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Mikhail Khodorkovsky Over the year spent at large, Mikhail Khodorkovsky stopped being a hero for some and became for others. After the release on December 20, 2013, Khodorkovsky said that he was not going to engage in either business or politics. But in September 2014, when the war in the Donbass was in full swing, he announced that he was ready to fight for the chair of the Russian president and head the country for the transition period after the collapse of the Putin structure.

Santa Claus on the top of the 25-storey tower of Kolhoff on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin Santa Claus participates in free distribution of Christmas trees in the old Jerusalem Hundreds of people watched the flight of Santa Claus in the sky above Berlin Brazilian Santa Claus rests at one of the metro stations in the city of San Paulo Honolulu, capital of Hawaii: Santa Claus welcomes surfers London: "Beach Santa" is located before the most famous department store "Harrods" France: At the rink opposite

The defendant Maxim Baklagin asked the policeman to close his face, fearing to get into the frame, Moscow, on June 28, 2012. Gennady Gulyaev/Kommersant Swamp business-1 The defendants: Andrei Barabanov, Yaroslav Belousov, Alexander Dukhanin, Stepan Zimin, Sergey Krivov, Denis Lutskievich, Alexey Polikhovich and Artem Savelov. Judge: Natalia Nikishina, Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow. Accusation: participation in the riots and the application of violence to representatives of the authorities.

Rehabilitation of Nazism The initiator of the law: a group of State Duma deputies from all factions. Entry into force: May 16, 2014. The bottom line: the denial of the facts established at the Nuremberg trials, and the dissemination of "knowingly false information about the activities of the USSR" during the Second World War are punishable as a criminal offense up to imprisonment for up to three years. And if all this is done with the use of the media, then for up to five years.

Triumph in front of the tragedy In February 2014, Russia hosted the Olympic Games for the first time in its post-Soviet history. Bottom line: 33 medals, of which 13 are gold, and the first place in the team event. In Sochi-2014, Russia broke not only its own record for the total number of medals, but also all records of the USSR era-before Sochi, 29 medals won by Soviet athletes in 1988 at the Kalgary Olympics (Canada) were the best result in the history of our sport.

Almost eight years - from the first issue of The New Times, which was released on February 12, 2007 - the number was completed by the column of Valeria Novodvorskaya - our Lera. She was gone on July 12, 2014. And we could not finally say goodbye to her - her columns of past years were published. But the year leaves, and Lera leaves her from our pages - there was no equal Novodvorskaya in Russian journalism.

The beggarly December sun shines through the window. The shortest day of the year. There is just over a week left before the New Year. It is not clear with whom to meet him. If you go to the Ivanovs, you will get delicious food and good drinks, but it's boring, there is no one to dance with. In addition, the Ivanovs have an evil, clawed cat, Zhuchka. Scratched! Last time I tore expensive, sparkling tights of my half. Well, to hell with them!

I was asked to write a few words about the deceased. That is, strictly speaking, he has not left yet, but who would doubt ... He is just about. He is living his last days - and in these days you can still have time to say something to the point after him. Because to say something has accumulated to a fig, and then, you understand, these ancient Roman prejudices will begin: either good, or nothing ... But good is not enough. What can I say, fellow citizens?

Newsmakers gone into the shadows Victor Yanukovich After three months of intense political confrontation that ended in bloody clashes in the center of Kyiv, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych had no choice but to hastily leave Kyiv.

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At the end of September (No. 31 dated 09/29/2014), we already introduced the readers of The New Times to the vegetarian recipes of Valeria Agnelutto-the chef of the Ti Sana restaurant from Lombardy (Italy). By the New Year, we offer another masterpiece: sushi without a gram of rice or fish and a banana cupcake without a gram of sweets.