On January 13, the German Bundestag approved a bill establishing a single model of identity cards for refugees. The law was passed hot on the heels of New Year's Eve events in Cologne and some other German cities, when hundreds of women were robbed and sexually assaulted by organized groups of aggressive men, most of whom were allegedly newly arrived migrants from the Middle East. Presumably because many of them were undocumented.

In the 70th year, the great musician and singer David Bowie passed away The frame from the farewell video clip David Bowie, released three days before his death: Lazarus (Lazarus) He flew to another planet ”,“ He returned home, to Mars ”,“ We ​​thought he was immortal ” - typical reactions to David Bowie’s departure make it clear that people who lived with his music have seen either a little prince or et from Spielberg’s film, and this is not only artistic exaggeration.

Why Putin decided to directly turn to the Germans and why he jerked the facts During an interview with Vladimir Putin, BILD to journalists, Sochi, January 5, 2016 One day in early April 1994, NATO Secretary General, German Manfred Werner, found the strength to get out of bed in his house in Aachen, in the west of Germany, and went to Brussels, where a meeting of the North Atlantic Council (CAS), the main governing organ of the Alliance, was planned on that day.

The prospect of repeating the fate of the USSR loomed to Russia The Russian economy is experiencing the next acute phase of the crisis On January 13, oil for the first time in the last 12 years dropped below $ 30 per barrel. The RTS index collapsed to minimums in 2009 (the index struck the level of 650 points), and the dollar updated the historical maximum. However, unlike the panic December 2014, a quick rebound is not necessary to wait.

The cartoon of the Russian animator Konstantin Bronzita is nominated for Oscar

Dreams of the heroes of the cartoon about space may not be realized, but the dream of Oscars for Russian animation has a chance to come true The world lively discusses the 12 nominations of the “surviving”, the drama of Alejandro Gonzalez Injarrit with Leonardo DiCaprio in the

The budget is cracking, power in a panic, the population demonstrates calm Plenary discussion of the Gaidar forum, Moscow, January 13, 2016 The authorities finally begin to reach the authorities that the miracle that the Russian government has trusted all last year may not have happened. Last year’s bravura optimism and the quarterly relations that the bottom of the crisis has been replaced, were replaced by confusion close to panic.

On January 15, in the city of Pionersky, Kaliningrad Region, two aides met behind closed doors: the President of the Russian Federation, Vladislav Surkov, and the US Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland. They discussed Donbass. The official representative of the US State Department, John Kirby, said that the goal of the negotiations is the implementation of the Minsk agreements.

*“Chronicle of current events” - a typewritten human rights information ballot, distributed in Samizdat in 1968-1983 The previous NPO-the “committee against torture”-the Ministry of Justice recognized the “ino-agent” because of the political activity of Igor Kalyapin-he is part of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Grozny, 2015 “I can guarantee that we never recognize ourselves“ foreign agents ”in our country.

There is no need to talk about "shale counter-revolution" yet The oil market develops cyclically. Simplified, it goes like this: at the bottom of the cycle, oil prices are low, there is an excess supply of oil, investment is slowing down. The decline in prices stimulates demand, which gradually begins to exceed supply and pushes oil prices up. Oil companies begin to increase profits and get the opportunity to invest in the development of new projects.

What is happening with the phenomenon of shale boom in conditions of low oil prices - the New Times sorted out Robert Finn Investment Consultant from San Antonio, Texas, reached for the fresh number of the local newspaper My San Antonio: “Here, in the first lane, an article with the heading:“ New Year added an oil industry of a headache.

"Menating Eight" Quentin Tarantino as a portrait of the dark side of the human nature Razel (Kurt Russell), his victim (Jennifer Jason Lee) and General (Bruce Durn) discuss democracy issues Why, in fact, is a “disgusting eight”? Because not a “magnificent seven”, but something opposite. In addition, this film is at Tarantino - the eighth in a row, and the number 8 is hidden in the adjective Hateful (h8ful).

On January 20, it takes 40 days from the date of the murder of the famous militia commander of the self -proclaimed Luhansk Republic Pavel Dremov: he was killed on the way to his own wedding. The New Times met with his widow Tatyana and Pavel Dremovy half an hour before the explosion: they were seven days as husband and wife, Stakhanov, December 12, 2015 They signed at the registry office on the English embankment of St.

The hangman (Kurt Russell), his victim (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and the general (Bruce Dern) discuss democracy Why, in fact, the "Hateful Eight"? Because not the "Magnificent Seven", but something opposite. In addition, this film by Tarantino is the eighth in a row, and the number 8 is hidden in the adjective hateful (h8ful). The fans will help to settle the score.

125 years ago Osip Mandelstam was born Oleg Lexmanov is a specialist in Russian poetry of the twentieth century, author of the book “Osip Mandelstam: Statred Air” (M. First arrest, May 17, 1934, NKVD archive Today's celebration of the anniversary of Osip Mandelstam is celebrated "at a high state level", sorry for the bureaucratic New Maid.

On January 12, the President of the United States delivered his eighth and final State of the Union address. In Russia, this message was hardly noticed, and it was not the policy of the Obama administration, which began the reset at the time, that led to this result, but Russia's self-isolation due to the conflict in Ukraine and internal frosts. Meanwhile, it was an important speech.