Boston Dynamics showed a New Year's video, in which four robots of three different species at once perform a joint dance for the 1962 composition “Do You Love Me” by The Contours. The dance begins two human-like Atlas robots, then the Spot robot is joined by them, and at the very end there is also a robot on Handle wheels.

Sergey Ilnitsky / EPA / Scanpix / Leta The Investigative Committee of Russia announced the initiation of a new criminal case against Alexei Navalny . According to the investigation, Navalny, “being the actual leader” of the FBK and other non -profit funds , “together with other persons” spent more than 356 million rubles out of 588 million, which were collected as donations and intended exclusively for the goals of the funds.

Defrocked Orthodox priest Sergii Romanov arrested during raid on monastery Donat Sorokin / TASS / Scanpix / LETA A police van outside of the Sredneuralsk Women’s Monastery on December 29, 2020. In the early hours of December 29, a SWAT team stormed the Sredneuralsk Women’s Monastery outside of Yekaterinburg and arrested Sergii Romanov — one of the region’s most well-known priests, who was excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church earlier this year.

The Russian Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case for large-scale fraud against opposition figure Alexey Navalny, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday, December 29. According to state investigators , Navalny collected more than 588 million rubles (about $7.9 million) worth of donations on behalf of his non-profit, the Anti-Corruption Foundation, and a number of other organizations.

The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case of fraud on an especially large scale against politician Alexei Navalny. This was reported on the agency's website. According to the Investigative Committee, Navalny spent part of the 588 million rubles that were collected as donations for the FBK and other non-profit organizations on personal purposes.

Police officers came to the Rovesnik bar in the center of Moscow, where an autograph session of Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina was taking place. She herself told MBKh Media about this. According to the activist, the security forces first blocked the entrance to the bar, but then began to let people in. “They checked some documentation of the bar, they haven’t detained anyone yet,” she said.

The Government of the Russian Federation submitted to the State Duma a bill on free access to socially significant sites. Document ( .pdf ) published in the database of the lower house of parliament. He proposes to supplement the Law “On Communications” with the appropriate provision. The procedure for the formation of a list of socially significant resources will be determined by the government of the Russian Federation.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested the former shiigumen Sergiy (Romanov) for two months. Sergiy was charged with inciting suicide (part 3 of article 110.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), violation of the right to freedom of conscience and religion (part 3 of article 148) and arbitrariness (article 330). Sergiy's defense has already stated that they will appeal against the arrest. Sergius is one of the most famous priests of the Urals.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The 2020 was a year of journalistic investigations in Russia. We are talking about this with Roman Dobrokhotov and Lilia Yapparova This year, reporters of different publications published many high-profile materials.

The court of the Moscow City Diocese defrocked Protodeacon Andrey Kuraev. The reason for this was an entry on Kuraev’s blog in April, in which he insulted the rector of the Epiphany Cathedral in Moscow, Archpriest Alexander Ageikin, who died of coronavirus. The court established signs of “blasphemy against the Church” in Kuraev's actions.

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In Moscow, 14,456 people died in November 2020, the city's health department reported. This is 4,730 deaths more than in the same month a year earlier. In 4,542 cases (97% of excess mortality), the mayor's office named COVID as the main or concomitant cause of death (3,418 people died from the disease as the main cause, another 1,124 people who tested positive for coronavirus died from other causes).

Winter holidays in Moscow city schools for all students from grades 1 to 11 will be extended until January 17. This is stated in the decree of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Holidays are also extended in colleges, sports schools and institutions of additional education for children. that non-state educational institutions take the same decision Sobyanin recommended .

Muscovites over 65 years old and students will be able to enjoy the right to free and preferential travel in public transport again after they receive a vaccine against COVID-19. The corresponding decree of Sergei Sobyanin is published ( .pdf ) on the website of the Moscow City Hall. Social cards will be unlocked 14 days after receiving the second component of the vaccine. For college and university students over the age of 18, registration for vaccination opens on December 30th.

The anti-domestic violence advocacy group “Nasiliu.net” (No to Violence) has been officially recognized as a “foreign agent,” the Russian Justice Ministry announced in a press release on Tuesday, December 29. “I’ll put it this way: we got hit 95 percent for the bill against violence, and 5 percent for LGBT propaganda,” the NGO’s co-founder Anna Rivina wrote on Facebook in response to the Justice Ministry’s declaration.