Russian skinheads, challenging Navalny's allegations, and Putin's holiday legislation Friday, December 28, 2018 ( Meduza 's daily newsletter will return on Wednesday, January 2. See you all in 2019!) This day in history. On December 28, 1943, the Soviet authorities launched “Operation Ulusy” and began deporting members of the Kalmyk ethnic minority (more than 93,000 people) to forced labor camps in Siberia.

Sergey Vedyashkin / “Moskva” city news agency Boris Vaninsky is one of the owners of the “Friendship of the Peoples” company, which earlier this year became the sole supplier of food to Russia’s National Guard. This week, he granted an interview to the television station Dozhd , where he discussed allegations by Alexey Navalny that his business intentionally overcharged the Russian government for its services.

In Egypt, near the pyramids in Giza, a bus with tourists was blown up. It is reported by Al-Arabiya. As a result, at least two people were killed and ten people were injured, the TV channel of the Egyptian Interior Ministry quotes. The dead are tourists from Vietnam. The explosive device was hidden near the road, reports Sky News Arabiya. Al-Arabiya clarifies that it was, according to preliminary data, a homemade bomb.

Updated . Later, the press service denied its own statement about the lifting of the ban on the entry of Russians. The State Border Service of Ukraine has lifted the ban on the entry of men from Russia after the lifting of martial law, the Gordon edition quotes the press secretary of the department.

How Russia’s white supremacists are trying build their own prison brotherhood Maria Tolstova / Meduza In recent years, the Russian authorities have escalated their fight against nationalist organizations and ultra-right activists. Experts say the policy shift is a response to the nationalists who participated in the 2011-2012 anti-Kremlin protests and the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, where they fought on both sides.

We warn you! The pictures below evoke existential sadness. For a laugh, read up on Macaulay Culkin, who changed his name to Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin (and that's not a typo!) The cat named Mami, the Instagram star mami_and_morty , has the saddest face in the world. Own birthday, a new cozy box or a strong hug from the owner - Mami reacts to everything as if she had just been deeply offended.

Sergey Vedyashkin / City News Agency "Moscow" Businessman Boris Vaninsky, one of the owners of the Friendship of Peoples, which since 2018 is the only supplier of food for the Russian Guard, gave an interview to the Rain television channel about the charges against the company of the Corruption by Alexei Navalny.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that limits interest rates on consumer loans. The document was published on the official legal information portal. The law will enter into force 30 days after its official publication. From now until June 30, 2019, the interest rate on new loan agreements should not exceed 1.5% per day, from July 1, 2019 - 1% per day. In addition, the law limits the final amount of payments on consumer loans calculated for no more than a year.

In Tel Aviv, the writer Amos Ozos died. He was 79 years old. The cause of death was an oncological disease. The writer was born in Jerusalem and lived almost all his life in Israel. He served in the Israeli army and participated in the six -day war of 1967. Subsequently, he became one of the founders and activists of the Shalom Akhshav movement, claiming that for the sake of a truce with Palestine and neighboring Arab countries, Israel can go to a territorial compromise.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the acting head of the Mordovian women's correctional colony No. 14. The press release of the Investigative Committee did not name the FSIN officer, but, apparently, it is about the recently dismissed Yuri Kupriyanov.

Investigators began checking the hunt with the participation of the governor of the Irkutsk region, Sergei Levchenko, after a story on the air of Rossiya 24 that an official had killed a bear sleeping in a den. This was told to TASS by a law enforcement source. During the audit, investigators also plan to find out why, after the September audit of the Investigative Committee, a criminal case was not initiated. Then the video from the hunt was first published on the Internet.

Digestion is a complex process (according to some reports , it lasts more than 50 hours). Food must be overcome a long path (about 9 meters ) in order to provide the body with energy and all the necessary beneficial substances. And everything happens on this path - food is split, sorted and processed. Together with the manufacturer of Nepotin® , we tell how the digestive system works and what happens to food at each stage. Is it true that the digestion process begins already in the mouth?

In the last week before the New Year, the president traditionally signs a lot of bills. The 2018 year is not an exception. Medusa briefly talks about important. Alexey Druzhinin / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Involving children in unauthorized rallies The authorities are worried that there are many teenagers at protest rallies. And they decided to punish adults for this (organizers, not parents).

“Three heroes and heiress of the throne” were released. Director Konstantin Bronzite told how the cartoon was created Maxim Muratov / Interpress / Photoxpress On December 27, the cartoon "Three heroes and heiress of the throne" was released. His director and screenwriter was the animator Konstantin Bronzite. In 2004, he shot the painting “Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin Snakes” - the first in a series of films about three heroes.

Jordan Strauss / Invision / Ap / Scanpix / Leta The actor and musician Makole Kalkin, known for the role in the film “One Home”, said that he would change his second name Karson - to Macaly Kalkin. He chose it after a vote held among fans. “In 2019, my new name is officially Makole Makole Kalkin Kalkin,” the actor on Twitter wrote. At the end of November, the actor invited the fans to choose the second name for him, because he considers the name Karson “stupid”.