How the Dozhd TV channel survives, deprived of a studio and an office How the Dozhd TV channel survives, deprived of a studio and an office Photo report by Evgeny Feldman A shabby entrance, a Soviet elevator with depressed buttons, on the stairwell there are baby carriages and a bicycle. The neighbors do not yet know that a whole canal has settled in their entrance. In the hallway, each guest is given shoe covers and asked in a whisper to put the phone on silent.

Devaluation and sanctions brutally hit the industry of civilian air transportation Devaluation and sanctions brutally hit the industry of civilian air transportation TASS New Year's holidays is a high season for air carriers and tour operators. But both of them doubt that the future holidays will bring the expected income.

Alexander Lyubimov left the post of CEO of the RBC-TV channel, Interfax reports citing the press secretary of the RBC holding. The TV channel was headed by Gleb Shagun, who previously worked as the general producer of RBC-TV. Earlier today, Izvestia, citing several sources in the holding, reported that Lyubimov would be engaged in a certain project on Channel One.

Europe intends to change the South Stream to the South Gas Corridor, and also not without the participation of Turkey Europe intends to change the South Stream to the South Gas Corridor, and also not without the participation of Turkey EPA The European Union will fundamentally change the energy security system, get rid of excessive, according to Brussels, dependence on Russian gas.

The Moscow Charter of Journalists opposed the cessation of broadcasting by the Tomsk television company TV-2, reports . Interfax “We express our full support and solidarity with TV-2. We protest against RTRS's attempt to unilaterally terminate the contract and deprive the TV company of broadcasting from January 1, 2015," the members of the Moscow Charter of Journalists said in a statement. The document was signed, among others, by Olga Bykova, Natalya Gevorkyan, Sergey Parkhomenko and others.

The euro exchange rate at auction on the Moscow Exchange for the first time exceeded the mark of 68 rubles, reports . RBC As of 18:35, the cost of one euro was 68.19 rubles, which is almost 1.3 rubles higher than the closing level of the previous auction. The dollar exchange rate on Wednesday, December 10, rose by more than 70 kopecks, reaching a maximum mark of 54.78 rubles.

"Silkrosre" - the second detective Joan Rowling "Silkrosre" - the second detective Joan Rowling So, Robert Galbrait is such a poet Petukhov created for himself Joan Rowling. And in principle, the funniest, he also writes about his homeland. The Cubsy Cuckoo, the first Roman Galbrait, went out in Russian near Valentinov Day 2014. “Silkopreyrakh” (M.: Foreigner, 2014), the second volume of the epic about the private detective Kormoran Strayka, published in us under Western Christmas 2014.

The law on the creation of a free economic zone brought to a logical end the separation of the peninsula from Ukraine The law on the creation of a free economic zone brought to a logical end the separation of the peninsula from Ukraine After the actual attachment of the peninsula to the Russian Federation in March, apologists of Russian sovereign democracy predicted a rainbow future to Crimea.

The Krasnopresnensky Court of Moscow extended until April 17, 2015, the house arrest of Konstantin Yankauskas, a member of the Zyuzino municipal assembly, who is accused of fraud in raising money for the election campaign of Alexei Navalny, RAPSI . reports The court granted the request of the prosecutor's office to extend the arrest, while allowing Jankauskas to take one-hour walks once a day.

Anatoly Rudy, the first deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, called the prisoner's refusal to participate as a witness in the trial a possible cause of the unrest in the Chelyabinsk pre-trial detention center No. 1, reports . Interfax At present, the situation in the pre-trial detention center has stabilized, and a commission from the central apparatus of the Federal Penitentiary Service is working on the spot.

Writer Grigory Chkhartishvili (Boris Akunin) wrote on his Facebook that unknown people who introduced themselves as investigators came to his apartment in Moscow. “Today our Moscow concierge was pestered by some people, as she says, who came several times and urgently looked for me. Allegedly from the Investigative Committee. She remembered only that one of them introduced himself as Igor Nikolaevich. Are there any colleagues of Igor Nikolaevich here? Tell me not to torment the pensioner.

Amnesty International, an international human rights organization, has called on the Russian authorities to investigate the burning of the houses of families of alleged militants, according to a statement on the Amnesty website. “Punishing relatives of those suspected of involvement in a crime is an outrageous violation of international law. There is no justification for such collective punishment,” said John Dalkhizen, director of Amnesty International’s Europe and Central Asia Programme.

The Duma Committee on Information Policy returned the draft law on the storage of personal data in Russia to the second reading. According to RBC , thus the term for the entry into force of the law will be delayed by eight months: from January 1 to September 1, 2015. Earlier, the State Duma adopted a bill by LDPR deputy Vadim Dengin and postponed the entry into force of the law from September 1, 2016 to January 1, 2015.

In the Tverskoy Court of Moscow, opposition leader Sergei Mokhnatkin was taken into custody for transfer to a penal colony a few hours after the verdict was announced, at which he was not present, reports . Ekho Moskvy Today, during the announcement of the verdict, Mokhnatkin was absent from the courtroom. Having finished reading the verdict, the judge said that the activist was put on the wanted list.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev disagreed on the consequences of the sanctions policy, said Igor Bunin, director of the Center for Political Technologies. At the request of Novaya Gazeta, he commented on Medvedev's statement today about Western sanctions. “Putin's idea was very simple: allegedly, sanctions can be overcome by import substitution, that the imposition of sanctions creates labor conditions, the possibility of developing agriculture.