Dmitry Gordeev, who sent the 77-year-old human rights activist under arrest, began his career in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Others become judges, having gone through the path of court clerks and clerks.

The outflow of investor funds from funds focused on the Russian market over the past three weeks amounted to $330 million, and over the year more than $1 billion was withdrawn from Russian funds. These are the calculations of Kommersant, which notes that funds lost more only in 2013 - $ 3 , 1 billion The negative attitude of foreign investors towards Russia persisted for most of the year. Only in January, Russian funds recorded an inflow of investments of more than $0.5 billion.

The Savelovsky Court of Moscow dismissed the former investigator for especially important cases of the Prosecutor General's Office, Igor Stepanov, in a lawsuit against the director of the FSB of Russia, Alexander Bortnikov, and Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Bortnikov, in an interview with the newspaper, said that the mass executions during the Great Terror were "excesses on the ground." Stepanov demanded that his opinion about the mass executions be published. It is reported by Kommersant .

As a result of the tsunami in Indonesia, 281 people died, the number of victims exceeded 1,000, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Administration. According to Interfax , another 57 people are listed as missing. The number of victims and injured will grow, the country's authorities assume. Earlier it was reported about 222 dead and 840 injured. The tsunami struck the western Indonesian province of Banten on December 23. It was caused by a volcanic eruption.

Roskomnadzor did not apply to the Ministry of Finance to receive 20 billion rubles for the implementation of the content blocking program on the Internet, said the head of the RKN Alexander Zharov. “Roskomnadzor did not apply to the Ministry of Finance either for 20 billion rubles or for any other amount for certain programs. None of what was said in the BBC material, we did not do.

On December 31, it will turn 19 years old since Vladimir Putin occupied the presidential office in the Kremlin. Which allows him to hold power for so long - explains Professor Vladimir Gelman Professor Vladimir Gelman Why are many authoritarian regimes are surprisingly resistant to numerous crises and failures?

To combat overweight trucks, officials want to equip them with sensors for measuring axle load. Legislation requiring them to be installed on trucks weighing more than 3.5 tons must be prepared by 2024, as proposed in the passport of the national project “Safe and High-Quality Highways,” Vedomosti writes.

The value systems of Russians have changed over the past six months — counter-elite populism has been replaced by a demand for equality before the law, respect, and a peaceful foreign policy. This, as Vedomosti writes, is stated in the study “Autumn Turning Point in the Consciousness of Russians: A Fleeting Surge or a New Trend?”, which was conducted by economists Mikhail Dmitriev and Sergei Belanovsky, who predicted the protests of 2011–2012.

The head of Rosstat, Alexander Surinov, who headed the department since 2009, was relieved of his post at his own request. Pavel Malkov, who previously headed the department of state administration at the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, was appointed head of the service. The corresponding orders were signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. In April 2017, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree transferring Rosstat from government control to the Ministry of Economic Development.

Valery Maksimenko, deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, admitted that in the Mordovian IK-14 people were forced to work in slave conditions and “sheath” orders for the personal enrichment of the head of the colony. “I received an appeal from Bagaeva Indira Eduardovna. She served her sentence in colony No. 14 of the Republic of Mordovia, where Tolokonnikova, known for Pussy Riot, served her sentence. She made a statement that slave labor is being used.

The steps of the main temple of the Russian Armed Forces, which is being built in Kubinka near Moscow, will be cast from captured Wehrmacht equipment, said Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. “We would like each square meter of the temple to be symbolic, for this we will cast the steps of the temple from captured German technology,” Interfax quotes Shoigu . Earlier, the idea of ​​building the main temple of the Russian Armed Forces received the blessing of Patriarch Kirill.

In general, all this is a concentrated expression of the impasse into which Russian politics, economics and diplomacy were led by the beginning of 2019: the country’s leadership has no vision of the future, but there is a danger of a real war The President, who has been leading the country for 19 years, said in 4 hours that: Russia needs a breakthrough, but an increase in the retirement age is inevitable. As in France, we will not, gasoline will not rise in price.

The main result of 2018 is the general feeling that Putin and his entourage were locked in the cabin of the plane, shaking everyone in the cabin, everyone is waiting for landing. But the pilots do not know how to plant the plane, said political analyst Alexander Morozov According to the results of 2018, the widest layers of the Russian population feel immersed in a certain experiment that the power extends. The Kremlin’s policy is experimental. What does it mean?

The most important events of 2018, interviewed by the Levada Center, the Russians called the opening of the Crimean bridge, raising the retirement age and presidential elections.

The European Space Agency has published a picture from the side of the Mars Express apparatus, which shows a glacier that occupies almost the entire bottom of the 80-kilometer Korolev crater in the northern hemisphere of the Red Planet. According to N+1 , this is a clear example of a “cold trap” - a place in which ice can persist for a long time. It is assumed that in such “cold traps” in the spacolar zones of the moon, water ice can also be preserved.