The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has reduced the amount of New Year's bonuses for military personnel of the 76th Pskov Airborne Division due to the collection of donations for the construction of the main temple of the department in Kubinka near Moscow, MBH Media reports. The size of New Year's payments, called in the military environment "1010 premium" (by the order number of the Ministry of Defense), are set from the estimated amount annually appointed by the minister.

Meduza follows up on the best investigative reports of 2018 All year long, there are stories about people and events, and then the public’s attention moves on, and neither readers nor journalists ever look back. But not here. Before the year is up, Meduza returns briefly to the biggest news of 2018, selected by our own correspondents, to find out what happened after reporters swooped in to cover these stories and then left.

Russian chess player Ekaterina Lahno became the winner of the World Blitz Championship, which ended on December 30 in St. Petersburg. According to the results of 17 rounds, the 29-year-old Russian woman scored 13.5 points, TASS reports. The second and third places in the tournament were taken by Iranian Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (13 points) and Chinese Lei Tingjie (12.5 points), respectively.

17 international flights of Pobeda Airlines were delayed on December 29 and in the first half of December 30 at Moscow Vnukovo Airport due to the fault of the border guards. This was reported to the Moskva agency in the press service of Pobeda. The total delay time for a day and a half was about 10 hours. “The airline plans to recover in court all the necessary expenses for the illegal delay of flights from the perpetrators of the delay,” Pobeda said in a statement.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation does not rule out that the personal data of journalists from the Moscow bureau of the BBC, published online, could fall into the hands of malefactors as a result of the hacking of the website of the Russian Embassy in London.

On December 30, a new Savelovskaya station began operating in the Moscow metro, which became part of the Big Circle Line under construction. From it you can also make a transfer to the station of the same name of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya "gray" line. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, who was present at the opening of Savelovskaya, said that this is already the 17th metro station put into operation in 2018.

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Several major American newspapers were unable to publish their Saturday issues at once due to a computer virus that struck Los Angeles printers and Tribune Publishing in Chicago, reports the Associated Press. So, due to technical problems, the Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune were not printed. The Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun were out of print, and The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal were delivered to readers late, adds .

Twitter representatives agreed to hold a meeting with Roskomnadzor management in January 2019 to discuss the implementation of legislation on storing user data in Russia. Roskomnadzor's press service told Interfax about this, promising to announce the date of the meeting later. Earlier, the head of the department, Alexander Zharov , promised to fine Facebook and Twitter five thousand rubles if they did not stop storing Russians' data abroad.

The police detained a man who was driven by the missing director of the Burger King restaurant Irina Akhmatova in her car from Moscow to Tula. This was reported to the Moscow agency by a law enforcement source. According to him, the woman's fellow traveler is currently being interrogated. The arrest of the suspect was also confirmed to TASS by the Moscow Investigative Committee.

Comedian Semyon Slepakov published on his Utuub channel a new humorous composition “The Great Year”. In it, he sings about the fact that the outgoing year turned out to be difficult and delivered many problems, but the New Year must bring happiness to the Russians. Attention . In the video sounds obscene vocabulary. If this is unacceptable to you, it is better to watch a touching video about the unexpected return of relatives home for Christmas.

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The Government of the Russian Federation has published a draft resolution establishing new rules for registering vehicles. According to the document, when registering a car, the car owner will be able to receive numbers only for the region in which he himself is registered. At the same time, it will be possible to register a car at any department of the traffic police. The regulation will come into force on August 4, 2019.

MMA fighter, current champion in the women's bantamweight (up to 61.2 kilograms) Amanda Nunes, 30, became the first woman in history to hold two UFC belts simultaneously. On December 30, at the UFC 232 tournament in Los Angeles, Nunes knocked out 33-year-old Cris "Cyborg" Justino in 51 seconds, winning the featherweight (up to 65.8 kilograms) champion title. For Nunes, this victory was the 17th with four defeats, while Justino suffered her second defeat in 23 fights, Sports.ru notes.

Alexander Lukashenko sent Vladimir Putin bacon and four sacks of potatoes from his farmstead as a New Year's gift. As the press secretary of the head of Belarus, Natalya Eismont, explained, the Russian president himself half-jokingly asked for such a gift in response to Lukashenka's question, what would he like to receive by the New Year.