Our critics name their favorite Russian movies, music, and TV of the 2010s Our team of cultural critics has already named their favorite Russian TV, music, and movies of 2019. Now, they’ve turned their eyes and ears to the rest of the decade and summed up the result in ultra-short reviews.

Russia’s Emergencies Ministry has posted draft legislation that would allow for mandatory evacuations following natural disasters and other emergencies even if a state of emergency has not been officially declared. If approved, the bill is scheduled to take effect in April. Under the bill, special commissions on the national, regional, or local level would be empowered to order evacuations.

The human rights project Gulagu.net (“No to the Gulag”) has posted a video that allegedly shows defendants being tortured in the Kemerovo region’s Pretrial Detention Center 4. The video, titled “Everyday Sadism,” was sent to Gulagu.net’s hotline. The organization sent messages about the video to Russia’s Prosecutor General and Justice Minister as well as the heads of its Investigative Committee and Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN).

Andrey Pavlenko, an oncologist surgeon from St. Petersburg, who was diagnosed with stomach cancer, published a farewell post on Facebook. “My life journey is coming to an end! Unfortunately, my illness turned out to be more insidious and its development over the past 2 months left me no chance! But now I would like to warn everyone who is at the stage of treatment - do not give up! Statistics is a stubborn thing, and even with my diagnosis, you have a chance of a cure! Just believe it!

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Krasnoyarsk Territory is conducting an investigation into the publication of a video of an extreme jump from a residential building in Krasnoyarsk, TASS reports. The police intend to identify the persons involved in the video and assess whether there is an offense in their actions. Earlier, a video made, according to media reports, in the Belyye Rosy residential complex in Krasnoyarsk began to actively spread on social networks .

The chief designer of infantry fighting vehicles of the second and third generation, Alexander Blagonravov, died at the age of 86. As TASS was told in the Kurgan Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the scientist died on New Year's Eve. The date of the funeral has not yet been determined. The government of the Kurgan region expressed condolences in connection with the death of Blagonravov, adds RIA Novosti. Alexander Blagonravov was born in Moscow in 1933.

The human rights project Gulagu.net published a video that states a search of prisoners of the SIZO-4 in the city of Anzhero-Suzhensk Kemerovo region. The video entered the hotline of human rights activists. The video entitled “Ordinary Sadism” shows how the FSIN staff beat six prisoners.

It’s been two decades since Boris Yeltsin stepped down and tapped his successor, but there are lingering questions about the official history TASS Twenty years ago, on December 31, 1999, Russia’s first president, Boris Yeltsin, announced his resignation, catapulting a young Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to head of state. It was the first time in Russia’s history that a living leader left office voluntarily.

Turkish authorities have detained seven people, including four business jet pilots, who are suspected of being involved in the escape from Japan to Lebanon of former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn. On December 31, Ghosn, suspected of financial fraud, secretly flew from Tokyo on a private jet to Istanbul, and from there on another jet to Beirut. According to Bloomberg, the flights were carried out by employees of the Turkish holding company MNG Holding.

The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case against a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Kirov Region under articles on cruel treatment of animals and intentional destruction of someone else's property . According to the investigation, on December 29, the deputy, whose name has not been released, “out of hooligan motives and without significant reason” shot two dogs belonging to a resident of the Zuevsky district of the region with a gun.

The state-owned TV channels Channel One and Russia 24 hid the likes and dislikes counters, and also turned off YouTube comments on the video with the New Year greetings from Russian President Vladimir Putin. to this The first to pay attention was the journalist of Ekho Moskvy, Alexander Plushev. Authorized users can like or dislike the video, but the result will not be displayed. video Channel One's More than 100,000 people watched , while Rossiya 24's video has over 2.7 million views.

Since January 2020, the authorities of the Netherlands have officially stopped using the name Holland, which has been used for the past 25 years, to designate the state. In addition, the symbol of the country has changed - instead of an orange tulip, the letters N and L are now used, in which the image of a tulip is woven into.

Did you have it? Tell us about the New Year's miracle! Well, it's a new year. And we decided to ask the readers what happened the day before. You know, it happens that shortly before the new year, incredible events happen that are difficult to explain. Here you get into some kind of trouble, there is no way out, you are about to miss the holiday, and here - hop! - and you are rescued from where they were not expected. These are the stories we want from you.

Pope Francis has issued a public apology for punching a woman in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square. “Love makes us patient. But sometimes we lose patience. It happened to me too. I apologize for the terrible example I set the day before,” Francis said during his traditional sermon. The incident occurred on December 31, when the pontiff went to the square to look at the nativity scene and talk to the faithful. Francis shook hands with some of the people behind the fence.

Here are five facts about him: Soviet childhood, FBI surveillance and a novel that went into space Mondadori / Getty Images On January 2, 2020, genre literature celebrates an important anniversary: ​​it turns a hundred years since the birth of Isaac Azimov, the author of the novels “foundation” and “end of eternity”, the “I, robot” cycle and more than four hundred other books.