The Look At Me website will no longer be updated on January 1, 2016. This was announced by the general director of the publishing house Look At Media Alexey Ametov. According to him, the lack of updates should be understood as a freeze, and not as a closure of the project. Most Look At Me employees will remain at the publishing house in other editions - The Village, Wonderzine, Furfur. Some editors have decided to leave the publishing house.

Weapons prohibited by the Minsk ceasefire agreements, such as mortars, tanks, self-propelled guns, and (Russian-made) Hurricane rocket-launchers, have been discovered in violation of the buffer zone, says a new report by Ukrainian intelligence officers. Prohibited artillery weapons were spotted in the Kominternovo, Kalinovka, Perevalsk, and Novoamvroseevskogo regions.

Frame: ekdikisis / youtube We have collected a playlist of several dozen videos with animals - rabbits, kittens, kovkiks, pandas, ejectors and everyone else. Tired of the turmoil around the New Year? Or is everything hard in life? Get distracted!

Shot: YouTube A compulsory element of a good party is dancing for hits of the 90s. We decided to facilitate the task: below the playlist of seven dozen songs of the nineties and the beginning of the two thousandths that each of us remembers. “Ivanushki International”, Alsu, Shura, Gazmanov, “Guests from the Future” - all here.

Shot: The Houston Zoo / YouTube Capybara is love. Big, fluffy, slightly ridiculous and endlessly apathetic animals, which you can look forever. In this collection, capybara chew, swim, friends with other animals and allow themselves to stroke.

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the new National Security Strategy of Russia ( .pdf ). The document describes the threats that Russia sees and the methods by which it will respond to them. One of the threats in the Strategy is instability in Ukraine.

The head of Crimea's Ministry of Fuel and Power, Svetlana Borodulina, has asked residents of the peninsula (especially those using electric stoves) to finish their New Year's preparations during the daylight hours. Borodulina also recommended that women manage to wrap up their hair-curling before nightfall. During the day Crimea, can rely on solar and wind energy, said Borodulina. “In daylight hours we have good energy supplies from solar and wind generation.

Evgeny Bekasov, the chief editor of the television channel Rossiya 24 , told a radio station today that opposition leader Alexey Navalny rarely appears on the air because his politics deviate from the agenda set down by the Kremlin. “Navalny tries to create his own agenda—one that doesn't correspond to the agenda of the country or the agenda dictated today by the government's executive branch. For this reason, he doesn't appear in our news,” Bekasov said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his New Year's address to the Russians, especially congratulated the military personnel who "fight international terrorism, defend Russia's national interests on distant frontiers." A recording of the appeal, which was broadcast in the Far East, is posted on YouTube.

In 2015, inflation in Russia amounted to 12.9 percent. This is stated in the report of Rosstat . This is the highest since 2008, when prices rose by 13.3 percent. In December 2014, economists predicted that prices would rise by about 10 percent in 2015. In 2014, prices in Russia increased by 11.4 percent. In 2016, according to the Ministry of Finance, inflation will be 6-7 percent. The Central Bank believes that inflation will be 5-7 percent.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a sociological survey to be conducted in Crimea to find out whether the inhabitants of the peninsula are ready to suffer power outages. This was told by the Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak. The survey should be conducted before concluding a new contract with Ukraine for the supply of electricity to Crimea.

The editor-in-chief of the Russia 24 TV channel Yevgeny Bekasov explained why news about the politician Alexei Navalny rarely appears on the air. “Navalny appeared on Rossiya 24 as soon as he got on the agenda. Navalny is trying to create his own agenda, which does not correspond to the agenda of the country or the agenda currently dictated by the executive branch. In this regard, he does not get into our news, ”said Bekasov.

Clients of Russian travel companies, excluded from the federal register on the grounds that they are associated with Turkish business, began to refuse trips. “I received information from travel agents and tour operators that people are calling who want to cancel tours with departures after the New Year, starting from January 2.

From the ban on films to a grocery embargo Photo: Victor Pogontsev / Photobank Lori At the beginning of 2015, Russia and Ukraine were essentially at war (the participation of the Russian military in hostilities in the Donbass is now almost not hiding ) - there was still no shelling of the bus in Volnovakha, fighting in Debaltseve, the second Minsk agreements.

Russian mixed martial arts fighter Fedor Emelianenko won the first fight after returning to the ring. He defeated the Indian fighter Jaideep Singh. The fight took place in Japan. According to Sports.ru, in the first minutes, Emelianenko transferred Singh to the ground, tried to choke him, but in the end he began to hit the opponent with his hands in the head, and the referee stopped the fight. Jaideep Singh is 28 years old.