In 2019, a race unfolded in the Ministry of Defense and OPC for the opportunity to captivate Vladimir Putin with another “miracle-armed forces”. As the military observer Alexander Golts notes, she has already turned into human victims and a nuclear accident in the north Alexander Golts. The end of 2019 unequivocally confirmed the data of all polls of public opinion.

The one who was once considered a symbol of the struggle against the former system, chose as his successor and transferred power to the very one who began to restore it Twenty years have passed - but I remember this day as if it were yesterday. On December 31, 1999, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, in his New Year's address, announced that he was resigning ahead of schedule.

The total amount of fines to the "International Memorial" and the Human Rights Center "Memorial" due to the lack of marking of a foreign agent on the resources on the Internet amounted to almost 4 million rubles. On December 30, International Memorial was fined 400,000 rubles. because of the site "Victims of political terror in the USSR." This is stated on the website of the organization.

Valor in politics is not about grasping power with your teeth; it is to understand in time that if you do this, you will bring the state you lead to the final destruction When they talk about revolutions, they first of all remember either the French or the Russian; a little less often - English and American. All of them are united by one thing - they went through two stages in their development: first moderate, then radical.

For illegal medical practice, scientists who were involved in the birth of children with edited DNA were convicted. As the Associated Press writes, the lead researcher of the group of scientists, He Jiankui, was sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of $430,000. His colleagues also received fines and terms (one - 2 years, the second - 18 months with a two-year delay).

The war ends when the last soldier returns home Two years ago, the wonderful boy Kolya Desyatnichenko from Novy Urengoy spoke in the Bundestag with a story about the German soldier Georg Johan Rau, who was captured near Stalingrad and died in a camp on March 17, 1943 at the age of 21. That anger and abomination that splashed out on Kolya just went off scale. And he just humanly spoke about a young boy who was captured.

The Russian people - the greatest victim of Stalin, one of the most brutal criminals in world history - deserve the truth The 20th century brought incredible suffering and death to the world for hundreds of millions of people in the name of totalitarian ideologies. The death toll from Nazism, fascism and communism is obvious to people of our generation. It is also clear who is responsible for these crimes and whose pact started World War II, the deadliest conflict in human history.

Yandex has filed a lawsuit in the court for intellectual property rights against the subsidiary of Rambler Group, OOO Kompaniya Afisha, which owns the trademark Afisha. This is reported by Vedomosti . The complaint was registered on December 27, but the essence of the claims is not disclosed, and the parties to the process do not comment on it. The third party in the lawsuit is the Federal Service for Intellectual Property.

Gazprom has signed a settlement agreement with Ukraine in investment arbitration, said Ivan Leshchina, Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine. This opens the way for concluding an agreement on gas transportation. We are talking about the claims of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine for $7.4 billion, Kommersant reports .

Russia enters the new year in conditions when Russians both want change and fear it On the one hand, according to digital indicators, everything is fine in power. Although the ratings have not returned to the level before the retirement age, they are still very high. It is not hopes for the best that work, but the effect of having no alternative. For United Russia, for example, according to the Levada Center, 29% of all voters are ready to vote.

On December 29, Ukraine and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk republics exchanged prisoners.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and US officials said airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against Iranian-backed groups were successful. They also warned that "additional action" could be taken to protect U.S. interests, Reuters writes . After the death of a US soldier at an Iraqi military base due to rocket fire, the US military attacked the Kataib Hezbollah paramilitary group on December 29.

The leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong-un, at a meeting with high-ranking officials of the country, demanded that "constructive and offensive" measures be taken to ensure the sovereignty and security of North Korea. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea. The meeting was held on the eve of the deadline set by the head of the country at the end of the year for new proposals for negotiations with the United States to terminate the nuclear program.

From September 2020, roaming will be canceled between Russia and Belarus, First Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Krutoy said in an interview with the Belarus 1 TV channel. He added that “the tariffs at which citizens will be able, among other things, to congratulate each other on New Year... will be very, very close.” According to the Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister, they “will differ by absolutely symbolic amounts,” and “roaming will die,” Vedomosti reports.

The new version of the Bek Air plane crash in Kazakhstan, which killed 12 people, was the unsatisfactory work of navigation services. “Now the investigation group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is investigating the plane crash that took place in Almaty. Three versions are currently being considered. First: crew error. Second: the possibility of a technical malfunction of the board itself.