The Soapthriller project congratulates the readers of Medusa Happy New Year and gives several holiday postcards. Soaptriller was founded 4 years ago in Chelyabinsk and is updated with varying success. Kasperovich describes the project as follows: “This is a type of comic book-demotivator, from which it becomes clear that everything old is a forgotten new one.”

Frame: Louisa Wendorff / YouTube New Year's Eve, the leading heading "Shapito", as expected, will spend at the computer. Remembering that many of our readers, too, will probably not be able to part with the Internet, Medusa has prepared for them a small YouTube muder from the best videos published in 2014.

By December 26, Russia's international (gold and foreign exchange) reserves amounted to $388.5 billion, $10.4 billion less than a week earlier. This is stated in the report of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Over the previous week, from December 12 to 19, reserves fell by almost $16 billion. At the beginning of November, international reserves amounted to almost $430 billion, in early October - more than $450 billion.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his New Year's address to the Russians, mentioned the annexation of Crimea and the Sochi Olympics as the main events of 2014. The recording of the appeal, which was broadcast to Kamchatka, is posted on YouTube. According to Putin, the annexation of Crimea "will forever remain the most important milestone in our national history." Speaking of the Sochi Games, the President said that Russia hosted and won the best Winter Olympics in history.

Roskomnadzor notified Artemy Lebedev of his inclusion in the register of popular bloggers. Lebedev published the corresponding document in his LiveJournal. In the register of "information dissemination organizers" with an audience of more than 3 thousand people a day, it is indicated that the address tema.livejournal.com was entered into it on December 8, 2014. A-0273-97-BLG.

Why is Putin afraid of Navalny: a review of the Western media Photo: Evgeny Feldman / "New Gazeta" For the largest foreign media, the figure of Alexei Navalny has long been equal in scale with the figure of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. For several years, authoritative Western publications have been closely following the misadventures of the opposition, trying to catch the mood of the Kremlin for how the next criminal case is being decided.

Universal New Year's appeal of the President according to Medusa Frame: rt / youtube Vladimir Putin, congratulating the Russians on the New Year, always builds his speech according to a similar scheme and uses the same keywords - about obvious achievements and unresolved problems, the unity of the country and a confident view of the future. "Medusa" collected the New Year's appeals of the president in one video. Meduza Project New Year's appeals Putin

At the end of the year, inflation in Russia, according to official data from Rosstat, amounted to 11.4%, which is the highest since 2008. In December, it reached 2.6%, the highest level in the last 10 years. In 2014, inflation in Russia amounted to 11.4% against 6.5% in 2013, 6.6% in 2012, 6.1% in 2011 and 8.8% in 2010 and 2009. The last time double-digit inflation for the year in the Russian Federation was recorded in 2008 (then it was 13.3%).

The Tver Court of Moscow arrested for 15 days two detainees on Manezhnaya Square, where an uncoordinated rally in support of Alexei and Oleg Navalny took place on the evening of December 30. The court noted that they have not yet received materials on other detainees. “The court found Mikhail Krieger and Roman Nemuchinsky guilty of disobedience to a police officer and sentenced them to administrative arrest for 15 days,” the court representative said.

At the crash site of an AirAsia passenger plane Airbus A320 in the Java Sea, the bodies of 7 dead were found - 4 men and 3 women. Among them is the flight attendant. The bodies were recovered from the water and brought to shore by ships participating in the search operation.

OMON, Navalny and his supporters in the video of the project "Reality" Short: Project Reality On the morning of December 30, the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow issued a verdict in the so -called Yves Rocher case. Alexey Navalny received 3.5 years in prison, his brother Oleg was the same period, but already real. In the evening, the supporters of Navalny reached Manezhnaya Square.

Director of Vsevolod Lisovsky, playwright Maxim Kurochkin and Technical Director of Theater.doc Stanislav Gubin, detained during a search in the theater in the evening of December 30, was released from the police department. This was announced by the artistic director of the theater Mikhail Ugarov. The detainees are exempted without charges. According to the OVD-Info, the police did not return the personal belongings withdrawn during the search, including Lisovsky’s laptop.

The defense of Alexei Navalny appealed against his house arrest. Lawyer Vadim Kobzev announced this on his Twitter. In a commentary to the Interfax agency, the lawyer called Navalny's sentence illegal and unreasonable. “The court made a very strange decision: to issue a suspended sentence to a person and leave him under house arrest,” said Kobzev.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow refused to consider materials on Alexei Navalny's violation of the house arrest regime. The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) sent the relevant act to the court, but it was returned to the penitentiary inspectorate.

About 70 people detained in the center of Moscow at an uncoordinated rally in support of the Navalny brothers spent the night in police departments. For most of them, protocols were drawn up under the administrative article on disobedience to a lawful order of police officers. In total, according to OVD-Info, 255 people were detained on Manezhnaya Square and near it. The Ministry of Internal Affairs previously reported 100 detainees.