As Chubais and Khodorkovsky argued - as short as possible Alastair Grant / Ap / Scanpix / Leta Mikhail Khodorkovsky : Before the election of the President of Russia in 1996, the security forces surrounded by Boris Yeltsin wanted to introduce a state of emergency, cancel the elections and leave him at the presidential post. This threatened with dictatorship. We, large businessmen, began to think what to do. They figured that Yeltsin could convince Anatoly Chubais.

Former co-owner of OBI retail chains and Starik Hottabych, Igor Sosin, has died at the age of 53. RBC was told about this by two of his acquaintances. In a conversation with Mash, information about Sosin's death was confirmed by his parents. The businessman died while on vacation on the island of Zanzibar. The cause of death could be a heart attack, Igor Kovanov, founder of the investment company Falcon Advisers, told RBC.

Expert Andrey Kurilkin explains why Russian officials and billionaires are building monuments and buying doctorates Mikhail Metsel / TASS / Sipa / Vida Press Russian President Vladimir Putin stands with Irina Primakova at the unveiling of the monument to former prime minister Yevgeny Primakov in Moscow. October 29, 2019. As some countries face disputes over the demolition of monuments, others are seeing an increasing number of figures on pedestals popping up.

MP Julia Galyamin received two years conditionally under the “Dadinsky article” due to protests against “zeroing”. Report "Medusa" Sergey Karpukhin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On December 23, the Tver District Court of Moscow sentenced the municipal deputy and teacher Julia Galyamina. She was accused by the so-called Кристина Сафонова

Ten years ago, riots broke out in Moscow. The media blamed soccer fans, but it was actually right-wing activists. This is the story of their violence. Denis Sinyakov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On December 11, 2010, a thousand people came to Manezhnaya Square On the night of December 6, 2010, twenty-eight-year-old Spartak soccer fan Egor Sviridov was killed in a street fight outside of a Moscow cafe.

Argentina has registered the Russian vaccine against coronavirus "Sputnik V". This was announced by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), associated with the production of the vaccine. The vaccine received approval under an accelerated procedure based on clinical trials in Russia and no additional trials in Argentina itself, RDIF said. The registration of the Sputnik 5 vaccine was confirmed by the Argentine Ministry of Health, writes Infobae.

The US authorities have expanded the sanctions list against the authorities of Belarus. This was announced by the Office for Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury. The first deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, Gennady Kazakevich, as well as the Belarusian Central Election Commission, the special forces of the KGB Alfa, the main department of internal affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee, and the Minsk OMON were under sanctions.

The icon, which was presented to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Sarajevo, was returned to the embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is reported by TASS. A gift to Lavrov in mid-December 2020 was made by the head of the presidium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, representing the Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik. The icon was allegedly found in Lugansk, it is 300 years old, the Republika Srpska News Agency reported.

Why the study of the Russian vaccine can be considered failed. What we know about the "British" strain. Every hundredth person in the world Good evening, This is the Medusa newsletter about the coronavirus during the pandemic. She comes out on weekdays instead of the "evening jellyfish." If one of your friends sent this letter to you and you have not yet been subscribed to the newsletter, subscribe here . If you read this on the site, share a link on social networks.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The state decided to get rid of Channel One. Who will own them? Will Ernst fire? And what is happening at all? On December 22, it became known that the state will reduce its share in the authorized capital of Channel One - from 51 percent to at least 34. To achieve this, it will be necessary to issue additional shares of Channel One JSC and sell them. According to RBC, VTB may act as an investor.

The British model Stella Tennant died at the age of 50, BBC News reports with reference to the Tennant family. Richard Young / Shutterstock.com / Rex / Vida Press The cause of the death of the model is not reported. The police said that she was not related to “suspicious circumstances”. Stella Tennant was born in a family of British aristocrats and studied for a sculptor. Her modeling career began with the shooting for the British Vogue in 1993.

Moscow’s Perovsky District Court has fined Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer for Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), 1,000 rubles (about $13) following her arrest near the home of Konstantin Kudryavtsev — one of the FSB operatives allegedly involved in poisoning Navalny . The court found Sobol guilty of disobeying a police officer (under article 19.3 of the Administrative Code), Interfax reported on Wednesday, December 23, citing the court’s press service.

Relatives of about 500 residents of the Italian province of Lombardy who died from the coronavirus filed a lawsuit against the country's authorities. The civil suit has been filed in a court in Rome, its amount is 100 million euros. The defendants are Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Health Minister Roberto Speranza and Governor of Lombardy Attilio Fontana.

A team of physicians from the Charité Hospital in Berlin, where Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny was treated following his poisoning in August, have published an article in the scientific journal The Lancet on the case of a 44-year-old man from Russia suffering from Novichok nerve agent poisoning. While the patient isn’t identified in the scientific article itself, the Charité Hospital confirmed in a press release that the case report details Navalny’s treatment.

On Monday, December 23, Moscow’s Tverskoy Court sentenced municipal deputy Yulia Galyamina to two years probation. Galyamina was found guilty of repeatedly violating the rules for conducting rallies and pickets (under article 212.1 of the Russian Criminal Code). State prosecutors were seeking a three-year prison sentence for the Moscow lawmaker.