Forbes magazine, summing up the results of the book year in Russia, published the TOP -20 of the best -selling novels and collections - the new products of 2016. According to the publication, this year books in Russia were bought almost twice as much as in the past. Since the rating included only the news of the season, published from November 2015 to December 15, 2016, the list of previous years that Russian readers were still actively bought.

Roskomnadzor blocked 99 entries in the blogs of users of the Living Journal (LJ) just a day after the service moved to Russian servers, writes TJ . According to the Roskomvoboda portal, the records in the LiveJournal were blocked on December 23 at the request of the Prosecutor General. The reason for the blocking is the fact that the records contained calls for riots.

The Caucasian wing of the terrorist "Islamic state" took responsibility for attacking police officers on December 25 in Dagestan. During the day, unknown people fired at law enforcement officers twice and disappeared. On the night of December 25, the attack occurred on the Makhachkala-Kaspiysk highway. In the initial messages it was said that the police patrol tried to stop the car for verification, fire was opened in response.

On the morning of December 26, on the day of national mourning for the Tu-154 in the Black Sea, who died in the Tu-154 plane crash , the Russian authorities officially announced that the main versions of the tragedy did not include terrorist attack.

“The subpoena substitution works: instead of discussing the reasons for the crash of the aircraft, there is a discussion“ whether it is deprived of citizenship for the wrong words about the disaster. ”The tail wags a dog,” writes a politician on Facebook in connection with the commentary of the press secretary of the Russian President regarding the statements of journalist Bosena about the crash of the Tu-154 aircraft.

Andrey Loshak “The Alexandrov Ensemble, Doctor Lisa, the Ambassador in Ankara, as well as 217 people who flew a little over a year ago from Egypt to St. Petersburg would have been alive if President Putin had not sent our troops to the war in Syria by his personal decree.” , writes the journalist on Facebook . “It’s impossible to calculate how many Syrian children and women died under Russian bombs in Aleppo, but no one here really gives a damn.

In Moscow, 61-year-old Oleg Erovinkin, the head of one of the Rosneft departments, was found dead. In 2008-2012, the deceased was the head of the Secretariat of the Deputy Head of the Government of the Russian Federation, when this post was held by Sechin. According to unconfirmed reports, Erovinkin died of a heart attack. The discovery of the body of Erovinkin in a car in the center of Moscow was reported by Life .

Relatives of a resident of Chechnya Zelimkhan Bakharchiev, suspected of involvement in the attacks on police officers in Grozny, who occurred in December, left their homes in the village of Prigorodnoye, Grozny district, reports the Caucasian Knot with reference to one of the local residents. "The Bakharchievs left the village. Only women remained in the houses, all the men left. Where they are, no one knows," he said.

For some time, Russia ceased to be that "power station" in hockey, which was previously produced and produced many talented players. This was stated by the famous Canadian coach Mike Kinen, who brought Magnitogorsk Metallurg to victory in the Gagarin Cup - 2014. “Canada has a much larger choice of players than anyone else. The depth of the composition is such that it could put two teams to the World Cup, and the second would be competitive in the highest category.

President of the Russian Handball Federation (FGR) Sergey Shishkarev was re -elected for a new term. According to the press service of the organization , the corresponding decision was made on Monday at the reporting and election conference of the FGR. The conference was attended by 38 delegates out of 45, they unanimously voted for the re -election of Shishkarev.

The French yachtsman Tom Kovil set a new record for the duration of a single round -the -world voyage. To go around the planet, it took him 49 days, three hours, seven minutes and 38 seconds, TASS reports with reference to AFP. Covil sailed on his yacht Sodebo, which is a trimaran. This is a vessel with three buildings interconnected in the upper part.

The German automaker BMW will recall 193,611 vehicles in mainland China due to an airbag defect. Of these, about 170 thousand cars were imported to China and about 25 thousand were produced at local enterprises, China Daily reports. It is clarified that in the event of destruction of the gas generator Front airbags may not deploy correctly and fragments of them may cause injury to the driver and passenger.

On Monday, in the Australian city of Newstead in the state of Tasmania, one of the motorists, to his great surprise, discovered a giant seal on the hood of a parked Toyota. By that time, the environmental police, prepared to catch it, were already looking for the animal. The fact is that the sea animal calmly walked around the city for some time, amusing and shocking passers-by.

The St. Petersburg Construction Committee concluded an additional contract for 952 million rubles with the contractor for the construction of the Zenit Arena stadium, Metrostroy, which announced on December 26 to complete the long-term construction, RBC reports. As follows from the materials on the public procurement website , a contract worth about 952 million 86 thousand rubles was concluded on December 20 to carry out additional work as part of the structure of the stadium.

In Uganda on Lake Albert, a crowded ship turned over on Christmas, transporting the players of the local team and their fans, writes the local Daily Monitor newspaper on Monday, December 26. A group of people from the village of Kaveibanda in the Bulisa district sent to the Christmas football match in the district of Hoyma. According to the newspaper, it should have been a friendly game. The boat sailed about 100 meters from the shore.