On December 24, a complete catalog of The Beatles' music appeared on popular streaming services. Recordings become available for listening at 00:01 local time, according to the band's official website. The Beatles' recordings have appeared on nine services, including Apple Music, Google Play and Deezer. Some services, including Spotify and Tidal, do not officially work in Russia yet. The catalog includes 224 songs released on 13 studio albums and the Past Masters singles collection.

Crimean authorities have proposed changes to “somewhere in 56” federal laws to bring them into line with the situation on the peninsula, said the head of the region, Sergei Aksenov.

The head of the Institute for Internet Development, German Klimenko, agreed to become an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Internet development issues. Vladimir Putin invited German Klimenko to become his adviser at the Internet Economics forum on December 22. According to Putin, Klimenko will convey to the authorities his vision of the development of the Internet.

The Interstate Aviation Committee has completed an investigation into the causes of the fall of the Boeing-737 of Tatarstan Airlines in Kazan. According to the commission, the cause of the disaster was "systemic deficiencies" that led to the admission of "untrained crew" to the flight.

The launch of the Proton launch vehicle with the Express-AMU1 communications and broadcasting satellite was postponed for a day due to bad weather. The launch was supposed to take place at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 00:30 on December 24, Moscow time. It was moved to a reserve date, that is, 00:31 on December 25. The launch was postponed due to unfavorable weather conditions at the Baikonur Cosmodrome - the wind force exceeded the permissible threshold, Roscosmos explained.

The prosecutor's office of Crimea opened a case against a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate for participation in an extremist organization. This was reported by the Crimean Human Rights Group on its Facebook. According to the organization, on December 22, searches were carried out in the house of the parents of the UOC-KP priest Father Sergiy (his last name was not named) on a warrant signed by Crimean prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya.

David Hakim, an activist of the unregistered Progress Party, received political asylum in Spain. This was told by his lawyer Alexander Popkov. According to Popkov, Hakim left Russia due to harassment and threats from the police and "unidentified people in civilian clothes". At first he asked for asylum in Holland, but was extradited to Spain, which issued him a visa.

Правообладатели из кластера « РАЭК/Медиа » составили список из 100 пиратских сайтов. Они пояснили , что в число таких сайтов попали те, у кого нет договоров с правообладателями о распространении их продукции. Они также подготовили признаки, по которым будут определять, пиратский сайт или нет.

The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation in 2016 will organize a “scientific study”, during which it will find out whether the Platon system should be extended to lighter trucks (from 3.5 tons). During the study, the Ministry of Transport will also find out whether it is worth introducing a toll on regional roads. This is stated in response to a request from the deputy from the Communist Party Valery Rashkin.

Joint project "Medusa" and Borjomi Photo: Corbis / Vida Press January 1 is a difficult day, and for someone completely fell out of life because of the large number of eaten and drunk on New Year's Eve. The sponsor January 1, Borjomi, relieves the tired body of excess and gives excellent health. And when there is strength for accomplishment, the first day of the year will happen. And who knows, maybe it is on January 1, 2016 that you will remember with warmth for many years.

In the Krasnodar Territory, 17 employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service were fired after a prisoner teenager died from beatings. Who exactly was fired is not specified. A 16-year-old teenager, a citizen of Ukraine, died after he was beaten by employees of the Belorechensk educational colony on the night of November 24-25. Six other teenagers were beaten together with him.

In Russia, the founder of the nationalist movement "Ataka" Vladimir Kudryashov was sentenced. The court sent him to a colony for a year. Kudryashov was accused of creating and leading an extremist community.

The Stalin Center opened in Penza. Reporting Daniil Turovsky Photo: Daniil Turovsky / "Medusa" On Monday, December 21, on the birthday of Joseph Stalin, the Penza Communists opened the Stalin Center in the city. In it, they plan to hold literary evenings, round tables, meetings for schoolchildren and adapt “Stalin's experience” to modern realities. The special correspondent of Medusa Daniil Turovsky visited the Stalin Center and talked with its creator, the leader of the Penza Communists.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Amnesty International's report on Russia's war crimes in Syria consists of "stamps and fakes." According to him, the Russian military has repeatedly refuted all the allegations in the report. He noted that aviation does not use cluster bombs for bombing. The international human rights organization Amnesty International in its report accused Russia of bombing residential areas in Syria and blamed Russia for the death of civilians.

Russia shares a common interest with the Taliban to fight the Islamic State in Afghanistan, said the Russian Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan and Second Asia Department Head at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zamir Kabulov. “I already said earlier that we have channels to exchange information with the Taliban,” said Kabulov. At the same time, Kabulov recently said discussions were underway with the officially recognized Afghan government on buying arms from Russia.