For 11 days now, the Russian customs service has not allowed into the country a photo book by Donald Weber and Artur Bondar about Euromaidan - The Barricade. Bondar wrote about this on his Facebook page. According to him, a parcel sent by UPS mail with ten author's copies does not go to Russia. Bondar said that two checks had already been carried out, and in response to his written explanations, the customs officers allegedly stated claims to the content and title.

The all -terrestrial cutting of state expenses is not an interference with gigantic investments of Russian state corporations in the creation of large hydroelectric power stations at home and abroad The all -terrestrial cutting of state expenses is not an interference with gigantic investments of Russian state corporations in the creation of large hydroelectric power stations at home and abroad The Ministry of Energy approved the RusHydro investment program for this year, and tomorrow, December

According to Kirill Martynov According to Kirill Martynov The Observer of the Novaya has chosen the most important and relevant books of the year published in Russian. Cosmopolitans in the cities, the end of Moscow Ossentrism, the befitting of food, the illusory nature of the Internet, intellectuals watch TV shows, the history of Stalinism, the crazy mechanics of Russian rock, a new frightening social class and how to repeat the restructuring. Genis casually creates great Russian prose.

The official representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, invited foreign experts to polygraph test Ukrainian pilot Vladislav Voloshin, who, according to an anonymous source, made a sortie on the day of the Boeing 737 crash near Donetsk. It is reported by TASS.

In St. Petersburg, two unknown persons beat up an expert of the "Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg" and the standing commission on military-civilian relations of the Human Rights Council Sergei Strilchenko. Alexander Peredruk, a spokesman for the St. Petersburg branch of Soldiers' Mothers , told ZAKS.ru that the attack took place this morning. At the entrance to the Mariinsky hospital, the human rights activist was attacked by two people in orange construction vests.

The government is politically ready to support airlines, but for this you need to understand the extent of their debt to creditors The government is politically ready to support airlines, but for this you need to understand the extent of their debt to creditors According to Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, the government is developing measures to support airlines, such large players as UTair and Trasaero may need help.

The era of reconstructors The editors' request to write an article about the methods, moves, and propaganda techniques at a dead end. Today, all TV, including entertaining, consists only of these same methods. Nevertheless, I will try to believe the algebra of the harmony of ideological thimbles. Counting point-November 21, 2013. The Government of Azarov suspended the entry of Ukraine into the European Union. Euromaidan began in Kyiv, and the Russians woke up in another country.

A new round of negotiations of the contact group on the settlement of the military conflict in eastern Ukraine has started in Minsk, reports . Interfax The meeting is being held behind closed doors in the former residence of the President of Belarus, Dipservice Hall, reports RIA Novosti .

Andrey Vikanov, one of the most experienced defense lawyers in Mordovia, a finalist in the Professional Lawyer 2013 contest, is being expelled from the Bar Association of Mordovia. The lawyer himself told Novaya Gazeta about this. The reason is that he allegedly does not want to properly protect one of his clients. A corresponding complaint was written against him in the local UK.

She went to the addressee, his beloved woman, half a century She went to the addressee, his beloved woman, half a century The middle of the day, on August 12, 1967, Mikeshkin descends the Bykovsky channel. We trample on the left side, already feeling the proximity of drifting ice. Matisen and Kolchak, participants in the Russian polar expedition of 1901-1902, once walked this channel.

The case of Mardiros Demirchyan. MIA version We have repeatedly written about the builder of Olympic facilities, who was convicted under the article “false denunciation” after he complained of torture by the police. We consider it necessary to present another point of view - law enforcement agencies. The attention of the editors was attracted by the study of the policemen accused by Demerchyan on a polygraph and the refusal of Mardiros Demerchyan himself from a medical examination .

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On approval of the Fundamentals of State Cultural Policy." He announced this at a joint meeting of the State Council and the Council for Culture and Art. According to the head of state, the document "reflects the attitude to culture as a mission, as a historical good and historical heritage, as an ideal," TASS reports .

From January to December 22 of the current inflation in Russia exceeded 10%, these are the official data of the Federal State Statistics Service. From December 16 to December 22, the price increase amounted to 0.9%, from the beginning of December - 1.7%. It is worth noting that last year consumer prices rose by 0.5% in December, and by 6.5% for the whole year. According to Rosstat, over the past week, granulated sugar has risen in price by 7.5%, rice, buckwheat and eggs - by 3.5%.

Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the abundance of signs in foreign languages ​​on the streets, reports . RIA Novosti According to the head of state, "we must avoid excessive Latinization of our language." The President addressed the heads of regions with a request to pay attention to this. If "on every corner we have all the names of various institutions, advertisements, exclusively in Latin letters," then this speaks of the "level of culture of local officials," Putin said.

The Security Service of Ukraine announced its readiness to transfer 225 prisoners to separatists from the self-proclaimed "people's republics", Interfax-Ukraine reports . “Already today we are ready to transfer 225 people to the militants,” the agency quotes the statement of the adviser to the head of the Security Council of Ukraine Markiyan Lubkivsky.