This is at once 100 reasons to dance all night. Let's try? A few hours later the New Year will come! So, it's time to make the last preparations: set the table, house salads and choose music for New Year's Eve. Usually we ourselves make a many hours of New Year's playlist for you, but this year readers helped us to decide with the choice of soundtrack. So, we present you a golden hundred - songs that you can dance all night!

The Kosovo authorities have declared a Russian employee of the UN Interim Administration Mission in the partially recognized republic persona non grata. This was announced on Facebook by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic, Donika Gervalla. The Russian, whose name and position were not disclosed, is being expelled at the request of the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, for harmful activities that threaten the national security of the republic.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and his parents, Akhmat and Aimani Kadyrov, have been declared honored human rights activists of the republic. The decree on awarding the Kadyrov family with medals "Honored Human Rights Defender of Chechnya" was signed by the Commissioner for Human Rights in the region Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Grozny TV channel reports.

Vladimir Putin believes that Russia passed the year 2021 with dignity, although the country had to face the most difficult challenges. The President of the Russian Federation stated this in his New Year's greetings to the Russians, which was already broadcast in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Patients of the Blokhin Cancer Center in Moscow received empty boxes as a New Year's gift from Channel One's Fashion Sentence program. about this on Instagram . told Volunteer Victoria Biryukova According to her, a year ago she participated in the program, after which the representatives of the "Fashionable Sentence" offered to transfer New Year's gifts to children as part of a charity event to the cancer center.

Central Partnership The “World Champion” was released in Russian rental - the film directed by Alexei Sidorov about the 1978 chess match between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchny, two years before that emigrated from the USSR.

Explains lawyer Oleg Anishchik Natalya Kolesnikova / AFP / Scanpix / Leta a single picket near the Supreme Court during a meeting on the liquidation of Memorial. Moscow, December 28, 2021 On December 29, the European Court of Human Rights demanded to suspend the decision on the liquidation of the “International Memorial” and the Human Rights of the Memorial . The hope dawn that this decision would force the Russian authorities to abandon plans to combat human rights activists.

Every year we reward our colleagues from other Russian -speaking publications with our Riga Balzam Prize. This year turned out to be uniquely difficult not only for journalists, but in general for everyone who is engaged in public work - activists, human rights activists, lawyers. The prize is at least informal, but not virtual - we will send the winners on the bottle of the same “Riga Balm”.

On extrajudicial blocking of sites that justify extremism and terrorism The law gives the Prosecutor General's Office the right to require Roskomnadzor to restrict access to sites that disseminate false reports about acts of terrorism, substantiate or justify the implementation of extremist or terrorist activities. Previously, out of court it was possible to block only for incitement to extremism.

Four -year -old Dasha wanted an interactive dog for the New Year. But then Zhirinovsky appeared The second year in Russia is the action "Christmas tree of desires". Children from all over the country write letters in which they tell what they dream about. And the most diverse adults try to fulfill them.

It seems that living in Russia in 2021 was very difficult. But is it so? And will it be better in 2022? Learned from an economist, lawyer, political scientist and historian Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Scanpix / Leta It seems that in recent years it has become much harder to live in Russia: the pandemic has changed even the most familiar things, food prices continue to grow, human rights and the media are experiencing unprecedented state pressure, and the political opposition is defeated.

The elder brother of Patriarch Kirill, Archpriest and Honorary Rector of the Transfiguration Cathedral of St. Petersburg Nikolai Gundyaev died on December 30 at the 82nd year of his life after a serious long illness. This was reported on the website of the Russian Orthodox Church. St. Petersburg Theological Academy Gundyaev will be buried on January 2 at the Nikolsky cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg. Nikolai Gundyaev was born on November 18, 1940 in Leningrad.

The Swedish retail chain IKEA, which produces furniture and home goods, will raise the prices of its products worldwide by an average of 9% in 2022. According to a press release from Ingka Group, which operates the international chain of IKEA stores, the increase in prices is due to rising costs for transportation and raw materials. The rise in prices will also depend on the level of inflation in each particular region.

Readers of Medusa just wrote a couple of jokes to him. Read only for the chimes! Alexey Nikolsky / TASS Soon Vladimir Putin will turn (or already turned, depending on what you have for the time zone) to the Russians with the next New Year's congratulation. The audience has long memorized a set of standard phrases: the year was difficult, but we coped, then it would be better ... Therefore, we invited our readers to write the New Year's appeal of the president ourselves, making it more fun.

The Russian authorities expect another surge in the incidence of coronavirus infection in the country in January-February 2022, Reuters reports, citing sources close to the Kremlin. A new wave will be provoked by the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. According to forecasts, after the New Year holidays, the incidence rate may exceed 50,000 cases per day.