2%. “All this will not happen,” Siluanov said.

The Russian company Inter RAO and Ukrinterenergo signed a contract for the export of electricity from Russia to Ukraine, and the parties also agreed to ensure reliable and uninterrupted power supply to Crimea, announced the head of the Russian Ministry of Energy, Alexander Novak. On December 29, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced the start of supplies of Russian electricity to the country.